A/N: OK all this is my first fic, so yeah. My pairings are BJ/Emily and Victor/Victoria. Yippee!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Corpse Bride or any of the characters. They belong to Tim Burton. That man is a genius! So on with the story!

Make new friends but keep the old

One is silver and the other gold

A ring is round it never ends

That's how long I want to be your friend!

"Hey Val? Can we go do something?"

"No. I'm busy."

"You're ALWAYS busy! Besides, this time I want to do something REALLY fun!"

"I'm sure you do," I told my four-year-old brother Vincent while reading
"Pride and Prejudice". He pushed my book away so I was forced to look into his big blue eyes that looked on from behind his long dirty blonde hair.

"Please Valerie?" he pleaded. His face melted into the most angelic and heartwarming face you have ever seen.

"Oh no, Vince, not the face!" I cried. I was a total sucker for the face. He figured that out a few weeks ago at the store when he saw a toy he really wanted. Let me tell you: That thing cost a lot of money.

"Fine," I said flatly, as I put my book down, saving the page, "But I will get you back for this."

"YAY!" Vincent cried joyfully, "Now get your coat and meet me out back!"

"Okay, whatever," I said. I walked to the coatroom and grabbed my coat and shoes. My parents, Victor and Victoria Van Dort were away. Dad was at work and Mom was helping out one of our elderly neighbors, Mrs.Soanso. They both left early and came back late so I was stuck watching shrimp all day, seven days a week. He was usually pretty quiet and occupied himself, but there were days (like today) when he wanted to "Do something".

I walked out back to find my brother bouncing up and down with anticipation.

"Let's go Let's go Let's go Let's go!" he said quickly as he took off for the woods. I followed at a fast walk.

He led me deeper and deeper into the woods until I was afraid we wouldn't be able to find our way back.

"Vince…Where are we?" I asked nervously.

"You'll see," he explained.

We finally stopped and he whistled. It sounded really creepy. Normally if he whistled I would've thought it was cute, but in the middle of a dark woods, it sounded really creepy. The really creepy part is, it echoed back. It wasn't a normal echo though. It was too delayed.

"Oh, wow and echo! That was really cool! Let's go back to the house now!" I said nervously.

"Not yet Val! It hasn't even gotten fun yet!" he replied.

Then I thought I heard something. It sounded like giggling, but it was far-off. At first I thought I imagined it, but then I heard it again, only closer.

"Annie? Luke?" my brother called.

"Vince! We thought you forgot!" A little boy's voice answered back.

"No, I had to bring someone!" Vince replied.

"Is that your sister?" A little girl's voice asked.

"Yup!" Vincent said proudly.

"She's pretty!" The girl's voice giggled.

I looked around until I saw to hats peeking over a bush. I breathed a sigh of relief. Vince just wanted me to meet some of his friends.

"Aww! You two are the sweetest little… AHH!" I screamed because when they walked out from behind the bush, they were dead. I'm not kidding. They were skeletons! I stumbled backwards and tripped on a tree root. I fell and felt a sharp pain in my head. The last thing I saw was my little brother and the skeleton kinds leaning over me before everything went black.

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I woke up to the sound of music and throbbing pain in my head. It took me a minute to remember what happened and then it hit me. I sat up quickly, forgetting about my headache, and looked around. My vision was slightly blurry but I could tell that I was in some sort of bar. When my vision cleared, I could see that everyone in the bar was dead. I screamed and hopped off the table I was laying on. They all looked at me and walked towards me. I was backed into a corner when I saw a short dead guy with a sword sticking out of him and I decided to use it to my advantage. I tried to grab the sword, but the dead guy came with it.

"I've got a…short…dead…guy and I'm not afraid to use it!" I cried.

Suddenly out of nowhere a skeleton with one eye and a bowler hat came up behind me and chuckled, "Well this looks familiar."

I screamed again. "Where the hell did you come from?" I shouted

"BJ! I told you not to scare people like that!"

I turned to see a very pretty dead girl in a wedding gown (wow that sounds weird!).

"I didn't mean to scare her!" He said apologetically.

The corpse bride just rolled her eyes and pointed to a chair. "Sit."

"But…" he protested.

"Sit!"

He sat in the chair and pouted. The bride turned to me like she wanted to say something but when she looked at me she got a dazed expression on her face.

"Oh, my God…" She went to sit on a chair but unfortunately it was the chair the skeleton- BJ –was sitting on. She sat on him and got up quickly, snapping out of it.

"Sorry!" she apologized.

"I don't mind!" He said jokingly.

She slapped him. Hard. So hard in fact, that his head spun completely around. I started to whimper and I turned very pale.

"Sorry sweetie, he can be a pain in the ass sometimes." The bride joked.

"O-okay," I stuttered. Then I remembered Vincent. I looked around but I didn't see him anywhere.

"Where's my little brother?" I cried, "Where's Vincent?"

"Oh, I just took him to go to the bathroom."

I spun around to see a girl who looked about my age holding my little brothers hand. I ran up to Vincent and hugged him.

"We have to get out of here!" I whispered to him.

"No way!" He whispered back, "I love it here! I know every one! It's really fun down here!"

I stared at him blankly, "You've been here before? When?"

"When you were supposed to be watching me a few weeks ago I walked into the woods and saw Annie and Luke playing so I played with them and they eventually they took me to see where they lived and I've been coming here ever since."

"Oh, well let's not tell mom and dad that story"

"Okay!" he replied, "Let me show you around!"

He led me to the table where the bride and the one eyed skeleton were sitting.

"The skeleton is Bonejangels, and the pretty one is Emily."

"Aww, your brother is so sweet!" Emily said.

"Suck up!" Bonejangels accused. Vincent just stuck his tounge out at him.

"The two of them are en…en…enga…"

"Engaged," Emily finished.

"Yeah!" Vincent said triumphantly.

"And on her shoulder is maggot. He's funny!"

"I told you! I'm funny!" The little green worm on Emily's shoulder said.

Emily rolled her eyes and started talking to BJ.

"You already met Luke and Annie" I nodded, forcing a smile.

"And this," my brother pointed to the girl he was with earlier, "Is Lacy."

Lacy had long blonde hair with a gentle curl and pretty blue eyes. Her skin didn't seem as blue as the others. It was more like a blue-ish tinge and it was flawless. She had a long-sleeved floor-length black dress on, and she had a pretty smile.

"It's nice to meet you. Vincent has told me so much about you!"

"Uh, yeah, thanks," I stuttered.

"Let me show you around." She took my hand and started to walk away.

"Wait!" my brother called, "You have to be back before mom and dad get home!"

"Okay!" I called. Then Lacy took my hand again and led me away.