It was the night of October thirty-first. My friends and I had tickets to go to the local night club’s Halloween dance. There are twelve of us who work and generally hang out together. Mostly male but there were three women who worked in our section.
The local club had changed its name to “The Coven” using a makeshift banner hung across the real name. The tickets specified that all attendees had to wear fancy dress.
At work, there was a buzz of excitement about this Halloween party and the bosses had given us the afternoon off. In fact, most of the town seemed to be going. For over a month people were deciding on what they would dress up as. Trying to hire, make or order the appropriate costumes. There were Frankenstein’s Monsters, ghouls, ghosts, witches, vampires and anything else that goes bump in the night.
I was going to be dressed as Count Dracula, black cape with red satin inside, pointy teeth, white face and to top it off an old ring of my mothers which looked really Transylvanian. I had to admit I felt really cool in this costume as though I was born to be the dead count!
I slicked up my hair with gel shaping it into what I thought looked like the count's style. Having dark hair anyway the gell made it look jet black. Finally adding the cape which came with the outfit and the large gold clasp that held it in place. I took a final look in mom’s full-length mirror, satisfied with how I looked I left the house. Heading to where we had arranged to meet up, before going to the club.
Four of the lads were already there, with two of the lasses. When I arrived, they were all standing in their costumes. We all started commenting on each other’s get up. Chatting while we waited for the rest to come. One of the lasses was dressed as a werewolf and her partner in matching costume. The other lass, who wore a witches outfit and looked the business with her lad dressed as a mummy. Once we were all there, we headed to the club. There were crowds of people, all accumulating at the door to get inside. I saw the town mayor there, dressed as a devil. Perfect dress for him. His daughter looked amazing as a she-devil but his wife wasn’t there.
Some people from the surrounding areas had come too, all dressed up. We joined the queue to get in. Which seemed to be moving towards the doormen reasonably quickly. Being single as most of us were, I cast my eyes over the crowd. Trying to see if there were any others I knew or any female who caught my eye. There were a few I knew from the factory and its offices. There was one lass, dressed as a vampire, who I hoped to get a dance with and take home.
Finally, we got to the door and showing our tickets filed inside. The Coven had spared no expense. They had transformed the whole place, it looked really spooky. With spider’s web all over and some artificial spiders in it, some looking so real some of the women screamed if they got close to them. One or two of the men did also which was fun.
The clubs little separate booths were all done up as different settings. Some dressed in red velvet, others as dungeon style rooms with covers that looked like blocks of stone. I noticed one or two small coffins, in some of the rooms. These formed their tables with covers to match.
I picked out a booth that looked perfect for the count and placing my outer coat on the table joined the crowd that was trying to get their drinks. It was quite dark apart from the dance floor. The whole place had been transformed from its usual night club style, even the bar staff were dressed up as vampires.
Getting my drink, a lager with a double shot of blackcurrant making it look like a pint of blood. I headed out of the melee surrounding the bar of different characters trying to get served for a look around.
Several women stood at the edge of the dance floor, one in particular, caught my eye. Placing my drink down I went over and asked her for a dance. There was hardly anyone on the dance floor, she declined. Her group of females were laughing as I walked away probably at me because of the knockback.
Returning to the booth and my drink, I pretended I felt okay. I drank the pint down. There was less of a crowd now at the bar and I was served quite quickly. I looked about for my mates but they all seemed to have partners. I sat as you do after a knockback, drinking my pint and just listening to the music being played.
It was then I saw her, it wasn’t just her beauty but something about her itself. The way she walked towards the bar. It seemed as though she glided across the floor, reaching the bar without her feet touching the floor. I stood up from my table and sidling up alongside her offered to buy her a drink. She smiled and nodded saying she would have a Tequila Smash. I ordered us both the drink having no idea what it was but the barman knew and soon came back with two fancy glasses containing the red smoking drink. We chinked our glasses and I tasted this tequila smash for the first time. It slid down easily with a mules kick afterwards.
We sat in my booth, chatting away about this and that. I thought my luck was in with this woman, she was really good looking. Suddenly she excused herself saying she had better get back to her friends and headed back to the same group of women with whom I had tried to get one to dance before. Oh well, I thought the count failed again but on the other hand, I had learnt a new drink.
It was getting onto eleven, almost the bewitching hour. I decided to tour the floor once more but before I could stand I heard above the cacophony of noise a female voice.
“Can I sit here?”
I was about to give a flippant answer something like it’s a free country. Till I looked up and saw her standing there. To say she was gorgeous was an understatement. She literally took my breath away. It was the woman I had seen in the queue to get in.
“Sure take a seat, can I get you something to drink?”
She just smiled as she sat showing me her half-full glass. “No I have enough for now thanks.”
Her drink was thick like tomato juice but could have been a Bloody Mary. It made my Tequila Smash look as it was an ordinary drink. She was wearing a vampires costume. The top of her dress clung to her so tightly it revealed the curve of her breasts. Even showing the hardness of her nipples. It seemed to cling to her like a second skin. Her skin too seemed to be luminescent, with a faint blue glow. She had long black hair which cascaded down her back. Her green eyes glowed like emeralds, she looked about nineteen or maybe twenty. With curves hardly hidden by the black skin-tight velvet dress, she wore under the full red silk-lined black cape. Her teeth were perfectly white and her eye teeth hung down as though they were real.
I noticed she had almost finished her drink so I asked, “Can I get you another?” apologising for not knowing her name. “I'm Jake by the way.”
“Sorry, I’m Adriana and I’ll have another one of these.”
“You will need to tell me what it is?”
“Sorry, I thought being the Count you would know.” She smiled. “Just ask that tall barman for a Bpos chilled not frozen.”
Obviously, this barman and she had some sort of code for a drink which I thought was great fun. I went to the bar and asked for two Bpos chilled and not frozen. He looked at me quizzically, and I thought I had been had again. Then turned and brought me two champagne-style glasses full of whatever these Bpos were. Obviously, some sort of thick red wine or liqueur perhaps. Heading back to the seats I tasted the drink it was reasonably pleasant tasted irony with liqueur style thickness.