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Chapter 205
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Vi and Erik walk through the department store hand in hand, Vi looking around with a somewhat annoyed expression on her face.
“We’ll find something, babe.” Erik assures her.
She holds her phone up, the email from the University events page taunting them both, “Why the fuck is it such late notice?! This actually seems like a cool event!”
Dear Students,
We hope your holidays have been relaxing and giving you a good chance to recharge.
We would like to formally invite you all to a University-hosted ‘club’ night, in partnership with the beautiful Club Nysa.
The management team have been kind enough to offer selected discounted drinks and free entry for student card holders!
It’s that time of year so please come dressed up in any fun Halloween-themed outfits!
The event will be this Friday.
We’re excited to see what outfits your creative minds cook up!
Social and Events Committee
T&C’s: This remains a university event and thus staff will be in attendance to monitor and ensure that no students are representing the university in a negative light. We reserve the right to remove any students who are not able to act appropriately.
She points an accusatory finger at Erik, “And why didn’t you tell me about it?”
Erik holds his hands up innocently, slipping his hand out of Vi’s for extra effect, “I didn’t know!”
“It’s literally hosted at Club Nysa! You’re telling me Maki didn’t tell you in advance!?”
Erik feels a guilty chill as his stepsister's name is brought up. He’s not intentionally keeping it from her, but it’s getting harder and harder to find times to bring it up; hell, the longer it goes on, the harder and worse it gets.
Erik decides to continue to avoid the topic, “What kind of outfit are you even looking for? It’s a school event still; there will be professors there right?” He asks, pointing at the phone.
She sighs exasperated, “So? We’re adults. They know what they’re doing making a Halloween-themed. Halloween is the one night a year where—“
“A girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it, yeah yeah.” Erik finished, “I’ve seen that movie too.”
She nods adamantly, “Exactly. So why should this be any different?”
“Do you think the teacher will dress like that too?” He asks.
She shrugs, “Who cares?”
She pauses and turns, “Wait. We do.”
Erik nods, “Would it not be exciting to see Amelia and Juan?”
She purses her lips. “Shit. You’re right.”
She looks around again, “Honestly, where is she?”
As if summoned, the department store lights find and reflect off a familiar round, bald head, Erik points towards him, “Over there.”
She follows his finger and sees the same round head, “Maybe you should go bald; that’s so useful.”
Erik snorts, “But I’m so sexy, I can’t go bald.”
She does her best not too laugh at his stupid reference.
…
“So are we doing a foursome?” Sai asks, hands in his pockets as the group of friends stand to the side, trying to figure out their plan.
“You’d like that, wouldn’t you?” Sneers the ever-sassy Ari, squeezing his hand in hers.
He blushes and glares at her.
“We could?” Vi adds, “Do we have any ideas?”
“Superheroes?” Erik suggests.
“I like that idea,” Sai says, “That’s probably easy to find too.”
Ari shakes her head, “Nah, nah. Did you see what Heidi is going as?” She asks Vi.
Erik is shocked to see Ari mention Heidi so casually, “You’re friends with Heidi?” He asks her.
She shrugs, “A little, but she put it on her socials.” She pulls out her phone and all four of them look at the screen.
“Heidi posted that!?” Erik asks.
Ari nods, punching him lightly on the arm, “The Erik effect; her boyfriend should be thanking you.”
“Damn bro…” Sai says softly, his eyes fixated on her arms and then her ass, “She didn’t tire you out?”
Erik is brought back to earth by a slightly jealous Vi pinching his ear, pulling attention back to the outfit, “So what? Fighting game themed?”
Ari shrugs, “Or video games in general.
Vi perks up, shaking Erik’s arm, “Once again! It’s literally Maki’s club! Call her!”
Sai peers at Erik, “Maki? Is it her club? She owns club Nysa?” He’s blushing already, his petite girlfriend indignant from her own slight jealousy.
Erik stills, “Y-Yeah, it is.”
Vi beams widely, “Call her! Ask what theme she’s going to be dressed as!”
“You don’t want to call her?” Erik suggests, the guilt eating at him.
“She’s not my stepsister, bro.” She responds, bouncing on her heels.
Erik hesitates before having an idea, “She might be busy; I’ll call Anya! She works there too!”
Vi shrugs, not seeing much of a difference.
Erik lets out a small relieved sigh as he puts the ringing phone against his ear.
“Erik!” Anya’s bubbly voice betrays her excitement at hearing from him.
“H-Hey! I just had a quick question about the Halloween uni night thing at Nysa; you know about it?”
“Mhmm.” She responds; the smile on her face can basically be heard through the receiver, “Maki is preparing and stuff; we’re closed Thursday to make sure we’re properly ready.”
“Oh damn, that’s intense.”
Anya giggles through the line, “I guess! Anyway, what’s up? You had a question? Or just an excuse to hear my voice.”
Erik chuckles, “Uhm, we wanted to know if the staff have a theme going on; we’re trying to figure out what to go as.”
Anya voice loses a bit of an octave, “Oh, we? Vi and your friends?”
“Yeah!”
“Yeah, Maki decided on a ‘sexy’ video game theme for us all…”
“And you’re okay doing that?” Erik asks, voice laced with concern that only annoys Anya.
“Yeah! Of course! Why wouldn’t I be?” She asks indignantly.
“Oh, no reason! Just like, don’t let Maki force you to do anything wild!”
“Puh-lease” Anya responds, annoyed, “I’m a big girl; I’m not a little kid!”
“I can tell!” Erik teases back, not realising her actual mood, “Anyway, thanks! What are you going as exactly?”
Anya grumbles, “Luna Snow…”
“Oh, that’s not too crazy! Good job fighting back.” Erik laughs, “Thanks again, I’ll see you soon! Bye!.”
Erik has no idea what exactly he just did, the fuming Anya marching down to the Club to demand a different outfit, much to the redhead's delight.
…
“Ok, so video games it is.” Ari says after listening to Erik’s report.
“Yeah, agreed.” Vi says, crinkling her nose, “Not really my thing.”
Sai glances at Erik, “You still haven’t got her to play anything with you?”
Erik shrugs, “She gets motion sick and then she’s just not into it.”
Ari grins at Vi, “Want me to show you? Sai got me onto some bangers.”
Vi shakes her head, “Ahhhh, I think I’m good; I’m happy just watching.”
Ari shakes her head, “Nah, I’ll find something.”
Sai taps Erik on the arm, “You wanna do video games? I kinda thought it’d be mad if we did a dynamic duo one or some shit?”
“Naaaaawww.” the girls say in unison, teasing the male friendship.
“Fuck offfffff.” Erik directs at the girls before addressing Sai, “I mean, technically still a game right?”
Sai grins, nodding, “Right! Injustice!”
The guys turn to the girls, their hands clasped together in exaggerated cute teasing, “Oh the wonders of healthy male friendships.” Ari says.
“You two gonna join us?”
Ari answers for both of them, “No thanks!” She grabs Vi’s hand, “We’ll find our own duo costume!”
Vi looks at Ari, “You don’t wanna do a group one?”
She shakes her head in response, “I was thinking something leather for us… Or…“ She whispers something to Vi, who wiggles her eyebrows with interest and smirks,
“I see, Heidi inspiration?”
Ari nods.
Vi looks at Erik, and then Ari, “we could still include them!”
Ari shakes her head, “Nah let them be nerds.”
Sai and Erik bump fists, a united front against her bullying.
“Ok, go get your gay boy costumes, Vi and I'm gonna get busy.”
So they split. Sai and Erik quickly found their outfits and settled in for a quick bite, hanging out for the first time in a while, both of them pretending nothing weird or wild was going on with Ari.
The girls do eventually find their outfits, promising that they’ll be good and that they are indeed ‘fighting game themed’ and ‘to thank Heidi for the inspo.’
Vi puts an arm around her man and kisses him deeply, leaning on his shoulder and giggling, “You excited, love of my life?” She asks with a grin.
Erik nods, “Cosplay Vi? I’ve been waiting for a while now.”
She laughs, kissing him again, “I swear I’ve worn something for you.”
“You’ll just have to remind me then I guess.”
“Oh, Vi?”
Vi turns and the smile drops from her face, Erik needs a second but he realises who is staring at them, a few bags in his hand and a slab of beers in the other.
“Azad! Hey! Shopping?” Vi says, slowly slinking off Erik.
“Yeah.” He looks at Erik, a spark of recognition but not enough, “Hey… I’m Azad.”
“Nice to meet you man… Erik.”
‘What the fuck is this situation?’
Azad looks between the two, “You two.. Dating?”
Vi bites her lip, glancing at Erik for a hint on what to say or do.
“Yeah. Pretty… uh, recent.” Intentionally keeping his answer vague.
“Oh. Cool.” Azad avoids Vi’s gaze. “Well. Nice to meet you. Uhm. See you around.”
He doesn’t acknowledge Vi as he turns back around, heading back the way he came supposedly.
“Fuck.” She groans.
“Okaaay…” Erik says, “We might need to address that.”
“Hooooooow?” She whines, “I wanted to fuuuuuck him again.”
Erik can’t help but laugh, “Okay, slut.”
“It’s your fault!!! You made me this way! And don’t act like you weren’t looking forward to hearing about it too!” She whines indignantly, slapping his arm.
“I know, I know… We’ll think of something… Trust. I got this. I’ll write the script.”
She groans, leaning against his arm, “It’s so unfair! How many girls do you have to my guys!?”
Erik doesn’t want to count and mog her, so he stays silent, dragging his whining girlfriend through the store.
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