Chapter 16October 31st
“I feel stupid,” I told Ricky as she adjusted her cat ears in the mirror. I was sitting on the edge of an unfamiliar bathtub in a fairy costume while music thrummed from the party raging downstairs. It was strange, being at a party without Jessa or Kate. Kate had refused to go because the host was her ex, Mason Lowe, and Jessa’s family didn’t celebrate Halloween. “Why are we even doing this?”
“Why are we at a Halloween party, or why are we holed up in the bathroom?” Ricky asked, clearly not caring about the answer much. “Either way, the answer is Michael Lewczynski.”
I tried not to roll my eyes as I plucked ineffectually at the iron-tight cuffs of the Tinker Bell costume I’d been stuffed into. It belonged to Ricky and felt about three sizes too small. “I know how
