"You did not tell me it was a Halloween party." I frown not very pleased with my situation right now.

"Come on, Octave, don't be like that. It's not exactly a Halloween party, it's a costume party. Halloween has already passed!" Cris reasons getting me to raise an eyebrow, "Don't worry, it's not going to be bad."

"It's not going to be bad? If my eyesight is proper, I can clearly see you holding that maid outfit." I growl slightly looking at the outfit in his hands, "And it shows too much cleavage."

Right now, we were inside a costume store with me being surrounded by the four boys, three of them behind me. Yusa was on his phone once again, Lance was listening to our conversation as Julius was looking around.

"Octave! It'll look great on you, don't worry about that!"

"I don't care how it looks on me, I am not wearing that."

"Octave!"

"You can't force me."

His devilish smile once appears again, "I wouldn't be so sure about that."

"What do - "

Feeling two hands clap onto my shoulder, I look back to find Yuse with the same smile as Cris. I feel my stomach drop as I now regret coming along while they drag me to the changing room despite my efforts of struggling.

"Guys? This is seriously a bad idea." I whine fighting with Yuse's strong grip on me as he carries me with Cris humming in front of us.

"It'll be fun once we get to the club. And, your costume will match with us!" Cris chirps as he hands the outfit to a lady, "Can you please change her into this? It's for a party, and she refuses to go but... "

"Don't worry, sir." the lady responds back before glancing towards me, "It's a rare chance to dress someone as unique as her."

"Unique?"

"Yes, the way she walks and her body structure is rare to see here."

"The way she walks?"

"Yes, like a royal, you may say."

Cris places an impressed face before I get hand over to the lady who, also surprisingly, has a strong grip.

"Miss, don't worry about anything. I'll take perfect care for you and make you the most sexiest maid ever."

"Wait, say what? Can I just please be a normal maid?" I cry as she drags me inside the changing room, "GUYS! SAVE ME!"

"Have fun!" Yuse and Cris sings before I enter inside the huge room known as a changing room here in this store.

Since it specializes in costumes, there were many make up sets at the side as this room was designed for people getting ready to go out in a costume. Feeling the grip release me, my head swings towards the lady as she opens the bag the costume is in before taking it out and looking at me.

A smile appears on her face, "I can't wait to dress you up."

Someone save me.

An agonizing sound comes out of me as she wrestles me into the outfit, and quite easily as I guess she must have handled these kind of situations before. I give my respect to the people who were before me. Within a few minutes, she has already gotten me into the outfit and packed my uniform into a bag which she placed to the side.

"Okay," She claps her hands, "Now for the makeup."

"Wait. Make up?" I squeak in fear as she smiles at me once again.

"Yup!"

One more time, another agonizing scream comes out of me as I try to fight her on the chair. But for some reason she had straps on the chair.

What the -

Within a few minutes, she has finished putting make up on me and styled my hair. A proud face fills he's as she unstraps me who just stares at the mirror in front of me.

"You're probably my most exquisite work!" She squeals as my face was emotionless with complicating feelings.

"Yay?"

"Now, let's show you to the boys."

With that, she drags me out to the dressing room to allow me to see the four boys who had accompany me. They were all doing their own things - Cris looking around the store with a stack of costumes in hand, Julius looks up at the ceiling in boredom, Yuse scrolls through his phone screen, and Lance was fixing his uniform - all of them wearing suits, making them look like hosts or butlers.

Lance was the first to notice me before his eyes widen in shock at my sudden appearance. He was frozen in place as his mouth keep closing and opening.

Finally, he speaks, "Beautiful."

This catches his friends' attention as they look his way before noticing me. Their eyes also widen, just like Lance's, as they stare at me which gets me to fidget.

"I told you guys I would look weird." I sigh slightly sulking.

"No. No. No." Cris rejects instantly fast walking to me as the other two stand up from their chairs straightening themselves, "You look beautiful. Like, really really beautiful."

I blush slightly, "Thanks."

The maid outfit was quite simple, yet complicating as there were many layers. First, the lady had made we worn a thin white dress that stops at my thighs as a white fluffy skirt is topped over it. After, she places the black maid dress on top and tightens it at the back with the laces. The dress has laces at the front but it gets tied at the back into a bow, the shoulders slightly puff out as laces were also there to adjust the size. A white apron goes on top as it ties at the back but with large straps to create the cute big bow to hide the smaller one. Normally, it won't be so bad to wear this, but it was exposing as the front of the dress was as an open shoulder showing my chest cleavage, and it showed my back too despite the laces. My arms were not clothed, but my legs were with black socks that goes over my knee matching with the white ankle boots.

Hearing a click, I look over to Yuse to find out that he has taken a picture, a huge smile on his face.

"Wonder how Yurito will feel about this." He hums as he clicks on his phone.

I get ready to question him, but before I could, Cris surprises us all.

"Ah! We have to hurry! It's going to start soon!"

With that, he quickly thanks the lady who dressed me before heading over to the cashier. Knowing that he's going to pay, I get ready to argue but Julius takes a hold of my hand and begins running out of the store. Being in an 1 inch heel, it was slightly difficult for me to catch up but not too difficult for me to be able to run.

A cab was already outside as Lance, Yuse, Julius and I file in at the back. Lance being first then Yuse, me and Julius. Being squished by them wasn't too bad, but it was still squishy as they were quite big on the muscle part. Cris comes to the passenger seat and the driver beings driving, getting me to guess that he knows where we want to go.

Hearing another click of a photo getting taken, I look over to Yuse to find him taking a selfie with me at the background. Looking up at the camera, I smile before holding a peace sign for another picture.

"So cute!" he hums before changing the angle position of the phone to in front of us.

He leans towards me as I do the same, another snap of getting a photo taken. After a few more, he finally stops with satisfaction and begins clicking his phone with quick speed. Without me noticing, we were already here at our destination.

Lance helps me out of the cab allowing me to see the view of the doorway of the club. A huge line thay goes down to the corner of the street gets my eyes to widen.

This must be a very popular club.

"Come on, Octave." Cris takes a hold of my hand before leading me to the door.

People were staring at me, getting the boys to suddenly surround me. Lance on my right, Julius on my right and Yuse right behind me.

"Hey, Jack. Been a while." Cris greets getting the bouncer who looks emotionless to have a huge smile comes on.

"If it isn't Cris. Finally came to party?" The man muses crossing his arms to show how muscular he was.

"Eh. Why not?" Cris shrugs innocently.

"Who's that little cutie behind you?"

"Ah," Cris glances back at me, "This is my new friend, she just transferred to our school. Wanted to show her around."

"That's cool." Jack nods before looking towards me, "Name's Jackson, you can call me Jack for short."

"Octave." I respond back with a small smile.

"Anyways, better not keep you guys waiting out here. Get inside, Kyle is waiting." Jack nods to the doorway leading downstairs.

"Thanks."

With that, Cris pulls me in as I can hear the music clearly booming through the building. When we reach the final stair, the place was quite big yet, it also felt safe. Lots of people were partying as they were dancing with each other, all in costumes.

"Come on, I want to introduce you to my friend." Cris drags me along through the crowd, yet our group never disband.

When we reach towards the bar, there were people sitting on the stools, all not drinking alcohol.

This confuses me slightly, and Julius must have notice so.

"The parties we go to are safe and alcohol free. So don't worry about going crazy here, that's how you have fun." He explains simply with a shrug.

"But why is it alcohol free? Don't most clubs sell alcohol?" I ask still in confusion.

"Well, these sort of clubs aim for our ages, the ones that aren't old enough to drink yet still wants to party."

"Hm, that's smart."

Cris finally stops as he salutes to another male, who now looks towards us.

"Cris! My boy!" The young adult shouts before giving a bro hug to Cris, "It's been a while. I thought you wouldn't come!"

"How can I say 'no' to you? It has been a while. How are you doing?" Cris bumps his fist on the boy's chest.

"Good. Good. I've seen you've been well, with that girl behind you." he winks at me causing me to blush slightly.

"She's not my girlfriend, just a new friend who transferred to our school." Cris introduces me slightly.

"I see, well I better introduce myself." He extends his hand to me, "Richard Jefferson, you can call me Rich for short."

"Octave Reiner." I respond taking hold of his hand with a firm shake.

"Anyways, I hope you'll all enjoy the party. But make sure that she," he nods towards me, "Is nearby or else someone else is going to swoop her off her feet with that maid costume of hers."

"Will do." Cris salutes before Rich smiles and leaves us to go back to his friends.

Cris turns around to look down at me, "Okay, listen carefully Octave. No matter what, you must stay at least a metre near us or if you have to go somewhere, tell us. I do not want you to be tainted by one of the filthy monsters here with your cute maid costume."

"Cute? I say it's more sexy than cute." Yuse pipes into the conversation.

"Elegant." Lance joins into the argument.

"You guys are blind and have no taste, she's definitely more strong."

We all turn our heads his way, "What?"

"Don't you read manga? Majority of the maids are all strong despite their innocent looks. They have weapons hiding somewhere in their outfit." Julius crosses his arms with confidence.

We just stare at him before I pat myself quickly, "Nope. Zero weapons."

"Okay, let's just forget about it and enjoy the party. Okay?" Cris offers getting nods from all of us.

And within just a few minutes, all four of them were partying with many many females surrounding them. Without me or either them noticing, I was already more than a metre away.

Well, so much for that rule.

Leaning back on the wall as I watch everyone party in costumes, I find a few glances my way but being me, I ignore them.

"Hello. Hello. Who are you, little pretty maid? I've never seen you here before."

Looking to the source of the voice, I find a man leaning on the wall beside me with a huge smirk. He was dressed as a vampire showing his fangs as he holds a bottle of red liquid.

"Well little miss maid? Why don't you come with me and I can give you pleasure while you allow me to suck your blood?" He offers getting closer to me as he wraps his hand around my waist.

"Sorry, but I rather not, and you shouldn't too." I respond back in instinct after Ria's stern lesson of going to parties.

I slightly shudder from the memory as he would always keep lecturing me about behaviours in parties and people I should avoid, to him, everyone. Everytime we did go to parties in junior high, he would literally announce to everyone to stay away from me after that first incident. But, that never stopped people so he decided to teach me. And it was horrifying.

"Why not?" He asks getting his face close to my neck, "I bet your blood will be delicious."

"Because, my friend has garlic and sunlight to kill you." I reply finding a familiar face behind the man.

"What?" He replies in confusion before feeling the tap on his shoulder which gets him to look behind him.

"And a fist." Julius growls before punching him into the face.

He falls down in front of me before Julius grabs hold of my arm and tugs me to his chest. A growl emits from him as this has caught the attention of the party. At the corner of my eyes, I can see Lance, Cris, Yuse and Rich heading our way.

"What was that for bastard?!" The vampire man shouts in anger before his own friends come help him stand up.

All of them, dressed as vampires.

Interesting.

"You'll pay for that!" The vampire gang gets ready to fight.

"Hey! Stop it!" Rich stands between us before pointing his finger towards the gang, "If you guys cause more problems you'll get kicked out! This isn't the first!"

"Oh? How are you going to kick us out? We're the bomb of the party!"

"We'll use force!"

"You think that one bouncer outside can take us all? Ha!"

Why does this only happen? I'm already bored from the party, can't there be something exciting?

Wait.

"You're right, he shouldn't need to deal with your pests." I speak up releasing myself from Julius's grip as I stand between Rich and their vampire gang, "I can deal with you guys."

"Huh? You?" They all laugh while I stretch my limbs.

"Octave!" I hear my friends call for me as I head closer to the group, a smirk was on my face.

"Don't be like that darling, just play with us." One of the vampires reach towards me but before he could register, I had already flipped him over my shoulder getting his back to hit the ground.

"Let's play." I crack my knuckles, "It's party time."

Within minutes, I had already injured the gang with light bruises because I didn't want to injure them and get sued, just enough that I showed how much stronger I was than them. I've got to thank my father for teaching me how to fight or else I'll be like a sitting bird.

Clapping my hands out of any dust, I look down at them all as they were on the ground panting hard in disbelief.

"Wasn't that fun?"

Just like that, they all scurry away in fear and out of the club in seconds. Cracking my neck, I head back to my friends as their mouths are open in disbelief.

"That was a good catch up to fighting. Haven't done it in a while." I stretch my back.

"Holy sh*t." Rich gasps, "That was sick."

Julius smirks, "A true maid."