Author's Note: I struggled on what category to put this in. It would also apply to First Time or Erotic Couplings, but I ended up deciding that Romance described it best of all because the romance the meat of the story, whereas the other categories only describe the intercourse. I hope you enjoy!
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Lily pulled another costume off of the rack and held it up to herself. "What do you think about this one?"
"Geezus!" exclaimed Veronica, her best friend. "I thought you were going for sexy, not out and out skank!"
Looking over the frilly french maid outfit that was more white lace than black silk and wouldn't cover more than the bare necessities (if that) Lily shrugged. "At this point I'm looking for whatever will get me noticed by Paul. This would be perfect for being Yvette from the movie Clue."
Veronica rolled her eyes. "Well that will get you noticed by more than one guy, but probably not in the way that you want."
Holding up the costume in front of her and looking in the mirror, Lily had to admit that her friend had a point. There was a fine line between "come and get me" to a specific person and "I'll sleep with anyone" when it came to women's Halloween costumes. Slutty wasn't her usual.
Halloween was Lily's favorite holiday. Ever since she was a little girl she'd loved playing dress up and that had never changed as she'd gotten older. She took every chance she could to dress up, whether it was for a party, spirit week in high school, the midnight showing of a movie, or really any excuse at all. Of course, her costumes had changed over the years from when she was a little girl. Now at the age of 19 she wasn't a little girl anymore and she needed her costume to reflect that. She also needed it to hide her. Lily was absolutely determined that this Halloween she was going to get something she'd been wanting for years: her older brother's best friend Paul. She knew that she wouldn't be able to get a date with him or anything like that, but she'd been half in love with him ever since she was a teenage. Four years older than her, he'd always seen her as a little kid, but now she was all grown up and she still wanted him. Always pragmatic, Lily didn't expect him to suddenly see her for herself and realize that he wanted her just as much as she wanted him.
However, during Halloween she could be someone else. Anyone else. Someone that Paul would notice, someone he'd find sexy... and then she'd seduce him into her bed and finally achieve a fantasy that she'd had ever since she knew what sex was: losing her virginity to Paul Donner.
"Here, this is more appropriate," Veronica said with a giggle, brandishing a sexy nun outfit.
"Oh please," Lily groaned. "The whole point is to lose my virginity, not flaunt it."
"You'd be flaunting plenty of things if you wore this," her friend replied with a giggle. She held it up in front of her own body. "Fine, maybe I'll try it on."
"I'm sure Chase would love that," Lily teased. Veronica laughed. The pretty redhead had been going out with her boyfriend Chase for the past year and Lily knew very well how hot and heavy the two of them got. In fact, talking to Veronica had been part of what settled Lily on making her fantasy come true. She'd watched as Veronica had crushed on Chase for forever, before they finally got together and eventually Veronica had lost her virginity to him. Apparently it had been an amaaaaaazing night and part of it had been the fulfillment of something Veronica had wanted for a long, long time.
Well Lily had wanted Paul for a long, long time. She'd waited, hoping that someone else might come along, someone she could fall in love with and forget all her feelings for Paul, but she had nothing but lackluster interest in the guys that she met. Yet every time Paul had come home from college and visited with her brother Robert she'd fall head over heels for him all over again. Not just because he was gorgeous - although she'd practically creamed her bathing suit bottoms when he'd shown up at the local community pool with Robert. Her and every woman with working hormones. Mostly because Paul was a good guy. He took time to talk to her parents and help her mom out with things around the house that her Dad and Paul hadn't gotten to yet, and he always had something good to say about everyone. On top of all that, he was also funny, charming, read the same books and watched the same movies as her, and was a drop dead gorgeous hunk. It was enough to make her scream in frustration that he was willing to spend time with her but acted like she was still 12 years old.
When she'd found out that he and Rob were going to Lisa's Masquerade Halloween Party she'd realized that this was her chance to have her special night; all she had to do was become someone else. To see if she could attract Paul to her and seduce him if he didn't know who she was. And for that, she had to have the perfect costume. Something that would cover the parts of her that she didn't want him to see and flaunt the assets he'd never noticed before.
"Hey, how about this?" Veronica said, holding up a white and pink plastic sixties go-go girl dress.
Lily made a face.
"No, seriously, it'll look fantastic on you. Plus then you could get a go-go girl wig to cover your hair and no one would think any of the fact that you're wearing a wig. And it'll be sexy without being skanky."
"You have a point about the wig," Lily admitted, taking the dress and looking at it. Suddenly a vision flashed in her mind of herself in the dress with white go-go boots, a pink wig, white mask and glowing pink eyes. She'd really been wanting to try those crazy colored contacts and here was the perfect outfit for it! The costume would make her almost completely anonymous. "I'll try it on."
Squeezing into the tight plastic wasn't easy but it was more than worth it.
"Holy crap," Veronica said, her voice breathy as Lily came out of the dressing room.
Turning to the mirror, Lily could see why. On the hanger the dress had looked fairly covering, which is probably why the more conservative Veronica had picked it up in the first place. On Lily it was scandalous. The fabric club to her curves, outlining them, hugging them seductively. The short, short skirt barely covered the swell of her ass and she would have to make sure not to bend over too far unless she wanted to give everyone standing behind her a show. The short length of the skirt also made her legs look miles long. With her dark blonde hair and light brown eyes she looked pretty in pink, once she put the rest of the outfit together she'd look like a 60's bombshell.
"Yes..." she breathed, staring at the vision she saw inside her head. "This is perfect."
The fact that it covered more than most of the other sexy costumes only invited a man to look further, to want to see what was underneath it. It hinted at everything and showed nothing. Most guys would probably move on to easier prospects but Paul was the kind of guy who would appreciate both the challenge and the relative demureness (in comparison to some of the other costumes that she knew girls would be wearing). It didn't scream one night stand but that was a good thing. Both her brother and Paul were more into relationships than into casual sex, although she knew from listening to them that it had happened occasionally. She also knew that they both used protection religiously.
Good. Yes. This was everything she wanted to be for Halloween. Sexy but innocent in pink and white; a seductive challenge. It was also something that she, Lily, would never have chosen for herself. Lily always wore costumes that allowed her to wear flats instead of heels - although this year it wouldn't matter since Paul was more than a couple inches taller than her 5'7" - and she never wore anything generic. She was Jessica Rabbit or Loony Luna, Sleeping Beauty or Sarah Conner. Lily's costumes were always specific and complete; she'd never just gone a 'a witch' or 'a princess'. Paul would have no idea it was her, much better than her Yvette idea - even if she did know that Clue was his favorite movie and that he'd lusted over Yvette in high school. Maybe she'd do that next year, see if he noticed her for herself.
At any rate, she was going to throw herself into anonymity this year. She'd get her one night and then maybe she'd be able to move on from him. Maybe by this time next year she'd have a real relationship, once she'd gotten Paul out of her system.
"Veronica you're a genius," she announced.
"If I was a genius I'd figure out a way to talk you out of this," her friend retorted. "Why can't you just seduce him as yourself?"
