Ramon scanned the crowd, looking through a literal sea of witches, devils, vampires and other creatures of the night. He was your typical suave pick-up artist on any given night of the year, but Halloween had always held a special place in his heart. So many women in sexy costumes, people pretending to be monsters... for a natural born liar like him, it was the perfect excuse to indulge in his usual bad behavior without anyone being able to blame him.
As he looked through the various female party goers, his attention immediately drifted towards a tall, thin brunette dressed in an elegant black dress. Judging by her pale skin and long dark hair, Ramon assumed that she was supposed to be a vampire, and he had to admit that she was pulling off the costume quite well. She was thin and graceful, and although she actually had pretty small breasts truth be told, there was certainly a waifish beauty about her.
'The perfect tragic heroine for a Gothic romance gone wrong,' Ramon silently mused to himself.
Taking another sip of brandy, Ramon turned to the host and tapped him on the shoulder.
"Hey Matt," he said, heartily shaking his hand, "Great party, man, as always. But I was just wondering, who is that gorgeous Goth chick over there at the other end of the room?"
Matt turned around and looked back at the room, squinting so that he could get a better view.
"Oh her," he said when he finally caught a glimpse of the woman, "Her name's... ummm... Nancy I think."
"Nancy," Ramon said, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah," Matt responded, "She lives in one of the apartments up on the third floor. Just moved in the other week, in fact, so I figured I would invite her over."
Matt looked over at his friend, but saw that he was too caught up staring across the room at the hot goth chick. Then again, for a horny guy like Ramon, that was actually pretty common.
"You want me to introduce you," he asked.
"Nah," Ramon said as he started to make his way across the room, "I think that I'll do just fine on my own."
"Don't you always," said Matt, laughing quietly to himself.
The thin gothic woman -- Nancy, or whatever her name was -- had already taken a seat on Matt's couch and made herself comfortable. She barely even looked up or acknowledge Ramon at all until he was right in front of her.
"Hi," he said, rather boldly, "My name's Ramon, and you must be Nancy, am I right?"
She merely looked up at him, an enigmatic smile upon her black lips. Ramon was surprised, but it was one of those rare occasions where he couldn't actually read someone's emotions simply by looking at them. Usually he was pretty good about that sort of thing.
"I am," she said calmly, "But how do you know that?"
"I'm a friend of Matt over there," he waved at Matt for added effect, "He told me you were new in town, just moved in and all, so I thought I'd come over and introduce myself."
"Well isn't that sweet," Nancy said.
"Yes," Ramon replied, "Yes it is. Do you mind if I take a seat next to you?"
"Not at all," she said, shaking her head.
"So," he said rather nonchalantly, "You're supposed to be a vampire, eh?"
Nancy nodded her head.
"Yeah," she said, "But I can't tell what your costume is."
"Isn't it obvious," Ramon chuckled as he stroked his little goatee, "I'm the devil!"
"The devil," she giggled, "Yeah, I bet you are."
At that moment, Ramon knew he was in. He started moving in on her with all of the usual small talk, trying to get her to lower her guard, and then began to pour her drinks. Now, Ramon wasn't a rapist -- he had never slipped anyone a roofie, nor did he force himself on people when they said 'no.' But at the same time, he was more than willing to use his charm and a little booze to get women into bed with him. And once again, that route was working quite well for him.
"So," she finally said after a while, her slender hand clenching tightly upon his thigh, "I was thinking it was getting kind of late... you want to go back to my place?"
Ramon already knew the answer to that question. In fact, both of them knew where that Halloween night was headed from that point on. They eagerly got up and rushed out of Matt's apartment and made their way up to the third floor. Most of the other guests already knew of Ramon -- by reputation if not face -- and had a pretty good inkling of what was going to happen. It became quite the piece of gossip once the two of them had left, not that either of them knew or cared.
Nancy's apartment was hot -- incredibly so! It was as if she had turned up the furnace to full blast and left it there for a week. Ramon could feel himself sweating even on a brisk October night like this. And she wasn't kidding about just moving in either, as most of her belongings seemed to still be contained within the countless cardboard boxes that lay stacked about her tiny apartment. It was unusual enough to make Ramon pause, if only for a moment.
"Yeah," she said, "Sorry about the mess. The bedroom is over there, though, if you want to make yourself at home."
"What about you," he asked.
"Oh don't mind me," Nancy said coyly, "I'm just going to slip into something a little more comfortable. I'll be out in a moment."
Despite most of her belongings still being packed up, Nancy surely enough did have a bed in the next room, along with a dresser and a few other bare amenities. Ramon lay down on the bed, stretching and making himself comfortable. The bed was actually incredibly soft, and also quite big... too big, in fact, for a single woman. Ramon wondered briefly if this gothic tease made a habit of picking up strange men and bringing them back to her place, but he didn't really care. None of his concern, after all, and he was hardly in a position to be judging anyone in the first place.
Ramon decided that he should at least take some of his clothes off and get ready for some serious love making. He took off his jacket, slipped off his t-shirt and began to unfasten his belt. By the time that Nancy finally got back into the room, he was pretty much down to nothing more than his boxers. But Nancy.... Wow!