Author Note: This is a submission for the
Literotica 2021 Halloween Story Contest
. There is the tiniest hint of paranormal, because it's Halloween and tis the season and all that jazz. Hope you enjoy and feel free to vote. Happy reading!
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What kind of jerk broke up with their girlfriend on the morning of their favorite holiday? Derek. That was the jerk. They had only been dating six months, but it still stung.
Especially since their costume was a couple's costume -- Linda and Bob Belcher from the cartoon Bob's Burger -- and she couldn't show up as Linda without a Bob.
She had options, it was Halloween, of course she had options.
Did she want to go funny? Clever? Angry?
Normally, Kayla kept her costumes on the tamer side, but her anger got the best of her. With a whole bunch of flower garland, some hot glue, and strategic placement, she was a wood nymph.
When she showed up at her best friend, Beth's house, Beth clapped her hands in glee. "This is awesome. You look amazing, you sexy nymph. Are you even wearing panties?"
"Did you have to yell that?" Her costume might have been held together with a wish and a prayer but that didn't mean she wanted the world to know it.
"Don't worry your secret is safe with me." Beth mimicked closing a key over her lips.
"Come on, Trevor's here. Do you remember him?"
"The guy from your trivia team? The new guy?"
"Engineer. He works with Luke. Funny, smart, sexy, looks like he knows his way around a woman-"
"I remember him. He ignored me the whole night."
"Oh, yeah, I wouldn't worry about that."
It was the way Beth said it that gave her away. "I told him you had a boyfriend. And that if he even looked at you wrong, I would turn him into a toad."
"Beth! You can't just threaten people like that!"
"It's not a threat if it's not true. Anyway, I knew Dipshit Derek would make a mistake, and he did. So here you are and there he is, and you were the one complaining about how much Derek sucks at cunnilingus."
"Why do I tell you everything?"
"Because I am your best friend." Beth adjust a flower across Kayla's chest. "Now, let's go in there."
"I'm not talking to Trevor."
"You don't have to." Beth straightened her unicorn headband. "Let's go."
Inside, Trevor tugged at his headband; well aware his Richie Tenenbaum costume wasn't as successful as he'd hoped. He was just about to open a beer when Kayla walked in.
Fucking Kayla, her sweetly curved body, wrapped in yards of flower garland, giving tiny peeks of what she wore underneath. Flesh toned...no, not flesh toned. Just flesh.
He dropped his beer.
Thankfully, it didn't break. What an idiot. Kayla had a boyfriend and while he wasn't sure Beth could actually turn him into a toad, he was wary enough of the woman with the fierce dark eyes to avoid any and all eye contact with the lovely Kayla.
He had done what any idiot afraid to flirt with a woman did. Instead of keeping it casual, Trevor ignored her. Admittedly, his social skills weren't the best.
By the time he recovered his beer, Kayla was gone in the crowd. He tried to find Beth's unicorn crown, but the sparkly monstrosity was blocked by someone in a blow-up t-rex costume.
"Drink?" Beth offered Kayla her own glass of beer. Kayla shook her head. Was that Trevor over by the staircase? The sunglasses and bandanna might have covered up his face, but she recognized his long lean build.
"I'm good. Unless..." she trailed off when Beth handed her the Diet Coke before she could request it. Sometimes Kayla wondered if Beth was a witch. She knew things Kayla never said aloud. And she loved Halloween.
"Not a witch," Beth laughed. "You OK? I have to go talk to a guy."