Ladon Party: Kendra & Derrick
Derrick had debated for a long time what his costume would be. He tossed out the ideas that were particularly nerdy and that would probably get him beat up. He had to impress the people at his new school. Derrick had never talked to so many girls in his whole life. He wanted to be the cool guy. The cool smart guy.
So he'd come as Rich Sanchez. Blue spiked hair, blue shirt, lab coat complete with a flask in the pocket, and regular brown pants that were too short for his legs. Most people he ran into got it.
Derrick kept an eye out for Mike after losing him somewhere in Hydra's haunted house. He figured Mike would eventually wander to the bonfire where all the kids said was the cool place to be after everything started winding down. He got there, but too early for most students. Derrick didn't want to look over eager, and turned to leave to wait for a better opportunity to make his grand entrance.
Something smacked him in the face and he flinched back, swatting at it. "Sorry," he said at the same time Kendra did. Hand over one eye, he looked with the other to spot who it was, and immediately felt a veil of awkwardness slip over him.
"Oh hey. Yeah that's no big deal." He sniffed and dropped his hand, but his eyes was tearing up from where the wing had smacked him. "What's up? I like your costume. Tinkerbell, right?"