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Chapter Six
(Halloween Evening)
Mimi walked into her empty room, and kicked the door shut behind her. She threw her backpack on to her bed with a sigh, then walked over to her closet. It had been a long day, and she was looking forward to the Halloween party that she was going to tonight. Some frat house was having a huge Halloween party, and they had all decided to go as a group.
She opened her closet door and stared at the costume hanging inside. Rory had begged, pleaded and finally convinced her that she was making the right choice in costumes. But, Mimi was still less than confident about it.
Mimi grabbed the hangers and threw the outfit on the bed. Rory had insisted that Halloween was 'come-as-you-aren't' night. A night to unleash sides of your personality that nobody else knew about. Whether it be sweet, quirky, odd, innocent or in Mimi's case, sexy.
"Ha... Yeah right. Me? Sexy? I don't know what Rory was thinking."
Mimi couldn't help but laugh at herself. Mimi Lockhart being called sexy would be like calling Chloe or Belle ugly, at least that's what she thought of herself.
She quickly changed out of her regular clothes, and began putting her costume on. When she was finished she walked over to the bathroom door and glanced at herself in the full-length mirror. Red faux-leather mini-skirt, red tank top with black laces up the front in the same material and a pair of knee-high black boots. Oh yes, this was definitely all Rory's doing. Now all she needed was her horns and her tail.
She heard the door open and turned to greet Rory who was carrying a large shopping bag, no doubt containing her top-secret costume, the one she refused to tell anyone about.
Rory dropped her jaw with surprise, laying her bag on the floor. "Oh wow, Meems... I mean... You looked great in the store... But, you look even hotter tonight."
Mimi looked at her doubtfully and cringed. "I don't look too... slutty?"
"Oh no, it's the perfect amount of slutty."
"What? But... I don't want to look slutty... Geez."
Rory giggled and shook her head. "I'm just kidding... You look fantastic. You have such a great body, Mimi. I don't know why you don't show it off more."
Mimi rolled her eyes and looked at Rory like she was an alien. "Because, I don't, and you're crazy. I do not have a great body."
"Okay, sure, whatever you say. But, uhm... If I had a chest like yours, I wouldn't have to spend all of my money on a water-bra."
Mimi looked down at her cleavage, accented quite nicely by the constricting corset-style top. She looked back at Rory and shook her head. "Yeah, and if I were as thin as you, I could eat Snickers bars at every meal and still look like that."
Rory sighed and crossed her arms over her chest. "I do NOT eat Snickers at *every* meal. Sometimes... I have peanut butter cups."
"My point is..."
"No, no, no... I know what your point is. You don't think you're beautiful. But, guess what? Everyone else does. I don't know why you don't see what the rest of us see. And, in *that* outfit... you're just going to drive Jason crazy."
Mimi stared at her roommate in confusion. "And why would I want to drive Jason crazy?"
Rory rolled her eyes in frustration and picked her bag up off the floor. "You know why. And, I'm not going to stand here and argue with you about it because we don't have time for that. You're a hottie, Jase is a hottie. Just do what two hotties in love are supposed to do. And, stop pretending like you don't know what that is."
Rory huffed loudly, not out of anger but in frustration and went in to the bathroom to change. Clearly, she had heard more than enough denials from both of her friends and she just didn't want hear about it anymore.
Mimi sat on her bed with a quiet thud of shock. In love? Had Rory actually said that she and Jason were in love? Mimi knew she was attracted to him physically, that was absolutely undeniable. She also knew she cared about him, and perhaps did love him in a way. But, she had thought of her 'love' for him as being the same kind she felt for her other friends. Never had the thought entered her mind that she could be in love with her best friend.
Mimi sighed softly and shook her head, muttering under her breath as she did so. "That's because you're not. You are not in love with Jason."
But, as usual, the thoughts in her head were different than the words that came from her mouth. She cared about Jason, she was attracted to him... Why couldn't they be in love? Mimi wasn't even completely sure what it was like to be 'in love'. Sure, she had cared about Kevin, but never had she considered herself in love with him. Not the way that Belle and Shawn felt about each other, and certainly not up to the par of the intense strangeness of the Brady, Chloe and Phillip triangle.
Then she remembered exactly why they couldn't be 'in love'. Even though Rory insisted that Jason wanted to be 'more than friends' with her, Mimi wasn't as sure. Jason happened to be very talented at hiding his feelings from everyone. Whenever he didn't want you to see what he was feeling inside, he would just turn on that infamous grin and flash those gorgeous green eyes. It was almost as if his looks and charm were a defense shield that kept him from opening up about everything.
Rory shouted through the door at her. "Okay, Meems... YOU READY!?!"
Mimi looked towards the bathroom door anxiously and shouted back at her. "YEAH! LET ME SEE YOUR COSTUME!!"
The door creaked up and Rory came striding out. Mimi's eyes widened, and she was afraid she was going to slip off the bed in surprise.
Rory was wearing a frosted semi-clear shower curtain as if it was a dress. The curtain was ripped in several places and splashed with fake blood all over, and underneath she wore a flesh colored bikini and more fake blood imitating multiple stab wounds. She was grinning goofily and had a short blonde wig on, hiding her reddish-brown hair underneath.
"Rory... What in God's name are you supposed to be?"
Rory put her hands on her hips and looked disappointed at Mimi's response. "Uhm... Janet Leigh, Psycho, shower scene... HELLO? Come on, Meems, it's only one of the greatest movies of ALL TIME... Sheesh."
Mimi giggled girlishly and nodded in understanding. "That's very... creative. I definitely don't know anyone else who could get away with that."
"Thank you... I think. Was that a compliment?"
"Yes, it was. It's a great costume, Rory. Now, I get the bathroom because I have to finish my make-up."
Rory motioned for Mimi to enter the bathroom, and Mimi hopped up and quickly made her way towards the bathroom, praying that she wouldn't fall on her face in the heels she wasn't used to wearing.
The night before Rory had put temporary bright red streaks in Mimi's hair to accent her devilish look. Mimi clipped on her tail to the back of her skirt, and arranged the headband with her devil horns in her now red and brown hair. As she was putting the finishing touches on her makeup, she could hear Rory walking around their room, the sound of the plastic shower curtain squishing around her. Mimi tried not to laugh, wondering exactly how miserable Rory would be by the end of the night.
She heard a knock at their door and Rory went to answer it as Mimi listened in.
"Hey Jase... You look great."
"You look awesome, Rory. I love the costume. Janet Leigh, right?"
"Ha ha! Yes!" Rory shouted victoriously towards the closed bathroom door. "DID YOU HEAR THAT MIMI? JASON UNDERSTANDS!!"
Mimi chuckled and rolled her eyes, spraying a sheen of gold glitter into her hair, and sprinkling some glitter on the exposed parts of her skin. She checked herself once more in the mirror, and frowned slightly. "Well, I guess it's the best I can do."
She opened the door and walked back in to the bedroom. What she didn't really notice was the stunned look on Jason's face, because she was too busy staring at him in his costume.
Jason thought that his eyes were going to fall right out of his head. He blinked several times, making sure he was seeing what he thought he was seeing. Mimi wasn't just beautiful, she was indescribably sexy in her little red devil outfit. It looked almost as if it had been made just for her, hugging her many curves in all of the right places. Her skin and hair sparkled underneath the overhead light, and he knew in his heart he had never seen a sight more perfect.
"Mimi... You look... wow... wow." He could hardly speak at the sight of her, and Mimi didn't know how to reply.
"Jason... You're... You are... wearing a toga?" She stared at him in surprise. His costume was the perfect balance to hers. He was an angel. She almost wanted to giggle, never expecting that she'd ever see Jason Masters wearing a white toga, but there he was. It was sleeveless and showed off his arms, and he had a pair of wings pinned to his back and a golden halo over his head. In Mimi's eyes, he looked more like a Greek god than an angel. Like Zeus himself had sent him down from Olympus just to be here tonight. Not even Russell Crowe in Gladiator could compare to that.
"Yes, I'm wearing a toga. And, it was not my idea. It was Rory's."
Mimi's eyes darted over to her roommate and she dropped her jaw. "Rory? You did this? I can't believe it..."
Rory curtsied proudly, at least as much as she could curtsy in her shower curtain dress. "Hey... There's nothing like a guy in a toga, if you ask me. Besides, I figured we have our little devil, and we needed an angel just to balance out good and evil."
Jason nodded in agreement. "Besides, you're supposed to dress up as something you're not on Halloween. And nobody has ever accused me of being even close to angelic."
Mimi nodded and smiled at him. "Well... You look adorable."
"Adorable? I look adorable? Mimi... puppies are adorable. Babies are adorable. I'm not adorable."
"Oh, yes you are. But... uhm... Manly too. Very macho." Mimi chuckled softly, he looked more than adorable. He looked absolutely gorgeous. She never thought a guy in a sheet could be that sexy, but Jason could probably wear garbage bags and still be sexy.
Rory winked teasingly at him. "So... Jase... Whatcha got on underneath that toga?"
Jason laughed and winked back at her. "Wanna see?"
Rory nodded and clapped her hands together. Jason put his hands on the edge of the toga's skirt and quickly lifted it up, exposing a pair of tan shorts underneath. Mimi laughed, but Rory frowned at him with disappointment.
"Awwww... Come on. REAL men don't wear anything underneath their skirts."
Jason rolled his eyes and shook his head at her. "Real men don't wear skirts. I mean, geez, Rory... I don't know what kind of men you've been hanging out with and all..."
Rory laughed and playfully smacked him on the arm. "Ha ha. Very funny. You know I haven't been hanging out with any men at all. Remember me? Big loser?"
Their laughter was interrupted when Nick peeked his head around the doorway curiously. "Hey... Is everybody ready?"
Rory turned and grinned at him. "Yeah, Jason was just showing us what's underneath his toga."
"Oh. Well, I've lived with him for two months and I've already seen too much of what is underneath his toga. I'm glad I missed that blessed event."
"So... Come on in, Nicholas. Show us what you got."
Nick walked in and everybody stared at him strangely. He was wearing a pair of brown pants, and one leg was bunched up, showing off part of his calf. There were various things sewn to his pants and white shirt, including a few dryer sheets and several different colored socks. His normally shaggy brown hair was gelled out so that it seemed to stick up straight from every direction.
Rory raised both eyebrows in confusion. "And you are...?"
Nick sighed in frustration because nobody figured it out. "Static cling."
Mimi was the first one to laugh. "Ohhhhh, Nick... That is so funny."
Rory laughed along with her, but looked at him curiously. "But aren't those dryer sheets supposed to cut down on static cling?"
Nick rolled his eyes frustratingly. "You shush. I don't want to hear any of your criticisms tonight."
"Hmmm... Then you better hang out with someone else, because you know I'm incapable of not insulting you."
Jason nodded in agreement and patted his roommate on the back. "She's right, man... But, remember, when we treat you badly, it's purely out of love."
Nick frowned at him and nodded. "Yeah, I'll keep that in mind. Can we please leave now?"
Everyone seemed to nod in agreement and Jason led the way out the door of the room. Mimi locked the door and gave Nick their key, since he was the only one with any pockets in their costume. He slipped it into his pocket, and Mimi looked at the back of his shirt strangely as they stood in the hallway together.
"Nick... You have a pair of Scooby-Doo boxers on the back of your shirt?"
Nick nodded and pointed towards Jason. "Oh, they're not mine. They belong to Johnny Angel over there."
Jason glared at Nick and frowned. "Dude... You didn't HAVE to tell them that, did you?"
Mimi and Rory were both giggling, and Mimi patted him on the back. "Don't worry, Jason. We think it's cute."
Jason shook his head with shame, not saying another word as they left their building together. Once they were outside again, the joking and laughing started up as before. Mimi stayed quiet as they walked towards the party, wondering if her first Halloween at college would be filled with tricks or treats.
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Chapter Six
(Halloween Evening)
Mimi walked into her empty room, and kicked the door shut behind her. She threw her backpack on to her bed with a sigh, then walked over to her closet. It had been a long day, and she was looking forward to the Halloween party that she was going to tonight. Some frat house was having a huge Halloween party, and they had all decided to go as a group.
She opened her closet door and stared at the costume hanging inside. Rory had begged, pleaded and finally convinced her that she was making the right choice in costumes. But, Mimi was still less than confident about it.
Mimi grabbed the hangers and threw the outfit on the bed. Rory had insisted that Halloween was 'come-as-you-aren't' night. A night to unleash sides of your personality that nobody else knew about. Whether it be sweet, quirky, odd, innocent or in Mimi's case, sexy.
"Ha... Yeah right. Me? Sexy? I don't know what Rory was thinking."
Mimi couldn't help but laugh at herself. Mimi Lockhart being called sexy would be like calling Chloe or Belle ugly, at least that's what she thought of herself.
She quickly changed out of her regular clothes, and began putting her costume on. When she was finished she walked over to the bathroom door and glanced at herself in the full-length mirror. Red faux-leather mini-skirt, red tank top with black laces up the front in the same material and a pair of knee-high black boots. Oh yes, this was definitely all Rory's doing. Now all she needed was her horns and her tail.
She heard the door open and turned to greet Rory who was carrying a large shopping bag, no doubt containing her top-secret costume, the one she refused to tell anyone about.
Rory dropped her jaw with surprise, laying her bag on the floor. "Oh wow, Meems... I mean... You looked great in the store... But, you look even hotter tonight."
Mimi looked at her doubtfully and cringed. "I don't look too... slutty?"
"Oh no, it's the perfect amount of slutty."
"What? But... I don't want to look slutty... Geez."
Rory giggled and shook her head. "I'm just kidding... You look fantastic. You have such a great body, Mimi. I don't know why you don't show it off more."
Mimi rolled her eyes and looked at Rory like she was an alien. "Because, I don't, and you're crazy. I do not have a great body."
"Okay, sure, whatever you say. But, uhm... If I had a chest like yours, I wouldn't have to spend all of my money on a water-bra."
Mimi looked down at her cleavage, accented quite nicely by the constricting corset-style top. She looked back at Rory and shook her head. "Yeah, and if I were as thin as you, I could eat Snickers bars at every meal and still look like that."
Rory sighed and crossed her arms over her chest. "I do NOT eat Snickers at *every* meal. Sometimes... I have peanut butter cups."
"My point is..."
"No, no, no... I know what your point is. You don't think you're beautiful. But, guess what? Everyone else does. I don't know why you don't see what the rest of us see. And, in *that* outfit... you're just going to drive Jason crazy."
Mimi stared at her roommate in confusion. "And why would I want to drive Jason crazy?"
Rory rolled her eyes in frustration and picked her bag up off the floor. "You know why. And, I'm not going to stand here and argue with you about it because we don't have time for that. You're a hottie, Jase is a hottie. Just do what two hotties in love are supposed to do. And, stop pretending like you don't know what that is."
Rory huffed loudly, not out of anger but in frustration and went in to the bathroom to change. Clearly, she had heard more than enough denials from both of her friends and she just didn't want hear about it anymore.
Mimi sat on her bed with a quiet thud of shock. In love? Had Rory actually said that she and Jason were in love? Mimi knew she was attracted to him physically, that was absolutely undeniable. She also knew she cared about him, and perhaps did love him in a way. But, she had thought of her 'love' for him as being the same kind she felt for her other friends. Never had the thought entered her mind that she could be in love with her best friend.
Mimi sighed softly and shook her head, muttering under her breath as she did so. "That's because you're not. You are not in love with Jason."
But, as usual, the thoughts in her head were different than the words that came from her mouth. She cared about Jason, she was attracted to him... Why couldn't they be in love? Mimi wasn't even completely sure what it was like to be 'in love'. Sure, she had cared about Kevin, but never had she considered herself in love with him. Not the way that Belle and Shawn felt about each other, and certainly not up to the par of the intense strangeness of the Brady, Chloe and Phillip triangle.
Then she remembered exactly why they couldn't be 'in love'. Even though Rory insisted that Jason wanted to be 'more than friends' with her, Mimi wasn't as sure. Jason happened to be very talented at hiding his feelings from everyone. Whenever he didn't want you to see what he was feeling inside, he would just turn on that infamous grin and flash those gorgeous green eyes. It was almost as if his looks and charm were a defense shield that kept him from opening up about everything.
Rory shouted through the door at her. "Okay, Meems... YOU READY!?!"
Mimi looked towards the bathroom door anxiously and shouted back at her. "YEAH! LET ME SEE YOUR COSTUME!!"
The door creaked up and Rory came striding out. Mimi's eyes widened, and she was afraid she was going to slip off the bed in surprise.
Rory was wearing a frosted semi-clear shower curtain as if it was a dress. The curtain was ripped in several places and splashed with fake blood all over, and underneath she wore a flesh colored bikini and more fake blood imitating multiple stab wounds. She was grinning goofily and had a short blonde wig on, hiding her reddish-brown hair underneath.
"Rory... What in God's name are you supposed to be?"
Rory put her hands on her hips and looked disappointed at Mimi's response. "Uhm... Janet Leigh, Psycho, shower scene... HELLO? Come on, Meems, it's only one of the greatest movies of ALL TIME... Sheesh."
Mimi giggled girlishly and nodded in understanding. "That's very... creative. I definitely don't know anyone else who could get away with that."
"Thank you... I think. Was that a compliment?"
"Yes, it was. It's a great costume, Rory. Now, I get the bathroom because I have to finish my make-up."
Rory motioned for Mimi to enter the bathroom, and Mimi hopped up and quickly made her way towards the bathroom, praying that she wouldn't fall on her face in the heels she wasn't used to wearing.
The night before Rory had put temporary bright red streaks in Mimi's hair to accent her devilish look. Mimi clipped on her tail to the back of her skirt, and arranged the headband with her devil horns in her now red and brown hair. As she was putting the finishing touches on her makeup, she could hear Rory walking around their room, the sound of the plastic shower curtain squishing around her. Mimi tried not to laugh, wondering exactly how miserable Rory would be by the end of the night.
She heard a knock at their door and Rory went to answer it as Mimi listened in.
"Hey Jase... You look great."
"You look awesome, Rory. I love the costume. Janet Leigh, right?"
"Ha ha! Yes!" Rory shouted victoriously towards the closed bathroom door. "DID YOU HEAR THAT MIMI? JASON UNDERSTANDS!!"
Mimi chuckled and rolled her eyes, spraying a sheen of gold glitter into her hair, and sprinkling some glitter on the exposed parts of her skin. She checked herself once more in the mirror, and frowned slightly. "Well, I guess it's the best I can do."
She opened the door and walked back in to the bedroom. What she didn't really notice was the stunned look on Jason's face, because she was too busy staring at him in his costume.
Jason thought that his eyes were going to fall right out of his head. He blinked several times, making sure he was seeing what he thought he was seeing. Mimi wasn't just beautiful, she was indescribably sexy in her little red devil outfit. It looked almost as if it had been made just for her, hugging her many curves in all of the right places. Her skin and hair sparkled underneath the overhead light, and he knew in his heart he had never seen a sight more perfect.
"Mimi... You look... wow... wow." He could hardly speak at the sight of her, and Mimi didn't know how to reply.
"Jason... You're... You are... wearing a toga?" She stared at him in surprise. His costume was the perfect balance to hers. He was an angel. She almost wanted to giggle, never expecting that she'd ever see Jason Masters wearing a white toga, but there he was. It was sleeveless and showed off his arms, and he had a pair of wings pinned to his back and a golden halo over his head. In Mimi's eyes, he looked more like a Greek god than an angel. Like Zeus himself had sent him down from Olympus just to be here tonight. Not even Russell Crowe in Gladiator could compare to that.
"Yes, I'm wearing a toga. And, it was not my idea. It was Rory's."
Mimi's eyes darted over to her roommate and she dropped her jaw. "Rory? You did this? I can't believe it..."
Rory curtsied proudly, at least as much as she could curtsy in her shower curtain dress. "Hey... There's nothing like a guy in a toga, if you ask me. Besides, I figured we have our little devil, and we needed an angel just to balance out good and evil."
Jason nodded in agreement. "Besides, you're supposed to dress up as something you're not on Halloween. And nobody has ever accused me of being even close to angelic."
Mimi nodded and smiled at him. "Well... You look adorable."
"Adorable? I look adorable? Mimi... puppies are adorable. Babies are adorable. I'm not adorable."
"Oh, yes you are. But... uhm... Manly too. Very macho." Mimi chuckled softly, he looked more than adorable. He looked absolutely gorgeous. She never thought a guy in a sheet could be that sexy, but Jason could probably wear garbage bags and still be sexy.
Rory winked teasingly at him. "So... Jase... Whatcha got on underneath that toga?"
Jason laughed and winked back at her. "Wanna see?"
Rory nodded and clapped her hands together. Jason put his hands on the edge of the toga's skirt and quickly lifted it up, exposing a pair of tan shorts underneath. Mimi laughed, but Rory frowned at him with disappointment.
"Awwww... Come on. REAL men don't wear anything underneath their skirts."
Jason rolled his eyes and shook his head at her. "Real men don't wear skirts. I mean, geez, Rory... I don't know what kind of men you've been hanging out with and all..."
Rory laughed and playfully smacked him on the arm. "Ha ha. Very funny. You know I haven't been hanging out with any men at all. Remember me? Big loser?"
Their laughter was interrupted when Nick peeked his head around the doorway curiously. "Hey... Is everybody ready?"
Rory turned and grinned at him. "Yeah, Jason was just showing us what's underneath his toga."
"Oh. Well, I've lived with him for two months and I've already seen too much of what is underneath his toga. I'm glad I missed that blessed event."
"So... Come on in, Nicholas. Show us what you got."
Nick walked in and everybody stared at him strangely. He was wearing a pair of brown pants, and one leg was bunched up, showing off part of his calf. There were various things sewn to his pants and white shirt, including a few dryer sheets and several different colored socks. His normally shaggy brown hair was gelled out so that it seemed to stick up straight from every direction.
Rory raised both eyebrows in confusion. "And you are...?"
Nick sighed in frustration because nobody figured it out. "Static cling."
Mimi was the first one to laugh. "Ohhhhh, Nick... That is so funny."
Rory laughed along with her, but looked at him curiously. "But aren't those dryer sheets supposed to cut down on static cling?"
Nick rolled his eyes frustratingly. "You shush. I don't want to hear any of your criticisms tonight."
"Hmmm... Then you better hang out with someone else, because you know I'm incapable of not insulting you."
Jason nodded in agreement and patted his roommate on the back. "She's right, man... But, remember, when we treat you badly, it's purely out of love."
Nick frowned at him and nodded. "Yeah, I'll keep that in mind. Can we please leave now?"
Everyone seemed to nod in agreement and Jason led the way out the door of the room. Mimi locked the door and gave Nick their key, since he was the only one with any pockets in their costume. He slipped it into his pocket, and Mimi looked at the back of his shirt strangely as they stood in the hallway together.
"Nick... You have a pair of Scooby-Doo boxers on the back of your shirt?"
Nick nodded and pointed towards Jason. "Oh, they're not mine. They belong to Johnny Angel over there."
Jason glared at Nick and frowned. "Dude... You didn't HAVE to tell them that, did you?"
Mimi and Rory were both giggling, and Mimi patted him on the back. "Don't worry, Jason. We think it's cute."
Jason shook his head with shame, not saying another word as they left their building together. Once they were outside again, the joking and laughing started up as before. Mimi stayed quiet as they walked towards the party, wondering if her first Halloween at college would be filled with tricks or treats.
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