Travis carried me to the parking lot where we met up with Connor who was already leaning against the black truck, flipping through a notebook.

He grinned when he looked up. "Ya know," he stared, shutting the notebook, "I've always said Travis worships the ground you walk on, but I think that even this is going a bit far – not even letting her walk anymore Travis? Really? I thought you would have been better than that." Connor shook his head sadly.

Travis rolled his eyes as he sat me down, "Har, Har." He mockingly laughed, unlocking the doors.

I climbed in the backseat, playing with Travis's hair as he drove. I noticed us, then, pass my house. I gave both the boys a look that they didn't seem to notice.

"Where are we going?" I demanded, "We past my house."

"Costume shopping, didn't Travis tell you?" I turned to Travis and glared, who was whistling innocently. Halloween was still a few days away but I wasn't planning on going out. My only plans for that evening included savoring the nicely decorated house that absolutely didn't have my step-sisters in it, whom might as well declared Halloween their wedding days for how seriously they were taking picking out their costumes.

"No!" I turned back to Connor and fell back onto my seat. "Aren't we a little too old for Halloween?" Connor gasped and Travis turned his head to stare at me.

"Too old-"

"-For Halloween?" Connor finished. They laughed together and turned to look at me.

"You're never too old for Halloween!" Connor informed me.

"And we haven't celebrated a proper Halloween in years! Camp doesn't exactly want tons of kids going around and trick or treating ya know, Connor and I asked. We know." Travis and Connor nodded solemnly, like it was a terrible tragedy. But, knowing them, it probably was.

"Where are we going for these costumes anyways?" I asked, peering out the window.

"Party-City." Travis answered "Don't worry, we're almost there."

After about another 10 minutes we arrived, the building was dark blue and had little streamers on the walls and Halloween costumes in the windows

"What are you guys going to be this year anyways?" I asked both of them as we walked up the building.

"Well I'm going to be Spider-Man" Connor announced proudly

"Spider-Man?" Travis exclaimed staring at him in disbelief, "weren't you that when you were like four?" Travis asked. I smacked his arm and asked,

"Why Connor, do you want to be Spider-Man?"

"Because Taylor's going as Spider-women, duh." He gave me an obvious look as I should know this, turned his back on Travis and I, and headed into the building. Travis and I followed him.

"So Travis, what are you going to be?" He shrugged "Dunno, I was hoping I'd find something cool. What about you?"

I returned his shrug, "I have no idea – I hadn't really thought about it." We followed Connor to the back of the store, where the costumes were.

After a few minutes Connor found his Spider-man costume and went to try it on, leaving Travis and I alone.

"Find anything yet?" I asked, coming over to wear Travis was standing and inspecting the many costumes.

He sighed and blew air out of his lip, "Not yet," he answered. I left him be and walked in the female section of the store and began searching for a costume. After what it felt like endless searching I finally found one that I deemed okay. I tried it on quickly and discovered it felt okay.

After examining the costume left to right, I went to show Connor. "Hey Connor! I found my costume" He turned to look at me

"Yeah, Travis found his too. What'd you pick?"

I showed him the costume picture front, he burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" I pulled my costume to my chest. Well I liked it.

He didn't answer; Travis came out of the fitting room

"What's he laughing at?" Travis asked slipping on his blue converse.

"I don't know, I just showed him my costume and he started laughing." I turned the costume picture back to me and looked at it closer. It wasn't that exposing or anything, and it's based off a book so it's not really that weird?

"Is it embarrassing?" Travis asked, looking over my shoulder to try to peek at the front.

"Not really" I answered, Travis walked over to Connor and slapped the back of his head "What are you laughing at Connor?"

Connor stopped laughing, but only for a second. "Show each other your costumes!" He went on with laughing fit, earning a few confused glances from strangers.

Travis and I met each other's glance, confused. I flipped my bag to show him the picture, and he did the same. .

I stared open-mouthed at his costume, looking back to mine.

"A were-wolf? Really Travis? We practically match!" Connor laughed harder

"What about you? Little red riding hood? Seriously Katie?"

We grabbed our bags and brought them up to the cash register; I took my mine and started to get out my wallet. That is, before the Stoll's decided to interrupt me.

Connor and Travis were laughing and pushed my wallet back. "What?" I demeaned

"Do you actually think you're going to pay?" Travis asked with another mini laugh, taking my costume out of my hands. I tried to grab it back but he put it on the counter for the cashier to scan it.

"You guys can't buy everything for me!" I told them, almost wanting to stomp my foot. What? It's not like this is the first time they've done this!

"We'll sure try." Connor nodded seriously.

"Connor shut up!" I elbowed him.

After we (They) had bought our costume's, we headed back to the truck.

"Hey Travis, can you hang at Katie's for a while?" Connor asked, getting in the driver's side

"Uh, sure. But why?" Travis answered, shooting me a look to ask if I was cool with it. I nodded - we usually hung out after school anyways.

"I wanted to meet Taylor at the movies at 5 and considering it's-" He checked his watch "4:30, I don't really have time to drop both of you off, so Katie can you watch over it" He gestured to an offended looking Travis "for a few hours?"

I tsked and pretended to file my nails, "I suppose."

Travis made a noise of protest, but it was drowned in Connor's thanks. He drove back to my house and parked on the side of the road.

"Get out." Connor commanded once the truck came to a stop, "Or I'm going to be late to my almost-date."

I winked to Connor through the rearview mirror, "Come on Travis!" I yelled jumping out of the truck, him following me. We waved bye to Connor and walked back to the house.

"Prepare." I announced as we walked up the patio.

"For what?" Travis asked looking confused

I smiled devilishly "To meet my Step-Mother."

Even though she was keeping up the turning nice overnight thing still I was still hesitant to go along with it. Although, we did briefly plant the seeds she gave me. She loved them – and brought it in the house now that the weather was getting colder.

She cooed over him for a full minute after I introduced him as my boyfriend – and he looked uncomfortable throughout the entire exchange. I made a lousy excuse about homework and we were finally able to go up to my bedroom.

I gave him the bag of costumes and told him to go up while I grabbed drinks for us.

"He's cute." Mia declared once I stepped in the kitchen. She was plating a few brownies, but gave me a shy smile.

I bit my lip, "Yeah. He's really awesome."

Mia nodded and handed me the plate of brownies. She got a far-away look in her eyes and smiled softly. "The best ones are."

After I poured us some milk to go with the brownies I went back up to my room, balancing the cups of milk and plate carefully.

I set the dishes on my desk and sat on my bed, where Travis laid face down sprawled out. I poked his back at I sat next to him.

He groaned and buried himself deeper in the blankets. I smiled softly and ran my fingers through his hair, which he decided to start growing out. He slowly started to flip over until his head sat in my lap. We stayed like that for a few moments - enjoying the company of each other.

"I love you." He muttered softly, tracing an invisible pattern on my jeans with his nail.

I froze for a moment – but long enough for Travis to tense up at his confession. He sat up quickly and gave me a deer-in-headlights look. "I..." he started to say, standing up.

I stood next to him and grabbed his hand before he could make a break for it. He turned back to me with a surprising venerable look on his face. I licked my lips and tucked a lock of hair behind my ear.

"I love you." I answered, taking both of his hands. He dropped his head and looked down at our sneakers before he met my eyes again.

He gave me a watery smile, "Well that's the best news I've heard all day."

I gave him a small laugh before leaning in and pressing my lips to his. I felt his smile against my lips and I reached up and rested my arms on his shoulders. I twisted my hands into his hair, so tightly I thought I would have trouble getting them out. Travis's arms tightened around me, his hand resting on a small of my back, trying to push me closer to him.

You're Welcome Aphrodite's sweetly voice rang out in my head.

Get out Aphrodite

I didn't hear her voice again - but I didn't need to to know how much she had blessed me.

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