[complicated] cause this is thriller...

[Dalton James Fox]

****DATED FOR 10/27****

Dalton put his sword in the holder as he heard the doorbell ring. He took a sip of his beer as he headed to the door and then opened it. "Faith. Hey. Come in." he said as moved aside for her and the people she was with could come in. "And who are these people?" he asked with a smile. "Oh this is my cousin Kaylee, my friend Jamie and her brother Dustin. Hope you don't mind." "No, no, of course not. More the merrier. I'm Dalton, make yourselves at home. Love the costumes." he said as he closed the door behind them after letting more people in. "Oh, Faith." he called out to her, "Talia and Anthony are in the living room messing with the stereo if you want to see them." Dalton looked at the people that were here and smiled. He headed upstairs to see if Addison was ready yet. "Addie," he said with a knock at the door, "You almost ready?" "D? Yeah I'll be down in a few minutes. Go mingle." "Alright." he said with a small laugh and then headed back down the stairs and into the kitchen. "Ah, we have music." Dalton said as music began playing through the speakers.



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[Faith Olivia Drake]

"Cute costume bro." Faith said as she wrapped one arm around Anthony and gave him a hug. "Yeah, you too Faithy." Faith smiled and looked to the three with her, "Anthony, Talia, this is my cousin Kaylee, my friend Jamie and her brother Dustin. They just moved here from Georgia." "Oh that's y'all. It's so nice to meet you." Faith smiled as everyone shook hands. "Has anyone seen Shayla? She said she'd meet me here." Faith looked around for her, "Ugh. Oh well." Faith laughed when Dalton got excited about the music coming on. "You guys want drinks? Except you Kaylee." she said with a smile "That's OK, I don't drink anyway." "You and Talia have something in common." Faith laid out 3 cups and then began making drinks. "I hope you guys like your drinks strong." "Honey, we're from tha south, ain't nothin' too strong fer us." Jamie said and Faith shot a smile at her, "Yeah that's true." "Make me one too please." Faith looked in Anthony's direction, "I suppose I could."

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[Jamie Lillith Rucker]

"This really is a beautiful house. Nothin' like this back home." Jamie said as she looked around the kitchen and then over to Dalton. "Are you Dalton Fox?" she asked suddenly. "Yeah, that's me." he said with a laugh. "So you're Thor? That's crazy. I can't believe I'm in your house. The folks back home will never believe this Dustin." She took her drink from Faith and handed her brother his. "Would I be able to get a pitcher with you sometime tonight?" "Jamie don't badger him.." "it's okay, sure. Just make sure it's before I'm too hammered mate." Jamie laughed, "Oh definitely." Jamie took a sip of her drink and looked to Faith, "What's this?" "A green monstah." she said in her best fake Boston accent. "My friend Evan made it for me once and I fell in love with it. It's good, just drink it girl. Don't ask questions." "I swear, yer jus tryin' to get me drunk." she joked. Faith winked to her and Jamie nudged Dustin. "You look tired. Drink up bro."

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[Dustin Andrew Rucker]

Dustin took hi drink from Jamie and took a sip. "A green monster? Isn't that the wall in their baseball park...uh Fenway?" "I don't know, I just make the drink." Dustin shook his head with a smile, put his hand in his pocket and brought the cup to his lips, taking another sip. This was actually good. He could taste the tequila though. Dustin went into the living room and looked around there. "So do you like it here?" Dustin looked to his left to see the guy he had just met, Anthony, standing next to him. "Yeah, I mean I ain't seen much of the city. Just my neighborhood and Buck's. Now here too." He smiled at a few girls who walked by him. "I see you're a ladies man, you'll fit right in." "What can i say? Ladies love country boys." he said with a smirk as he took another sip. Just then he noticed the karaoke machine in the corner and turned, "Dalton, you gonna hook that thing up?" "You want it, you do it. Just don't break it. I'll kill you." Dustin laughed, "No problem bud." he headed over to the TV and microphones and began setting up the karaoke.

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[Anthony Marcus Owen]

"That guy is cool Faith." Anthony said as he walked behind her and leaned against the counter. "That accent is gonna get him all the girls. He better be ready for it." Anthony took a sip of his drink and looked at Kaylee just standing there, "Do you want a water or some food or something?" "Oh, no. I'm okay. Thank you though." "No problem. Do you dance?" "Anthony, jail bait. Stop." Faith said as she smacked him. "What? I was just trying to be nice." he said with a smile. "Yeah, yeah, where's your play think anyway?" "Bailey? I don't know. Where's your sister?" he asked with a wink."You're such a pig." Anthony laughed, "I know. I wouldn't be me if I didn't get a little creepy." he finished off his drink and grabbed Faith's hand, "Let's dance. Looks like Talia is gonna sing with Dustin."

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[Natalia Anne Richmond]

Natalia headed over to the karaoke machine to help Dustin out, "You need help?" she asked with a smile? "Ma'am," Dustin said as he stood up and tipped his hat, "I think i got it." Natalia smiled, "Here lemme look at the screen and I'll letcha know if it's working." Natalia stepped over the microphone cords and in front of the tv. "Alright, hook it up, you got the projector too?" "Yup." Natalia smiled as the screen on the TV and the light of the projector appeared. "Yay! It's working. You know, I never knew Dalton had Karaoke." Just then she heard Dalton's voice coming from behind her, "Got it cause Anabelle wanted to." Natalia pouted and wrapped one arm around Dalton, "I sowwy. I didn't know.." "It's okay. I'm gonna get another beer you want one Dustin? Talia you want a water?" "Yes sir." "Yes please.." Natalia watched Dalton walk to the kitchen and then looked down at Dustin as he fixed the last wire. "So you wanna sing or what?" "With you? uh I don't know.. you're..." "Oh come on. Don't be shy. I'm just another person to sing with. If my fiance was here, I'd make him sing with meand he's not that great," Natalia smiled, "So get on up here and we'll pick a song." As they looked through the songs, Dalton came back with the water and beer, "Thank you." "You OK with country right?" "Yes sir." They continued to look through the songs until they found one. Natalia took a microphone in her hands and then handed one to Dustin, "Ready?" Dalton turned down the other music as the music for karaoke began.

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[Claire Jayne Madden]

Claire sighed and turned her head to look at Cody with a glare. “ Oh this will be fun. You never go out since Brayden was born. What’s the harm in wearing a costume,” she said mockingly in the same tone that Cody had said it to her in earlier. She rolled her eyes as Cody grinned from ear to ear and adjusted his Riddler mask. “ Just come find me when Shane gets here,” he said and Claire nodded, “ I left him a note,.. he’ll never pass up any excuse to dress up as batman,” she said lazily before she looked around the party and made her way through. She smiled as she stopped at Dalton, “ Sorry, peaches. I decided to support DC comics instead of Marvel tonight,” she said before she stood on her toes to kiss his cheek. Claire went to the kitchen to make herself a drink, probably nowhere near as strong as Shane would have made for her, but he would probably be here later. Claire twirled her wedding ring around her finger as she took a drink before she was stopped by someone who was pretty intoxicated themselves, “ Are you supposed to be Catwoman?” he asked with a grin on his lips. Claire looked down at her costume and then up at him with an annoyed expression before she pushed the mask over her eyes up onto the blonde curls of her hair. “ Do you know anything.. ‘Catwoman’ first came onto the DC comic scene in the spring of 1940, introduced as Seline Kyle in which they nicknamed her ‘ The Cat’ for her agile like ability and keen instincts that kept her safe during her escapades as the most successful high- stakes theft artist in the history of all time. Though she went on a brief hiatus for a small period in 1954 because the portrayal of female characters were within violation of the Comics Code. Her popularity as a ‘classy jewel thief’ didn’t begin to take place until the early 90’s until today in which it was greatly exaggerated with the last Batman movie in the Dark Knight series. Though she has been voted number eleven in the Hundred Greatest Villian’s of all time list, she’s actually never been a villain. She’s just an anti-hero, which isn’t the same thing. While it has been popularized throughout different media outlets, Batman and Catwoman have never been more than boyfriend and girlfriend, though with the Dark Knight series I’d like to say that DC will follow suit and eventually make Catwoman his wife…” she said before taking in a deep breath and sighing. “ And you’re supposed to be….” she said, looking down at him before she brought her eyes back to his and lifted her eyebrow. “… Um. A ghost.” he said while blinking, seemingly confused by what had just happened. “ Creative,” Claire said with an unimpressed tone before she stepped out of the kitchen and made her way towards the living room.

It wasn’t until she was a few feet out that she realized herself what had just happened. “ Ah, damnit Shane,” she said, lowering her mask over her eyes as she looked at everyone throughout the party. She looked as Anthony pulled Faith away to dance. She could really care less, I mean if anyone should be mad it would be Bailey. But people are allowed to be friends, her and Anthony were friends after all. But from what she knew about Justin he had serious jealousy issues, at least that was how it seemed. Claire took in a deep breath and looked up in time to see Natalia singing with some guy. She lurked in the area, just to listen to Natalia sing for a bit before she approached her as the song ended and placed on a tight smile before casting a look at the guy beside her. Claire pushed her mask up onto her hair again as she approached Natalia. “ Well you look beautiful,” she said, giving her a quick hug before taking a step back. “ Nothing screams party like a depressing country song,” she said sarcastically as she lifted her eyebrows. Not that she had anything against country. Ever since Luke Bryan came around it seemed like Shane and Joel had been on a kick. Claire took a sip of her drink as she watched Cody make his way back over to her, mouthing ‘ Shane?’. Claire shook her head but gestured for him to cover over anyways. “ Oh Natalia, look at you. You make a great Pocahontas,” he said as he leaned down to give her a hug. “ And a.. mobster. That’s a fun singing combo,” he said with a grin before taking Claire’s cup from her hand so he could take a drink from it as well. Claire frowned at him, taking it back and taking her own drink as she turned around. Almost instantaneously everything in her mouth was being spit out in a spray as she looked at Ethan who had walked through the door. She didn’t know he was coming, so she was positive Natalia didn’t either. It was surely a surprise. But him walking through wasn’t what made her spit. The sparkles, the neon. The Hannah Montana wig fit awkwardly against his hair. Claire coughed as she put her hand over her mouth and tried to make it possible to breathe again as she tried to process what Ethan had just walked in the door as.


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[Bailey Grace Prestley]

Bailey stepped inside the party, Kyle trailing not very far behind her. What a stick in the mud, when he had showed up at her place to pick her up he hadn’t been dressed as anything. Then when they got in the car he just put on a leather jacket and told her that he was some flight guy from Top Gun. He made it up on the spot, and she had no idea what Top Gun even was in the first place, so she just waved it off. Once they got inside the party she was sort of impressed that it was so big, yet everyone looked so familiar. “ I’ll go grab us some drinks,” Kyle said dryly. He was so monotone. Boy needed to liven up, not take life so seriously. “ Thanks!” she said. Bailey started to make her way towards Anthony and then paused seeing him take Faith off to go dance. That was fine. They were friends. Bailey placed her hands on her hips, tapping her fingers against her body as she narrowed her eyes. He was a good boyfriend, well from what she figured. She probably wasn’t the greatest girlfriend either. But she didn’t carelessly flirt with other people. That was a part of Anthony’s personality, but it was starting to get under her skin. They’d almost been together for half a year, which for her was her longest relationship. The one that came closest to it was Gabe. Fine. Two could play his game, except it wasn’t really a game. And she wasn’t exactly going to just flirt with someone. Kyle came back holding up two cups and Bailey smiled at him. “ … What?” he asked nervously. “ I’m gonna need to borrow you for a second,” she said, moving his arms holding the drinks out of the way as she took hold of his shirt and placed a kiss against his lips before wrapping her arms around his neck.

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[Kyle Jeremy Jergens]

Kyle maneuvered through the kitchen, trying to find two drinks to make for himself and Bailey. Though he never really drank alcohol, not when he was on assignment. Not that he would ever do his work at a party. Well that’s not true, he had. But his target was actually out in the city, he’d just need to find Bailey a ride home later and a reason to leave. He filled her cup up with alcohol and his own with coke as he made his way out of the kitchen he spotted Bailey with a look on her eyes that was never good seen on any woman. He approached her carefully. “ What?” he asked her, looking at the smile across her lips. But quickly she was pushing the cups away from him and moving her body in to kiss him. Kyle stood still for a moment, mentally calculating the scenario. She had a boyfriend, who was at this party. So clearly she wasn’t trying to hide anything, in fact she probably wanted him to see it. Which meant that she didn’t actually have feelings for Kyle – thank God, he thought to himself. Though decorating yourself under false pretenses was something Kyle had perfected for his career. And how often did you get to make out with someone with no strings attached? Kyle dropped the cups to the side before he brought one of his hands up to hold her around the waist and the other into the side of her hair.

[Destiny Anne Drake]

Destiny took a drink from the plastic cup, letting the mixture of rum and coke alter her mindset. Not that it ever really mattered. She smiled as she watched Dalton, cute little pirate costume. “ Nice party,…” she said as she approached him, tugging on the fabric of his costume gently as she tapped her fist gently against his body. “ You know, sugar, if you ever need help with your sword.. Let me know,” she said before giving him a polite smile and making her way towards the rest of the crowd. Destiny lifted her eyebrow, watching as Natalia set up the karaoke machine with someone new. Honestly there probably wasn’t an unattractive person in their entire group of people – how was that possible? “ Yum,” she said quietly as she watched him singing. Destiny made her way over to Natalia and smiled, inching her way past Claire softly, “ Sorry Catwoman,” she said with a slight smirk before she reached up to hug Natalia. “ We’re going to have to get a picture. You being Pocahontas and me being Daisy Duke.. it looks like cowboys and Indians,” she said while hugging her before she took a step back. She looked over at the man beside Natalia and smiled at him before she heard Claire borderline choking and turned around to see what was going on when she saw Ethan.

[Kristen Renee Thomas]

Kristen and Hanna had been together all day getting ready for this party. Parties were fun and Kristen really enjoyed them, but once again her and Elijah had to keep their relationship hush hush so he couldn’t come with her. It really bothered her, but she would do it to be with him. “Hey Faith just texted me, she said for us to get our asses over there ASAP.” she said to Hanna with a laugh. It was so great to have a group of friends like theirs. Faith and Shayla were a year older than Kristen and Hannah, but they all grew up together and were the best of friends. These girls were there for each other through anything and they always would be. Kristen parked behind a row of cars on Dalton’s street and quickly got out. If she got one more text from Faith, she’d probably go crazy. Putting her phone in her purse, she hooked arms with Hanna and headed up to the house. She stopped hen she saw someone standing off away from the door a bit. “Sutton?” Suddenly the girl turned and Kristen smiled, “Why are you out here?” “I..I just haven’t been to a party in such a long time. With Tanner and everything.” “Well come on in with us. “ she said as she gestured to Hannah and herself. Kristen opened the door and held it open for her friends as they went in. She made it in the kitchen to see Bailey and Kyle kissing. She leaned over to Hanna, “Aren’t Bailey and Anthony dating? Why can’t people just stick with the person they’re with.” she shrugged and then looked over to Sutton, “I’ll be right back.” she watched her head into the dining room. “Hm, hope she’s okay.”

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[Hillary Rachelle Jones]

Hillary held onto a cup with one hand, using her free one to lean down and fluff her semi tutu of a skirt out before she looked down at it. She still had so much homework at home that was on her mind. Not to mention at this point she had basically binders of wedding planning sitting around her and Stefan’s place. It was beginning to start making her want to pull her hair out. Sweetheart or a-cut, tea cup or full length. She had her wedding dress picked out, but for some reason the bridesmaid dresses were starting to take a toll on her. Plus it sort of depended on the color. Which she hadn’t picked yet. And then the flowers. And were they having a dj or a band? Oh my god she hadn’t even thought about the menu yet. Hillary looked down at her cup before she tilted her head back and finished drinking it as quickly as she could. “ Woo..” she said unenthusiastically. Out at events Hillary fully realized that out of everyone in the group she was sort of a ‘wet blanket’ constantly telling people she would rather be home doing homework, or something responsible. But she wasn’t Hillary tonight. She was supposedly some form of Snow White. And she was fairly certain she was having a panic attack. “ Are those shots?” she asked, looking at someone who was in the kitchen. “ Yeah come on,” he said, inviting her over. Hillary reached back, tearing the neck off of her costume and threw it onto the counter before she took about five of the shots and drank them before walking away. Hillary danced her way into the living room, probably more vibrantly than you should for this song but hey. She smiled at the boy next to Natalia. “ Wanna help a girl out?” she asked, taking his hand and pulling herself close to him before she slapped her hand against Natalia’s butt and took her microphone. “ Alright..” she said, leaning down slightly clumsily as she picked out a song and then jumped up suddenly. “ This song was written for Stefan,” she said seriously before the beat started to play.

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[Sutton Marie Maverick]

Sutton leaned against one of the chairs in the dining room. That was not something she wanted to see. When you liked someone, you didn’t like seeing them kiss anyone else. Well it wasn’t like she had told Kyle she liked him or anything, so how would he know? He couldn’t know. She was running reasons through her head justifying what she had just seen. After taking a breath she began to walk past people to get back to the kitchen to meet back up with Kristen and Hanna. As she tried to get past a group of guys, one of them grabbed onto her hand. “Hey little sexy wizard. No baby tonight?” Sutton recognized the guy as Billy, he graduated two years ago, never really spoke to Sutton. Then again, no one really talked to her. Having a baby in high school didn’t really make her all that popular. “Nope, he’s at my mom's.” she said as she tried to get her hand away from his. That just made him hold onto her wrist tighter. “No, we want you to stay.” “I need to get back to my friends.” she said as she tried to pull her wrist away one more time. This time he brought his other hand around the back of her and pulled her into him. She braced her arms against his chest and tried to push herself off of him. “Billy, you’re drunk. Let go.” she said to him, not trying to cause a scene.

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[Stefan Michael Thomas]

Stefan watched his girlfriend down the shots. Who was this girl? As he was about grab her and try to slow her down, she turned to go into the living room. He watched how she was dancing and he rubbed his eyes with his thumb and index finger and sighed. This was going to be a long night. He grabbed the piece of her costume that she left in the kitchen and tried to follow behind her. What was this girl up to. He made it to the living room in time to see her at the karaoke stand. She said the song was for him and a room full of eyes turned to look at him in the back of the room. He just smiled and shrugged. He made his way up to the front. Hearing the song made Stefan laugh out loud. He walked over to Claire, Destiny, Natalia, Dalton, Cody and some guy he had never seen before tonight. “Hey guys.” he said, keeping his eyes on Hillary. “I don’t know what’s up with her tonight. “ he smiled to himself. “Here.” he said to Claire, “Hold this.” he handed her the piece of Hillary’s clothing and then he quickly took off the shirt of his costume and went to the middle of the room and started dancing as people cleared a space for him. When the song ended there was applause all over. Stefan laughed, walked over to Hillary and gave her a kiss. He put his arm around her and walked back over to the group as Dalton put the regular music back on. He gave a fist bump to Anthony as he came over, “Yeah, had to do it.” He took his shirt back from Claire and wiped the sweat off of his forehead. He placed another kiss on Hillary’s head.

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[Hanna Lynn Atwood]

Hanna smiled as she looped her arm through Kristen’s as they made their way up to Dalton’s. All of them needed a night to just relax. Personal lives were dramatic enough, not to mention her internship with Riley Collins’ was starting to completely stress her out. But Kristen looked so cute, and she couldn’t wait to see the other girls. Once they were inside she smiled at Sutton who had joined them and then mysteriously vanished. “ Well that was weird,” Hanna said before she looked back at Kristen who was talking about people staying with who they were supposed to. “Obviously she isn’t trying to hide it from him. Which means she’s probably just trying to teach him a lesson,” she said meticulously before she took a drink from her cup. “ I love this song! Let’s grab Faith and dance!” she said, grabbing Kristen’s hand and pulled her towards the group of people around the karaoke machine. She laughed, coming up as Stefan started dancing. She clapped her hands along to the music and rolled her eyes while shaking her head before she looked back at Kristen. “ Your brother is hot, ..sorry.” she said as she scrunched up her nose. She looked back over, watching as Hillary and Stefan joined their group of friends. But it seemed like Hillary had thought of something else to do and was leaning down to take off her heels. Maybe her feet hurt. But then Hanna gasped, holding her hand over her mouth as Hillary started taking off her costume and screaming out to Stefan that she was going to be a Victoria secret angel for Halloween as she stripped down to her lingerie. Cause that was different from her real life… how? Hanna laughed, tapping Kristen’s arm and pointing towards them.


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