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Lauren's POV
Summer melted into autumn and before I knew it, it was Halloween. The school was holding a Halloween party but since it was the Gallagher Academy, it was no ordinary party.
"Right, girls and boys, your mission is to find a letter." Mr Solomon said as he handed out envelopes. "There is an imposter at the party and they are going to be attempting murder. Your task is to catch the imposter unless you are the imposter; in that case your task is to capture your victim. The letter explains who the murderer is and who the victim is. Murderer, you know who you are." There was a pause as everyone eyes each other with suspicion. "You are to be down here in your costumes by eight."
It was manic in the dorm. Liz had poked herself in the eye with her eyeliner and Macey couldn't find her witch's costume. "Where the FUCK is it! It's seven and I haven't done my makeup and someone's taken my outfit!" Macey yelled in frustration.
"I highly doubt anyone's taken it." I said calmly whilst pinning back some of my chocolate brown curls.
Macey began tearing apart the room occasionally muttering something like 'bloody, shitting thieves!' Bex sighed and opened the wardrobe. There hung her lacy, black and purple witch's dress.
"Right... um...thanks." Macey blushed and snatched the dress from its hanger and began to pull it on.
"What're you going as?" I asked Liz as Bex straightened her long hair.
"A mad scientist." She replied. The whole dorm stopped and stared at her. "A sexy mad scientist! Duh!" she explained as she grabbed a white lab coat, high heels and some glasses.
At seven forty five, we were finally ready. Liz as a mad scientist in her lab coat, high heels, glasses and a very short skirt, Macey as a witch in a purple and black, lacy dress which came about mid thigh length and a wand, Bex was a vampire with a floor length black dress with red beads around the neck and I even had two red puncture marks – which I thought Macey did a bloody brilliant job on – and I was a ghost and had a long, flowing white dress and white powder to make my skin even paler. I thought we looked fantastic.
We saw the boys laughing at the bottom of the stairs. As we descended, they stopped and stared at us. "Well, don't you look... dashing." I said looking Will up and down. "What are you exactly?"
"I'm an axe murderer!" He said and waved a – hopefully – plastic axe. "I was thinking about being Lord Voldemort but I like my nose too much." He grinned.
"And your hair, plus you'd have to perfect your British accent." I grinned back at him.
"I'll have you know that I have perfected my British accent and I sound fantastic!" He defended.
"Is that right?" I raised my eyebrows and crossed my arms.
"Absolutely!" He said, "Righty ho! Top notch... do you fancy coming for tea and scones old chap?" I couldn't help but laugh at his incredibly bad English accent.
"A little stereotypical but good enough... if you're the Queen, of course, no ordinary person speaks like that in England." I said.
At that moment the doors to the hall opened revealing a ball room covered in Halloween decorations. The normal lights were replaced by flashing coloured lights and pumpkins, cobwebs and skeletons hung all around. Pop music started playing and everyone entered the grand hall.
I strutted to the middle of the dance floor to show off my moves. Macey, Liz and Bex joined me and we jumped along to the beat and waved our arms about. For a minute, it felt just like a normal school disco but then I remembered my mission.
I observed every single person in the room, which was kind of hard due to the lack of light. Looking for any abnormal behaviour was extremely hard when no one was acting or dressing normally. Dancing my way to the drinks table, I took a mental note of people who could be hiding a weapon or a letter – that just so happened to be about ninety percent of the people here.
"Hey," I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard Will's voice in my ear.
"Crap, Will! Don't scare me like that!" I said to the smirking boy.
"Want to dance?" he asked and held his arm out for me. I smiled and took his arm.
Moves Like Jagger came on and I seemed to lose myself dancing with Will. The lights flashed and the room was pulsing with the beat of the song. He pulled me closer and ran his fingers through my hair. I shivered at his touch. It was like an electric current shot right through me and my mind went fuzzy. For the second time that night, I forgot the mission.
Will took my hand and led me through the crowded hall and into the corridor. He led me through the deserted corridors and to the library. Once we were in the dark, empty library, he turned to face me. He studied my face and brushed my hair from my face. Kiss me, God dammit, I thought as he stepped closer to me. "Kiss me." I whispered and he obliged. It was a slow, tender kiss that made me melt. His lips were so soft. I wrapped my arms around his neck and deepened the kiss.
I'm not quite sure how long the kiss lasted; it could have been a few seconds or a few minutes. My hands travelled from his neck down to his waist. That is when I felt something in his pocket. I drew it out without him realising. It was an envelope. I broke the kiss and opened the envelope. A letter fell out. "Shit." Will muttered and attempted to grab the note but I dodged his arms and, with a gleeful laugh, ran back to the hall.
It's a good thing I could run in heels because Will was right on my tail. I threw him off a bit by spinning a chair round in front of him but it didn't do much; he was catching up. I sprinted down the long corridors and flew round corners.
I was just coming up to the last corner before the hall and could hear the music when Will grabbed my arm. I tripped but before I fell flat on my face, he pulled me upright and held me tightly. We stood like that trying to catch our breaths. "I'll take that." He grinned and plucked the note out of my hands but didn't move away.
"Lauren, there you are-" Bex and Macey trailed off when they saw I was with Will.
I was so quick Will didn't have time to register what happened. I snatched the note from Will, pushed his arms away and sprinted the few feet that were between me and Bex and Macey. "I got it." I held the note up so that my friends could see. Bex opened it and her eyes scanned the paper, "Grant is the murderer and the victim is... Liz." Her eyes met mine.
We left Macey to sort Will out and Macey and I pushed through the crowded hall in the search of Liz. "Jonas, have you seen Liz?" I shouted over the music.
"What?" He shouted back.
"HAVE YOU SEEN LIZ?"
"Uh...no." He looked around.
I saw a flash of her white lab coat going out the door. Macey saw it too and we once again battled our way through the sea of teenagers.
Bex was still struggling with Will. I motioned to Macey to stop and wait. Creeping round behind them, I grabbed the chair that was behind and whacked Will over the head with it. "Oh my God!" Bex was taken aback by what I just did. Shit, what did I just do! Oh my God I just knocked out Will! Fuck! But Bex just smiled at me, "That was bloody brilliant!"
After dragging an unconscious Will to our bedroom and tying him to a chair, the search for Liz and Grant began. "Should we split up? We'd cover more ground if we split up." Macey said.
"Yeah, ok, let's split up. Lauren and I will check the second floor and you and Jonas check the ground floor." Bex said and we all nodded.
Just as the others were turning to leave, I saw them. "Grant, where are you taking me? We have a mission! We can't just abandon it; we'll fail!" Liz whined as Grant led her round the corner and into our view. I noticed the panic in his eyes but he acted normally. "Hey, guys, we were just looking for you." He grinned at Bex.
"We were?" Liz's confusion was crystal clear.
"Yes, we were," Grant gave her a look, "have you seen Will, by the way?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact we have." I crossed my arms.
"Liz, come here please." Bex said calmly. Liz's eyebrows furrowed in confusion and as she took a step towards her friends, Grant put his arm out, preventing her from taking another step. "Grant, move!" she was frustrated with him.
"What if they're the imposters?" He was acting suspicious of us.
"Don't be stupid, Grant! For all I know you could be the -" She finally caught on.
We acted quickly. Grant was strong and fast, but there were more than us so we had the upper hand. Fists flew and kicks were aimed. Soon Grant was bound and the situation was under control.
Will's POV
"Ugh." I woke up and groaned because of the splitting headache I had. I was lying on a bed. My bed, I realised when I saw the picture of my ten year old sister and me on the table. What happened? I tried to stand up and stretch my legs but my head pounded and colours swum in front of my eyes. My head throbbed and I found it hard to remember.
Oh, yeah! I was at a Halloween party – well, it wasn't really a party - where I was the secret keeper and I was fighting off Bex and everything went dark after that. That explained the bruises and the tying up, but how did I black out? I groaned again. My head hurt too much to think right now.
"Sleeping Beauty finally awakes." I soft, feminine voice spoke from across the room. Lauren was here.
"What happened?" I asked groggily.
She was still in her white dress from the party/mission. It flowed like water when she moved and when she moved, she glided. The dress rippled as she crossed the room to sit by me.
"Well, you were being a little... difficult," she chose her words carefully, "so I had no choice but to...um...hit you over the head with a chair." She said sheepishly.
"Well that explains the lump on the back of my head." I said half ruefully and half laughing.
"Sorry 'bout that." Lauren eased another pillow under my head and handed me and icepack which I took gratefully.
"So, what happened?" I felt the coolness of the icepack soothe my throbbing head.
"Well, I knocked you out, tied you up, went looking for Liz and Grant, found them and tied Grant up as well." She said with a triumphant smile and perched on the end of the bed.
"Nice." I smiled at her. God she was gorgeous! And that English accent made my heart skip a beat. Our eyes locked. I was reminded of the kiss. Just thinking of it made my heart thump quicker.
"I...um...I'd better go." She stammered and gave me a small smile before leaving the room.
I couldn't resist the Harry Potter reference!