F O R T Y - T H R E E

At school, everyone was talking about Halloween.

The costumes the teenagers had worn the previous years were still somewhere on their attics or in the back of their closets, but none of those seemed to fit anymore, especially for the seniors.

As kids, they had worn cute outfits that at that time for them seemed scary. But a seventeen-year-old couldn’t go trick-or-treating dressed as a strawberry anymore. No one would have taken them seriously, and it simply didn’t seem as fun anymore.

So, as the underclassmen were talking in a frenzy about their sexy kitty cat and nurse outfits while the jocks would simply stay at home, too cool for any of it, the seniors were planning their outfits for their annual party.

Jason Cooper had thrown a lot of parties back when in high school, and Olivia had always been included and allowed to bring a few of her friends. Then, when her brother left for college, she took over.

This year was the first year Emmie woul