I was sixteen when I first met him. It was around the time that there was the whole Twilight thing going on. I have to admit I enjoyed the story…now did I like the grammar no…did I like Bella no…did I wish the whole series had been written better, yes. Now that that's out of the way…I lived at a graveyard. My dad was the keeper. You know we kept the grass cut and the trees trimmed. We kept teenagers from getting to your loved ones grave stone and knocking it over.

I was new to this grave thing. Not that I minded that my house was right outside the cemetery gates nor did I mind that my room faced the rows of tombstones. I liked it. Now I'm not one of those Goth kids or an Emo. I liked horror movies. Though I was a bit paranoid that zombies were going to arise so I made sure to have a baseball bat next to my bed at all times.

"Genevieve!" I rolled my eyes. That's me Genevieve, rather be called Gen, Conrad. "It's your turn to take Delgado and Pandora out!" My stepmother, Allison, called. She was nice, I would call her mom, but I'm just not ready yet. There were the two-year-old twins Candace and Jackson, I loved them. Then of course there was my dad.

"I'm coming!" I shouted back.

"Puppies!" Candy and Jack shouted as the dogs were brought in the house so I could put them on the leashes. Pandora and Delgado were Chocolate Labradors.

"Don't forget to lock up the back gate." Allison reminded me as I walked with the dogs to the door.

"I won't." I replied. Dad was at a caretaker conference. Yes, they actually have those. Allison and I were taking care of Burgress Cemetery in his absence. The entire cemetery had a fence around it. The front gate was the last one closed at night after I locked the back. I would make sure that no one was in here before we'd close the front gate.

It wasn't a big cemetery even walking out the front door I could see that no one was here. I could tell Mr. Vincent had been here earlier to leave flowers on his parents' graves. I walked the almost half mile or so to the back gate and chained it up. Pandora and Delgado sat waiting patiently. I swear I should just let them loose, but I can't. They liked to chase things. With the cemetery having several trees well they'd chase anything up a tree down a tree.

On this particular day or should I say evening I'd just finished chaining up the back gate. I tugged on the gate to make sure that it wasn't going to move and then I checked to make sure I hadn't dropped the key. When I looked up I saw a horse. Not just any horse a black one with golden eyes that seemed to have a trail of black dust flowing behind it coming at me. Now that freaked me out enough to let go of the dog's leashes as the horse ran through the back gate. You heard me right through the gate.

So to say I freaked out a little was a bit exaggerating. "A ghost." I muttered to myself. "It can't hurt you Gen. You're gonna be okay."

It was then I realized that the dogs had run away from me. Not far only to the biggest tree in the cemetery and started to bark at it. I'm sure it was just a squirrel or something they were barking at. So I easily grabbed Delgado's leash and Pandora ran to the other side of the tree. I rolled my eyes and went after her. The tree is big enough around that you can't see around it. Someone could easily hide on the other side of it.

"Pandora." I called turning the corner to my surprise there was a man standing there with the horse. "Who are you?" The man looked at me. Then looked around. "You freaky-wannabe-vampire-guy with the horse."

"You can see me?"

"Yes, I can see you now do you mind telling me why you have a freaking ghost horse?"

"It is a nightmare."

Seriously? He was calling his horse nightmare? I'm guessing because it was a mare and it was black as night. Unoriginal people I tell you. "Alright you and your 'nightmare' need to be getting out of here. It's almost dusk. Cemetery is closed."

"I do not need to leave."

"Yes, ya do." I replied. "You can comeback when we open at dawn with your freaky horse. If you don't I'll just have to call the cops on you vampire-boy."

"I am not a vampire." He replied almost as if I insulted him. I'm sorry was I not supposed to take the black clothing, long coat, Twilight haircut, and creepily pale skin as a vampire-wannabe?

"Then what are you?"

"The boogeyman."

"Really? That's what you going to go with?" I blurted out. "The boogeyman lives under your bed. Vampires are way more scary than a boogeyman."

"Are not!"

"Are too! Vampires can lure you into a trance and obey their every command and then suck out all your blood leaving you for dead!" I argued. "The boogeyman just makes you afraid to go to bed a night because of a nightmare. But they you get over it and get a good dream from the Sandman. Duh." The man didn't know what to say.

"Genevieve!" Allison called in the distance. "WHERE ARE YOU!?"

"I'M COMING!" I shouted back. "See you later vampire-boy." I said grabbing Pandora and leading her and Delgado away. "You got to get out after I talk to Allison."


'The boogeyman' was gone by the time I locked the front gate. That was one of the things that would go down in the weirdo people I've met list. Though he didn't make the top ten. The first time I'd been out to lock the back gate I saw some tweens thinking that maybe they could summon the zombie apocalypse. I do not recommend trying that of course they failed. When I even caught them they ran as quickly as possible. I got some really cool candles from that.

I went up to my room to get ready for bed. I'd been tired school was horrible. It was the beginning of the school year. I swear teachers are out to kill you before Halloween that way they can use your bodies as decorations in their houses.

"Hello again." A calm voice startled me. I immediately grabbed my bat and held it in front of me. I saw that it was vampire-boy.

"What the hell are you doing in here!" I shouted at him. "Pervert!"

"I am here to visit you."

"I don't need visiting." I replied. "Get out of this house!"

"Now dear girl do you really think that bat will do much?"

"It's the best option." I pointed it at him. "I always did like breaking open piñatas at birthday parties. You look enough like a vampire-one."

"I am not a vampire!" He shouted at me.

"So?" I smirked I knew my vampire comment would irk him.

"I would like to talk to you."

"Get talking."

"My name is Pitch Black." He started. Vampire-boy told me this sob story about no one fearing him because of these of the 'Guardians' aka the Easter Bunny, Santa, Sandman, and Toothfairy. Children believe in them, but not in him. I really didn't care he rambled on about the Dark Ages and how he ruled like a king.

"You done?" I asked after awhile. "I don't need a Dark Ages history lesson thank you very much." I realized that I'd been lying on my bed as he talked. He was sitting by my feet. "You mind leaving now? I have school tomorrow."

"Gen?" A soft knock came at my door. "Oh good you're still up." Allison came in my room. Why couldn't she see vampire-boy? Why wasn't she yelling at me about having a boy in my room? "Olivia called. She needs a sitter for Jamie and Sophie tomorrow night. Would you be interested?" She asked coming closer to my bed. Vampire-boy reached out to touch her and his hand went right through her just like the horse did the gate.

I swallowed. Maybe the vampire-boy was really the boogeyman. "Yeah sure."

"I'll go tell her. Don't forget the twins are asleep so try not to make too much noise."

"Of course." I said with a smile. As soon as she closed my door I turned on Vampire-boy. "How did you do that? Why can't she see you!?"

"I'm the boogeyman you can't see me if you don' t believe." He started to laugh and turned into a shadow and disappeared. The laughter continued a bit.

"Creepier." I said before going to turn off my light. I turned it back on once it got dark. I ran to one of my drawers and dug through them looking for just one thing. "Found it." It was a little princess nightlight. I wasn't going to sleep in complete darkness knowing that the boogeyman was just in my room now was I?


A/N: Here's my newest story I will eventually get to the Pitch/OC. I hope you like Gen she's going to 'grow up' so to speak in front of everyone's eyes. It'll take maybe three to five chapters to bring Pitch back into the story. Gen will be growing up during this time along with the Movie will be happening in this story, this chapter takes place before the movie. Gen will not actually be in the movie though. Well not really.

Review and tell me what you think. I increased the rating on this one because Gen is a teen and doesn't really watch what she says around children.

The story will also have apparences made by Ellie, Lex, Chase, and anyone else I happen to make up along the way.