❛𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍❜

𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝟬𝟭: ❝𝗢𝗛, 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗘! 𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗜 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗠𝗬𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙 𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 - 𝗡𝗢 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘, 𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 - 𝗕𝗨𝗧  𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗘𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗟𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗚𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗛𝗜𝗠, 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗛 𝗜 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗘. 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘. . . 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗡𝗢𝗪, 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗗?❞

𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐑𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐔𝐍𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐆 piles of clothes-after-clothes onto her bedroom floor - trying to find a decent Halloween costume - since she was planning on going to the collge Halloween party with her friends.

Tara knocked on her opened door, not wanting to scare her whilst her back was turned to her. "Hey, Aud!" Tara greeted  holding a bag in her left hand, causing Audra in turn to tilt her head slightly to the side so that she was now looking directly at the Carpenter girl, giving her full attention to the girl.

"I was thinking that you could dress up as Harley Quinn for the Halloween party, since you've already got the blonde hair and I brought that costume for myself originally but as you can see, I'm dressed up as pirate instead."

Audra smiled back at Tara, receiving the bag that contained her full costume for the party. She was rather pleased with Tara's suggestion, knowing that her best friend was an absolute lifesaver for doing that. "Oh, Tara Carpenter. . . You amazing little sweetheart."

"I know that I'm those things, Aud. But it doesn't hurt to hear those words once in a while." Tara teased, both teenage girls giggling away, "You would absolutely pull off the Harley Quinn costume, considering you've already got blonde hair. All you need is to use some hair chalk or some pink and blue tinted hair spray."

Audra nodded, "I have some really pigmented pink and blue washable hair spray that I could use."

"Okay, don't take too long though. The party is starting in an hour or so. So make sure that you're ready."

Tara turned on her heels, walking out of Audra's dorm room to let the girl change into her Halloween costume in peace.

Audra took the clothing out from the bag and put the shirt over her head, accompanied by the rest of the outfit.

"Okay, that should do the trick." Audra murmured to herself, now securing off her hair into pigtails with a blue hair tie on the left side of her hair, and a red hair tie on the right side of her pigtail.

All the Candunbury girl needed to do was use some blue and pink hair spray to complete the final look. It didn't take too long for the girl to now be fully dressed in her costume.

❪𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗮'𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗿𝗮'𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗸 & 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗮𝘆𝘀❫

"Woah, you look so hot as Harley Quinn!" Tara exclaimed in awe at the blonde.

"If only you dressed up as Poison Ivy, Tar. Then you'd be the Poison Ivy to my Harley Quinn." Audra commented in a flirty tone, emphasizing her flirtatious remark by fluttering her long lashes. So, in return this made the pirate girl swoon with her right hand wafting in her face, as if she was fanning herself at how attractive Audra was being towards her.

"Stop, Tar. Or you'll make me blush." Audra placed both of her long blue and red painted nails over her cheeks.

Tara simply just chuckled at her best friend, picking up her small purse to take with her to the Halloween party in a few minutes, linked arms with the pink and blue pigtailed girl, once they left Audra's dormroom.

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𝐈𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 and had a slight cool breeze outside when Audra and Tara were walking side-by-side, arms still linked together while discussing the topic Tara somehow managed to bring up; that being one of her new friend's, Chad's new roommate.

"No, because I haven't even met the poor boy yet, and you're already trying to set me up with him?" Audra asked, scoffing in amusement at how quick Tara was to bring up the topic that is Ethan Landry.

Tara shrugged at the blonde until a sly smirk quickly made an appearance on her dark painted lips, "I know you'll love Ethan as soon as you walk through the door at the party, and you definitely deserve to have some fun, Aud."

Audra wore a look that was a mixture between alarm and bewilderment as soon as she heard Tara's words regarding the Landry boy, "You're just as bad as Chad, when it comes to my dating life - or lack thereof - y'know that, right?"

The Carpenter girl sighed, even though Audra was simply teasing her, she could still see the regarded pain in her rich chocolate-like eyes prior to her ex-girlfriend, who she hadn't seen or contacted since she moved from Woodsboro to New York.

Maeveen, who was ultimately referred as Maeve - or as Audra liked to call her, Mae - Calderwood. Oh, where to even begin with her jealous and obsessive ex-girlfriend.

Maeve and Audra were your epitome love story, one where you thought that it would be ever-lasting, no matter how severe the situation in their relationship was. Audra was always Maeve's love and Maeve was Audra's. It had been that way for a year and a few months, but it wasn't until the Ghostface killings had started up (yet again) after twenty five years, occurring in their senior year of high school.

This was when their love story relationship had turned out being a make believe one, resulting in a lof of tragedy that wedged Audra completely away from Maeve.

Audra suddenly snapped out of her trip down memory lane when she though of a brilliant idea, "Tar, since you're so adamant about me finally meeting Ethan, why don't you and Chad get to know each other? In more ways than one." Audra smirked, wiggling her brows suggestively at the girl dressed up as a pirate.

Tara shook her head slightly at how the roles had somehow reversed, "Yeah, no I won't be doing that." Tara responded back to Audra, which in turn made Audra's mouth open wide in disbelief.

She was about to make a dismissive comment right back at Tara, but it wasn't until a slight force on her left shoulder had awakened Audra from her mini trip to memory lane that ultimately made her jolt slightly forward from the figure by the side of her.

Audra got a view of a man with dark shoulder-length hair (who wasn't even wearing a Halloween costume to start with), and wore a forest deep green jacket that had 'BLACKMORE UNIVERSITY' embroidered on the breast pocket.

It was the film student at Blackmore University that both Tara and Audra knew; Jason Carvey.

"Oh, hey. Tara!" Jason greeted the girl, not even bothering to apologize to the blonde who he had knocked right into. It was accidental, yet he didn't have the decency to just simply apologize to her. A "Sorry, I didn't see you there" or just a simple "Sorry" would of sufficed.

"Well 'fuck you too', then." Audra muttered sarcastically to herself at that, making it slightly more audible for Jason to hear her.

What once was a bright smile directed towards Tara, Jason's lips slowly formed into a straightline, glaring the slightest bit at the Candunbury girl's smartass and sarcastic comment.

"Jason." Tara acknowledged the man in a surprised tone, and shot him a matching frown at the scene between the man and her beat friend until she decided to ask, "Are you and Greg gonna come to the OKB party?" using her right thumb to refer to the party that the majority of people walking past her were on their was to.

Audra thought that there was something definitely off with this Jason guy, even though she's seen him a couple of times in their film's study class. And now holding a grudge over him, since he still didn't apologize for walking right into her.

"Well, if he finishes his Spanish project in time - yes - we will." Jason happily nodded at Tara, "Is your sister coming?"

"Why the unusual interest in Sam all of a sudden?" Audra questioned in suspicion, finally voicing her speculation when it comes to Sam and Tara Carpenter. She was much more high on alert this time round and didn't want a reoccurrence of what happened last year.

Jason looked slightly uneased at Audra's apparent concern and scepticism towards him, but as soon as it showed on his face he was quick to replace it with a more neutral expression, "Look, blondie. All I want to know is if she's going to the party and if so then she'll need a plus one to go along with her."

Audra used her right finger near her mouth, making a gesture that made it look like she was throwing up at the thought of him being Sam's plus one.

Tara hadn't surprisingly caught onto the anxious look Jason wore on his face, but chuckled at her best friend's childish actions, though she too knew that she was disgusted by his words when speaking about her older sister.

"No, Sam wouldn't be caught dead at a frat party." Tara spoke in disbelief even at the thought of her older sister being at the Halloween frat party with herself and her friends.

Jason all but raised his brows in amusement at that, "There's a first time for everything."

"Yeah, not 'gonna happen tonight though, Jason Voorhees." Audra was quick to make a sarcastic comment and pouted at his as if to say 'better luck next time.'

"I actually take the fact that you called me Jason Voorhees as a compliment." Jason replied back - the smug bastard that he was - decided to just go along with the blonde's  title for him.

"Oh, of course you would take that as a compliment!" Audra scoffed, "Because you're a complete weirdo with a creep complex."

Jason didn't like how sarcastic, arrogant and down right egotistical this blonde bitch was and wished he killed her instead of that college professor, prior to his run-in with the two girl's.

"Not tonight, though." Tara managed a quick response, seemingly having the same idea as the girl in pigtails by making an attempt at walking away - with Audra in tow - towards the direction of where the frat party is hosted at.

"Can't convince her?" Jason called out playfully, obviously not taking the hint of dropping the subject altogether.

"No. That's not my problem, that's yours." Tara too decided she's had enough of his talking and just herself and Audra to have a night they'll never forget.

"Save me a drink!"

"Oh my god! You're still talking?" Audra even had to turn herself around so that she was facing in his direction when shouting that out, rolling her eyes in pure exasperation at his constant need to talk to the both of them.

Jason didn't grant Audra any expression on his face, almost as if he was emotionless towards her.

But that didn't stop her from flipping him off with her right middle finger, not stopping to witness his reaction. So, the two just carried on walking onwards.

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𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆-𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃 lights were what immediately brought the auburn and blonde haired girl's attention as they entered the lively scenery.

"I'm gonna go get us some drinks!" Tara shouted out to  over the blaring music that was blasting 'Bad Romance' by Lady Gaga.

"I thought that we could go together?" Audra shouted back in confusion.

"No, I'll go get the drinks, whilst you can go and find Ethan - who is more than likely with Chad - so you can get to know him!" Tara tried to convince her blonde best friend, who was going to retort back at her until she gave her a look of defeat.

"Okay, fine! You're right. . ." Audra admitted in defeat and Tara wandered off to where the liquid courage resided.

The blonde dressed as Harley Quinn walked around for a few minutes, trying to pin-point where Chad and Ethan were.

But what made her pause her search for the two teenage boys was the fact that Maeveen Calderwood was standing a few feet away from her.

"For fucks sake!" Audra hissed in annoyance, trying to make her movements more discreet when avoiding her ex-girlfriend.

That, however didn't go as planned when she suddenly felt a slender hand being placed on her left shoulder in a grip that if she made another step forward, they could simply drag her back to collide into them.

"You look fucking hot as Harley, Aud." Maeve whispered lowly to the blonde, in an attempt at being seductive. Like she always had been whenever it came down to Audra, "It seems as though we make a great pair, don't cha think?"

Audra scoffed at this, using her right hand this time to grab onto Maeve's that had been placed firmly on her shoulder, releasing it's relentless tight-grip.

Audra hated how easy it was for Maeve to bat her siren-like eyes towards her, as if she was supposed to be under her seductive spell with how intense she was looking into them. She hadn't dwelled on the comment from her ex, seeing as it made more sense that Maeve was dressed up as The Joker from 'Joker.'

"I know." Audra spoke back confidently - yet held a hint of arrogance - not once letting her guard down when being in the presence of Maeve.

"Why so serious?" Maeve impersonated in a mocking manner, using the iconic quote from the man she is dressed up in 'The Dark Knight' film.

"Please just shut the fuck up!" Audra hissed back at Maeve's mind games, knowing exactly what she was trying to do.

"Oh, sweetheart, you're gonna' keep coming back for more once you realise what a grave mistake you've made by staying away from me." Maeve retaliated back, practically brushing off the fact that she helped the two uncovered Ghostface's in Woodsboro last year; Amber Freeman and Richie Kirsch.

"And I mean this in the meanest way possible; fuck off, please." Audra ordered in a tone that held so much malice towards the green haired girl that it made the eye's of the latter widen in shock.

Audra didn't even wait for a response back, knowing she had one. Fair and square. She just simply strutted off to finally find the two teenage boy's, hoping they can get her mind off of the unnecessary encounter she just had been in.

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𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐑𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐍'𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 boys yet, but she did however find two of her other friends on one of the couch's in what looked to be the living room area.

She found an empty seat next to Anika, who appeared to be a pumpkin (since her shirt had a pumpkin face on it) and took in the amount of people dancing around to the beat of the music, all dressed up as difficult character's.

"Hey, Aud!" Anika greeted the girl, a wide smile on her face once seeing her sit down next to her, "I'm in looovve with your costume!"

Audra smiled back at the girl wearing an orange bucket hat (with what appears to be a felt-shaped knife protruding from the top of it), "Thanks, Ani! You have Tara to thank for that, seeing as she was the one to suggest that I wear the Harley Quinn costume."

Mindy sipped some of her beer, before agreeing with her girlfriend, "My girl is speaking nothing but straight up facts, Aud. You do Harley Quinn justice with the way you're holding that bat around."

Audra chuckled at her long time friend, before lifting the baseball-bat in both hands, flexing the fact that she was carrying around a real baseball-bat and not one of those cheep ass plastic ones. "Oh? This old thing?"

All three of them laughed at Audra's demonstration until they were all surrounded by comfortable silence (aside from the blaring music, teens dancing and singing about. Some were even making out with each other.)

"Doesn't it bother you two? Being at a frat party after you were almost brutally murdered at a frat party?" Anika suddenly asked the two final girl's that sat either side of her.

Audra's mind went completely blank at the Kayoko girl's abrupt question, finding it hard to digest the rather unsettling events that had taken place a year ago. She still can't believe that it had been one year ago since she found out what Maeve had done and one important remembrance was a childhood friend of hers; Wes Hicks.

Mindy looked slightly concerned at how quiet. and blank-faced the blonde was, and decided to be more positive with her comment. "It's like being struck by lightning, the odds of it happening twice are extremely low."

"Ah, guess I should stay close to you, then." Anika flirted towards the Meeks-Martin girl, who giggled at her words which ultimately made Anika giggle back.

"Aaannd that's my cue to leave you two lovebirds in peace." Audra abruptly announced, seeing as the couple were leaning in for a kiss.

The couple took their time to break away from their kiss, when someone caught Mindy's attention, causing her to suddenly speak up, "How are you doing, T?"

Audra whipped her head around to find her best friend walking towards the drink area and exclaimed, "Finally!" seeing as the room was quite humid and was in need of a refreshment to cool herself down.

"Hi." Tara giggled back to Mindy, using her left hand to wave over in the Meeks-Martin's direction.

"Tar, there you are!" Audra walked quickly over to the girl, but her relieved expression quickly fell at the sight of a man moving towards Tara.

"You're lying." Tara stated to the man in disbelief, once she witnessed him put a blue solo cup on top of the dispenser that should of held alcohol inside.

"No, last one's kicked." The man in the white buttoned-up shirt admitted, "We got some hard stuff in the kitchen, though."

Tara just stared up at him and suddenly smirked.

"Frankie." The man - Frankie - introduced, replicating the same stare that Tara threw at him and they both shook hands in greeting.

"Tara." Audra cut in before the girl could have the chance to introduce herself to Frankie, seeing as she had been watching the scene before her eyes.

"Aud!" Tara exclaimed when seeing the blonde girl, "You should definitely come with Frankie and I to get some of that alcohol I promised you earlier on!"

Audra let out a heavy sigh at Tara's excitement towards her arrival, knowing how she should join the two of them, but she stood her ground when addressing the issue to her, "Tara, c'mon. How about you and I both go together to find some alcohol. How does that sound?"

Tara and Frankie looked towards Audra, finally acknowledging her presence. Tara was about to respond, but Frankie beat her to it by bringing up a topic that held no relevance to their discussion. "You Omega Beta Zeta?"

Tara shot Audra a look as if to say 'sorry!' and looked up towards Frankie, "No, not yet. But, I might rush it."

Audra scoffed at how stubborn and down right naive, the brunette girl was being, "Right. . . So much for us 'getting drinks together', Tar."

She didn't wait for the pair of them to retort back at her, simply making her way towards the direction where she could see Chad's distinctive cowboy hat in the other room.

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𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐑𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 the other Meeks-Martin twin, and of course the one boy she's had yet to finally meet.

"Howdy, shirtless cowboy!" Audra exclaimed towards Chad in her best of an attempt to a southern accent, her long heeled boots clicking against the laminated flooring.

"Well, howdy there, ma'am!" Chad greeted the girl, replicating the southern twanged accent. He even went as far as tipping his cowboy-like straw hat, before he repositioned his posture into an upright one, now having a wide grin on his face at her enthusiasm.

Audra shook her head at his goofiness, before deciding to change the subject by addressing only towards Ethan, "Hey! We haven't officially met, I'm Audra Candunbury!"

Ethan looked at the girl nervously. He had never spoken to a girl before, let alone a really gorgeous one at that. The Landry boy tried to shake off his nerves before coming up with a response back, "No you're right we haven't, I'm Ethan. Ethan Landry."

The two teens shared a smile together, both thinking that their 'official greeting' wasn't as bad as they both thought it would be, seeing as they are polar opposites but if you dig deep enough you'll find that they aren't so different from each other than they originally thought.

Audra then brought it upon herself to start teasing the two boy's, "Well, now that the introduction's are over, how about you boys tell me what you two were doing right before I came over here?"

Ethan, now having the courage to talk for himself was the one to answer the girl, or at least try to, if he wasn't such a nervous wreck when trying to explain himself. "W-we, um, were just, uh--"

Audra tilted her head to the side in pure confusion at Ethan's stuttering, since he was perfectly fine before when talking to her.

"What my boy Ethan here was trying to say was, I wanted to hype Ethan up - and he also agreed - to go talk to some pretty ladies, tonight." Chad took over, a smug smirk appeared on his lips when he pointed over towards a girl in a 'Harry Potter' costume and he too had been confused at Ethan's stuttering.

Audra finally nodding in understanding at her friend's explanation for the Landry boy and a soft smile grew on her red smudged lips, which made Ethan's cheeks turn rosy under her gaze.

Chad, however, was far too busy pouring three shots - one each for the three of them - before cheering loudly to the boy in his home-made knight's helmet, "All right, all right! Cheers man, to the dynamic duo of 'Hortense Tower' third floor, room 315."

Audra picked up the remaining shot of alcohol, quickly downing it first and yelled, "Cheers!"

The two teenage boys followed her lead, Chad confidently yelling out a "Woo!" and Ethan, on the other hand let out a not-so enthusiastic "Yeah!" Before he too downed the burning alcohol down his throat, resulting in him to instantly spit it back out right into the now used shot glass.

Audra realised that Chad had also been the one to spit the shot back out and uttered, "Scaredy cat." but didn't say this towards Ethan.

She had yet to know him, whereas she already knew Chad and how cocky he was, especially when he's trying to show off but sooner ends up backing down.

"Oh, man. Time to start making moves." Chad suggested to the boy dressed up as a knight in shining armor, more so like 'knight in stiff cardboard', "Yeah, get you out there. Introduce you to some girls!"

At the end of Chad's - much loud - sentence, Audra scoffed in clear disbelief. "So, what the fuck am I then, huh? Chopped fucking liver?"

"No, no, no. Of course not, Aud! That's not what I meant." Chad was quick to dismiss any irrational thoughts going to her head at his suggestive undertone.

Ethan just went wide-eyed, not at all expecting Audra Candunbury to take a sudden interest in him of all people. He didn't actually want to get to know any other girl's, he just wanted to know who this pretty and fashionable blonde girl was that was standing right in front of him.

Ethan had to blink in surprise - pausing his fantasies of how pretty and how amazing Audra was - when Chad (yet again) took over the conversation, "What about her?"

"Chad, sweetie. I think - no I know - that Ethan can do wayy much better than female Harry Potter over there." Audra subtly pointed towards the said 'female Harry Potter' to see her swaying her body - with her wizard wand in the air - to the beat of the music.

"She's gorgeous." Ethan admitted to the two next to him, who were both eager to see what he had to say about the girl dancing with a group of other people right next to her.

"Great! Ask her out." Chad demanded to the now uncomfortable Ethan.

Shaking his head slightly - causing his helmet to shift from side to side - before disagreeing with his roommate, "No, I can't."

"Ask her out. Ask her out." Chad dared the boy to do as he demanded, frantically patting Ethan's chest to make sure that he was listening and taking in what he was saying.

Ethan wasn't interest in her though, but the one girl that he was more intrigued by wasn't wearing a 'Harry Potter' costume, tonight. He even made it very clear by quickly glancing at Audra - to see her reaction, but only saw her glace at him in confusion - before removing his eyes away from her, focusing on Chad once again. "Shut up!"

"So, I'm gonna go and grab a drink, you guys!" Audra shouted, and didn't wait for them to respond back, seeing as she already left to find herself a blue solo cup.

Chad sighed at Audra's disappearance, before turning back towards the curly haired boy, "You gotta' have confidence." Chad suggested, putting on a sophisticated voice to go along with what he was saying, "Plus, look at you, man! You're a snack! Practically an entire meal all on your own."

Ethan looked rather surprised at this, but then a soft smile appeared which brightened his face. "Really?"

Chad suddenly had an idea, now seeing Audra come back towards them, "Hey, Audra!" Chad shouted over the music again, now gaining her full attention, "Do you think my boy Ethan over here is a snack? And don't you dare lie to me, either. I know when you lie, Aud."

Audra took a quick sip of her tropical flavoured vodka from her blue solo cup that she managed to find on one of the laid out tables, before answering her honest opinion about Ethan to her childhood friend. "Oh, for sure! He isn't someone I would normally gravitate myself towards - no offence, Ethan - but he does have that golden retriever look going on for him, which I find very cute. There. . . You happy now, Chad?"

Chad blinked thrice at Audra, clearly shocked at her response.

And Ethan. Where to begin with him.

Well, Ethan looked to be shying away with a light pink hue starting to developed on his cheeks from all of the attention he was receiving from the said girl that he's developed a slight crush on (even though he has just met this girl tonight, but has been meaning to introduce himself to her) completely baffled by her touching and sweet opinion about him.

"Yeah! You're Ethan Landry." Chad completely agreed with the Candunbury girl and rest his left arm on Ethan's right shoulder, "Hey! Excuse me!"

Audra took another sip from her cup, her eyes darting towards Chad's in slight bemusement, before her eyes wandered towards the girl they had been talking about prior to their discussion about how much of a 'snack' Ethan was.

It was the girl in that damn 'Harry Potter' outfit.

Ethan was quick to cover his face with one of his hands in utter embarrassment at how brash Chad was being, "Chad."

Chad completely ignored Ethan's warning, before continuing on, "Howdy." tilting his hat down with the tap of his finger, reciprocating a similar movement from earlier on that night, "How you doing?"

The girl turned around at towards the trio, mainly keeping eye contact with Chad when he started addressing something towards her, "My friend here, he's a snack, right?"

Audra narrowed her eyes at the dark haired girl in the Harry Potter costume, seeing as she had tilted her head to the side, in a way that instantly bothered Audra.

The girl simply made an "eh." sound, using her left hand to shake it to the side slightly.

Ethan looked at his roommate in confusion, not knowing what she meant by that. "What did that mean?"

Chad was quick to dismiss any negative thoughts from clouding over Ethan's mind, "No, it's good."

Ethan was even more confused at this, his voice held the epitome of it. "What?"

"It's not bad." Chad lied yet again, "There's always room for improvement!"

Audra loudly cleared her throat, gaining the boy's undivided attention, "Well, I for one completely disagree with her opinion about you, Ethan. Like I said before to Chad when taking about you, 'He does have that golden retriever look going on for him, which I find very cute', so please don't take her actions into contemplation."

Ethan - who processed every single word that was uttered by such a heavenly and pulchritudinous female - didn't even get a chance to speak his gratitude towards the girl, since Anika had slyly appeared right next to the Meeks-Martin boy.

"Hey, big guy. You're needed." Anika primarily addressed Chad in an urgent tonal voice.

But as Anika moved her eyes quickly away from Chad's, she straightaway locked eyes with Audra and shot her a quick look as if to say, 'You also need to come with me now.'

Chad walked away from the two first, and Audra was going to trail on right behind him until she looked towards Ethan.

"See ya." Ethan said a farewell the girl - that completely turned him down - but didn't get a response back from her, seeing as she didn't hear or see him for that matter.

"C'mon, Ethan let's go follow Chad." Audra guided the curly haired boy next to her, quickly grabbing a hold of his left hand in hers so that she didn't lose him in the crowded room.

Ethan had been a flustered mess on the inside, since he didn't want the girl next to him to let go of his hand but the way she squeezed his hand in comfort made all thoughts of anything other than her, disappear.

"Hey, partner!" Chad greeted in an attempt at being friendly, but was being hostile towards the guy that was taking a not-so-sober Tara upstairs. "Tara's good down here."

Audra and Ethan were now near the entrance to the party, and saw Chad trying to stop what Frankie was about to do with Tara.

"Sorry, bro. I didn't catch that." Frankie snarked back in pure arrogance, eyeing Chad as if he was trying to challenge him further.

"Yeah, you fucking did." Audra scoffed at the audacity this guy had to say this, and proceeded to look Frankie up and down in distaste.

"No, Aud." Tara was the one to speak up now, walking down where she was standing on the staircase and stood right in front of Audra. "It's fine. I want to."

"Yeah, yeah. See, Aud?" Frankie mocked the Carpenter girl, using the girl's nickname to rile her up by getting all up in Audra's face, which she thought was way too close for comfort, "She wants to."

As soon as he taunted the blonde, he suddenly grabbed a hold of Tara's left arm and dragged her upstairs, "Come on."

Tara face held discomfort and she winced in pain, "Ow!"

Chad and Audra both picked up their friend's discomfort and distress, instantly making Chad express his concern and agitation. "How about you get your fucking hands off her."

Audra yanked back Frankie's white shirt, resulting the latter to be pushed back and then Chad copied Audra's actions again to Frankie.

"What? You got a fucking problem?" Chad rhetorically asked, pushing the asshole in the chest again, making him clash right into a person wearing a bright yellow chicken Halloween costume.

Frankie obviously didn't listen to Chad's words and his warning, only responding back with a, "Get the fuck off me!" And pushed Chad off of him.

"Guys! Guys! Guys!" Tara shouted at the pair, who were both pushing and shoving the other about from her seated position on the stairs, alerting Audra to walk up to her and help her walk back down on the ground again.

"Who the fuck are you, Risky Business?" Frankie rhetorically asked in complete sarcasm.

"Shut the fuck up, fuck boy!" Audra had enough of Frankie's constant need to push things that much further since all herself and Chad did was express how the guy needed to keep his hands to his fucking self, otherwise they wouldn't be in this position like they all are right now.

"Stop! Guys! Guys!" It was Sam Carpenter who interfered with the fight between Chad and Frankie, breaking the two off from one another and turned towards Frankie, "Sorry to interrupt. I'm just gonna taze you in the balls real quick."

Having said that, the oldest Carpenter sibling whipped out a tazer, making Frankie let out a bewildered "what?" before he felt the electrical volts course through his groin, making him collapse on the floor.

Everyone that witnessed this all loud out sounds of "Oh!" for the guy on the floor.

Audra, having seen this, snickered in scorn at the amusing scene taken place right in front of her and muttered in triumph, "Karma's a bitch, huh?"

Ethan brushed his thumb over Audra' hand, an attempt at easing her inner rage that he easily could read within her dark mocha coloured eyes.

The blonde managed to muster up a small smile, even if she wasn't in the mood to do so. She just wanted to let Ethan know - whichever way she decided to let him see it - that his words had helped her diminish some of the rage she contained within herself.

"Don't ever lay hands on my sister." Sam snapped in a steely tone at Frankie, disgusted by his unacceptable behaviour towards Tara.

Frankie's face scrunched up in clear pain and discomfort before he swore right at Sam as an answer, "You fucking bitch!"

"Sam." Tara spoke up, eyes wide in disbelief at what her older sister just did and barely registered the words, "Fuck you!" that was articulated by the writhing asshole on the floor. "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Sam turned towards Tara when hearing her voice by the bottom of the staircase, which compelled Tara to interrogate her sister. "You're stalking me now?"

After that unpleasing encounter, Tara wandered off from her sister and the rest of their friend's.

"Holy shit, it's that psycho girl!" A man within the crowds of people exclaimed in disbelief over the fact that Sam Carpenter was here at the Halloween frat party, and an unknown female voice asked, "That's her?"

Sam simply looked at the man, before following on where her younger sister went off to, alerting Audra to do the same by latching onto Ethan's hand.

"C'mon, guys! This was a shit show anyway!" Audra shouted over the countless of people's surprised noises and snapping photos of where the Carpenter woman walked off to.

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𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐑𝐀 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐃 managed to find both of the Carpenter sisters outside as they both lagged a few s behind Sam, whilst Tara was walking onwards at the very front.

Ethan somehow managed to switch his cardboard helmet for an orange bucket hat that belonged to Anika; who was now wearing Ethan's cardboard knight helmet.

"Cute." Audra muttered underneath her breath, she didn't want the Landry boy to here her even through he was right next to her with his hand held in hers

"Tara. Will you stop?" Sam urged, still catching up to her younger sister.

Tara rotated her head to the side slightly so that she could get a look at Sam when responding in incredulousness, "I cannot believe you did that! You embarrassed me."

"That guy was a dick." Sam argued back, making a valid point on her half. "He was gonna take advantage of you."

Tara stopped her non-stop walking and whirled herself around to gain Sam's attention by exclaiming in a high pitched tone, "So?"

Sam stood still and echoed her words, but in an unbothered attempt to show that what she had done was the right call to, "So?"

Tara lost her patience with Sam at this, frantically moving her arms about to emphasise her point. "If I want to hook up with an asshole, that's my decision! It's my decision."

Sam didn't look all that convinced, before she blinked a few times. "Okay."

"It's not about you!" At this point, Tara was being rather selfish towards Sam, "I mean, you-you're out of my life for five years, and then you can't leave me alone for five minutes."

Sam didn't like the way Tara spun the blame all back on her again and argued back, "Because you're not dealing with what happened to us. Have you even gone to see the counsellor, once?"

"No, I'm not going to." Tara denied, all of her friend's just watching the scene unfold before them and didn't want to interfere in case it set either - if not both - of them off again.

Now Sam was even more confused once she heard this, "Why not?"

"Because I'm uninterested, in living in the past like you are."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Chad saw this sibling fued to escalate more more than anticipated and tried speaking so that it would stop their constant bickering, "Hey guys, come on."

Tara completely ignored Chad's complaint at trying to subside their argument. "It means I'm not gonna let what happened to us for three days define the rest of my life."

"So, you're just gonna pretend it never happened." Sam finalised for Tara.

Tara sighed, before she suddenly asked her question that she needed the answer to. "What are you doing here, Sam? In New York." She didn't allow her to respond back, "You're working two shitty jobs to help with rent, whatever, but what's your plan?"

Sam was stumped on her question, not knowing how to answer her or how to even form the right exact words.

Sam's silence was enough for Tara to feel like she had somewhat won, "I know what I'm gonna do. Okay? 'Cause I'm gonna keep going to college, I'm gonna get my degree and I'm gonna live my life." Tara listed off, before using her right hand to pat her chest to emphasise the point she wanted to get across. "My life."

"I'm just trying to look out for you." Sam reasoned.

"I--I know. I know you are. You can't do it for the rest of my life, though. You have to let me go."

The Carpenter pair stood staring at one another, until a voice shouted from in front of them, "Hey!"

Everyone suddenly gasped in shock when a brunette girl with her hair up in a ponytail, threw a cup filled with ice cubes and a brown beverage inside that was aimed directly towards Sam, covering and staining her white off the shoulder long sleeve top.

"Murderer!" The same girl exclaimed, looking directly at Sam, and another girl - most likely her friend - was taking photos of the now soaked Sam.

"What the fuck? You bitch!" Audra exclaimed back and just as she was going to yank that girl's ponytail off and smash the other girl's phone.

Ethan was quick to latch onto her left arm, which halted her in her spot from running up to them, "Audra, you're gonna regret it if you do this."

Audra was going to argue back but felt Ethan's intense gaze lock on her face, making her sigh in annoyance. She stopped herself, like Ethan said, "You're gonna regret it if you do this."

However, Sam was quick to shout back at the girl that threw her own drink on her. "What the fuck is wrong with you, bitch?" And Chad had to wrap his arms around Sam to stop her from going after her, like Ethan did in a similar fashion to Audra.

"You got a problem with me?" Sam shouted in rage, prompting the girl and her friend's to answer her.

"You guys should stay way from her. She knows what she did!" The girl in the blue dress with the leopard print jacket suggested to everyone that was crowded around Sam.

Audra pinched her nose, shaking her head before looking at the girl that had the complete audacity to say this to and about Sam, "Oh my god! She didn't even fucking do anything! And all four of you weren't even there last year when it happened! So, literally shut the fuck up."

"I didn't fucking do anything!" Sam also shouted at the girl, who didn't even give a shit for her defence and sarcastically replied to her with a, "Sure, bitch."

"Walk away!" Mindy yelled at the four girls, who proceeded to do exactly as she demanded.

Sam pinched her long sleeve sweater, moving it around before addressing to everyone, "I'm so sick of this shit."

Everyone else - aside from Ethan and Aurda - walked away from Sam, obviously walking back to their apartments.

"Hey, I have tissues, if you want tissues." Ethan suggested in a kind voice, knowing that Sam's sweater was still wet from the drink that was thrown at her and pulled out  a handful of tissues from his left pocket in his jeans that were underneath his cardboard cut-out knight costume.

"Yeah, I think you have like three of them." Audra caught onto what he was doing, and shot him a smile as of to say 'thank you for doing this' and inspected the pack of tissues in the boy's hand.

Ethan gave Sam the pack of tissues and watched as she wiped her neck, under her chin and chest before Audra tugged Ethan's arm with her, as if to guide him to follow where their friend's had gone off to.

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𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻, 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘁!🎃 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀. 𝗜 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱.

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