October 31

by ShizzySavage16

Scout decides to take Lena out for her first EVER Halloween Night! After the Halloween Night, things seem to change between them, leading to a breakup that ends their friendship... Or so they thought. (Rated T for Language) *UPDATE: SECOND CHAPTER IS EXPLICIT, M RATED*

1. Halloween

Before you continue, let me just say something first.

Happy Halloween to you people if you celebrate it!

I just wanted to write something for Halloween, so here it is, a long one shot of a Crossover between TF2 and Overwatch.

Lena is supposed to be TRACER in this One-Shot, and Scout is... Scout.

This is a lengthy one-shot, so take ya sweet lil' time reading it.

Hope you enjoy :)

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"Staying and Feeling Young is Important, do it while you got the time." - A PSA from yours truly :)

*October 31, 5:32 P.M.*

It was almost the perfect timing to go out and grab bags of candy for Halloween night, they just needed another 5 minutes and the night sky would completely show itself.

There was a casual drift in the air that complimented the familiar autumn breeze, the perfect type of weather to make Halloween night that much spookier for kids and teens alike.

"Yo! Lena! Look at this!" Scout said, pulling the red coloured ghost mask over his face and attempting to scare The British girl, putting his hands up like a ghost in the movies would. "BOO!" He yelled.

Lena giggled at the American boy, feigning fake emotions of fright to bolster his ego, "Oh no! Someone! Anyone! Help me! There's a bloody ghost trying to scare me... AND IT'S WORKING!" She faked a scream, causing a huge smile to form across Scout's face.

"Hah!" Scout scoffed, pulling his mask down to his neck, "I told ya this mask was nice!" He said, feeling certain that he would manage to scare at least 5 people with an unexpected jump scare. "Wait 'till the old suckers get a look at this!" He said eagerly as they continued to walk along the sidewalk with a large black plastic bag in his hand, another black plastic bag in Lena's hands as well.

Lena eyed the plastic bags with disapproval, "Scout, are you sure that we should be using rubbish bags for collecting candy?" She thought candy collecting bags were going to be more... Higher quality, than this.

"Ah, don't worry 'bout it, trust me. These big ass bags are gonna end up takin' us a long way with the neighborhoods that we're gonna visit tonight," He said, reassuring Lena that big black garbage bags were the go-to bag for collecting candy. "And besides, it'd be crappy if ya ran out of space to put your oh-so sweet - Chocolate -" He stressed the word out, causing an innocent look of small nervousness to flash across her youthful face, Scout continued, "... Inside. So believe me dude, lotsa' space is better than no more space, so just trust me on this one, aight?"

Lena nodded, "Oh don't worry love, you had me at the part when you talked about running out of bloody space to store more of my chocolate," She exhaled slowly, "NO ONE gets between me and chocolate when I want it..." She paused for a second and let out a groan, "Ugh, I love chocolate too fucking much, blimey!" She said, smiling at how confused Scout was at the situation.

Every time Lena would swear, he'd furrow his brows a bit, mostly because she simply looked too innocent to have a dirty mouth. Foul words were very unexpected from her, but when she was serious, she usually let out a swear or two.

This must've been a serious moment between her and her love for chocolate...

"Oi! Relax, mate! Everyone's gotta let out their bad side sometimes..." Lena said, seeing that Scout still had the 'look' on his face.

Scout blinked twice, "True, y-yeah, that's uh... Heh, yeah, your right." He said awkwardly, seeing her eyes look upon his for a good second.

Lena looked confused now.

Scout realized that the conversation was going to get awkward real quick if he didn't end it right now, "Uhhh... Anyways, let's keep walking!"

Lena greatly admired the enthusiasm and energy that was contained in Scout, she admired it ever since they started talking with each other.

It was summer break, the end of Grade 10 for Lena, Scout, and many other students.

He saw her walking home alone with a small group of harassing teenagers that were commenting on her physical appearance, her features. He already knew she was uncomfortable and annoyed at the boys comments, only ignoring it because she didn't want to boost their ego by replying back to them.

It pissed Scout off a ton to see her ignoring them, so he decided to step up and tell the group of kids to back off. Two of the three teens backed off, simply because it wasn't worth getting into a fight for... but the toughest of the trio, Gabe, didn't back off, deciding to challenge and even intimidate the Teen who was standing up for Lena.

Scout rarely thought first before talking.

It was a potential 1 Versus 3, Gabe was more built and taller than his skinny frame, his two friends would obviously jump in if anything started between them, and was getting into a fight with three people worth it for a girl?

Eh, probably.

Scout didn't think, he just talked, words coming out of his mouth before he could actually process what he was saying to the stronger teen. Scout said something that Gabe didn't approve of, and automatically saw a fist coming for his face. Scout quickly ducked away from the punch and managed to land a couple of punches on Gabe before he got taken down by the three of the teens.

They left him bruised on the ground, Lena watched in nervousness, trying to remain calm in front of the three people that just beat down the teen who tried to stand up for her.

Surprisingly, they left Scout alone, running off into the streets and leaving a bruised and beaten teen on the ground. They were lucky there were no cops or adults around, they would get into serious trouble if there was.

Scout obviously thought it was worth it, what the teens were doing was wrong on many levels, but it personally meant more to him to see her getting harassed... He liked her, he developed a certain care for her and was greatly infatuated with her stunning looks.

Lena had short, true brown hair that was crafted by gel, she had small bangs of hair that made her face stand out from the rest of the other girls. Her eyes were chestnut brown, her cheeks were rosy and pale, and she smelled like roses every time that Scout would slowly walk by her. Her body was curvy and delicate, shamefully peeking at how rounded her rear was... he couldn't resist to look at it. Her skin was soft as well, the first time he high-fived her, he could've sworn he felt tingles shoot up his body, because her hands were so soft.

Lena was too damn beautiful to Scout, no explanation needed.

A week after the incident, Scout only managed to like Lena even more when they started to talk to each other. He liked how chatty she was, her personality was electrifying and jumpy, almost similar to Scout's. They could already be considered best friends after a handful of energetic conversations and activities they would do together over the summer break.

After the break, they both found it lucky to have at least 1 class together, sitting beside each other and talking most of the time. Scout couldn't understand why he hasn't asked her to be his girlfriend yet, he liked her a lot, he probably thought that she liked him back but was too afraid to admit her feelings for him, and they talked with each other almost every day! How has he not made a move yet? Scout didn't have this problem with many other girls he tried to hit on... But Lena was special, he really didn't want to mess up his chances with the most beautiful girl he has laid his eyes on, so he decided to play it safe with her and hold back the flirting for a later time. But he knew that he was going to get her one day, feeling too sure of himself with his chances, so Scout soon made a promise to take things to the next level with Lena.

Scout decided to pick Halloween day as the time to express his feelings for her, making many attempts at trying to successfully recite over what he would say when the time would come... The time if he would find out, if Lena liked him back as well.

Almost 2 months of school passed, it was October 31 and their friendship still remained as strong as ever... And so did Scout's desires, he really wanted Lena and him to be more than just... Friends.

*October 12, 2017*

It was a calm Saturday Afternoon in Lena's neighborhood, both teens were enjoying a granola bar.

Scout usually walked Lena home after school, doing anything he could do to squeeze in extra conversations with her was always worth his time. As they walked, they could already see the decorations amongst the houses, pumpkins that have been carved to resemble scary and sadistic faces, fake tombstones in the lawn, LED's around a house that were most likely going to glow a bright orange once Halloween came. It surprised Scout to see people getting ready so early, making him wish that Halloween was just around the corner.

They continued to walk, Scout catching sight of Lena's house down the street... He had to ask her right now.

Scout deeply inhaled and exhaled, building up his confidence, "Hey, um, Lena. You wanna go... Uhh..." Scout could feel himself freezing up, "Y-you wanna go T-trick or-or... Uh, crap." He sighed, how obvious did he sound right now? "You wanna go trick-or-treating with uh, me?"

Lena automatically shook her head, "Thanks, but no thanks. We're way too old to be doing that type of stuff anyways."

Damn.

He wasn't gonna give up that easy, "Come on, Lena. It'll be fun, I promise you that your going to end up with at least four bags of chocolate." He exaggerated.

Lena raised a brow, "Oh?" It did sound tempting for her, after all, chocolate was her favourite... But it was going to take a lot more than the promise of chocolate, for her to go trick-or-treating at such a mature age. "It does sound tempting, but I still don't know... We're sixteen years old, Scout... isn't that meant for kids and toddlers?" She asked.

Scout would have cringed if it was anyone else, but it was Lena he was talking to, he couldn't do that. "Nah, it's not like that at all. Like, age really doesn't have a-an effect on you when it's fun and trust me, you won't be feeling like a bored sixteen-year old when you go trick-or-treating... Especially if ya go with me, cause like, heh... Y'know, I'm that fun to hang around with." Scout coughed awkwardly, registering what he said.

"Don't worry love, you are fun to hang out with." Lena said, assuring him that he wasn't boring to be around with.

Scout smiled again, "Thanks Lena... But uh, anyways, you should come because... Uh, because..." Scout could feel his mind going blank, he didn't have a reason for her to actually go, he just wanted her to come with him since he really wanted to fulfill the promise he made to himself - Becoming more than just 'Friends' with Lena - He already had it all planned out after she would agree to come with him... But the problem was convincing her to actually come along.

Scout could feel his throat going dry at the confused stare Lena was giving him.

He could get lost in those eyes.

But it wasn't going to be today!

Luckily, he managed to find the words to say before he became speechless in front of her, "Umm, lemme ask ya a question - Have you ever gone trick-or-treating?" He asked.

"Well... No. No, I haven't." Lena replied.

Scout's mouth was agape, his eyes widened as he couldn't believe what he heard... How hasn't she gone trick-or-treating at least once in her life?

Lena continued, "I never could be bothered with Halloween quite honestly, love. I had a ton of better things to do at home then go out and destroy my teeth with candy. And none of my friends went outside for Halloween, we all just stayed home and did whatever we could do to ignore the bloody annoyance of the toddlers."

Scout tried his best to not looked that shocked about it... She couldn't be serious.

But by the tone of her reply, she sounded like she was as serious as she could be. "Woah... You mean to tell me that you, and none of ya friends ain't gone out for Halloween... Like, ever?" He said, there was genuine concern in his tone that caused Lena to smile.

"Relaaax, Scout, your acting like it's a sin to not go out for Halloween." Lena replied.

"B-but... Well," He sighed, "I mean it's not, obviously. But like, I feel like people need to do it at least once before you get really old, y'know? Do things only youngsters could do before you grow into a pile of old bones. You know what I'm sayin'?" Scout said.

Scout had a point. Lena was 16, already in Grade 11, just one year away from her senior year... The year where most people define their career options, a time in their life when they usually let all childish things go away, fully stepping on the road to maturity if it hasn't reached them yet.

What other time would Lena be available to go outside on a Halloween night? She would always feel a tinge of jealousy rise inside of her whenever she would hear other kids brag about how much bags of candy they managed to fill up. She never experienced a Halloween night and heard that it truly makes you feel young again, she was curious to say the least... It couldn't hurt to try.

Lena was about to speak her mind when Scout beat her to it, the short silence getting to him. "Look, Lena. Just come with me one time, and I'll show you how fun Halloween can get, like, you can even bring your friends along if ya want-"

Lena cut him off, "No! I... Uhm... I'd rather not bring my other friends along," There was a slight blush on her pale cheeks, "There not... There not as energetic and fun as you might think they are... They'd just ruin the fun, so to speak." She lied.

The real reason why Lena didn't want her other friends coming, was because they were lesbians, just like herself. She was wary of Scout finding out who she really was, and it wasn't like rocket science to figure out that Scout had a huge crush on her, even she knew it. She really didn't want to become more than just friends with Scout, he was a good friend to have, good for talking to on a down day and excellent for some funny company on a dull day.

Lena's other friends would surely break the joyful teen's heart if they spilled the truth out to him, she couldn't imagine bringing down the mood of such an energetic kid.

Scout didn't look that bad for his age either, teal eyes, which Lena thought were too cool to exist (It's a cool colour of light blue, looks beautiful), his dark brown hair was always styled, despite him saying that it was completely natural that it stood up by itself. He had a light tan that complimented his facial features, he was on the school track team and was probably the best runner that the school had to offer. Scout had a personality that complimented well with her's, never running out of things to talk about, which always meant a lot of communication with him. He was electrifying and courageous, always believing he could handle whatever was thrown his way... Optimism at it's finest.

But if Lena had to point out something bad about Scout... He was skinny... Like, SKINNY. Lena wondered if he was anorexic or not, but the teen could obviously eat a lot, food just didn't seem to contribute to his physical stature. If Scout was more buffed, or built, she would be trying to peek a lot of looks at him... But he was just so damn skinny, that there really was no point.

But that's it... She was simply just not interested in Scout. She just wanted him as a friend, and nothing else.

Back to the conversation.

Luckily, Scout believed her. "Alright, well. Uh, ya don't exactly need a group to go trick-or-treating y'know... Like, it can be me and you only, and we'd still have tons of fun - I... I promise you that." He said, a sincere expression over his face as he looked at Lena for an answer. His heart was beating as he registered what he just said... It sounded obvious.

It would be cruel to resist such a pleading expression... She agreed to Scout's suggestion. "Those bloody puppy eyes." Lena thought. She sighed, "Fine, I'll come along," Lena noticed that Scout's face immediately brightened after those 4 words, "But govna', I better get a ton of candy from that night, or else I'll never go again."

Scout was too happy to register the question properly, "Yeah, yeah, yeah - Don't worry! You'll get lots of candy! S-so does this mean that your gonna go trick-or-treating with me?" He asked, double checking to make sure he wasn't high on happiness right now, not being able to contain the excitement in his voice.

Lena sighed, having to repeat herself, "Yes, love. I'll go trick-or-treating with you." She replied with a smile, offering the usual high five, which usually meant she had to end the conversation with him and go inside.

Scout wished it was more than just a high-five.

He high-fived Lena. Both issued their goodbyes to each other and promised to meet up on Halloween night, 5:00 P.M. Sharp.

Scout turned around and started to walk home, feeling all giddy that he convinced his dream girl to come trick-or-treating with him. He did a victory jump and fist pumped the air, feeling as happy as the world could allow him to be.

Lena looked back and saw the actions that Scout was doing as he walked home, giggling to herself because of how funny he looked whenever he was excited.

She opened the door to her house, automatically wondering on what costume would be the best fit for Halloween night...

*October 31, 5:35 P.M.*

Scout noticed the growing silence between them, he decided to speak up, "Hey, uh, Lena? So umm... What did you dress up as?" He said, messing up a few times in his sentence. That was something that always seemed to happen around her, he would stutter more than his normal amount of times in his sentence whenever he was talking with her.

Lena looked back at Scout's teal eyes, "Love, come on now..." She said, rolling her eyes at how obvious her costume was.

Lena was wearing a dark blue and black cadet hat, a mic attached to her left ear, covering the earrings that were pierced onto her. Her hair looked beautiful the way it was wrapped within her hat, strips of her short hair flowing elegantly out of the hat. The way her hair looked right now, only caused Scout to be in more awe than what he was already in, trying not to make it too obvious.

Lena also wore a light blue bomber jacket with the Union Jack on her left sleeve (Patriotism). The only thing that somewhat ruined her costume (Not that it was bad), was the black tights she wore, along with her converse sneakers... But not a bad costume at all.

Scout guess what her costume was, "A pilot?" He asked innocently.

Lena nodded, "Mhm, and you're 'supposed' to be a ghost." She said, making air quotations, eyeing Scout's lazy costume, "Oh, and you forgot the white robes, mate. Your costume obviously loses when it comes to who's is better."

Scout grinned, noticing that he was just wearing the mask of the full ghost costume he was supposed to wear. Instead, wearing all black pants and a black sweater with a bright red zipper, it still looked like the costume did the part, most of the mask giving it off as a viable costume for Halloween. "Yeah... I guess you are right about that, whatever. It's like, Five-forty right now! We should get going and fill our bags up quick!" Scout said, increasing the pace of his steps, ready to fill as much bags as he could.

"Oi! Wait for me!" Tracer yelled, running after the energetic Scout.

*9:00 P.M.*

Almost 4 Hours have passed since Scout and Lena went outside for trick-or-treating, both of them managed to fill up three large bags, Scout placed one of his bags inside the backpack he has brought along with him, thankful for the extra space that his bag provided.

Lena on the other hand, was having trouble carrying the amount of bags in her hands, she didn't know candy could be this heavy and she certainly didn't believe she and Scout were going to fill up this many bags within 4 Hours of trick-or-treating.

Scout noticed the amount of trouble Lena was having with her bags. "You look like ya dyin' over there. Here, I'll carry some for ya." He held out his free hand to carry 2 of her full candy bags.

Lena thanked Scout for the generous gesture, handing him her filled bags, letting out a sigh of relaxation as there were much less weight for her hands to carry.

"Golly! I had no idea that people gave out this much candy... Absolutely bonkers." Lena said, more than content with the amount of candy she received from the neighborhoods she visited.

"Crazy, right? And yeah, I uh, I think this was probably one of the best trick-or-treat sessions I had so far in all of my years of going outside for Halloween." Scout said randomly.

Lena was curious now. She saved her question for later, going up to another house to receive another piece of candy that was to be added to their collection of bags that were literally filled with candy.

Scout rang the doorbell, putting his red-coloured ghost mask across his face, ready to say something corny to the person that was going to open the door.

The door opened, "Trick-or-treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat!" Scout said in a singing tone beneath the mask.

The resident was less than impressed by the corny greeting. He looked like he was just about to sleep judging from his deep eye bags, the man faked a laugh at the corny greeting that Scout issued to him, "Hahaha." He faked his laugh, "Not like I heard that a million times in one day... Here's your candy dude." The man put two pieces of Twix into Scout and Lena's bag, and just as they were about leave, the man made a compliment.

"Yo, dude with the 'scary' costume - Your girlfriend looks cute." He said.

Scout's eyes widened, feeling his face heat up. He didn't know how to reply to the man's very wrong accusation, part of him wanting to play along with his guess and the other - more inferior part of his personality, wanting to reveal the sad truth to the resident.

The superior side of his personality won the battle... But before he could utter a single word, Lena was quick to tell the resident the truth that Scout wished wasn't true. "Oh no, it's nothing like that mate, we're just friends, that's all." She replied to the resident.

"Aw, that sucks... Looks like she's friendzoning you! Have a good night!" The resident said, making Scout curious.

"Yeah, you too!" Scout replied, waving goodbye at the person. "Hm, the hells a 'friendzone'?" He asked himself.

Lena was annoyed at how easily the resident guessed what she was trying to do with Scout, but thank God that Scout didn't know what the definition of friendzone was! Which meant that she could still continue to keep him in it for hopefully, a long time.

"I don't know either, love. Let's just keep walking." Lena checked the time on her smartphone, "Hm, it's Nine Ten right now, Mum said I have to be home by Ten, so we should be wrapping up this little adventure of ours quite soon, don't you think?"

"Aw man, only ten? That kinda sucks, me and my friends would stop trick-or-treating at like, eleven! Most of us wouldn't even go home until morning, we would literally just stay at our boy's spot while trying to spook out each other by telling scary stories and all that crap... Of course, I was the one that always managed to scare everybody else." He lied, he was a person that was easy to scare, but he didn't want Lena knowing that... Girls wouldn't dig a wuss!

Or maybe they do... Whatever, Scout couldn't take any chances.

"Ooooo, so you must have really scary stories that you can tell, am I right?" Lena asked.

"Pfft, obviously. But maybe I'll tell ya one later, after all, we ain't even done fillin' up all our bags! Come on, let's go get some more." Scout gestured Lena to keep up with increasing pace, but stopped running because she wanted to say something to him. He had a confused smile on his face, wondering why she stopped him. "What's on ya mind Lena?"

"I heard you say earlier, that this was the 'Best Halloween ever'... Care to explain why?" Lena questioned.

It was because Lena was with him.

But he obviously couldn't say that. "Umm, it-it's because I managed to fill up a lotta' bags, and..." He paused and nervously rubbed the back of his neck, already running out of lies to tell her.

This was Lena's first Trick-Or-Treat session as well...

Scout thought of a reasonable excuse, talking confidently, "Oh! And well- I did manage to show you how fun Halloween could be. And here I remember sayin' that you were too old for it. As long as you had fun while doin' it, age really don't matter... Wait, you did have fun, right?" Scout asked.

Lena smiled and nodded, "Of course I had fun! And considering that it was just the two of us, this was smashing!" She said with joy, believing Scout's reasonable excuse for his real answer.

Scout let out a quiet of relief, sliding out of her question with his calmness still intact.

"But, I really wish I would've did these type of things when I was little." She looked into her bag and saw so much chocolate bars. She bit her lower lip, tempted to just feast on the chocolate right now, "This bloody chocolate is getting on my nerves... I TOTALLY should have done this when I was a kid." The amount of chocolate that she saw in the bag made her wish that she could go back in time just to equal the amount she had currently.

Scout smirked at her sweet addiction, "There's tons of more houses down the streets... You still down for some more?" He suggested, hoping that she'd say 'Yes'. He didn't even get to ask her yet...

Lena pulled her phone out, checking what the time was,

*9:06 P.M.*

She pondered at the suggestion, her parents wanted her home by 10:00 P.M. She would have a 20 minute walk at the least if she was to go back home, meaning she'd have to start walking home in about 30 minutes. Scout's walk was even further... But not like it mattered for him, he could just run all the way home with EASE... Scout was fucking quick. It didn't matter how far the distance was, his legs just... Worked

Lena made up her mind, "You know what? Yeah... Yeah! I'll go for a couple more, why not?"

Scout subtly fist pumped the air, "Cool! Alright, uh, follow me, I know some really cool houses down 'ere that give the biggest frickin' chocolate bars EVER!" He said with enthusiasm, gesturing Lena to follow him down the sidewalk.

*9:30 P.M.*

"Okay, umm... Agh! Crap!" Scout groaned in annoyance, his candy bag successfully losing grip of his hands, falling down onto the ground for the third time in less than 10 minutes. His backpack was filled with candy bags that were full of... Candy! He carried two full candy bags that looked like it was about to rip open at any moment. Needless to say, Scout and Lena certainly made the most of their time collecting as many candy as they could, considering it was only 4 hours and they managed to fill up that many bags.

Lena felt guilty for letting Scout carry the amount of bags he had in his hands, she was only carrying one full bag of her own, the rest of her other 2 candy bags that were full, was in Scout's bag that he was carrying as well. This was probably too much load that a skinny guy could handle, she thought as she looked at him with concern.

"Scout? I wouldn't really mind if I carried another bag-"

Scout cut her off, "Nahhh, trust me. I got- UGH-" He let out a huff of defiance, managing to successfully carry the other bag with his hands. "... See? Told ya I got it."

Lena giggled at how much Scout was resembling a Gentleman... Personality wise. "Awfully chivalrous of you, love, thanks a lot." She quickly hugged him, coming off as an unexpected surprise to Scout... A surprise that caused him to freeze up.

Scout's mouth was open as he was about to reply to her comments, but stopped talking as soon as she hugged him by surprise. He could smell the rosy scent that emanated from her body, causing his vision to go hazy for a bit, then back to normal. His mouth was still open, speechless at the hug, having an awkward stare at Lena as she looked back, confused as much as him.

"... Are you okay?" Lena asked.

Scout blinked twice and gulped, "Uh. Yeah... Hehe..." He felt the heat running up his cheeks, his grip on the bags getting tighter, "Okay, uh, w-what time is it right now... If you... Don't mind... Me, asking?" He awkwardly said, his speech wrapped in nervous stutters.

"I'd say it's about time to go home right now... Especially for you, since you live a bloody mile away from 'ere." Lena replied, not even checking her phone to know that it was time for her to walk back home, she wasn't so sure about Scout, she suggested that he should get back as well, concerned for the teen's safety.

"Fuck." Scout thought to himself. He hadn't even made his move yet. Whatever, on the way to her house he'd make his move. "Alright... You know the way back to your house, do ya?" He asked.

"Of course I do, love. You're walking my way, right?"

A rhetorical question asked by Lena, so rhetorical, that Scout couldn't help but to be surprised by it, "Of course I am! I'd be crazy to let you walk home alone on Halloween night! Like, ya never know! Frickin' ghosts or- or, uh- VAMPIRES... yea! Vampires! Vampires could just like... Like, I don't know, kill ya or somethin'!" Lena raised a doubtful brow at Scout's assumption. He continued, "And... And who's to say that a frickin' werewolf ain't gonna decide to eat the crap outta someone?! Man, I don't know about you, but Halloween stories might be too frickin' true for comfort. What if The grim frickin' Reaper himself shows up and takes ya soul...? AND YOUR CANDY ALONG WITH IT?!" Scout rambled, spitting out crazy statements that made Lena hysterical for a moment.

Lena was smiling at his crazy assumptions the whole time, "You're bonkers mate!" She giggled, "But I'll play along with it, cause that was really funny."

"But like, what if it actually happens? Huh? Then what?" Scout asked, still unsure if his childish fears were real or not.

"Then I guess I'd be considered crazy if I let you walk home alone." Lena replied.

"Oh you don't have to worry 'bout me, I'm one quick boy. I can take care of myself easily... besides, I AM the fastest runner in the school... Probably in the city too, let's be honest." Scout replied, guaranteeing that he would be safe on his walk back home because of how fast he was. "So trust me, you wouldn't be considered crazy if you let the fastest guy on earth walk home alone."

Lena rolled her eyes at his cocky assumption, sure he was fast, but fastest? "I'm not too sure about being the fastest, but whatever floats your boat, I suppose." She said. "Come on love, let's get going now, it's getting late and chilly out here." The breeze was getting colder every second they decided to stay out.

"You can borrow my sweater if you want." Scout offered, nervous for her reply.

Lena didn't even have to think twice about the offer, "Bloody hell, yes! This weather is impossible!"

Scout unzipped his sweater and offered it to Lena, and since he was only an inch taller than her, the sweater wasn't too baggy on her. It fit well on her body, Scout unbelieving as to how nice it looked on her, hugging onto her curvy features. Scout was now in just a tight red t-shirt that left some of his skin exposed to the cooling breeze.

Lena saw what Scout was wearing and immediately felt guilty, "Oh no, I can't have you freezing your arse off now... Do you want your sweater back?" She asked, a small part of her hoping he'd say 'no'. She liked how his sweater fit her. It didn't feel loose or baggy at all, it was an excellent fit for her, making her wonder if Scout's sweater was really for girls.

Scout shook his head, "No thanks. It's cool for now, you can keep it until ya get home, I'll just get my sweater from you once we reach your house, I guess." Scout replied, and with those words, the pair began to walk towards Lena's home, close to ending their Halloween session together.

*9:55 P.M.*

Lena's house was in sight now.

Scout was running out of time... He had to say it to her now.

Scout waited until they were near a bench. A big tree with leaves that had the official colours of autumn embedded onto their structure. The leaves were bright, full, and beautiful. So beautiful, that it seems it hasn't been affected by any sort of damage at all. The tree was was high above the bench, some of it's fallen leaves taking refuge near the bench.

"What a beautiful spot..." Lena said to herself, never taking in how nice the tree's leaves looked at night.

Scout inhaled and exhaled, ready to execute his plan. "Uh, Lena, can you wait up a bit? I have to uhh... Tie my shoes real quick." He lied, quickly untying his shoes before she could turn around.

"No problem, love. I'll wait." Lena replied, taking her seat on the bench.

Scout took a seat on the bench as well, not sitting too close to Lena because of the nervousness that he felt creeping up his stomach... He was about to find out something that would either have him upset or ecstatic... The nervousness got worse when he finished tying up his laces.

Scout exhaled and inhaled nervously, "Okay... I- I'm done tying my laces... Umm." He stared at Lena for a bit until speaking up again, "Lena... Can we just... Talk?"

Lena furrowed a brow, "Umm? Okay? Why, what's this about?"

Silence took over the conversation for a good 10 seconds. "Just fucking say it Scout. You like her... A lot." His inner voice said to him.

"Fine." Scout finally thought, taking the risk.

Just as Lena was about to speak, Scout cut her off... With words she didn't know how to respond to...

"I L-like you... Uh, I like you a lot." Red ran up his cheeks as he said the words, nervousness clutching his facial expression greatly. He took a quick, shaky breath and continued talking, "And I... It's- it's not like the normal 'like' you..." His tone turned serious, even with all the stutters, "... I really like you." He quietly said, finally finishing his sentence with sincerity coated over the affective words.

Scout felt as if a huge weight was released off of him as soon as he exposed his feelings for Lena, no longer having to put up an act for her, finally getting the opportunity to see if it was really 'True Love' he was on his way to... It certainly felt like it... For him.

Lena was stunned. She surprised herself by allowing herself to be this shocked by his words, she's been knowing that Scout had an obvious crush on her. But she never brought it up, not wanting to see an energetic boy quickly turned into a nervous pile of breakdowns just by mentioning it...

She really didn't know how to respond to him.

Lena certainly didn't want to lie to him and say that she has feelings for him as well, which wasn't true at all, no romantic feelings of any sort. Just as a friend! But on the other hand, she didn't want to shoot him down immediately, fearing that it might just change their friendship for the worse if she tells him how it really is between them. She would have to choose one...

After a long moment of silence, Lena spoke up, still unsure of how to reply, "Scout..."

Scout immediately straightened, ever alert for what she was hopefully going to say to him. "Yeah?"

Lena sighed, "I like you Scout... I really do... But- I just... *sigh, I just like you as a friend."

Scout could feel a frown tugging at the corner of his lips.

Lena continued, "Scout." She put her hand on Scout's, "I already knew that you liked me for a long time. Ever since you've been talking to me, I could already tell that you liked me. But..." A stressed sigh escaped her lips, "I just can't return the same feelings for you as you have unto me, love. I'm... I'm a Lesbian, Scout, I prefer women greatly over men." She said factually.

Scout's facial expression was dropping significantly, a frown slowly taking over his lips.

"It's me Scout, this is who I really am. I already have my eyes set for a girl I love..."

The last word made Scout's heartbeat throb, forcing him to let out a shaky sigh from his shaky lips.

"I'm so, so, sorry Scout... You've... *sigh* you never really had a chance with me to start off. And don't take it the wrong way, please. I'm just telling you that I might be the wrong girl for you. I'm, I'm not as alive as you are. I'm not energetic as you are. I'm not as talkative as you are... And, sadly... I'm just... Not the girl you want." Lena said, looking directly at Scout's eyes only to see a heartbroken expression all over his face.

His eyes unexpectedly looked a lot less... Bright, no longer possessing the unusual glint of joy that she would see whenever she looked at his eyes. He had a tinge of red slowly taking over the corners of both of his eyes, also appearing watery at the bottom of his lids... And she could also see a very rare frown, that was growing across his lips.

Lena frowned at the terrible expression that was taking form on Scout's face... Sadness. It seemed like it was impossible for the overly-happy Scout to cry out of sheer, emotional pain.

As a matter of fact, she never saw a legit frown form on Scout's face... This was terrible.

Scout's hands were shaking softly, not because of the cool breeze, but because of the words that were coming from Lena's mouth. He didn't believe her, "B-but, I- I do want you..." He quickly sniffled, doing a good job on containing his tears, "I... I really like you, Lena..." He was getting desperate, he didn't want to be friends with her.

Something more, something better.

"Scout, please, I understand. But this wasn't meant to be, and the sooner you accept it, the easier it'll be for you..." Lena got closer to Scout's body, putting her arm around him, burying herself in the nook of his neck, hoping that he would return the hug.

Lena could feel and hear the heartbeat of the heartbroken Scout as she inched herself closer towards him.

It made her gulp nervously.

She questioned herself mentally if hugging him was a good idea in the first place.

Scout felt her arms trying to wrap around him. A big part of him wanted to accept it and return the hug himself.

The stage of Denial blended with his emotions perfectly.

But there was also a small part of him that... That wanted to let go of her... Leave, and just forget about Lena and move on with himself because there was obviously no CHANCE of capturing her heart for himself. Lena confirmed it as well - That it was currently impossible, and would probably remain so for the rest of his life.

Scout hated to cram negative thoughts inside his head, but with the bombardment of emotions crippling him, he couldn't help but think negative.

He still hasn't made an effort to return a hug for Lena, sitting stiff and frozen, maintaining his shocked position.

Lena had her arms wrapped around him for a good 30 seconds, "... Scout?" She whispered, looking up at him with curious eyes. She saw a frozen faced Scout, the expression giving it away clearly - He was hurt. She gulped and saw that his arms were still hanging uselessly by his side, "Scout... Please. Say something..." She said, a slight voice crack in her sentence, the look on his face saddening her.

Scout gulped and blinked twice, gently prying himself away from Lena's hug, "... Yeah, I-" His voice cracked, he cleared his throat and continued, "I understand... I'm- I'm... I'm sorry Lena." He let out a chuckle, trying to mask the sadness with a happy gesture, "It's uh... It's probably time for you to go home now... It's getting late, and..." He awkwardly looked away from her, "Yeah... You should get home now... Bye." Scout quietly said.

And with those words, Scout stood up from the bench and turned away from Lena, intent on walking home as quickly as he could.

Lena struggled to speak for a little while, feeling certain that her voice would crack if she said anything else that was related to the current situation. "Hold on, love... we can still... talk." She said, her words having no effect on the heartbroken Scout. Lena gulped, wanting to run after him, in disbelief of what was probably going to happen.

A broken friendship... especially with someone like Scout... she continued to sit down on the bench, having no idea on what to do.

And there was no doubt about it - Scout was special. There wouldn't be anyone like him that would show up in Lena's life, no clone or no copy could replicate how truly special Scout was.

Scout stuffed his free hand inside his pocket, "Fuck. What the hell was I thinking?!" Scout whispered as he walked away, shaking his head and immediately regretting what he did. As Scout started to gain walking distance from the bench, he suddenly remembered that Lena's candy bags were still inside his bag. With a quiet curse, he stopped walking.

He turned around, seeing that Lena was still sitting down on the bench, looking at him.

Lena's face brightened up as he started to walk towards the bench.

Scout walked back to the bench, "Almost forgot," He took off his bag, kneeling down on one and pulling out the contents, handing out two bags that were full of candy, to Lena, "... your bags."

Lena stared dumbly at her candy bags, her brightened expression going back to one of sadness, "Scout... are you okay?" She asked, completely oblivious to her bags that he was trying to give to her.

"Just take your bags already, I gotta go home now." Scout lied, he wasn't in the mood to talk anymore, especially after what just happened. He just wanted - no... needed - to get away from... this.

Lena knew he was lying. She's been talking with him long enough to know what his lies sounded like, "Please! Scout, don't let this ruin our friendship!" She yelled, swatting the bags out of the way so she could see his face clearly, emphasizing her speech by looking directly at him. "LOOK AT ME SCOUT." She said, mad that he was attempting to lie to her, but mostly mad because of how Scout was allowing her rejection to affect the 'thought to be strong' friendship between both of them.

Scout looked at her face with a natural expression, "Can I go home now?" Scout replied, pretending not to hear her. He continued to hold her candy bags up to her.

Lena was starting to get pissed, wanting to slap Scout for his rudeness. She exhaled annoyingly, "Blimey! Scout, you're a bloody good friend, and I'm intent on keeping it that way! Why do you have to be like this?!"

Scout sighed, "Holy crap. Lena, please, I don't feel like talking about it-"

"WELL, I DO! TALK TO ME!" Lena commanded, standing up from the bench and getting closer to Scout.

There were onlookers that were walking on the sidewalks, trick-or-treaters that were still outside looking for candy. Lena's yelling caught the attention of some people walking by. She didn't care, all she cared about right now was how she could fix her broken friendship with Scout... which looked very unlikely for her.

Scout stood up as well, placing her candy bags on the bench and reaching for his bag. "Crap, maybe later! But I ain't sayin' shit right now. So just frickin' stop before I really leave." He said, seriousness in his tone.

Lena was taken aback by his words, causing her to grow silent with shock.

"... you never talk to me like that..." Lena pointed out randomly, her tone getting softer. His brash tone sounded foreign to her.

Scout picked up her candy bags roughly and held it out to her, deciding that this conversation was going to end now. "Take. It. Now." He said, the usual bravado completely gone from his tone. "I wanna frickin' go home and- and study or some crap, so hurry up and take ya bags so I can go home."

Lena knew that was a lie as well, Scout never studied. She took her candy bags back, grunting quietly because of the weight. Her skinny arms not used to carrying heavy objects. She carried it either way, looking towards Scout only to see that he was well on his way home, using his quickness to his advantage to get away from her fast.

"I'll just talk to him tomorrow, we'll make it up." Lena whispered to herself as she walked home with the bags in her hand. She was very bittersweet of the situation right now.

She just had her first Halloween, which could only be described as "Smashing" as Lena would say. 3 bags full of candy, it was chocolate as well! The best part of her first Halloween experience, was the fact that it was very... fun. She suddenly had Scout all over her mind when she combined the words 'Fun' and 'Halloween' together. If it wasn't for Scout, she would've never decided to go out for Halloween, it was because of him she decided to try something new, and it worked out well for her... it wasn't perfect though.

The only bad part about her Halloween experience was, as weird as it sounds, it was Scout. "Golly! Why does he have to be like this?!" Lena said annoyingly, only a minute away from her home now. Lena felt genuine sadness inside of her when she saw the painful expressions on Scout's face, she felt sad because of his brash tone that had none of his old bravado... she felt sad because of his reaction to her rejection. Why couldn't Scout just understand, that she didn't want her? That he'd be better off by going for another girl instead of her.

Lena knew he was capable of it, he hit on every girl of his grade, talked to every girl of his grade, so who's to say that he's not going to find a girl to replace her from his mind?

Lena reached her doorstep, noticing a piece of paper taped to the door. It read "NO CANDY, SORRY!" Her parents never were the type to ruin the teeth of other kids, never giving a second thought to give out candy on Halloween, an automatic 'No' was their answer all the time.

As she reached for her keys, she noticed something else...

She still had Scout's sweater on her.

"Oh, sod it. I'll give it to him tomorrow." Lena quietly said. Scout's sweater felt like a sweater she would wear everyday, seemingly forgetting that she was wearing it all this time, she could consider it her's if it wasn't Scout's.

Lena unlocked the door, "Mother! Father! I'm home!" She yelled, expecting a concerned response from both of them.

No one responded.

"Weird..." She said as she took off her shoes. "HELLO! Anyone... here?"

Still no response.

"Hmph, must be out..." She was surprised no one was home, there would always be one home at all times she came home, it didn't seem to apply to today.

She hated being home alone.

ESPECIALLY on Halloween night...

She wished Scout was here right now. His earlier mentions of vampires, werewolves and a 'Grim Frickin' Reaper' were seriously freaking her out at the moment.

"Fuck!" She whispered, not wanting to go upstairs. She took a breath and flicked on all the lights she came across, illuminating her dim house. After some contemplation, Lena decided that she wasn't going to go upstairs, being too scared of the dark and the various open rooms that were up there. And with her parents not home, who would save her?

"If Scout was here, he'd save you. Save you 7 times just to be sure." Lena's conscience said, trying to make her feel guilty for breaking Scout's heart.

"Ugh, shut up." Lena said with a groan, feeling the guilt eat away at her. She decided to numb down by turning on the TV, "A little bit of mind numbing Television never hurt anybody." She said as she flipped through the channels.

As if the guilt wasn't enough to make her think about Scout, her own damn TV decided to do it as well.

It was a commercial about some yellow coloured tissue that soaked up stains like it was nothing, the man on screen called it 'Shamwow' or something like that... her mother would probably love this commercial.

"But if ya call now, we'll give you the next set - ABSOLUTELY FREE!" The commercial man said.

Weird... his accent reminded her of Scout.

As she thought about Scout, she decided to try and prevent her friendship with him from ending.

The next school day was going to be awkward between them for sure...

*Monday, November 3, 2017*

Lena went to school pretty early today, hoping that she would catch Scout near his locker. She walked the empty halls, seeing few people, but none of them were Scout. She then decided to go to her first period class, the door was open and she let herself in.

Her heartbeat spiked...

Scout was in the corner of the classroom, practicing his baseball skills by throwing a baseball on the wall with one hand and catching it with his left, an ambidextrous technique. Even though Scout was facing away from her, she could tell it was him... no one else wore t-shirts that tight, in chilly weather especially! He was wearing a hat as well, which he almost always wore every damn school day. She didn't know anyone else who threw balls on the wall as religiously as Scout... no one else looked as skinny as him - So it had to be Scout.

Lena didn't know whether to step further inside the classroom or wait for the bell to ring, which was 20 minutes from now...

Oddly, he was the only one inside the class. Usually, Scout would come late, then come up with crappy excuses in hopes of not getting counted as a late on the attendance. This was... different, of him to be doing.

Lena coughed softly, still close by the door.

Scout caught the ball and turned his head around to see who was coughing.

His eyes widened for a bit, looking surprised at the sight of Lena.

"Scout." Lena said.

He ignored her and slowly looked away, getting rid of his surprised expression as he continued to throw the ball onto the wall.

Lena wouldn't be ignored.

"Oi! Scout, I know you hear me." She said, walking closer towards his seat. "Love, I'm sorry that it didn't go your way!"

Scout stopped throwing the ball, palming it gently in his hand.

She walked closer towards him, "Just because things don't go the way you wanted it too, doesn't mean you have to be a bloody jerk about it!" She said, her tone getting louder by every word.

Scout ignored her and adjusted his cap.

"SCOUT!" Lena knocked the cap off his head, sending it to the ground. They exchanged a stare, Lena was pissed, Scout was calm.

"Bloody hell mate! Listen to me, will you?!" Lena said, wanting to slap the innocent look on his face.

Scout sighed, picking up his cap and placing it back onto his head, "... fine." He replied.

Her tone got softer, "I wanna get straight to the point with you... please, don't let what happened... affect what we had. You're a really good friend, you're a one of a kind, that honestly, makes this school a hell of a fun place to be a part of. So please Scout, let's just... forget about it, go back to where things were between you and I, it was jolly good that way, please." She pleaded.

Lena waited for his response, not budging from her spot until he said something.

"Nah." Scout said, shaking his head with a bored look across his face. He didn't want anything to do with Lena now that he knew that she just wanted to be friends with him.

He did this a lot - Cutting off anything/anyone he didn't like.

He felt that life was way too short for him to be spending time on anything he didn't like, so to be productive at maintaining the usual positive mood he was in - He cut off the things he disliked.

Simple.

And it looked like he had to cut off Lena... he didn't like her... he couldn't like her, not after what happened on Halloween Night.

"Sorry, but not sorry. I ain't really tryna waste time by keeping around people that put me in a crappy mood. So ima get straight to the point with you," He turned her words around, standing up from his chair slowly as he tried to stand tall, despite only being an inch taller than her.

She still didn't budge from her spot, feeling genuine shock from his words.

Scout sighed, "I don't wanna talk to ya, I don't wanna be friends with ya, and I... I don't even wanna frickin' see ya, honestly. And sure, ya might be callin' me extra or some crap cause I'm takin' this too far yada yada yada - But, I don't... I don't care." Scout said, his teal eyes casually burning (Metaphor) Lena's eyes, causing her to break eye contact with him.

She looked at the ground, not finding the will to look back at Scout, "B-but, you are being ex-"

Scout quickly cut her off, "BESIDES! It ain't like ya losin' a lot, I mean like - you got tons of ya chick friends to back ya up when you feelin' down, pretty sure dey can cheer you up real good, and I'm also pretty sure that losing a guy ya ain't even interested in won't put too much crap on ya." He backed away from Lena, deciding to sit back down with a chuckle. "And now that I'm done talkin', ima sit back down and throw my frickin' ball at the wall, cause I am un-freakin'-touchable." Scout finished, turning away from Lena, showing her how rude he could be.

Lena gave up.

She was going to make a desperate attempt at rekindling the friendship between herself and him... but that was put to rest when she heard the words he decided to say to her... The way that he ended it too... she couldn't continue anything with him.

It was over.

Lena blinked a tear back, Scout's words managing to hurt her emotionally. She was mad and sad... a mix of emotions hitting her at the same time, incapable of finding the proper words for a reply, so she walked away from him.

"... fuck you. Bloody arsehole." Lena said, loud enough so he could hear her. She didn't wait for a reply, quickly walking out the door and returning to her locker.

Scout continued to throw his baseball onto the wall, sighing loudly as he caught it for the 90th time. He stopped, he jammed a hand in his bag to take out a piece of candy that was collected from Halloween Night, eating it swiftly. "Whatever." He said as he threw the baseball onto the wall, feeling slight guilt at the words he said to her.

"I don't need her." He repeated, "I don't need her... I don't need her. I. Don't. Need. Her."

*The following days*

Scout and Lena saw each other quite a lot during school days. Awkward glances were exchanged quite often between each other, it would usually be Lena caught staring at him, then with Scout giving a neutral stare back, causing her to look away onto something else.

Scout never walked Lena home after the conversation, walking his own route which he forgot how quick it was to his home. He walked Lena home so many times, that he forgot how quick he could get home if he walked his own route.

Both Lena and Scout now had an abundance of more time to hang out with their own friends, Scout especially, since he was a popular kid that could've had many friends, but choosing to hang out with a decently sized circle of friends, only containing about 7-8 people. Despite his disdain for Lena, he never mentioned anything bad about her with his group of friends. He hated gossip, and he thought it would be very hypocritical of him to talk down on another person when he hated it as well.

Scout in general, was doing fine after the whole situation, his permanent bravado and uplifting mood often caused him to forget about many things that plagued his mind... basically, he kind of forgot about it. He couldn't be any more happier than that... in just a few days as well!

The same couldn't be said for Lena though, often thinking back to what she has said that caused Scout to become heartbroken. She often decided to gossip about Scout, saying anything that would cause some of the people who believed what she was saying, to look down on him... which were her girlfriends, and a small group of people that didn't like Scout as well...

But it was hard for people not to like Scout. Sure, he got bad grades and all, didn't really care about School as much as some other things, but he was easy to talk to, fun to hang out with, funny to hear his natural humour come out during classes, and his ego was surprisingly low for a popular kid, allowing students of all popularity classes to have a decent conversation with him. Most importantly, he represented his school like no other student has done!

Scout always won any championship that included running in it, earning multiple titles and championships for the high school he has been a part of for 3 years.

Scout was a natural attraction for girls that liked short guys, the only negatives about him were his height and his stature for most girls, but other than that, a lot of girls liked him. An explosive, energetic personality that could never turn boring, mixed with his physical features and overall confidence?

How could people not like Scout?

Lena used to like Scout... but she didn't like Scout in that sort of a way.

How hard was it for him to understand? She just wanted him as a friend, but he wanted something else. She was obviously going to reject it, already having her eyes set on a woman who she fancies, she wasn't going to turn it down for a boy that didn't care about the wants of another girl. She thought that it was worth it that the friendship was ended between them. After all, could having someone that doesn't care about what you want, but only what themselves want, be considered as a friend?

The answer was an emphatic 'No' for Lena...

This shows that she still hasn't got over it, completely.

*The following Weeks*

As the weeks went on, Scout and Lena forgot about it even more. Lena especially, with the growing closeness of the woman who she fancies getting closer and closer to her by each day that passed, she was focused on her... and her own schooling, of course.

Scout continued to earn titles and championships related to the activity of running... he could be considered the best runner out of all the states for his age group. The ego got to him, but only a bit, knowing that he was far above the average student in terms of popularity and taking it to heart more personally than before.

Both of them started to get over it, no longer feeling a way whenever they would exchange an awkward glance with one another.

*The Following Months*

They both forgot about it. Both of them being too focused on their own things to care about the incident between them.

*The Following Years*

Three years have passed since the incident between Lena and Scout. Both of them succeeded in graduating the same high school, one moving onto College and the other, onto University.

Scout moved out of his cramped home of 13 People, including himself. The college he was attending was too far for his place of residence, so he had to move closer. Luckily, he was still in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts, not having to move out of where he grew up.

Scout rented out a crappy apartment room with the money that was gave to him, but it was good enough for him, he was used to living in crappy houses, so living inside a crappy apartment was no problem for him.

Lena moved onto a University, studying for her desired career of becoming a pilot. Planes always interested her as a kid, she wanted to see how the world looked from the skies, having spent too much time on the ground.

Lena rented out a slightly above average apartment room, her parents loaning her more than enough money to strive on with her studies, Lena was set for a good career in the future.

*October 20, 2020, The Coffee Shop*

The familiar breeze of autumn was very apparent in the air.

It reminded Scout of Halloween.

What reminded Scout of Halloween even more, was how the interior of the Coffee shop was themed loosely on the holiday of Halloween.

Miniature spider webs hanging off the roof of the coffee shop, the entrance to the shop being accompanied by a man in a ghost costume, the lights glowing an orange dim instead of the usual yellow... It was very, very Halloween within the shop.

Scout felt bittersweet about it.

Bitter, because all Halloweens now reminded him of Lena, and that shitty attempt of trying to get her as more than a friend... that was something he didn't want to remember, preferring if that memory would just stay buried under the dirt.

But it was sweet, because... because it was Halloween! This was his favourite holiday of every holiday that existed on the calendar, just because of the fact that it made him feel a special way whenever he would go out and do young activities that were meant specifically for young people, with his old growing group of friends!

The maintenance of Youthfulness was important to Scout, believing that if he stayed and felt young, it would always lead to happiness, no matter what situation he was in.

And this Halloween theme was certainly making him feel young, therefore it automatically made him happy.

It was Scout's turn to order, almost forgetting that he was next in line because of the various Halloween props that were littered around the place, observing each prop with a youthful smile.

"Excuse me, sir?" The cashier said, getting Scout's attention.

Scout stopped looking around the diner, "Oh, heh, sorry 'bout dat." He replied, going up to the cashier to order.

Scout ordered the usual coffee and a chocolate donut to go along with it. He seated himself near the windows, admiring the view, observing the leafs falling through the air and onto the sidewalks.

Scout smiled, taking a long sip of his coffee. He opened his smartphone, wanting to see if his friends agreed to go out with him on Halloween night.

*Seconds later*

Scout checked whether his friends were down to go out for this year's Halloween Holiday.

Unfortunately, all of them gave him a response of 'no'. None of his usual friends were feeling the spirit of Halloween, not a single one.

Now that they were moving on in life, it seemed like no one had enough time for fun...

Scout scoffed, "Tavon ain't even wanna go... greaaaat." He sighed, he was almost certain that Tavon would tag along with him at least. They've been going trick-or-treating since Grade 3... Scout guessed life was catching up with him as well.

He continued to scroll through his contact list with a bored look on his face.

Scout never went out alone on Halloween night, needing at least one other person he could talk to while walking and grabbing candy for hours. That's all he needed for a Halloween night, just someone to talk to.

Scout continued to scroll through his contact list, until he stopped... on a custom made name for someone he hasn't talked to in years.

The contact name read, 'The love of my frickin' life!'

Scout cringed, face palming with a sigh as he knew who that custom made name belonged to.

It belonged to Lena.

"Ugh, how the hell I ain't notice dis? Three frickin' years, and I didn't even clear this crap out my list." He groaned, tapping the 'Delete' button next to the name.

He put his phone away, stuffing it inside his pocket and continuing to gulp down his coffee.

Scout hated himself for getting reminded of Lena once again, even though it's been a long 3 years, that conversation seemed to be glued to his mind.

He didn't like it at all.

*Ding*

Scout never noticed it, but the sound of the entrance bell has been replaced by a more somber ringing tone, and what made it even more interesting, that it was shortly followed by the sound of a lowly bat screech.

"Sweet." Scout said with a smirk, absolutely loving the Halloween themed diner.

He took another sip of his coffee, looking at the decently sized lineup of people. His eyes scanned the line from front to back...

Wait, hold up.

His eyes went to the back of the line again...

His eyes caught sight of a girl that had short, dark brown hair...

Scout rubbed his eyes, "Oh, hell no. That can't be."

He finished rubbing his eyes, focusing more on the person that was at the back of the line, double checking to see if it was really who he thought it was.

His eyes focused more on the person at the back of the line. The girl had short, dark brown hair that looked very malleable, it looked as if either swirly or straight spikes could be formed with her hair considering how much product she had plastered on her hair.

Scout raised a brow, not approving of the quirky hairstyle.

He tried to catch a view of her face, but she looked forward, giving Scout a hard angle to identify who it was.

He continued to observe her.

She was wearing a leather jacket that was coloured a light brown, half of the sleeve was missing, which lead him to assume that it was meant to be designed like that, thinking of no other reason why someone would want to rip half of their jacket's sleeve off. The half sleeve exposed her pale skin, quickly catching a glimpse of an orange undershirt beneath her sleeve.

She looked to her left, slightly turning her body around so it was facing towards Scout.

Scout's jaw dropped slightly.

"That's a nice lookin' ass..." Scout whispered, taking in how round her rear looked.

The girl was wearing orange coloured tights that matched perfectly with the Halloween themed diner, her shoes were the typical. All white low tops that every girl seemed to be wearing.

The girl looked to her right...

Scout caught sight of her face.

Her face... oh god.

The girl had rosy, pale cheeks. Her lips were thin and were coloured a bright red, the lipstick making her lips stand out more. Her eyes...

Her eyes... good lord.

She had the same eyes that always seemed to tie his stomach into knot's. Her eyes stood out from all of her facial features - She had big, chestnut coloured eyes that looked alluring and seductive to any man that would stare at it for too long.

Her face looked unbelievably soft...

It had to be Lena.

"Crap." Scout whispered, continuing to stare at the girl who he thought it was... who was staring right back at him.

It was Lena.

Lena had the same expression as Scout, plastered over her face as well, as she stared back at him.

Scout looked away with a cough, going back to his cup of coffee and drinking it down. "Fuck! Why the hell does it have to be on this day too?!" He whispered frantically to himself, a mixture of emotions he was unsure of, entering his system.

Scout gave sideways glances that were aimed at Lena, trying not to look too obvious.

Lena was twirling her malleable hair and biting on her lower lip nervously as she waited in the line, trying to sneak a few glances towards Scout.

Scout had to admit that Lena certainly grew up to be more beautiful than what she already was, her body developed perfectly, her curves sharper, her hair more elegant and her facial features more perfect than what it already was.

After a couple minutes of trying to ignore her, Scout finished drinking his coffee, realizing that he didn't even touch his donut.

Scout took a bite of his donut and saw that Lena was taking a seat nearby the window that was near the entrance, only a few tables away from him. She sat down so she could see him as well, trying not to look suspicious, but already failing miserably.

Scout let out an annoyed exhale at Lena's attempt at not being obvious, quickly finishing his donut as he looked outside the window. He was contemplating on whether he should just walk out of the coffee shop, or talk with Lena instead... but then again, why would he want to talk with her?

Was it because he secretly missed talking with her?

Was it because he wanted to make one more attempt at picking her up?

Scout didn't know. He felt a small, annoying temptation that was tugging away at him to talk to her.

He looked at her once again, catching her stare that caused her to look down onto her table.

"Fuck it." Scout whispered to himself as he stood up from his table and threw out his trash.

He looked at Lena as he walked towards her table, keeping a neutral expression on his face.

He exhaled before talking, "... Wassup?" Scout said, now standing nearby Lena's table. He wasn't going to sit down with her until he felt like she wanted to talk with him, which he didn't know just yet, he'd just have to wait for her response.

"Uh..." Lena cleared her throat, "Umm, nothing much, just getting a- a quick... snack." She said awkwardly.

Oh god, she was blushing.

She didn't remember Scout looking this good.

Scout looked like he went through a major growth spurt since Grade 11, standing at a nice height of 5'10, compared to his earlier height of a short 5'5.

His body looked more built. She could tell because of the clothes that he was wearing - A tight red t-shirt that was almost hugging his slim, fit body. A black and red coloured sweater tied around his waist, and a pair of grey tracks.

... and what would Scout be without his signature cap? After 3 years, he still wore caps religiously.

Scout's face seemed to have gotten more attractive over the 3 years, his eyes still holding the beautiful colour of teal. His light brown hair had a classic bad boy 60's look, the front of his hair remaining upwards while the rest was casually down, complimentig the front of his hair. (Google up "Pomade Prince" to see what I'm trying to describe, lol) The sides of his hair faded well, complimenting the top of his hair. His hair looked as if it was styled professionally by Pomade... but it wasn't. Lena knew that Scout never used gel or product, she remembered him saying that all he needed to do was apply water and poof! He had nice hair, and she couldn't believe that his hair was just naturally malleable like that.

Natural...

"Scout, is your hair natural?" Lena asked randomly.

He was slightly surprised by her random question, "My hair? Yeah, it's mostly natural. Thing is, I use water and a tiny bit of Pomade to make my hair stand, only a tiny bit though. But get this, if I really wanted to make my hair look snobby, then I would actually use a proper amount - not even a lot, ima add quickly - of it and frickin' like... I don't know, style the crap outta my hair, I guess..."

Lena was about to reply when Scout spoke up again, "It's not like I need to use it either, my hair already stays up, but it looks pretty sloppy if I leave it like that, so I, uhh, I just use my Pomade to make it stand up even better." Scout said, his chatty reply slightly annoying Lena.

"You could've just said 'Yes', but whatever. So your saying that you don't even need to use any type of product whatsoever, all you really need to do is apply water to your hair and style it from there?" Lena asked.

Scout made sure this reply wasn't going to be chatty, "Yup, you got dat right."

Lena raised a brow, impressed by how customizable Scout's hair was. She found it unfair how Scout could just have malleable hair naturally, and she couldn't. She needed to use a bombardment of gel and hairspray to keep her hair intact for crying out loud! And all Scout needed to do was put water lazily over his hair and just like magic - His hair ends up beautiful...

So unfair.

Anyways, Scout looked like the stereotypical bad boy... only more alluring and... well, not really bad, just more polite than your average, typical bad boy.

"Blimey, he got better." Lena thought as she let out a sigh, trying to focus on her food instead of Scout.

It was difficult.

Scout was standing tall and calm close to her, his causal swagger emanating off of him, his scent smelling like a fresh shower to her.

Did she mention how attractive he looked?

Lena felt shy around him now that she was trying to sneak peeks at him, as it was usually the other way around a few years ago...

"How quick is that quick snack gonna be? You plannin' on having that quick snack for here, or to go?" He asked.

"To go..." Lena messed up. "Oh! I mean, I was supposed to... have it for 'to go', but I guess I could have it here instead." She lied, only deciding to sit down because she saw Scout, and also because she was really interested on how in the world Scout grew up to be so damn attractive.

He gave her a slow nod, fairly interested. He was about to find out if Lena really wanted to talk to him, "Right... well, enjoy ya quick snack, I gotta go." He said politely.

Now if Lena let him walk out, she didn't want to talk to him, which meant that Scout could prevent wasting time with a girl he wanted to forget about. But if Lena didn't let him walk out, asked him to stay... then maybe it would be worth while for him to listen to what she had to say.

Scout slowly walked towards the exit...

A deep British accent following him as well...

"Scout, wait!"

He looked back, trying to hide the smirk on his face. He looked questioningly at Lena.

"Let's just... talk for a while." She said, not caring that she was basically pleading for his company.

"Say no more." Scout thought. He walked back to Lena's table, sitting down in the available seat.

"So... whatcha tryna talk about?" He asked.

Lena didn't even know what she wanted to talk about.

Great.

"Welllll... let's see..." She pondered.

"Halloween is just around the corner, Lena." Her conscious spoke.

"Well... it's almost Halloween, as you probably know. I'm just curious, what are you going to be doing for Halloween?" She asked, grateful that she found something to talk about.

"I was going to go out with my boys and do some trick-or-treating around town, y'know, the usual. But it doesn't look like it's happening this year, cause none of them are available for it..." He looked annoyed. "Man, not even Tavon is down, and when Tavon ain't down, then no one's down, I'm tellin' ya."

"Does that mean you're still not going?" Lena asked.

Scout thought about it, then replied, "I don't even know... wait, nah. Probably not, cause like, y'know, since none of my guys are going, I ain't gonna have no one to talk to, and trust me, trick-or-treating alone is like frickin'... uh, it's like frickin'..." He tried to search for a clever comparison, "... ah screw it, I don't know. But yo, going alone on Halloween night is crappy, that's all I'm tryna say, and since I ain't gonna have no one to tag along with me, may as well not go, you know what I mean?" Scout said.

"I could go with you." Was what Lena wanted to say so badly. She hasn't gone out on Halloween night ever since she last went with Scout. She remembered how quickly she devoured the bags of candy she collected that night. The amount of CHOCOLATE filled her up for a good 3 weeks before her supply ran out.

"Are you sure you don't have any mates that wanna tag along with you?" Lena asked.

Seconds passed, Scout didn't reply, he sort of looked like he was in deep thought.

With each second of silence, Lena started to feel more awkward. "Uhh... Scout? Are you there-"

"You wanna go trick-or-treating with me?" Scout asked out of the blue.

Lena didn't know how to reply, the expression on her face looked priceless to Scout. So priceless, that he couldn't help but smile.

Scout couldn't hold it. He laughed and smiled, "Lena? Are you there?" He asked, turning her words on her.

"His smile is so fucking nice, blimey..." Lena thought to herself, his smile causing her expression to confuse him even more.

Lena shook her head out of it and cleared her throat, "W-well, yeah, it wouldn't hurt, I guess." She said with a smile, agreeing to go trick-or-treating with him for the second time.

Déjà-Vu much.

"Aight, cool to hear. Give me ya phone number, I'll call ya and give you the details later." He replied, exchanging his phone number with Lena.

They exchanged their phone numbers and Scout got up from his seat, "Alright, its a plan then, just make sure ya pick up ya phone when I call, okay? I gotta go now, gotta do boring crap. I'll see ya later."

"You got it, bye Scout." Lena said.

Scout didn't reply, he walked straight towards the door and left the Halloween themed shop.

Scout and Lena just had a normal conversation, as if nothing bad happened between them... they must've been over the whole situation by now...

Lena let out a dreamy sigh, never thinking that she'd be this attracted to Scout, ever.

Lena's past affection for women have gone away greatly since graduating from High School, many of the girls she liked had to move onto other states and cities that were too far away from her for any type of potential visits.

Lena didn't mind it... especially since she saw Scout.

Scout obviously looked good in her eyes, him being close to her made her blush, so he was obviously doing something right with his body if her blood managed to get warm around him like that.

She did notice a slight dip down in his energetic personality, appearing and acting more calmer than what he used to act like 3 years ago. His maturity growing a ton. She minded it a bit, but it wasn't like it was that bad.

But it wasn't even that! Part of her dreamy sigh being due to the fact that she was going to go trick-or-treating with him again! Hopefully, with no awkwardness between them, just a long moment of fun at the maturing age of 19.

Lena finished her coffee and walked back home to her apartment, thinking about what she would wear on Halloween Night.

*October 31, 2020*

The weather was very similar to the Halloween Night that happened 3 years ago - A cool, autumn breeze with a slight chill. The night sky was dark, and the streetlights were lit, groups of kids roaming the blocks with bags in their hands, Halloween props littering the entrances to every damn house in sight, Halloween props spread across the lawns like a minefield.

The pumpkin carvings were creative as well, impressing Scout greatly.

Yup, Halloween was very apparent in this neighborhood.

A certain house was glowing orange and yellow, illuminating the night with an array of bright colours that caught the attention of candy hungry kids everywhere around the neighborhood.

Scout smiled and Lena laughed, both of them complimenting the house owner.

Scout and Lena met up with each other just in time, the neighborhood being closer to Lena's apartment than the one that Scout was in.

Scout was wearing a tight, red coloured sweater with three white stripes on the sleeves. There were bandages that covered his hands, except for his fingers. He was wearing a different cap as well, an all black cap with orange trims, and a communications mic attached to his left ear. He had dark grey sweats, pulling the ends of his pants high up and holding it's position with his very high socks. His socks reached his calves, Lena had no idea why in the world Scout would decide to do something as quirky as that.

"Umm, what's with the socks?" Lena asked.

"I'm tryna pull the look from this one cool character from some game I played. The dude looked cool, so I'm copying his style." Scout replied.

Lena nodded, even though she had no idea what video game character wore high socks.

Lena was wearing... the same costume from 3 years ago.

It looked better than before in Scout's honest opinion, maybe it was because her body seemed to stand out more when she wore it.

"Nice, I like the creativity behind the costume, original and never thought of before." Scout said, joking around with her.

"Sod off, love." Lena replied.

"Ain't like I heard that a million times before." He said with a smirk.

Lena rolled her eyes and smiled at him.

Scout saw her smile and looked off somewhere else, already feeling himself grow a likeness for her smiles. He saw many kids with various costumes. The usual ghost costumes, the typical witch costumes, you know - The generic.

However, one costume did stand out to him. It was a costume of a pixelated man with a pick axe, a pixelated teal shirt, pixelated blue pants and pixelated hair as well! Scout guessed the kid's costume was based off of that building game, he forgot the name of it, but he thought that costume was the most creative out of the lot of kids that were roaming the neighbourhood. He raised a brow, impressed at the costume.

"You're looking at the mate with the pixel costume, right?" Lena asked, noticing where his stares were going to.

"Yup, fella's costume looks nice, what can I say?" Scout replied.

"Yeah, it does, but I've seen better ones." Lena said.

"Really? Wow." Scout replied, not really interested.

He then noticed a kid with a full bag of candy, walking around with it like it was a trophy.

It reminded him of something important.

"Oh! Damn, I almost forgot!" He said, his eyes slightly widening. "We gotta get some candy, you know what that means?" He asked Lena, the question being very rhetorical.

"It means-"

Scout cut her off, "It means we oughta' get some frickin' candy! Let's go!" He said with excitement. Lena followed after him, feeling the same feeling she felt a few years ago when she did this last time with Scout...

*8:30 P.M. The Haunted Attraction*

"Scout, look at that house." Lena said, pointing to a house that had a free trial for a quick jump scare. "Pretty spooky looking, am I right?"

Scout chuckled and rolled his eyes, "Ehh, I guess it's decently scary? Anyways, that's a haunted house, and not the real ones either. The people that are put in there just try to scare anyone who decides to enter, which... uh, depending on how easy you are to scare... then I suggest not... Not..." Scout stopped talking. He let out a quiet gasp as froze suddenly, eyes staring straight at the haunted attraction.

Scout was stiff, and he was barely breathing.

Lena just seemed to notice him after some quiet seconds, "Scout?" She looked at him with concern, "Are... are you there?" She waved a hand over his face to see if he was still there.

His expression didn't change and his eyes didn't falter.

"Love... that's not funny, knock it off already." Lena said nervously, not wanting to believe that his unusual behaviour had anything to do with the haunted attraction nearby.

Scout still stood frozen, holding an emotionless stare at the house.

This was no time to be playing with a girl, Lena took action, "Scout!" She yelled, shoving him gently enough so it wouldn't really hurt him.

As if any of her hits hurt him.

She let out a gasp as he fell down onto the ground, his eyes looked lifeless and his body was stiff...

He wasn't breathing either.

"SCOUT!" Lena said desperately, panicking as she didn't know what to do.

"Oh my fuuuck! What do I do, what do I do, what do I do?!" Lena repeated, believing that Scout was in the beginning process of getting possessed by just looking at the house, her imagination running wild.

Lena bit her fingernails, looking away from Scout's body to look at the haunted attraction herself, wanting to see if anything was there. While she stared, she pulled out her smartphone as well, already in the process of calling emergency services as she stared at the house.

That was... until she felt a cold chill behind her.

Lena shuddered and cussed silently, not wanting to turn around to find out what it was, as she was officially scared at the moment.

She let out a shaky gasp, her eyes widening, wanting to run, but her legs refusing to budge... the unknown terror having a paralyzing grip on her movement.

There was a suspenseful silence for a good 5 seconds until it spoke up...

"... Boo." (It scared her this time...)

Lena screamed, terrified of whatever was behind her. She ran away from it, dropping her candy bags immediately, almost stumbling as she ran.

"HELP! SOMEONE! IT'S GOING TO KILL ME!" Lena screamed out, running as quickly as she could to a nearby house... excluding the haunted attraction.

Even through all her loud screams of terror... she heard a laugh...

And the familiar sounding laugh couldn't belong to anyone but...

"Scout." Lena said with venom, gritting her teeth as she stopped running and turned around to see who the real culprit was behind her temporary scare session.

"Damn! I got you real good!" Scout said, a huge smirk on his face as he complimented himself.

Lena looked around, seeing a couple of people (Kids especially) smiling at how scared she was. She must've looked like a fool, running away from a guy that in fact, wasn't getting possessed, just merely acting like a Grade A douchebag.

"Bloody wanker." Lena muttered under her breath, walking back towards the innocent faced Scout with a murderous look on her face.

"You have NO idea on how much I wanna bloody murder you right now." Lena whispered to him, giving him a series of little punches that felt like annoying stings.

"Oh come on, ya gotta admit, it was good!" Scout replied, his smile still plastered on his face despite the punches he was receiving.

"Sod off! It would've looked good on anyone but me!" She tried punching him harder with every word she said, "Don't. *punch* Ever. *punch* Do. *punch* That. *punch* Again! *punch*" Lena finished, ending her series of punches with her most powerful punch she could produce.

Her most powerful punch felt like a candle being hit against him... She needed to work on her arms, a lot.

Scout stifled a laugh at her 'powerful' punch, "No promises, might have to do something like this cause man... this was priceless." He said, causing Lena to show him an expression of annoyance.

Scout walked over to the candy bags she dropped, luckily, none of her candy fell out when she dropped it. He picked it up and handed it to Lena, "But please, just admit it, I got you pretty good."

"Fine! If your ego is that bloody important to you, then yes! You got me 'good'." Lena said with an annoyed tone.

Scout could see that she wasn't having fun... and that was very concerning for him. He needed to fix her mood quick if she was going to have fun for the remainder of Halloween night.

Scout looked around and found that a conveniently placed sewer grate was nearby him.

He needed to do this quick while she was still turned away from him.

Scout purposely tripped himself, making sure his candy bag was fully open and pointed towards the sewer grate, allowing a lot of his candy treats to disappear into the sewers.

Lena turned around, an instant smile replacing her annoyance at what she was witnessing.

"Ah... crap." Scout lazily said, not even making an attempt to stop his candy from flowing out of his bag, into the sewers. "Oh well... At least it wasn't all of... it..." He had a confused look on his face as Lena picked up his bag and made sure every piece of candy was going down the sewers.

"HAH! That's what you get for acting like a douchebag, karma!" Lena said, feeling a spark of happiness surge into her after dumping a full bag of Scout's candy down the sewers.

"Uh... I guess. Sorry, Lena, I saw the opportunity and I just had to take it, you know?" Scout said, sensing that she was returning to her happy mood.

"No worries mate, now that a bag of your candy is gone, I'm content now. Come on, let's go inside that haunted house- or attraction, ugh, whatever!"

Yup, Lena was happy now. Very happy.

Scout cocked a brow, causing her to raise a confused brow of her own.

"What?" Lena asked.

"I don't think you should go... you were easy as crap to scare just a while ago." Scout replied, surprisingly still having a sense of care for her. "Trust me, if you couldn't handle a casual scare, then you ain't gonna be able to handle multiple ones... like, no offence, but you'd probably get a heart attack if you attempted to get through that, I'm just saying." He said honestly, no joking around this time.

Lena sighed, he was probably right. She didn't want to end up traumatized on Halloween Night, she just wanted to have fun and get a lot of chocolate, she didn't want nothing too spooky.

"Ughhhh, fine! Let's get more candy then, I want more chocolate." Lena said, pulling on Scout's arm, forcing him to move along with her.

Scout cracked another huge smile. Since he had his sleeves rolled up, he could feel her soft hands against his skin, causing familiar tingles to shoot inside him.

Scout felt warmer in the cheeks.

"Woah... were you always this jumpy?" Scout asked, not bothering to remove her grip from his arm as he was secretly enjoying the contact of her nostalgic feel against his skin.

"Pfft, please. 'Jumpy' is my middle name! Come on, walk faster, we gotta get more chocolate- I mean candy!" Lena replied, walking faster, almost causing Scout to stumble.

Scout was enjoying this more than he should have...

*10:00 P.M. On the way to Lena's apartment*

After 5 hours of trick-or-treating, Lena decided that she wanted to go home now, the weather getting too chilly for her, the bags, getting too heavy for her and the fun...

Too. Much. Fun.

She needed to stop it before she got addicted to this addicting lifestyle. She never knew that living more like a youth could lead to fun in a study filled life, but it was dangerous for her to go down that path, she was currently working on her career, she couldn't let any more distractions (excluding this, she made an exception for Halloween) put her down the wrong path from success.

"Oh my god! I haven't had that much fun in years, love! Seriously! Why can't life always be this damn fun?!" Lena asked Scout.

"Cause obviously, life wasn't meant to be twenty four seven 'fun' all day and everyday. The only difference is, that some people just know how to have more fun than the others. I'm one of them, cause like, I live like a young buck and if you think this is fun, than you haven't seen what I consider fun. And don't get me wrong, this ain't bad at all, but there are some things that can beat this. I done it before and believe me when I say it, the things I do, man oh man! Fun. As. Shit." Scout replied, having a short reminiscence of the andrenaline filled moments of his life.

Lena didn't mind the long answer, in fact, hearing him mention activities that were better than trick-or-treating caught her interest greatly, wondering what exactly was better than this.

"What?! You're telling me, that there's more exciting things to do than this? That sounds very far-fetched." Lena replied.

Scout scoffed, "Well, ya either believe me or ya don't, but I'm tellin' ya. I know how to have fun, ask my friends or like, anyone that hung out with me at least once, and they'll all tell you the same thing," He mimicked a voice, "Wow, that Scout dude sure knows how to live! Wow! Scout is like a walking tank of positivity, WOW!" He mimicked, ending it off on a chuckle. "Ahh... but all jokes aside, I ain't lying 'bout nothin', so just believe me."

Lena believed now, giggling at his voice mimic. "Don't worry love, I believe." Lena said, smiling towards Scout.

Scout looked at her and couldn't help the urge but to admire her smile... her smile always looked nice. "Thanks." He replied.

Scout and Lena were just 2 more blocks away from her apartment, Lena wanting to get home as quickly as she could because of the bags she was carrying.

Lena had 2 full bags of candy, so did Scout. She was struggling with holding her bags, obviously having not grown in strength in the recent years, the strength of her arms fairly comparable to a 12 Year old.

Scout however, seemed to have gotten stronger, no longer struggling to carry 2 candy bags that were filled in his hand.

Lena was tempted to ask him if he could carry her bags, "Oh. My. GOD! These bags are fucking impossible! I can't!"

Scout raised a concerned brow at her cussing. It still surprised him to hear her swear, despite her maturity.

He suddenly gripped the handle of her candy bag, not even giving her time to ask for help, just doing it naturally.

He gripped two bags in his right hand, "Yo, if ya havin' trouble wit dat bag over dere in ya hands, send it to me." He offered, a polite gesture that Lena didn't even have to ask for.

"No, no, no! It's alright love, I got this one!" Lena said, grunting quietly as she struggled to lift it with both hands... she was weak.

"Okay... whatever ya say." Scout said, stifling a laugh at her futile attempts to carry a filled candy bag.

*Minutes later*

Scout and Lena finally reached the lobby of Lena's building.

Even the entrance of her apartment was Halloween themed! Scout loved it!

"Nice decor, these people gotta be in the spirit today, don't ya think?" Scout asked.

"Mhm, there really feeling that Halloween effect on them, and that's completely fine, let's be honest." Lena replied, complimenting the Halloween decorations that the staff decided to put their time into.

They politely declined the candy that was offered to them, their filled bags being their explanation for the decline.

"Yo, do ya still need my help with your bags? Like, can you carry all your bags to your room? Cause if it's a yes, then I'm gonna go now." Scout asked, wanting to catch a lot sleep for tomorrow. But a small part of him also wanting to stay with Lena for an even longer amount of time.

Lena could probably handle the weight of two filled bags now that she just had to drag it across the hallways... but that would mean that Scout had to leave, and she really didn't want that...

Lena wanted Scout to stay longer, even if it was going to be a short 4-7 minutes, she really liked talking with Scout.

Scout's funny, casually energetic and bravado-filled personality reminding why she always liked talking with him back then.

"Umm, just carry my bags with me to my door, and you can go, okay?" She replied, slightly disappointed that he was about to depart from her company.

Scout clicked his tongue, "Got it."

They both stepped into the elevator, "Lena, what floor?" Scout asked.

"Ten." She replied.

He pressed the button and leaned back against the elevator walls, yawning and stretching as he softly dropped the bags.

Scout loved this elevator.

It was playing Halloween themed music for the people that were waiting, songs like Michael Jackson's iconic "Thriller" was a part of the elevator jam.

"And this is THRILLERRR, THRILLER NIGHT!" The speakers played.

Scout was jamming his head to the beat, "Music like this? It ain't never gonna be made again, Jackson was frickin' special, and ain't no other MJ gonna exist." Scout said, not caring if Lena was listening or not.

"You got that right. MJ was really, something else." Lena replied, fully agreeing with his views on MJ's music.

The elevator reached the tenth floor, both Scout and Lena stepped outside the elevator and proceeded to walk towards her door. They reached Lena's door, she unlocked it and immediately placed the bags over by her entrance, "Candy is so bloody heavy, don't you think?" She asked Scout.

"Maybe you're just really weak, and the candy ain't heavy at all? Maybe it's that." Scout replied with a playful smirk, dropping her candy bags besides the one she dropped.

"Fuck off!" Lena replied, giving him a playful punch that caused Scout to smile even more.

"Hah! You just proved my point." Scout said while cocking a brow at her profanity. Her punch feeling like a hit from a pillow.

"Ugh, I wasn't even serious with that punch, if I wanted to hurt you, I could have already done it!" Lena said, threatening to punch him even harder.

Scout's smile faded away, his brain triggering memories of how Lena managed to hurt him, not physically, but emotionally.

That Halloween Night 3 years ago...

Lena took off her cadet hat, her short hair flowing out elegantly to Scout. He couldn't help but admire how beautiful she looked right now.

Scout gulped, realizing that he was starting to fall for Lena again, and knowing that he had no chance with her, he had to go before any other feelings would develop for her.

"You probably can." Scout said reassuringly, "but I gotta go now... uh... yeah, I gotta study, an- and all that crap, y'know." Scout said, wanting to get away from her before he did something as stupid as last time. "Bye Lena, umm..." His stutters were returning, and that was never a good sign for him.

His stuttering meant that affection was in development.

"This year's Halloween was pretty cool, and yeah... bye again." Scout awkwardly said. He hasn't felt this awkward since 3 years ago, luckily he was going to get away from it all before it happened.

Scout gave her a smile and started to walk quicker than normal to the elevator.

Lena knew he was lying... Scout never studied.

"Scout..." Lena called after him.

Scout's eyes widened. "Why does she want to talk to me?" He thought as he stopped walking.

"Can you come 'ere for a bit... I just gotta... just gotta tell ya something before ya run off." Lena said.

"S-sure." Scout replied, the nervousness catching up to him. He turned around and walked back to her door, a nervous expression on Lena's face as well.

"So... what's up?" Scout said, trying hard not to look at her eyes.

Lena sighed, "There's no more hard feelings between us, right?" She said, making an attempt to rebuild the friendship between herself and him.

Scout groaned, "Talkin' bout it just frickin' makes me... Ugh, ima be honest with you, there's probably still some crap between us, it just hadn't left my mind yet, and I know it's immature that I'm keeping grudges after all these years, but that's just me... and..." He shrugged his shoulders, talking too damn much when he could've just answered her question with one word.

"What's that supposed to-"

"It means no." Scout answered for her. "No, I... I didn't get over it, but I swear to ya, ima get over it... one day... I don't know when, but I'll get over it." Scout said, not really knowing if he was going to follow through with it.

Lena was surprised by his answer. Ever since she saw him at the coffee shop, he acted so calm and collected around her, it was like he forgot all about what happened on that Halloween night.

"Scout, I still am sorry about what happened, just wanna let you know that." Lena said.

"Okay, seriously, if I keep talkin' to ya about this, I ain't never gonna forget about it, I oughta go now, bye Lena." Scout replied, not wanting to talk to her anymore.

"Wait, Scout!" Lena called after him again.

Scout didn't turn back.

He didn't want to get back into a friendship with Lena... he didn't want that to happen again.

Scout kept walking, until she placed a hand on his shoulder, causing him to turn around.

"Lena, what do you want?!" Scout was about to say more until...

Until her lips unexpectedly went upon his.

Scout's eyes widened, he dropped his bags immediately, his heartbeat frantic as he stood still. Blood rushed up to his cheeks, causing a deep blush to take over his lightly tanned face. He felt her soft hands glide across his cheeks, unknowingly returning the kiss as well, his hands touching the back of her neck as they passionately kissed. Lena let out a small laugh at the contact of his warm fingers, Scout letting out small breaths as he was enticed by kissing her for the first time. Her kiss was mesmerizing to him, he wanted this to last forever, the lovely smell that emanated off of her caused him to lose himself even more in the kiss. Both of their lips seemed to melt perfectly against each other's, fusing into the kiss as if it was natural between them.

Scout's lips haven't quivered like this since his first kiss. He has kissed a lot of girls during his years, but this one... Lena's kiss felt different. Electrifying, exotic and more blissful than the rest. Bliss was what her lips were drowning into him. Scout let out a soft groan as she put more effort into her side of the kiss, feeling certain that he was about to pass out because of the heat that he was feeling inside himself.

And just when he thought he was about to pass out...

Lena pulled out of the kiss with a shaky gasp, causing the temporary fireworks to stop for Scout.

Lena looked at the frozen faced Scout with an apologetic expression, "Consider this an apology gift... I'm sorry Scout." She said quietly.

It took a while for him to render her words, "A-apology... apology accepted." He said with a blissful smile.

Lena looked at Scout, who was clearly lost for words at what just happened. A crazy, sudden thought entered her mind that caused her to ask him something that she didn't expect. There was obviously something that attracted her to Scout, and would she mind if she'd give it a chance?

"Bloody hell, no! You know what you want..." Lena's conscience spoke, urging Lena to go with her to wants.

With a sigh, she asked. "Maybe... maybe we can be more than friends... If that's okay with you..." Lena asked, trying not to appear as nervous as she felt.

Scout couldn't believe it.

"... I'd love that." Scout whispered with an ecstatic face. He didn't know how to feel about the situation.

Lena and him were more than friends now...

Lena nodded, letting a relaxed sigh out as she walked towards her door, "Good to hear... Bye Scout, see you later, yeah?"

Scout lazily waved back and blinked, "Yeah... uh, I'll see you later. Bye, Lena."

Lena gave him another warm smile and closed her door, leaving Scout alone in the hallways. He picked up his bags and headed toward the elevator.

Scout kept a smile glued to his face during the whole elevator ride. He touched his lips with one of his fingers, feeling her lipstick that was plastered across his lips. He examined the tip of his finger, slightly covered in pink and smelling like a fresh rose to him. He let out a lazy sigh as he thought about the whole situation once again... He just kissed Lena... And 'More than Friends' to him, meant that Lena and him were...

Boyfriend and Girlfriend.

Scout's delusional teenage fantasies were finally coming true.

"YES!" He said proudly, fist pumping the air as he waited for the elevator.

He wanted to kiss Lena for so long, never forgetting how excited it made him whenever he thought about it.

This was why Scout loved Halloween... no matter the situation, Halloween always seemed to make him feel young and remember the good things in life.

Good things like, how badly he wanted to kiss Lena, how fun it was to collect bags of candy with people, how fun it was go out and just feel... young.

Scout loved Halloween.

Scout's night wasn't going to end just yet...

As Scout exited Lena's apartment, his phone vibrated. He wondered who was messaging him.

It was Lena's number. The text below her name reading, "I forgot to give you your sweater back, lol. Do you want to pick it up real quick, or nah?"

Scout smiled, "Ahh, so that's where my frickin' sweater was all along..." He said quietly, texting Lena back to notify her that he was coming to pick it up. He walked back into the lobby of Lena's apartment.

Scout was just going to make a quick trip to Lena's door to pick up his sweater that he forgot about 3 years ago...

Nothing else would happen... right?

To be Continued...?

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Well, that took a while to complete :l

I can tell you guys right now, that I'm most likely going to follow this one shot up with a more EXPLICIT part cause... Idk, I like writing explicit scenes. So keep ya eyes open for it if you're interested... if it happens, of course.

And here's a quick little spoiler about the last sentence that's probably going to lead up to the follow up that I'll most likely add - Scout gets way more than his sweater when he returns to Lena's apartment room... :)

There were SO MANY things I wanted to add into this. Things like, more dialogue and conversations between Tracer and Scout, more of their thoughts, more DETAIL in general. But if I did include that... I'd probably lose interest in finishing the story, cause it would take a while to apply ALL the things I wanted to add, inside the story.

Another thing, I know there was a lot of time skips in this story and yeah, I know, it was kind of lazy for me to do so, adding in time skips, but yo. If I didn't include the time skips, I would probably be at 21'000 words with only a third of the story completed, or something like that, and I started writing on this story almost 2 weeks away from Halloween Day, and over that 2 week time period, I was met with many distractions and occurrences that interrupted the time I was supposed to be spending with this story. So please forgive my lazy time skips. And sorry if there were any spelling errors or grammar mistakes, I typed all this out on my phone, so there's bound to be crappy errors that will make a guy cringe. Sorry for those ones :(

Also, I really hope you guys enjoyed this long ass one shot between Scout and Tracer. I've acknowledged that I've seriously been LACKING with my other stories, cause honestly, I am getting LAZY with it. Especially with School shit, a job and other shit that I kinda have to focus on, there will be periods of time where I gotta shift my attention away from making stories.

But I felt really motivated to do this one, since Halloween was coming up, why not make a story about it? This was Halloween themed as fuck... at least, I think it was. Cause you know, it's Halloween, one of the best holidays in my opinion. I tried to make the story as 'Halloweeny' as possible and I think I did a pretty good job at it, especially when I put Scout's second costume as himself... If you get it, then W for you.

As for my other stories, I really don't know when I'm going to update it, but I promise you guys, that I ain't abandoning it, don't worry.

Hope you guys have/had a nice Halloween if your celebrating it, I'm out!