Monster Mash ((All GW and SJ kids welcome))

[Kyan Walker]

"I'm always cool," he said with a coy grin at his new friends.

It was then that the normally pink haired fag hag for Desmond came into the kitchen looking for the same kind of drink he was drinking.

"Yeah I've been in hiding so that my damn stitches will heal," he said. "I get 'em taken out in two days. It'll leave a nice . . .rugged scar. But I never give up a chance to party. . . stitches or not."

[jd]

JD listened to the Harry Potter talk and though he wasn't obsessed with it, he found himself wondering what characters he and his friends would be. He had a momentary vision of Dr. Guiseppe in a Snape costume and quickly had to stifle his laughter. He heard the english boy mention liquor.

"Leave it to underage highschoolers to get mass amounts of alcohol," he said with a sigh ands hake of his head. "Do you want something Vi, 'cause I'm gonna see if they have anything to make an appletini."

She laughed at his drink choice. She was so shocked that he wasn't actually gay.

"Yeah, grab me a shot of brandy and mix it with some mountain dew, please," she said kissing him briefly on the lips with her eyes closed.

"I'll see what I can do," he replied with a grin. He then turned to the English boy. "Do you know where the stash is?"

[Tadhg Kelly]

Tadhg had noticed Blane too. He rolled his eyes at the site of him giving Garrett, whom he'd come to learn was his cousin, a hard time.

"They've been here what ten minutes, and already he's trying to fuck things up?" he muttered bitterly.

Blane had caused nothing but trouble for him from day one. He'd duct taped him to a chair, caused internal bleeding, forced him to stay home form school for two days, beaten Brooke, and then almost fucked up the relationship he had worked so hard to make right.

"So. . . .you a drinker?" he asked Brooke casually. He knew she went to all the football parties, and wondered if she was a heavy drinker or not.

[Desmond Giuseppe]

Desmond caught sight of Cal Beckett. Last year the boy had been almost at the same level of intolerance as Blane whom he was best friends with. You could have almost have considered them rivals; Desmond rarely had problems with people at school, but Cal was one of the few exceptions. Only Cal started to change near the end of the year and Desmond saw Cal's intolerance more as insecurity. Cal changed complete when a boy named Casey killed himself. Desmond suspected there to be a romance there but it also could have been his little gay fantasies getting the best of him. Cal became an outcast and Desmond went from disliking the boy to pitying him. So far this year Desmond hadn't had any problems with Casey so maybe he changed for good.

Desmond when over to the chair Cal was in and sat on one of the arms. "Hello," he said with a kind smile, "I like your costume, it's very cute." He hoped he didn't sound mocking or condescending. Really he was just trying to be friendly and by the looks of Cal lately, he needed someone to be friendly to him.

[audrey]

"I like scars," said Audrey suggestively, "and your devotion to the art of partying." Audrey smiled and took a sip of her drink. "I can only imagine what you'll be up to once those troublesome stitches are removed from your side. Sex, sex, and more sex I'm thinking. That is, if you haven't already been up to it despite what old Doctor Rivers has told you." Desmond's uncle hated Audrey because she always called him Doctor Rivers rather than Doctor Giuseppe or at the very least uncle Rivers as Desmond called him.

"I like your costume by the way," she added, "I wanted to go as Alice here, but someone decided the group would go as Harry Potter characters." She shot an annoyed glance as Desmond.

[cal]

Cal looked up at Desmond quickly, his drink half finished. He looked back down at his cup as he realized it was one of the many kids he'd been "messing with" as he had thought of it at the time. He realized now none of them had found it as funny as he and Blane had.

"Hey," he returned. "Thanks, it's from the Office."

He took another swig of his mostly alcohol beverage, and glanced around.

"Nice turnout," he said for something to say at all.

[Kyan Walker]

"You like scars?" Kyan said, pulling his shirt up to reveal a slight part of wear his stitches were located, well that and his left hip. The girl in the Alice dress, ran her fingers over it lightly. Kyan smirked, loving the attention.

"You bet your ass," he said to her predictions. "No, I've been following the Doc's orders to a tee. And let me tell you how thankful my right hand will be when the stitches come out."

Audry admitted to being slightly envious of the Alice in Wonderland girl's costume.

"I just needed an excuse to wear this shirt," he said, pausing to down half his drink. "I don't know. . .those Harry Potter costumes have so much potential in them. . .very school girl who needs to be corrupted."

[Desmond Giuseppe]

((I just keep looking at Cal's signature, Patrick Fugit is just so pretty))

Call seemed to be at a loss for words, the poor guy probably had gotten used to people ignoring him. Before Desmond hadn't noticed how cute Cal was, no how VERY cute he was. Before he was probably too distracted by the fact that he was an asshole. Blane was probably cute too only it was the same situation; his assholeness over shadowed his good looks in Desmond's opinion. Looks generally didn't appeal to Desmond if the person's personality sucked.

"I don't usually watch the office, but I like watching all of the Halloween specials of shows." said Desmond. "It seems like a funny show. . I'm just usually watching other things." Like America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Harry Potter movies, and cartoons. Desmond didn't care what people thought; Dragon Ball Z was still the shit.

"Nice turnout,"

"Yeah, I expected it to be as much when there's free alcohol involved." Desmond smiled lifted up his cup of beer to illustrate his point. He still couldn't believe he was drinking beer over a Mike's or some nice Sprite and Vodka.

"Why being such a wallflower?" Desmond asked boldly. It was always depressing to see that one guy at a party who just sat by himself and drank away his sorrows. That's the type of thing you do at home alone. . . or soaking wet from rain at your friend's house after your boyfriend just broke up with you. . . Desmond knew the feeling.

[cal]

At the mentioning of the free alcohol, Cal gave a half smile and made a cheers motion before taking a gulp.

"Why being such a wallflower?"

"Why not?" he asked in reply. "I figure it's the safest bet to just sit by myself. I just wanted to get drunk tonight. . .try to enjoy a party, like I used to."

He paused and sighed, knowing things would never be like they used to. And he didn't really want them to be like they were anyway.

"Why are you talking to me?" he asked. "I used to make life hell for you guys."

[Ravi Malone]

Ravi groaned internally when Audrey came over. He didn't need this right now. Audrey's generally horniness was likely to fuel Kyan's general horniness and that was only going to make the situation that Ravi was trying to keep under control only worse!! Ravi looked around helplessly for Desmond so he could get him to drag Audrey away, but Desmond looked like he was far too distracted by a sad looking boy in the living room. Damn Desmond and his knack for wanting to cheer up people! Ravi knew Kyan was probably the last person Desmond would want to cheer up so he probably wouldn't be willing to help anyway.

Audrey was ignoring Ravi, of course. Audrey only ever paid attention to people she deemed as 'hot'. Seeing as more people thought of Kyan as hot it didn't surprise Ravi in the least that Audrey was all over Kyan while he was become more drunk by the drink. All he could do was stand there helplessly and watch. One of the whores who was flirting with Kyan came up to Ravi and started drunkenly rambling about how she used to love Pokemon and how Pikachew was the best pokemon ever. The smell of the girls breath made Ravi gag, but he was cornered and was forced to talk to her.

"Yeah. . . Pikachew is awesome. . ." he said awkwardly, "I also always really liked Charizard. . ."

[audrey]

"Aww poor baby," said Audrey dramatically at Kyan's stitched up side. She leaned over and gave the wound a light kiss, "There, now it will be all better." Audrey thought of a few other things should could have done to 'make it feel better' but neither one of them were drunk enough for any of her ideas yet.

"Why was your right hand doing all the work?" Audrey asked seriously, "I'm sure you could have gotten others to do it for you." She raised her eye brow in a suggestive manner. Kyan was hot enough to get some one to service his cock when ever he wanted, that was Audrey's opinion at least.

"Potential you say?" said Audrey with interest, looking down at the baggy frumpy sweater from good will that she was wearing over her blouse. "well let's just see. . ." She pulled the sweater over her head to reveal the white, tight fitting blouse and Gryffindor tie. She unbuttoned the top few buttons and rolled up her skirt. "Better?" she asked with a small smirk.

[Desmond Giuseppe]

"I figure it's the safest bet to just sit by myself. I just wanted to get drunk tonight. . .try to enjoy a party, like I used to."

That had to be one of the saddest things Desmond had heard in his life. Not said in a pathetic way, but sad in a genuinely depressing way. Poor Cal, his life had to be so hard since his falling out with Blane. Desmond felt a fresh rush of hatred toward Blane. Fucking Blane was far too good at making people's lives miserable. Desmond was the exact opposite; he always put others before himself and was always there when someone needed him. Desmond felt that Cal needed someone and considering how Cal used to be, there probably wasn't many people willing to be that person.

"Why are you talking to me? I used to make life hell for you guys."

Desmond frowned a little at the question, but wasn't at all reluctant to answer it. "Because everyone deserves a second chance." he said with a bit of softness, "I can tell you've changed or at least made an effort to change and that's a lot more than I can say about a few people," especially Blane, he thought to himself. He knew there was a lot of drama and pain between Cal and Blane, so Desmond didn't want to bring him up.

"I also get a sense of regret from you," he added, "I fell like you regret how you treated me last year and that's good. It shows that you fell sorry about it. Beside, I'm not one to hold a grudge." he smiled, "there's too much shit in the world for me to be like that."

[museme]

Paul smiled at the question. "Of course I know where the stash is!" he said, "That's the first thing I find when I come to a party. I can smell a stash the second I walk in a house. It's this smashing Irish nose of mine." He point to his nose that was a bit awkwardly knobby from all the times he's tripped and broken it. "Follow me!" he said, turning quickly and fight his way through the crowd to the kitchen.

He lead JD to the kitchen and made a be line for the liquor cabinet. "Excuse me!" he said as he cut between Audrey and the boy she had been flirting with. "Brandy, Brandy, where is the Brandy?" he sang to himself as he moved bottles aside, looking for Viola's desired Liquor.

"Here it is!" he said, finding it and handing it to JD with a grin. "Pour me some of what Viola is having as well, please." Paul had gotten about three quarters of the way through his Jack and was only now starting to feel the effects a bit. It was about damn time!

[vinnie]

"Well, you have him well trained. . ." said Vinnie, his eyes followed JD to the kitchen. For an older Guy Viola sure had him whipped as hell. Sure, Vinnie would be willing to do anything for Vanna, he just didn't want to be under her command. Wait, he'd done the same thing earlier when Zanna asked if they had Mike's! Oh, these woman were tricky. . . Pretty, but tricky.

"JD, seems, um. . ." too old for you, awkward here, spacey, "very nice. . . um, how did you two meet? If you don't mind my asking." Vinnie didn't want to sound nosy but he was genuinely curious as to how Viola ended up with a guy much older than her. Vinnie was a little disturbed by the fact that JD was going out with a teenager when he was obviously old enough to know better.

[Kyan Walker]

Kyan grinned as Audrey kissed his stitches. And then frowned ever so slightly as she mentioned getting someone else to help him out.

"Yeah, that was part of my prescription," he grumbled. "No playing rough. Anyone I know, wouldn't be able to just go down."

She hitched up her skirt and unbuttoned her whit button down shirt a bit. He tilted his head to the side and blinked slowly.

"Much better," he said with a nod. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed the girl still at his side, readjust her costume to show a little more cleavage.

[cal]

Cal sat there and listened to all of what Desmond said. He couldn't believe he'd fallen so far from his youth. He'd cared so much about being liked, that he'd forgotten about things like this, about second chances and not judging people just because they were different.

"Well, for what it's worth. . .I'm sorry I was such an asshole," he said at length.

He wasn't quite the same as Desmond though, he could hold grudge. He would probably never forgive Casey or Blane. Blane for taking away the one thing Casey apparently couldn't live without. And Casey for taking the one thing he, Cal, couldn't live without. Well at least he thought he couldn't live without him. . .but here he was. . .existing somehow. Hell, he was even out at a party. Perhaps he wasn't as good at holding grudges as he thought. . .

[Viola Hastings]

"I don't know what you're talking about," Viola said with a mischievous grin.

She wasn't dominatrix or anything ((omg. .. I'd like to point out that autocorrect did nothing with dominatrix. . . it's actually a word. .. I thought it was like ubernerd or something.)) JD was just adorably thoughtful. She was too happy having a boyfriend again for the first time in a year to screw it up by being demanding.

JD, seems, um. . .very nice. . . um, how did you two meet? If you don't mind my asking."

"We met at the hospital, the night Kyan got stabbed," she said. "He let us see Kyan after he'd gotten stitched up and even after I'd hugged him with mascara running, no shoes, a bloodstained dress and an off centered crown, he still wanted to talk to me again. I saw him again when I visited Kyan in the hospital, and we sort of bumped into each other in the cafeteria. I asked him if he wanted to grab dinner and he didn't agree at first. I think he was weirded out by my being 18. But when I came back the next day, and apologized for being creepy, he agreed to try a date."

[Desmond Giuseppe]

"I forgive you." said Desmond with a nod and a smile. It was probably the first time anyone had apologized to him for being a homophobic asshole and meant it. Desmond couldn't possibly say how much than meant to him. If only Cal and Blane were still friends; maybe Cal could have shown Blane the light. Then again, Blane had been the reason that Cal was pushed into understanding in the first place.

"Look, I know you've been through a lot." said Desmond, his voice a bit heavy, "If you every need someone to talk to, you can always come to me. And this isn't the beer talking; I've hardly drank any of this stuff because it tastes like shit." He gave his beer a disgusted look, "but seriously, if you ever need someone to talk to, or just to hang out an not be so lonely. . ."

[jd]

At Paul's 'follow me!' JD did just that. He followed him out into the kitchen and took the bottle of brandy from him when Paul found it.

"Two brandy mt. dew combos coming up," JD said, pouring the mixes.

He filled them a little over a quarter full of the brandy and the rest was mt. dew. Then began his search for martini mix. Which he found in one of the cabinets. And hell yes, they had green apple mix at that.

He then searched the fridge and sure enough he found some white whine and vodka. Of course it wasn't Vermouth, but white generic brand wine would do too. He poured the concoction into a cup and mixed it with a spoon. Turning to Paul, he handed him the brandy combo.

"Voila!' he said, then grabbing his and Viola's drinks.

[cal]

Cal grinned slightly, it was nice to be forgiven. His sister had forgiven him finally, and it had felt nice to know that not everyone thought he was scum.

"If you every need someone to talk to, you can always come to me. And this isn't the beer talking; I've hardly drank any of this stuff because it tastes like shit, but seriously, if you ever need someone to talk to, or just to hang out an not be so lonely. . ."

"Thanks," he said. "I'll remember that if I ever feel lonely."

Which was all the time more or less. He still had a couple of friends. Two really who had stuck by him, but it was hard without Casey and Blane and the rest of the crowd he'd grown so accustomed to. He would have been able to give it all up if he'd just stuck around. . .instead of being the fucking coward that he'd shown himself to be. He stopped himself in those thoughts. He had to stop thinking like that. He'd come here to have a good time, not brood. He'd had tho whole summer to brood. He took another large gulp of his jack daniels.

[audrey]

Audrey noticed the girl too just like Kyan had. Well, someone was trying to compete with Audrey now were they? This girl should have known that Audrey always wins in a slut off. She was raised by a drag queen; you can't beat that. Audrey gave the girl a look that would strike fear into even the toughest of men let alone a little drunken teenage girl. The girl looked as though she might wet herself and quickly went over to join her friend who was enthusiastically discussing Pokemon with Ravi.

"I feel much better too." he knew Desmond was probably going to flip out when he saw her, but who cared? He wasn't the boss of her and she wanted to have a good time. Audrey finished off her drink and reached into the fridge for another one and grabbed one for Kyan as well.

"You might be needing this." she said as she handed the bottle to Kyan, "hmm, if you don't mind me asking, where is that big burly boy of yours?" Audrey was genuinely curious as to why he wasn't with that boy she'd see with Kyan at Ravi's home coming. The way Ravi spoke about them they were an 'item' now.

[Kyan Walker]

((Way to take control of the sluts I created. . . psh))

Kyan watched as Audrey decided to scare off the two dumb girls, he'd had every intention of letting take advantage of him. He frowned at her.

"Well now I don't feel much better," he said taking the drink from her and polishing off his previous one. That was what? A cup and bottle of beer, two shots of brandy, a raspberry Smirnoff, and now another one. And Raspberry Smirnoffs were not small either. The taste would soon become sickeningly sweet, but he'd never once thrown up from drinking before and didn't intend to start now. "This however, might help."

She asked about Toby, and he furrowed his brows at her. Toby was out with Andy, and Audrey had scared off the girls, he'd gone after once Toby'd gone back to the blond man-whore.

"He's out there with the blond in the Robin Hood costume," he supplied for her. "We have an understanding. I can fuck whoever the fuck I want and so can he."

[Desmond Giuseppe]

Desmond could tell that what he'd said had actually meant something to Cal, and he wasn't just saying something to make Desmond happy. Desmond was just glad they could put their past behind them and be nice to each other. This time last year this was the last situation Desmond would haven ever expected himself to be into. It was funny how much things could change in just one year.

"Come on." said Desmond, hopping off the chair, "Let's go mingle, maybe dance, and just generally have a good time." he said earnestly to Cal with a smile. "You can't just sit on that chair all night and expect to have a good time." He lightly grabbed Cal by the wrist and gently pulled his arm to get him to stand up. "Come on, it's time to have fun!"

[audrey]

"Well now I don't feel much better,"

"Oh, come on" said Audrey, rolling her eyes, "she was a whore, you could do much better. Besides, she's talking to Ravi about Pokemon. Did you really want to have to deal with that?" Obviously the girls had become drunk enough to loss their sense of judgment if they decided to cling to Ravi rather than hot male at the party. And Ash from Pokemon? Really! Something with wrong with that Ravi boy. Then again she was the one dress as a Harry Potter character, but it hadn't been her choice.

"Oh, I see," said Audrey, spotting Toby and the boy with blond hair. She kept the thought that the blond kid was cute to herself; she had a feeling it wasn't what Kyan wanted to hear right now. She also didn't press the matter of Toby. It just didn't seem like something Kyan really wanted to talk about and it was killing the mood.

"Well, have you been 'fucking' around much?" she asked with interest. She had a feeling the answer would be no considering Kyan had been recovering from a nice stab wound. None the less, he still could have gotten some action.

[cal]

Cal glanced around nervously as Desmond suggested getting up to dance. If this had been last year, he wouldn't be caught dead associating with kids like Desmond. Of course the kids he would have been dancing with had already been trying to start trouble while everyone else was having fun.

He hefted himself to his feet with a slightly defeated sigh while Desmond tugged on his wrist.

"I guess enjoying myself won't kill me," he said.