Self Destruction

by April Fear

Lock enrolls at Scare School and becomes Thatch's best friend. But then Thatch gets disowned by his father for doing the nicest deed anyone could commit-talking someone out of suicide. Then Thatch tries to be more like his delinquent friend Lock-smoking, drinking, and destroying himself. Teenage!LockxThatch. Rated M for smoking, drinking, cuss, and possibly smut in later chapters.

1. Chapter 1

It was an average, boring day at Scare School the day Lock enrolled. Thatch Manora was sitting in Professor Burns' class, when there was a knock on the door.

Their teacher opened the door and stepped out to talk to the headmasters. When he stepped back into the room, he was followed by a redheaded boy that looked about Thatch's age. He had gold eyes and pale skin, wearing all red, and he was taller and a bit more muscular than pretty much all the other boys at Scare School. His left eyebrow was pierced vertically, and his most noticeable trait was his tail.

"Students, this is Lock, one of the three new students from Halloween Town. He is the next Pumpkin King,* or 'King Of Halloween,' so I expect you to treat him with appropriate awe and trembling. Take a seat next to Thatch, Lock."

Thatch smirked as Lock took the seat next to him. King Of Halloween, huh?

Thatch whispered to Lock with a smirk, "Hey, new guy! Just wanted to warn you to stay out of my way. My family's won every scaring award here for the past ten generations, and I don't want some 'Pumpkin King' ruining it."

"Oh, really?" Lock whispered back with a wider smirk. "It would be a real shame if I won all those trophies this year, huh?"

"Hm... Then I'll make sure to partner up with you on some of them," Thatch whispered.

Lock winked and smirked a bit wider, displaying his full set of fangs that are large enough to rival even Thatch's.

"Hey, don't get too cocky," Thatch chuckled.

Lock flipped him off and stuck out his tongue good-naturedly, showing a tongue piercing which conveniently had jewelry reading 'Fuck you.'

Thatch tried to contain laughter, and Lock gave him a genuine smile, which is pretty rare for the imp.*

Lock and Thatch shared a wide smirk which could easily translate to, 'This is the start of a beautiful friendship.'

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So how was the first chapter?
Footnotes:
*Pumpkin King- Long story short, I have a headcanon that sometimes Pumpkin Kings are replaced with heirs. And Jack chose Lock as his heir. I might write a prequel about that.
*imp- I do believe Lock is an imp. Except for the small and ugly part. Just look at the page for it: wiki/Imp
By the way, just to say, Wikipedia is a much better source of information than people give it credit for. Try editing a page and putting wrong information. Any and all wrong information is corrected in a few minutes. So don't give me hate about Wikipedia.