This is a continuation of the story "The Long Tease"
https://literotica.com/s/the-long-tease-3
The Costume Contest
Kristen and Beth walked into Sarah's bedroom and sat down on the bed. Kristen was busy doing homework at her desk. A visit from her older sister is a rarity as they normally tried to steer clear of each other.
"Beth and I need your help with something." Kristen started. "There is a costume party on Friday night that we are going to, and the winning costume gets a thousand dollars. You are good at building stuff with all your cosplay bullshit, so why don't you help us make a costume. "
Sarah had to take it as a compliment that her sister was coming to her with this, even if she didn't mean it as a compliment.
"Sure." Sarah responded. "For half."
"Half of what?" Beth said.
"Half your winnings." Sarah responded, not even looking up from her laptop.
"THIS is why nobody likes you, Sarah." Kristen scoffed. "You are such a bitch".
"Look," Sarah said "You can either get 500.00 with me helping you, or you can try to build a shitty costume yourself and win zero dollars. So that is your choice."
"Do you think we can win?" Beth inquired.
"I don't like to waste my time." Sarah responded.
Kristen and Beth looked at each other.
"This is such a bullshit deal" Beth said. "But... 500 dollars is a lot of cash."
"FINE" Kristen said. "IF we win, you get half the winnings. If we lose, I am going to kick your fucking ass."
Sarah closed her laptop and looked at Kristen and Beth.
"Great. What are our assets?"
"What?" Beth questioned.
"What do we have to work with? What are we starting from?" Sarah inquired.
"We were thinking of something with short skirts and tight tops and..." Beth started conveying.
"That is so lame" Sarah interrupted. "Everyone does that. Why don't you do something unconventional. Do something that people are going to be talking about for years. "
"Okay genius, then what should we go as?" Kristen asked.
"We just got that new refrigerator last week -- why don't we use that box it came in as a starting point." Sarah suggested.
"What the hell are we going to be with a refrigerator box?" Beth asked. After thinking for a few moments, Sarah came up with a great idea.
"You will be a vending machine." Sarah said.
"This is so stupid" Beth said "Let's go..." she started to pull Kristen off the bed and out the door.
"Imagine..." Sarah continued "It can be a fake vending machine and you can hand out candy or chips or something and everyone will love it. I will totally help you build it and all you need to do is take it to the party and bring back the money."
Both Kristen and Beth were skeptical of this idea. There is nothing sexy about a vending machine. There is no way they were going to win with this idea. Yet if Sarah was going to do most of the work to make it happen, they really had nothing to lose here.
Sarah found the cardboard box left in the garage from the new refrigerator and got to work. She
Set it up on its end and figured out which side would be the front. She made a false window using a left-over piece of plexiglass and created a set of fake shelves that could hold different types of candy.
Beth and Kristen watched skeptically over the next few hours as Sarah built a coin slot and a dispensing slot at the bottom. She found an old numeric keypad to use for snack selection and then spraypainted the whole thing and stenciled "YUMMY SNACKS" on the side. She spray painted it pink with yellow cursive writing and flowers.
"Holy fuck that actually looks like a vending machine" Beth said. So how does it work?
"Well," Sarah said, admiring her handywork "You two will be INSIDE the vending machine and when people come up and start playing around with the coin slot or the keypad, you can distribute snacks through the bottom, just like a real vending machine, except none of the snacks up above fall down, you just place them down the shoot inside.
"Hey that is pretty cool" Kristen said. "So, we just stand in there?"
"Well, there is plenty of room for both of you, you can get some stools or chairs or something. It would be funny if no matter what snack someone wanted, you always gave them the same thing, Like its broken."
"How do we get in and out?" Kristen said.
"You will use the small door in the back and just tape it up once you are inside so no one knows it's there" Sarah responded. The girls went around the back and saw that Sarah had built a secret door to get in and out. Beth got in and Kristen pretended to order something. Beth dropped a test bag of cookies, and it appeared in the front just like a real vending machine!
"This is awesome! We are totally going to win!" Beth said.
Sarah placed some battery-operated lights inside as well as a place to hold the snacks. On Friday evening they loaded the whole thing up into Michael's truck and headed over to the party. Both Kristen and Beth dressed in skirts and crop t-shirts so they would look good when they went up to collect their winnings.
"Sarah, you have to come with us to help us set it up." Kristen demanded.
"I can't I have homework." Sarah responded.
"The FUCK you do. We are all in this, you are going to help us setup so it's perfect."
"Fine." said Sarah, but then I'm right back here.
The three girls pile into Michael's truck with the vending machine in the back and head over to the costume party near the university. The contest was organized by four different fraternity houses.
"Oh my GOD there are hundreds of people here!" exclaimed Beth as they neared the entrance to the party. It was setup in the back yard of an old historic house. They put up strings of lights everywhere and there were rows and rows of kegs. A DJ was spinning records up on the deck and it seemed like everyone was dressed in an amazing costume.
The three girls moved their vending machine over into a corner of the yard where they thought it would get the most attention. It looked totally out of place in the shady corner but with the pink paint and flowers it somehow fit in just perfectly. You could tell it wasn't just any vending machine. It was amazing.
The crowd of costumed partygoers watched as the three girls setup their box. They loaded it with snacks and had two stools inside, so they didn't have to stand the whole time. Before long they had a crowd of people surrounding their vending machine. It looks like this might work!
The girls climbed in through the back door and Sarah turned on the inside lights. There were tiny peep holes where they could see out through the snack window to see who was asking for snacks. They loaded the snacks (bags of chips) ready to be delivered.
The box was just big enough that the two girls could be in there. THREE girls is too tight. Within moments of the girls getting situated in the box, people were pressing on the keypad and throwing stuff in the coin slot.
"We got a coin!" Kristen exclaimed. "Hurry put some chips in." Beth put a bag of chips down the shoot, and they could hear people laughing outside as they got their chips.
"This is working! This costume is amazing!" said Beth.
"Okay, you girls are all set. I'm going to head back and do my homework" Sarah said.
"No! you can't we are already busy here; you have to stay and help" Kristen exclaimed grabbing another bag of chips for the shoot.
"We are like.... surrounded by people right now" Beth said, peering out the peep hole.