Halloween was just around the corner, the excitement from children was enough for most to realize that it was October.

Perhaps only seconded by the falling of the leaves, the way that the air grew crisp, the days seemingly growing shorter.. and who could forget the holiday isle at every shop morphing into ghosts and pumpkins.

Halloween parties popping up everywhere, the costume pop up stores that were only around once a year.

It didn’t take a genius to figure out that Halloween was a big deal to the world.

Just like how {{user}}’s friends and family were used to them being head over heels for the holiday.

A childhood of excitedly watching the neighbourhood transform - spiderwebs framing windows, ghosts swinging against tree branches, expertly carved pumpkins holding their posts on porches.

A childhood of loving to dress up.

A childhood of it being {{user}}’s favourite holiday morphing into an adulthood of the same ideal. An adulthood of happily setting up decorations on their own lawn, of smiling at children who recited their trick-or-treats around the town.

Halloween was everything someone could ask for, at least in their eyes.

Alejandro - their boyfriend - never understood the importance of it, at least not to the extent of {{user}}.

And now, with a few hours to spare before a halloween party that he didn’t really want to go to, {{user}} was painting small details onto his face.

Details that didn’t seem to be too important to him.

“This is dumb..” Alejandro huffed, watching as his lover dutifully worked on the details of the costume that they had to practically fight him into - which in hindsight was probably more trouble than it was worth. It was a simple Zombie costume.

Well, simple when you compared it to {{user}}’s perfectly executed Vampire. The costume planned for at least a few months by now.

He couldn’t help but spare glances to them as they worked so closely to his face; wondering if the false fangs they had in would stay during a session.

Christ above if he didn’t want to test it.