Falling with Caution

Chapter 21

"Are you ready for Halloweekend!" Hailey yelled grabbing onto my shoulders Wednesday after practice. I laughed and pushed her away shaking my head.

"You're so annoying." I said with a laugh. "You mean a four day bender, I'm excited but scared. For my liver and my lungs. And my brain now that I think about it. And my wallet."

I also don't work specifically in anticipation of Halloweekend. Kylie already has everything lined out with what parties where and a couple gaps just in case. She wants to go into downtown but we don't have a promoter.

She's been blowing up my phone to ask Alex what he's doing, but I've been a bit scared to.

"You have to send me your outfits! Who knows? Maybe we'll see each other at one of the parties." Hailey joked and caught up to Arles who was typing on her phone on the way to the locker room. "Babes, tell me you're going out."

"Of course! But I'm not sure what to wear aka texting everyone I know for fits." Arles said shaking her said and walked into the locker room. Damn. I don't have any outfits either.

Walking out of the locker room, Kylie must've read my mind because she was there with her car. "Get in bitch, we're going shopping."

I laugh and shook my head, jogging to the car. "Really? You read my mind."

"And came to the same conclusion. Did you ask Alex yet? I need to know." She said in her concentration voice. "I think I want to do sexy Starbucks worker for Thursday and then sexy cop for Friday and then sexy nurse for Saturday. I'm not sure about Sunday."

"That's more than what I have. I have no clue on an outfit." I muttered and pulled out my phone to call Alex before Kylie kills me. He answered pretty quickly.

"Hello?" He asked with a cough. Is he smoking? "Hold on," a man screamed slowly went away and then a door slammed. Is he?

No I don't want to think about it.

"Um," I coughed and shook my head trying to focus, "hey! I was just calling to see if you were going out this weekend?"

"What's this weekend?" Alex asked, does he really not know?

"Halloweekend? Thursday through Sunday, binge drinking. Well we're not sure about Sunday, but-"

"Damn, that's why my phone has been blowing up. My publicist thinks I need to do more events and wants me to hit up some parties in downtown." He explained, with his voice, he sounded tired of the thought. "Ever since we've come out as a couple, they've been wanting more of this side of Alexander van Archibald, billionaire bachelor turned romantic. They said it'll revamp our image and can help with publicity or some shit."

"Interesting. We were actually looking to hit some parties and clubs in downtown. We just as in me and Kylie. Would you mind if we tagged along?" I asked and saw Kylie smiling through my peripheral.

"Sure. What days? There's a couple throughout the weekend." He said, I looked over at Kylie, who shrugged her shoulders.

"We can do Thursday a girls night and then Friday and Saturday with the gang?" I suggested and she smiled enthusiastically. "Is that okay?"

"Sure." He said before coughing awkwardly. "I have to get back to some business."

"Right, me too, I have to go shopping for costumes."

"Be little red on Saturday." Was all he said before hanging up.

"Alright! We got some clubs and parties on Friday and Saturday. And we get to do college parties on Thursday, perfect balance." I smiled, but then realized I need to actually find the outfits.