Small Town Gossip
Authoress: Wee-Me
DISCLAIMER: I don't own "Lost Boys" so please don't sue me, I don't have a comic book store to fall back on financially.
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I've lived in this town my whole life and we've never has anything weirder than the stuff that happened to the Emerson family. It was like something out of a soap opera almost. I mean, I never even knew the old guy's name and couldn't have picked him out of a line up before he crashed into his house. Nobody knew what to think of what happened to the old man's house after his daughter and her boys moved in. The whole place had to be re-plumbed and some of the wiring had to be re-done. There was a lot of cleaning that had to be done and painting of the fresh drywall. That wasn't even mentioning the wall that had to be re-done. It kept the local contractors in work for weeks. They assumed that a combination of wild teens and a drunken old man wrecked the house and life went on as usual. No mention of vampires every made it past the Frog's shop no matter how hard they tried to convince us all. Not that I ever go into the comic book store if I can avoid it, it's just sometimes I need to duck in out of the rain or pick stuff up for my brother or whatever.
Then Michael, the oldest boy, started having episodes out in public. He would be fine one minute, acting like a normal guy, and then the next he'd be screaming and hiding from the sun. He always screamed about antlers not working or someone named David coming home or other crazy stuff along those lines. I saw it one time and it was so not a pretty sight, he was on the floor writhing around and when it got bad his back arched so hard only his head and feet were touching the ground. I thought he'd snap his spine for sure. The gossip was that his fits were even worse at home, but there was never any proof until the family had him committed. Of course it was intended to be a quiet affair, but with their already outrageous reputation word of more strange happenings in the Emerson family spread like wildfire. I remember hearing the ladies talking about it in the grocery store the last time I ever saw that Star girl. She lit out of town as soon as her boyfriend was locked up, and as far as I know that's the last anybody ever saw of her. I thought that was a real sucky way for her to treat her guy, even if he was crazy.
The younger boy spent more and more time with those strange Frog boys and they were later linked to the rash of break-ins on churches when they were caught stealing holy water. Who steals holy water? Isn't that a sin or something? Anyway, after the old man died (one of those freak accident single car wrecks) and the youngest boy kept getting in to trouble the mother took the two of them off to a convent or something upstate. I think the Frog boys got community service and I guess it scared them straight, I've still never seen either of them act up or even go out past sunset. Maybe the saddest part of the whole thing was how Michael ended up. Poor thing was in the mental hospital for a long time and they thought maybe he was getting better, but one night he got to screaming about David again. The next morning the nurse found him and his throat was ripped out; they never did figure out how he managed it with the restraints on.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Death by stereo? Maybe. Death by antlers? Uh no. Part of my "13 Posts of Halloween". Further notes in my bio. Please enjoy.