“Yeah right, when have I not heard that one before!?” I said with a hand on my hip.
“Nice to know that when you do finally pick em, you at least ended up with one feisty.” Lucius said slapping Draven on the back making him turn his head to growl, which only made Lucius laugh harder.
“Well I am as ever here to bail you out before she drags your king ass to counselling, as I brought reinforcements.” Lucius finished his little ‘I am so the dude’ speech and nodded to the stairs.
“Percy!” I shouted and this time flung myself at my little friend who was just lifting up his mask. I put both my hands on his scarred cheeks and pulled him into me for a joyous hug.
“My…fffri…end.” He stammered and I pulled back to first kiss his skin puckered cheeks and then look into his beautiful sea green eyes.
“How are you?” I asked as I took in his appearance. He was wearing tight leather trousers and red and white striped braces over a leather suit jacket, one cut short at the front and complete with tails at the back. His mask had been of two demon hands held over his eyes as if playing the kid’s game peek’a boo.
“I. Am…Ggood.” He said trying to say it slowly and I could tell he had been practicing with controlling his stammer. I felt Draven come up behind me and place a hand at my lower back.
“I will have to leave you now but I won’t be long. Percy, it is good to see you again.” He said and nodded to my friend.
“Mmmy Lllord…thththe pleasure issth mine.” He said bowing and I supressed a smile when his mask fell forward causing him to giggle nervously. Draven gave him a small smile back and then gave me a wink before he left with Lucius. But I had to wonder what Draven meant by seeing Percy again? This was definitely something I would be adding to the mounting pile of answers needed from Draven later.
“Doesn’t he look so punktastically dashing! I dressed him of course!” Pip informed me as she bounced her gothic garden dress up the steps with a mouthful of crab cakes. I knew it was that because poor Adam walked behind her not holding on to a tray of them himself but the next best thing.
“Isn’t he good holding onto that waiter for me…stingy little bugger won’t be running off now will he?” She said swiping another crab cake from his tray making him cower. I had to laugh as now she was in full costume and unlike everyone else she had gone for something a little more daring in the mask department. In short there was no other way to describe it than as a PVC sex bondage mask combined with a blue and green Mexican wrestler’s mask. It only covered half of her face but fit snug over her head like a swimming cap, only had a gap for her hair, which she wore in a high ponytail. And it was all Pip!
“Nice mask.” I said making her grin and Percy was still blushing so he put his mask back down making me giggle.
“Oh you like…I was gonna go for a full face one in rubber but that’s a bitchy ass to get on and besides, I wanted my mouth free for you know…” She then pretended she had a penis in her hand and put her tongue to her cheek like she was giving oral sex. She laughed when I rolled my eyes in response to her wagging her eyebrows.
“You definitely have your hands full, Adam.” I said looking round at him making him smile.
“I am a lucky man indeed.” Adam said smiling at his wife and catching the imaginary kiss she threw at him.
“Are we getting a fucking drink or what!?” Caspian said dressed as a massive wolf coming up behind Adam but gently holding onto his partner Liessa who was dressed like a gothic red riding hood. I waved at Liessa getting one in return and I was even surprised when I received a curt head nod from the big scary Caspian himself.
“I bet Ruto and Hakan are already doing shots by the bar, the bastards! Come on honey pot, I wanna slippery nipple! Laters lady dudette!” I laughed and then winked at Percy after saying,
“I will see you later.” To which I could have sworn I could see a big grin from behind his mask. Then they all left me and I was in two minds whether or not to follow them but I knew Draven would be looking for me. So instead I decided to go and see if he had finished with Lucius. I saw that Sophia was now out of her seat and when she saw me walking to the side to where Draven had gone she quickly stopped me.
“Hey, where are you going? Come and tell me about how Percy is doing.” She said and I could tell by her voice something was off.
“Uh yeah, I will in just a second, I just want to see if…”
“He’s not, so just come and wait over here yeah.” The panic in her eyes was clear to see and I turned my head towards where he’d walked and frowned. What could be so bad it would have Sophia panicking? Well it was time to find out!