August 19th 2014
The last day of summer before high school.
Finn sat inside the tree house, as his older brother looked out window with a pair of binoculars.
"Dude, what are we doing up here? Sitting up in the treehouse doing nothing is boring!"
"This the time of day when Rei and her friends all joke around and gossip and stuff," said Jake. Finn rolled his eyes.
"Quit stalking her and ask her out already! Honestly this is starting to get creepier than the mugshot of this guy in the newspaper," he said, holding up the article. Everybody in town knew about Ash Wigner, the inmate at the prison just outside of town, who might released in a matter of months.
"Finn, is it really necessary to talk about a guy who…" he stopped mid sentence, "Yeah this is really creepy,". He put his binoculars down and started to move towards the ladder.
"What are you doing now?" Asked Finn.
"Asking her out," he said, already half way down.
"Yeah, don't use any thing we just said as a conversation starter," Finn shouted.
"Okay," Jake shouted, running off.
He came back fifteen minutes later with a huge smile on his face.
"She thinks I'm cute!" He nearly squealed.
~8*8~
August 20th 1984
"Bodacious?" Said Bonnibel quizzically. The two girls were in Bonnibel's bedroom, her parents were out of the house.
"That's what I said, Bubblegum!" Marceline laughed. "What, no one ever call you that before?"
"Yes, but usually…" Marceline kissed her. Bonnibel's face turned a dark pink. Then Marceline got a glimpse of the clock.
"I've gotta go, see ya tomorrow?" said Marceline.
"Uh, yeah for sure," said Bonnibel.
"Goodbye Bonnibel," She said jokingly, mocking old movies.
"Goodbye," she said, wanting her to stay just a little longer.
Once Marceline was out of the house, she started running. How should she have been so careless when it came to watching the time? Ash was going to angry for sure. Why couldn't she just muster up the courage to break up with him?
She ran into him on the way there.
"Why were you at Bonnibel Gumm's house?" He said sternly.
"We're friends Ash, we hang at each others houses," She said quickly. Ash wasn't pleased. She felt like a total dipstick.
~8*8~
August 20th 2014
"Hey Finn!" Said Bea. Her hair, green as ever, was tied back in a bun.
"What's up Bea?" He said, swinging his green book bag over his shoulder.
"Wanna go down to the library with me?" She asked. The front pocket of her overalls was filled with folded up pieces of paper.
"Is that a euphemism for something pervy?" He asked. Almost nobody went to the library at the school. Most teachers avoided the place.
"No," she said with a laugh, "I just saw something strange, and thought you'd might want to see it,"
"Okay, fine. But I don't want to be late for class,"
"You won't, I promise,"
The two traveled through the maze of students, until they reached the library entrance, where there was barely a student in sight.
"You know with no teachers in this place, you'd think it'd be a popular hide out for students who want to cut class and stuff," said Finn.
"Yeah, but most of those kind of people are dumb enough to believe this place is bad luck," said Bea, walking between shelves, her fingers picking up the dust from the forgotten books, leaving a long line across the spines.
"True," said Finn, "I'm sure these books have cool stories in them and junk, but they're gross man!"
"Yeah, there's probably a lot of health code violations in here, but nobody really cares," said Bee, "But they do dust a little bit in the front of the room, which they've actually updated since February 1985,"
"What happened in February 1985 that made people took scared to even come back here?" Asked Finn.
"Well if you're talking about the library specifically, a girl named Bonnibel Gumm went missing around twelve o'clock and was found dead at the back of the library two hours later, which was about a week before Ash Wigner infamously killed…"
"Bea is this another one of your ghost mystery things?"
"If ghosts weren't real then why hasn't this place been properly…"
They heard a book drop, and a mutter.
The two teenagers turned to see were it had come from.
Apparently the person on the other side had dropped a copy of "Pride and Prejudice".
And was see-through, and had these blank, dead looking blue eyes.
Needless to say, Finn and Bea made a run for it.