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I checked myself out in the mirror The special-order T-shirt had arrived just in time for the campus Halloween do-over with much better weather Philly in late October wasn’t known for its ao, the ca break Better weather, and a long stretch off after to recover from the debauchery

Elle stood beside me in a Princess Leia outfit co one look at her and grabbingready and I was excited to go to the party Not that ere traveling far, but a party at The Brothel would have been beyond o So would the fact that I’d slept in Berk’s bed just as hts as he slept in mine, and that he looked at me like I’d walked off a Paris Fashion Week runway every time I stepped into the room

My costuh I did have a headband with a cupcake on it and a giant woodenspoon I could use like a staff—but my shirt was the cherry on top

In big bold letters across the front, it spelled out DOUGH HO

“We’re going to a party at The Brothel, it’s hardly like I’ll be strutting around City Hall in this I can laugh at it now And you knohat? I can’t say I haven’t dipped ed “We’re going to have fun” Loading our arms up with containers of cookies, we set off on our short journey like two Little Reds in search of our Big Bad Wolves

The music from The Brothel and half the houses on the block filled the air with a pulsing, ru beat

“Remember when I called the cops on theh mine

“You’re saying that like it was a one-ti Was the tally ten by the tilies?”

She swatted at my arm “Ew But let’s say that ers up alap

We stopped at the botto

She opened the door and all heads swun

g our way I straightened ht have

“Hell, yes!” so room “Jules is here!”

“My queen, may I relieve you of your parcels of deliciousness?” Keyton crossed the roo an arm over his chest in his Ro each shoulder with oods Within seconds, he was rabbed handfuls of the cookies

“I think that e-whispered to me