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You look like a slut This was the thought repeating in my head

I tugged at the knee-high white stockings and smoothed down my plaid skirt It was irl costume didn’t have buttons to close above e I feltuncomfortable Yes, I looked like a slut, but it was also the look I was going for

Avery, aze was on thefor me to chicken out

“You’re going out in that?” Her tone did nothing to disguise her disbelief

“Yeah”

Perhaps I looked ridiculous, and perhaps my stomach had done a flip-flop when I looked atAvery had been forced into invitingI hadn’t been out to a party in ages, and Halloas the one night I could reinvent myself

A reinvention was needed

I’d spentelse had been neglected, including a social life It was otten close enough with another girl to find a rooether rando computer

She wasn’t happy with the result The spoiled sophomore was rades, her major, or have to worry about scholarshipher pointless attee education, and it was likely she’d wash out by the end of the year Perhaps even by the end of the semester She wasn’t focused, and I couldn’t relate at all

“You look different,” Avery said “Nice”

Her co ”

“It shocked the hell out of ht you were a Mormon”

I blinked, confused “Mormon?”