Author's Note: Thank you to everybody who read or reviewed the last chapter. I'm glad you all enjoyed the format so well. So on July 12, I found out my computer was not repairable,and I ended up getting a brand-new computer, thankfully insurance cover the majority of the cost. Also, I had the good sense to make a copy of all my stories before sending the old one off to be repaired.

There's a time jump in this chapter in an effort to avoid repeating the mistakes of Adaptation Mode Style. The chapter starts on Halloween about a month and a half after a very dysfunctional Alex Suarez birthday.

Warning: other non-Betty/Daniel relationships containing Betty and/or Daniel. Don't worry it's going somewhere good but this may remind some people of the alternate universe chapter from Gossip Mode Style. Considering that was where I got the idea to do this story from, this makes total sense.

Chapter 30: Tricks and Treats: Part One A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings in the Closet

Halloween 2006

"Good news, room service brought ice." Monique was dressed in her tattered Princess Ball gown currently covered with blood and other fluids. She was supposed to be Cinderella (the Brandy version from a few years ago) except her Prince charming punched out Betty's date before she could even find out the poor guy's name. She has no idea what could cause such a strong reaction, but it's Daniel. She shouldn't be surprised at all. She knew from the beginning that this scheme was going to backfire spectacularly. Right now, boss one and boss two asked her to take care of Betty's date and convince him not to sue or go to the press.

"Did they bring any bourbon for that ice?" The guy looked up at her. Monique was pretty sure he was going to have a black eye in the morning. She felt horrible for what happened, but this is what she gets for being part of this game to get her friend together with her bosses stepdaughter. No job is worth this.

"I knew I forgot to order something. Maybe some will come up with the first-aid kit that I asked for." She smirked. "Hopefully, the ice pack will work for now."

"Thank you." He said taking the ice from her. "You can go back to your boyfriend who punched me now. I'm sure he's going to need ice as well."

"Daniel was never my boyfriend. We were mostly work colleagues until he came back a couple of months ago. Now we are friends. Besides, he is Betty's problem now." She was so yelling at Daniel later for acting like a territorial toddler, but she is letting Betty have the first crack at him. "Boss one put me in charge of taking care of you."

"Didn't I see you guys kissing earlier?" The guy scoffed despite his bruises.

"We are friends with make out privileges. Although that particular incident was for show." The guy just snickered at her.

"Hey, you probably don't even know my name. So don't laugh, because you don't know me." She said with mock annoyance.

"I know who you are. You are Monique Osborne formally Wynn-West, society darling and creative director at Hudson Magazine."

"You know who I am but you don't know me." Monique said defensively. "I'm not a society darling, I'm an old shame. My corporate shark biological father knocked up the babysitter. It's just lucky for me that my mom- adopted mom but she's my real mom didn't feel like punishing me because my biological father couldn't keep it zipped. So she divorced him and decided to take his illegitimate daughter, me, in the settlement."

"I knew that too. But I was trying to be polite."

"I don't see the point because no one else is, and you really don't seem like one for holding your tongue." Monique scoffed. "I'm more than what the tabloids say I am."

"I know that. I've delivered to your office before. Your favorite is Prosciutto, spinach, and mozzarella with pesto on Ciabatta bread. You can't have anything with mayonnaise because it makes your mouth swell. However, you were really nice that one time someone messed up your order even though you had to break out the EpiPen. You also prefer kettle chips, giant dill pickles, and diet root beer." She was impressed that he remembered her.

"The fact that you know my usual lunch order, and I don't even know your name makes me feel as snobby as my half-sister Mercedes. I absolutely hate feeling like my sister."

"It's Gio and it wasn't your fault I was punched out before introductions.

"No, that would be Daniel."

"I only remember you because you usually give a $10 tip for a $15 order." He quipped. "I don't think that something your sister would do. I also remember you specifically because you're hot and the reason why every restaurant in a 2 mile radius now knows not to bring any food containing mayonnaise to the Hudson offices. I also doubt your sister would be willing to take care of the deli guy after your date punched him out and ran away with his date."

"I don't even think Mercedes is eating bread this month. Also, you're more than just the deli guy even though, I really like your sandwiches. For example, you can keep up with my snarky comments." She decided it was best to ignore the hot common, for now.

"It's not that hard. Unfortunately, your favorite is not my recipe. Someday, I'm going to have my own Deli but right now I'm just trying to save up money to do that someday which means accepting some very strange jobs."

"What did Faye offer you to participate in this farce?" Monique asked knowing boss one too well.

"Enough money to start my own place in exchange for escorting her stepdaughter to this Halloween nightmare. I said yes. She is one of my best customers." Gio confirmed her suspicions.

"You should just be happy that she likes your food. The only other food that she eats comes from her husband."

"The guy that just opened Rosa?"

"Yes." In just a few months, Rosa has become the hot and trendy restaurant in NYC. Probably because despite her new position Faye Somers-Suarez still determines what's trendy.

"I love their Malay sauce," Okay this guy was definitely a foodie. She liked that.

"I think the chicken sandwich appetizers contain the sauce. I asked Nico to bring up some food, the good stuff from the party, not something off of room service, since I felt bad about Daniel being a complete dick to you." Okay, maybe she's rambling a little bit around him but whatever.

"You're too kind." Gio smirked at her.

"However, since you also received a bribe for getting involved with the Betty/Daniel drama I don't feel as horrible as I did earlier."

"What did you get?" Gio asked cynically.

"The EIC position at MYW and all I had to do was smile for the cameras and give Betty an incentive to figure things out with Daniel before it's too late." Actually there were other reasons but this guy doesn't need to know that right now.

"Well, considering they're in another room together… maybe, your plan worked. She seems like the hate sex type. What is going on with those guys? Did they used to date or something?" Gio asked.

"Wait, you don't know?" He shook his head, and that just made Monique even more irritated. "See I knew I should have took over from Faye. If I were in charge, you would not have a black eye right now or at the very least you would know why." Monique quipped. "Also I would have given you full disclosure on the tele-novella that is Betty and Daniel before asking you to get involved."

"Tele-novella?" Gio raised a swollen eyebrow at her.

"Definitely tele-novella. Daniel and Betty met about two years ago at the wake for Daniel's then brother who is now back from the dead as his sister, but that's not relevant for this story."

"How is something like that not relevant?"

"I guess it's relevant to why Daniel had to live in Paris for a year and a half to take care of his adopted son who is really his biological nephew but we would need another three or four hours just to discuss that drama."

"He moved to Paris?"Gio asked, confused.

"Let me just start from the beginning. So Betty ended up being part of the catering staff at the most dysfunctional wake ever because her sister completely flaked on her. On the way to the catering job, Betty found out her boyfriend of a very long time was screwing their skanky next-door neighbor Gino Gambino or whatever."

"I know that girl, most of Queens knows that girl. I think she tried to sleep with me once."

"Thankfully you were too smart to actually follow through with it."

"Although you would be a different story," He smirked at her. Gio was so flirting with her which was fine with Monique.

"So the two met at the wake and hit it off. Betty and Daniel became instant friends or maybe a little bit more than that. But because of what the ex-boyfriend did to her, Betty was afraid of relationships, in addition to not wanting to end up like her teen mother sister, she wouldn't sleep with Daniel but she would do everything else which still led to baby Alex." She gave him the Cliff Notes version.

"How do you…" Monique cut him off with two fingers to his lips.

"Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to. Just accept that it happened, and there is a 13-month-old to prove it." Gio responded by kissing her fingers.

"Alex… I know about. Faye told me that it was really hard for her stepdaughter to meet nice guys because she has a one-year-old, and she needed somebody to accompany her to various professional outings such as Meade Publications first annual Halloween ball. However, she neglected to mention that the father was still in the picture."

'No…what Faye really neglected to mention was that she specifically created the Halloween Ball just to force Betty to have a date.' However, Monique decided it would be best not to tell him that. She was trying to avoid litigation and things were going well so far.

"Daniel was never out of the picture, unless you count the time when he was completely unaware of the fact he was Alex's father. Of course, that wasn't his fault. First he was in Europe taking care of his son DJ. Then there was the Wilhelmina problem also known as Satan the diva." Monique told him instead.

"I think I know who you're talking about. She's the one who orders the turkey sandwich with no bread, no cheese, and no turkey." Monique laughed at that.

"That sounds like Wilhelmina." Monique shook her head. "The scary thing is I know you're not joking. I'm not even sure where to begin the messy Daniel Betty thing. It's really not even my place to tell you these things. Besides I think, it would take me at least 100,000 words just to scratch the surface of that story."

"Try." Gio told her as he placed a hand on her thigh. "I would really like to know why he punched me out."

"That may take years. I better order some alcohol." Monique pulls away from his touch reluctantly to order room service because she wasn't going to ask a 16-year-old to bring her liquor.

"There's no way the story can be that complicated." Gio scoffed again.

"Daniel left for Paris to take care of his illegitimate son that his father hid from him, because DJ's mom had terminal breast cancer and her parents were leeches that shouldn't be allowed to take care of a puppy. She died this summer. Of course, Daniel doesn't find out that he has a son until he shows up at her door to get closure on the relationship so he can build a future with Betty. Unfortunately, it turned out that DJ is actually his nephew and not his son because Lucy slept with his brother who was presumed dead at the time. Daniel got custody of DJ but to get custody of DJ he had to move to France because Lucy's parents make my shark of a father look like a good person. Now this all went down when Betty was pregnant with Alex. Of course Daniel didn't know that Alex was his son because Wilhelmina switched the DNA test and blackmailed Betty with the life of her unborn child and the deportation of her father to keep her from telling Daniel, the truth. What makes matters worse is a couple months before this Daniel's friend Jordan was pushed down a flight of stairs, for reasons only known to Wilhelmina Slater, and had a miscarriage."

"Okay, it is that bad. Maybe you should have them bring a bottle or two." He said handing her the receiver.

"Told you so." She said just before placing an order for some decent scotch and something from the dessert menu with lots of chocolate.

"And this Wilhelmina woman is not in jail?" Gio asked when she put the receiver down.

"Her daddy's a senator." Monique said as she laid back down on the bed next to him. This time she also kicked off her shoes. They are cute, but she couldn't take wearing the hills any longer. "He is also about to become my stepdad in about two months."

"I can tell you're not looking forward to that wedding."

"It's going to completely ruin Christmas for me which is quite a feat considering that my husband was killed in a drunk driving crash on Christmas." She quipped.

"I'm sorry." He said giving her hand a squeeze.

"It's okay. It's been a couple of years and on the bright side this will give me a new horrible memory to associate with December 25."

"That's a positive way to look at this." He smiled at her.

"The only other positive thing I'm getting out of this family corporate merger is Nico as my niece. The scary thing is that Wilhelmina is the good daughter. His other daughter is currently in a psychiatric hospital after killing her boyfriend." Gio just shakes his head.

"Let's stick with one dysfunctional family story at a time."

"I'll try." She tells him with an all too sweet smile. "So my future stepsister managed to completely screw up Daniel's relationship for the sole purpose of taking Daniel's daddy to the cleaners or to the wedding chapel depending on your point of view. Thankfully, Bradford realized what she was really doing and may or may not have been preparing to break up with her. But before the breakup Bradford turns up dead. Daniel comes back to deal with everything and he finds out he has a brand-new sister."

"Which would be difficult for anybody to take." Gino interjected.

"Daniel handles it by sleeping with Betty again despite how screwed up their relationship is. Then at the funeral he finds out the whole Wilhelmina thing and goes to hide in the Hamptons for a few weeks. After he comes back, he pretends not to know the truth about Alex and so Wilhelmina pulls a Wilhelmina. In the end, Betty and Daniel are in love with each other but Daniel is mad at Betty for keeping the truth from him. He may have said something stupid at their son's first-birthday party last month. Faye got desperate and brought out the big guns, which is where we come in."

3 ½ weeks earlier

"Okay, why are you sulking?" Monique asked sliding into the seat next to Daniel. They were both 15 minutes early for their working lunch with the bosses in one of the private dining rooms at Rosa.

"Betty is having lunch with Harrison from accounting." Daniel told her as he downed his entire drink in one go.

"Okay, I know most of the accountants by name, and I don't think there's a Harrison, there's a Henry. He wears these ridiculous glasses and too many layers for somebody who used to live in Arizona."

"That's him." Daniel frowned.

"I swore that Faye scared him away last summer."

"Apparently it didn't work."

"Telling a guy that the girl you want to sleep with father killed a guy in Mexico, and that's why he can't go back always works." Monique joked. Yes, Faye actually told the guy that.

"Especially considering that it's true." Daniel mumbled under breath. "I think she still mad about Alex's birthday."

"That was weeks ago. Are you sure that you haven't done anything stupid since then?" Monique asked sure something else happened.

"I don't think so. I even got her flowers."

"That Alex tried to eat." Faye said taking the seat across from her.

"At least they were edible flowers." Daniel quipped.

"According to Nico, she only said yes to the accountant because you're having lunch with Monique." Faye told both.

"Okay, that's ridiculous. It's a business lunch." Daniel told her with annoyance in his voice.

"What about Friday night?" Faye asked.

"Grief support group." Monique started to explain. I'm the group leader, and I am convinced Daniel to start going after the whole hiding in the Hamptons thing."

"I was not hiding in the Hamptons." Daniel said defensively.

"Yes you were hiding in the Hamptons. Wait, how do you even know about that?" She asked turning to Faye.

"DJ told Justin, who told Hilda, who convinced Betty that Daniel has moved on and she should too." Faye explained.

"She thinks we are dating?" Both Monique and Daniel asked simultaneously.

"No, she thinks you guys are sleeping together." Faye corrected.

"Why?" Monique asked because Daniel was still in too much shock to do so.

"Because Nico was listing your group therapy sessions as 'book club'." Monique just started laughing at that.

"What's so ominous about 'book club'?" Daniel asked finally finding his voice again.

"Book club was Jamie's code for afternoon sex with Jordan and your…"Monique started to explain the Daniel cut her off.

"Don't even finish that sentence. I know that my sister and Jamie have been together since before she was even my sister, but I just don't want to know details, especially related to their lunch habits."

"I completely understand. Look after this business lunch, I will explain everything to Betty…" Monique started to offer, but Daniel would not let her finish speaking.

"No." Daniel answered emphatically. "Let Betty think whatever she wants. If she wants to have lunch with Harrison or whatever that's fine with me. I'm tired of playing these games. She's the one who broke up with me, so she doesn't have the right to be mad if I'm dating someone else."

"But we are not actually dating." Monique pointed out. She did not want to be dragged into this, any more than she had to be.

"But you could be." Faye seriously suggested. "It may be a good thing."

"What?" Daniel asked.

"I thought you wanted Daniel to be your step son-in-law?" Monique asked slightly shocked.

"I want my stepdaughter to be on amicable terms with her son's father. Which they're doing a really good job of. You and Betty are doing great work together. This may be the best winter cover since I was on the cover."

"I didn't get to see a copy." Daniel snared. "Mom torched several cases and went to South Dakota for rehab. Although, I guess now it would be South Dakota for Tyler."

"I was a bitch, and I was trying to get your mom to leave Bradford but I went about it the wrong way." This would probably be the closest Faye Somers-Suarez would ever come to apologizing. "I've gotten much better at manipulating people."

"Yes it's hard to tell when somebody is screwing you over if they look like an unassuming grandmother." Daniel Sniped. "What do you want Faye?"

"Did you read this morning's the Suzuki Report? Or maybe today's Page Six?" That's when Faye handed Daniela red folder. It only takes Daniel a few seconds of browsing to get upset.

"Okay, when I'm sleeping around they talk should about me and when I'm not sleeping around they're still talking." Daniel said annoyed as he slammed the folder on the table.

"Read paragraph 2." Faye said reopening the folder and pointing to a specific paragraph.

"It was college and that was probably directly related to fighting with Bradford." Daniel said in his defense after reading. "How did anybody find him or anyone else? The only one who knew anything about that was Alex. I barely remember the guy's name, and that's because he was one of my tutors."

"Which Alex?" Monique asked even though she wasn't entirely sure what he was talking about, at least not until Daniel passed her the article. Honestly, she's not that surprised.

"Both actually, although baby Alex is too young to realize it yet." Daniel confessed reluctantly.

"And that would be how Wilhelmina found out about it." Faye explained.

"What?" Daniel asked shocked.

"That private letter that you wrote Alex was found by Carlo because he's just evil that way. Carlo showed the letter to Wilhelmina." Faye explained.

"Carlo is supposed to be working for Marc. How do you even know this?" Daniel asked in irritation.

"Yes, technically Carlo is working for Marc and he is doing such a good job at it that Marc has been scheduling most of his own meetings." Monique quipped. "Were friends. Or rather I'm friends with his boyfriend. Cliff and I have known each other since college. We dated for a while."

"Before he realized that you had the wrong parts?" Daniel asked snidely.

"Cliff is- you know what none of your business Mr. I-fucked-around-with-everybody-in-college." Monique snapped right back.

"According to certain anonymous sources…" Faye started.

"You mean Nico." Daniel interrupted.

"It could be Marisol. She knows everything." Monique added.

"Okay, according to Nico, Wilhelmina managed track down one of your college 'friends' and gave the information to Suzuki." Faye finished.

"Who is the last person who should be running stories about other people's sex lives considering he's hiding a wife in New Jersey." Monique told the others slightly annoyed.

"Wait, how do you know this?" Daniel asked giving her a strange look

"I'm friends with his wife." Faye looked impressed, but Daniel was doing an impression of a fish. "Daniel don't be so shocked. He used to do freelance articles for Hudson under the name Brian Wu. You've met him before."

"I'm impressed. You really do know everyone and everything." Faye complemented. "Unfortunately, it's too late to use that particular piece of blackmail. Now, it's time for damage control."

"Damage control?" Daniel asked annoyed. "I really don't care if the public knows that I screwed around with guys in college. It's no big deal. Although, I think I might have to talk to Betty about this, specially the accusations about Jamie."

"That we all know are completely false. What happened to not justifying your relationships to her?" Monique asked almost laughing.

"This is…" Daniel started, but Monique cut him off.

"You being a lovesick puppy," Monique accused.

"Children, focus!" Faye actually slammed her hand down on the table. "As a proud member of the LGTB community I don't really care about that. However, I do care about what Wilhelmina is really trying to do."

"Which is?" Monique asked.

"Trying to get you out of my old job."

"She's doing a really horrible job of it." Daniel quipped. "So how exactly does her uncovering the fact that I fucked around with a couple of guys in college going to give her that?"

"Especially considering that Daniel is the EIC of a fashion magazine." Monique interjected. "Daniel being something other than a Kinsey zero is practically expected. It's the reason why Byron created Suzuki."

"Wilhelmina's main goal is to make you uncomfortable or rather she wants to destroy your relationship with Betty so badly that you'll be on the first plane back to France. So she does things like leak your youthful indiscretions to the press and convincing the idiot from accounting to chase after Betty again." Faye explained extremely annoyed.

"Which is not going to happen." Daniel said emphatically, as if he was insulted that anybody would think such a thing. "Does she really think I'm going to leave Alex behind just because things with Betty are difficult?"

"That's what her ex-husband did." Monique interrupted. "I know that Nico told you how bad things are with her dad. He didn't even realize that she didn't show up this summer until the news broke about Bradford leaving her a lot of money."

"So she thinks all men are her ex-husband?" Daniel asked flippantly.

"Probably and he really was a complete dick." Faye sighed.

"So what's damage control?" Daniel asked, most likely realizing that he will have to go with whatever Faye was planning.

"I have another lunch in ten minutes with an old friend from my Studio 54 days in this room and you two are going to relocate to one of the more paparazzi friendly tables. Then you and Daniel are going to carry on as if this is the best date ever." They both just stared at her for a moment in shock. Neither should be surpri sed at all that Faye is suggesting something like this.

"I have arranged for somebody from Fashion TV to come by. In addition, there is a club opening tomorrow that you too will go to together. Actually are about ten public events that you will accompany each other to over the next few weeks culminating with an appearance together at Meade publications first annual Halloween costume ball."

"You want us to pretend to date?" Monique asked recovering first.

"I knew there was a reason why we were considering you for the EIC position at MYW." Faye gave her a very predatory smile at that point.

"Being part of a high-profile relationship may make receiving a position like that of little bit easier. It would definitely help Daniel. People are starting to think your recluse or worse they are starting to suspect the truth about Alex. Monique, you remember what it was like growing up in the press?"

Actually, what she really remembers is her first grade classmates asking her if her father really did sleep with the help. And that was before the Internet. Imagine how much worse it would be now. She would hate for another child to grow up under that type of scrutiny.

"Bringing Alex into this is a very low blow." Monique grout.

"Which is why he's the first thing Wilhelmina always goes to. He's the only thing that could ever really hurt Daniel and Wilhelmina knows that. Personally I'm shocked she has not revealed that particular tidbit to the press."

"Even evil has standards." Monique shrugged, and Daniel seemed to agree.

"You can't dangle the MYW carrot in front of her. I thought Alexis was the main contender for the new magazine. That was in Bradford's will." Daniel told their boss.

"She was -actually she still is but the launch date is in January and she still saying no. Either we come up with a plan B or we are going to be forced to go back to the original choice." Faye said with disdain.

"Sophie something right?" Daniel asked, but Monique just rolled her eyes.

"You're horrible with names. It was Sofia. She was in the elevator with us earlier. She was flirting with you."

"The woman who practically undressed in there?" Monique nodded her head in confirmation. "I really wasn't paying attention."

"Because you were staring at her boobs." Monique pointed out annoyed. "Wait, why do I have to pretend to be Daniel's girlfriend? Why can't Betty be his pretend girlfriend to keep the various pariahs away? I mean they've already slept together and keep making out at random times."

"That hasn't happened since Alex's birthday party and that was weeks ago, so things are…" Daniel defended himself. "If I have to have a pretend girlfriend I'd rather it be you. Things are less complicated with you."

"Things are less complicated between you and your sister, then between you and Betty and she used to be your brother, in addition to her impregnating your first love." Monique quipped. "If I do this, will I get the EIC job even if Alexis changes her mind?"

"If she changes her mind, you will be co-EICs because I have to honor Bradford's last wishes, but it will still be your magazine." Faye promised.

"Okay, let's go play with the paparazzi." She said grabbing Daniel's hand and dragging him and to the main part of the restaurant. Unfortunately, she ran into her mother's country club friend Spencer Canon, which met her mom would be calling about this before the fake date was even over.

"Did she call you?" Gio asked her as soon as she finished her story. At this point, they were both lying on the bed with the food spread out as a picnic between the two now that room service and Nico's care package arrived, courtesy of room service. He kept feeding her different things. Gio was really sweet. No wonder Faye chose him. Under other circumstances, this probably would've been the best date she had in two years.

"15 minutes later." Monique laughed. Spencer also called her later that day asking her lots of questions about Hudson and Amanda, mostly Amanda. Spencer told her he was doing research for a new role, but Monique had a feeling something else was going on.

"Did you just tell her the same crazy story you told me?" Gio said holding out one of the many hors d'oeuvres for her.

"No, she wouldn't believe me. Also, she is less worried about me now that she thinks I am in a serious relationship again after years of being a young widow." Monique said literally before eating out of his hand. "Seriously, no more food after this."

"I barely believe you and you know she's just looking out for you." Gio said as he ran his thumb over her cheek to get rid of something stuck there. She felt a shiver up her spine. The last time she felt like this when a guy touched her was her last night with her Jordan before he died.

"But you do believe me." Monique smiled at him. "And trust me if I knew everything that was going on I probably would have gone back to Isabella. This whole crazy scheme was some master plan to get stupid and stupider to admit that they are still hopelessly in love with each other and for them to kiss and make up at the Halloween ball that was specifically created for that purpose." She is really mad that she missed that particular meeting of the Betty Daniel conspiracy group. She blames her mom for making her have dinner with the Senator and Willie instead that day.

"And you pretending to date Daniel relates to this how?" Gio asked now moving the mostly empty containers to one of the tables in the room.

"Wilhelmina promised Sofia her magazine back if she gets Daniel eating out of her palm." There was also some plan for total public humiliation, but Monique wasn't supposed to know that part of it.

"And your purpose in being there was to scare her away?" Gio asked as he laid down next to her again

"Exactly. You were brought in for the same reason. Faye felt you were a lot safer than…"

"Egg salad?" Gio supplied for her.

"Oh God, that's perfect for him. He is such an egg salad. He's just so boring and predictable and has a tendency to make me break out in hives." They were both giggling at that point.

"And I'm supposedly safer than that?" He asked slightly offended.

"You're not secretly still dating a girl from Arizona." Monique quipped.

"Okay, so I'm less of a dick but I'm not safe." Gio got just a little closer to her at that point. Actually his lips were only millimeters from her. It was at that moment that she realized this guy was definitely anything but safe.

"Definitely less of a dick. You're one of the few guys I've been able to talk with for hours and just talk." Talking to him was really the best part of this disaster of a party.

"If you want me to grab your ass I will be perfectly amenable to it. I could also help you get out of that dress." She felt his fingers graze her zipper.

"The dress is now covered in your blood. The least you could do is help me out of it." That's when she kissed him. The moment his lips touched hers she knew that she was completely lost to this guy she just met for the first time a few hours ago, and she did not care. She hasn't been kissed like this in years. It felt good and yes he did help with the dress. Unfortunately, Nico walked into the room when he was helping her with said dress but she doesn't realize that happen until later.

To be continued.

So the universe got the wrong (right) couple together but it will all work out in the end.