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Nicolaj was standing in the door-frame, staring at the scene in front of him. It was ridiculous, his step-mother was giving her two kids, who were twins actually, a boy called Jeremy and a girl called Janice, flirting-advice, while she did Janice's hair in a weird braid.
Janice was nearly crying, she didn't got the matching nail-polish color to her dress.
Jeremy had cut himself, trying to shave his non-existent beard.
His step-siblings were actually around his age and there was this stupid costume party tonight. You were supposed to masquerade yourself or something like this. Nicolaj didn't liked high school parties at all and costumes didn't make the entire thing sound more appealing to him.
He knew all the effort the J's made, he called them that, when they weren't around, Janice would flip out, 'cause “she is nothing like her brother!”, Nicolaj thought they could be one person, they were just the same, they looked the same, they acted the same, they got the same plans for tonight, were for this one guy.
Søren was he called, he was apparently a fucking genius or something and worst of all, everybody seemed to be into him. He was good-looking, Nicolaj wasn't blind, he noticed that too, but he just hated that guy. Life was so unfair, this guy got everything, while he got a dead mother, a weird patch-work family and he wasn't really good in anything.
Also, Søren and he were like best friends in kindergarten, but life doesn't always play out like you planned it as a four-year-old. They hadn't really talked after kindergarten and of course that was because that guy thought he was something better, Nicolaj just knew that, there could be no other reasons. Damn, sometimes he missed kindergarten, everything used to be so much easier back then.
Added to all of the things, Søren's parents were also rich as fuck and that was no reason at all why his step-mom was so proud of the good taste of her wonderful children. It seems like she didn't care who got this guy in the end, if it was one of her children.
“Nicolaj! Are you going planning on going to the party? I could also help you!”, his step-mother had noticed him and was too excited in his opinion.
He snorted, “Ah, I don't think so.”
“Why not? Your father would be so happy!”, He rolled his eyes at that. Sure, his father really cared if he went to high school parties or not.
“Mom, I don't think someone invited him”, Jeremy said with an arrogant look on his face.
Nicolaj laughed, “Everyone got invited and you're just afraid of me stealing the spotlight.”
His step-mother started to reassure Jeremy that nobody could steal his spotlight and Nicolaj knew, he needed to get out of here right now.
“Whatever, I'm going to Zach”, he stated and didn't wait for a response. He turned, and left the house to go to his best friend who just lived across the street.
Unfortunately Zach greeted him with the words, “We're going to this party!”
He groaned and tried to talk Zach out of that but he was going to loose the discussion anyways.
“Anyways, why do you want to go there?”, He could think of the answer, he just wanted to hear it from Zach, he deserved to be a bit embarrassed.
Zach had the decency to turn a little red, before he stuttered, “Dude, there's free booze.”
“Hm, sure and a free Will?”, Nicolaj grinned at him while Zach's cheeks burned a brighter red.
“Shut up! That has nothing to with him!”
His grin just got wider and then he remembered something, “I don't even got a costume and as much as I think that a costume party is shit, I won't go like this. I don't want to be recognized!”
“Oh yes, your friends in the anti-social club will hate that you went to a party, maybe they will kick you”, Zach exclaimed, a bright grin forming on his face now, “But don't worry, I already got us costumes!”
Zach started to search for something and after a while he was holding some pieces of fabric up, he was glowing now, “We're going as black swan and white swan!”
Nicolaj burrowed his face in his hands, what had he done to deserve a friend like this? “What the fuck, I'm not going to wear a dress.”
“It's not really a dress and you said, you didn't want to get recognized”, His best friend pouted.
He was right, it wasn't really a dress, it was more like nothing. In Nicolaj's opinion it showed way too much, he had a feeling that most of the black fabric was see-through and there were black feathers everywhere. He didn't know how it had gone so far, that he had actually put this thing on. Atleast he got the black costume but it was still not good.
“It's awful, I can't leave the house like this”, He was staring at himself in the mirror, fiddling with the feathers.
“It looks great! We look stunning!” Zach was wearing equally little but in white. He put a mask out of white feathers, “See? Nobody will get who we are like this. You can also put black make-up on your eyes or actually I will do it, sit down!”
“Fuck no.”
Of course he sat down and let Zach do his make-up, he had no idea how his best friend did that and he didn't want to know. He did a surprisingly good work, Nicolaj had to admit, it looked kind of good.
With the big mess of feathers in his face you couldn't really make his face out and he was glad about that, he still felt not that great about the whole situation, but Zach was so happy and free alcohol sounded even better with every minute passing.
And he would be lying if he said he wasn't interested in the party at all, he wanted to watch his step-siblings embarrass themselves, that was always great and in this outfit he could truly steal Jeremy his spotlight without letting Jeremy know that it was him. Maybe it could be fun.
Also he couldn't let Zach down, when he finally planned to make a move on Will. Nicolaj needed to listen about everything Will said or done and it was exhausting, he didn't like him that much, but Zach was really into him, so it was time something happened between the two guys.
Nicolaj sighed, “Let's go”, and Zach jumped excited up and down.