CHAPTER 1

It was a sunny day in September in New York. In one of the alleyways, there is a bar, completely abandoned and devoided of anyone...or so it seems to the human eye. If you're a kid then you're quite familiar about imaginary friends, the little figments of imagination created by every boy and girl to have as their own best friend to play and help them and the strange thing is once an imaginary friend is created, they really do become real. An I.F.'s job is to be a friend to the kid until the day comes they stop needing them, only then do they have 2 choices; live a life of their own or find another person who needs help the most. That's the choice Happy picked; he was created by a girl named Hayley Hansen who loved him very much and he in return but during one Christmas season, a psychotic man in a Santa suit kidnapped her and he had to go find help. That is where he met Nick Sax, the former cop turned hit-man and Hayley's father who had no idea he was her father. Through a series of events involving gangs, violence, unspeakable things, evil IFs, life and death struggles, real-world trauma, and life-changing revelations, they were able to stop Very Bad Santa and save Hayley. 4 months later during the Easter season, they saved her again and stopped an villainous master plan, but it came with a price; millions of IFs vanished out of existence, Hailey was sent to live with former police officer Meredith (who upon recently joined a secret cult), Amanda Hansen was sentenced to a sanitarium awaiting death row, and Nick was no where to be found and for that matter, neither was Happy. Where was he? No one knows? Around the Easter season, Happy was going through some changes and began to question his purpose if Nick or anyone needed him and that was when he received a drink from an I.F. named Lil' Bo Peep.

Bo Peep had the atire of a 50's shepard girl but the attitude of a 21st century woman and an awesomeness to match which really caught Happy's eye. After being seperate from Nick for a bit, the two got to know each other well...too well. For it was Bo who Happy lost his virginity to and even though it last a single minute, it was the best minute of Happy's life. The next morning, she left in a huff saying she would call him back...but she never did. Even though Happy slowly but surely got over it, it was unfortunately not enough. Part of him still missed Bo Peep, wished to hold her in his arms, kissing her, whispering sweet nothings into her ear, making sure she would be happy every single day. Happy was not the kind of guy who humps them and dumps them, when he fell in love with Bo Peep, he really fell in love with her and sex was the last thing on his mind. Happy's philosphy was "You only fall in love once" and she was his once. Sadly, the Monday after Easter, Happy's world came tumbling down when he discovered Bo was cheating on him in an average I.F. 3-way. Happy's heart shattered to pieces that day, as if losing Nick, Amanda, and Hailey (and all his other I.F. friends) weren't enough. Happy was never seen again after that and one person was the never the same since that; Bo Peep.

Lil' Bo Peep was "enjoying" her drink and didn't even care of the people around her. Only two IFs were in the bar that day; herself and Twigs (as the name implies, an IF made entirely of twigs), a "former flame" of Bo and Happy's (now former) friend who couldn't help but notice her looking depressed. Knowing what they both did to Happy, he decided to approach Bo in order to address the elephant in the room and try to make things right. "Hey, Peep." said Twigs. "Hey." said Bo Peep in a careless tone, she didn't care one way or the other to see Twigs as he tried to keep the conversation going. "So...how you've been?" he asked. "Eh." Bo simply replied taking a drink of her tequilla. Twigs was trying to make heads and tails of the situation, trying to find other ways to get to the point at hand as Bo stared emotionessly into her drink.

Bo Peep was still looking at her drink as if she lost the will to live. "Sssssoooooooo..." Twigs said trying to find something to say. "Halloween's coming up." he said. "What are you plannin'? Party? Mischief? And by that I mean mischief as in a prank kind, not the sexual kind." Twigs continued, trying not to send mixed messages. Fortunately, Bo wasn't listening Something was clearly on Bo's mind but her look alone said "I don't really want to talk". Twigs just couldn't stand it anymore and decided to say what he needed to say. "Alright, let's get right to the point! We broke Happy's heart! I know it, you know it, even the teeth guy knows it!" Twigs finally stated. "It's thanks to us he's been gone for months and I think we owe to him to find him and apologize." Bo slowly turned to Twigs with a dark stare. "Apologize?" she asked. "For what? You're the one who came onto me!" she shouted. "Well that's only because I thought you were on the rebound!" he replied. "Alright, look." Twigs continued trying to get a hold of himself. "We heard about the Easter genocide, we thought he was dead, that's not our fault and in fairness, I was a little drunk." "That doesn't change the fact what we did to Happy!" Bo exclaimed. "I was upset, I didn't know what I was thinking. I should've just said no!" she admitted with tears starting to form in her eye. "And you didn't make it any better with having that freak of teeth-y nature join in!" "Well you know that guy is a freak. Look, we're missing the point." Twigs replied. "I don't care!" she said. "This is all your fault!"

Bo Peep then decided to leave and head back to the pasture. As she was leaving, Twigs decided to give Bo a piece of his mind. "You know, don't think you're innocent either." he said. "You have your share of issues too." Twigs continued "I've been in I.F. Anonymous too and you always used to talk about how you used to love your kid until the day she started to grow up and started to explore different things. Don't think I've never noticed your "big nasty penises" comments, you were deeply tramuatized and heart-broken with the fact your kid started having sex and believe me, I can imagine the feeling." "Can you?" she asked. "Can you imagine a girl who created you at the age of 5, who you would enjoy 11 glorious years of life playing, singing, and laughing, who would make you feel like on top of the world and know nothing would ever change, would start to do things no imaginary friend should ever see? Things that were deplorable and would leave a mental scar that could never heal? That would change your whole outlook and change your whole personality into the very thing you swore not to become? So yeah, I'm sorry I was giving a kid who would totally fuck me mentally in the end! I'm sorry I was tramutized by experiencing every lewd act she performed with every guy. I'm sorry it was not the life I wanted, but it was!" Twigs was left completely speechless as Bo Peep left in a huff, he was ultimately surprised. All the times he heard her tales at I.F. Anonymous, she was never really in complete detail all at once. Now that it was all out in the open, he too now felt sorry for her. He'd wished Happy would've know because even Twigs knew Happy would've been the one to give her the comfort and support she needed.