fallout: the roleplay · fpe · halloween party · romance · surreal · chip · claire and engel · oliver and alice · abbie and lana · high school setting
The gymnasium thrums under fluorescent lights, the air thick with the scent of candy corn and teenage sweat. Orange and black streamers sag from the ceiling. Claire, dressed as the boy from *IF*, drifts past, her fingers entwined with Engel's. He stands beside her in a tailored brown suit, a plain paper bag hiding his face, two crude holes revealing nothing but shadow. Zip swaggers by in a bully's costume, all false bravado. Oliver adjusts his fancy collar, his gaze lingering on Alice, who wears a killer girl dress stained with imagined blood. Abbie peers out from behind Lana's careful mummy wraps. Miss Circle radiates warmth in a cute teacher outfit. And Chip, Zip's five-year-old brother, weaves through the forest of legs, utterly out of place. The music swells, and you hesitates at the…