Many years ago in a certain orphanage...
Cherry and Atticus were sitting at a table together, reading their books and Cherry soon found herself getting bored of the Bailey School Kids and even tossed away the latest book: The Bride of Frankenstein Doesn't Bake Cookies. She stuck her tongue out as she tossed it away and folded her arms out of boredom while Atticus read Nancy Drew.
"There's gotta be one book here that I would like to read, I mean, come on." Cherry said before she heard a book fall off the shelf. She then walked over to the book.
Atticus looked up once to see Cherry getting a new book and then looked back down to his Nancy Drew book. Cherry picked up the fallen book. It had the word 'Goosebumps' on it and where the second title was called Night of the Living Dummy.
"Goosebumps..." Cherry whispered before she took the book and sat back down next to Atticus and began reading instantly. And where it seemed like this book was just her style and where after putting the book back where it was after reading it she saw that there were many other Goosebumps books.
It was soon getting to sunset.
"Ooh, we better get going before we miss supper!" Atticus told Cherry.
"Just... One more... Page..." Cherry's left eye twitched.
"Uh, Cherry?" Atticus asked.
Cherry kept reading.
Atticus waved his hand in front of her face and she seemed to be sucked into the book. "This is new." He said as he tried to take it away from Cherry.
"Hey!" Cherry snapped.
"Come on, Cherry, you know we can't miss dinner!" Atticus told her.
"I will, just let me read!" Cherry reached out for the book.
"You can check out that book, you know that, right?" The librarian asked.
Cherry walked up to the librarian and held the book out.
The librarian took the book and stamped it and put a paper in the book and then gave it back. "You may return it in two weeks."
"Or in Cherry Reading Time, that'll be 30 seconds." Atticus muttered.
"Thanks." Cherry told the librarian.
The librarian smiled to the kids and sent them off.
Cherry was still reading her book even while eating her dinner, she even read it in the bathtub, and read it under the covers with a flashlight after light's out. After finding that book interesting, she decided to try and buy every last copy of Goosebumps books.
"Man, she's hooked." Atticus commented as he watched his best friend in her new obsession.
A few years later, as we are shown Cherry and Atticus as adults.
"Where did the time go and why didn't we stay in Never Land?" Cherry complained.
"I don't know why you're complaining, you've been the same age for 30 years!" Atticus replied, due to Forte biting Cherry, she never physically aged and always looked like a nineteen year old rather than her true age.
"You know what I mean." Cherry narrowed her eyes.
"I know, I know." Atticus said.
"So, what're we doing now?" Cherry asked since he asked her to join him in something.
"Well, I thought it would be nice if our two families greeted our new neighbor, you know, the one new family that moved into the house next to that man that doesn't let his daughter go to school?" Atticus asked.
"Oh, yeah..." Cherry remembered then.
"We'll get acquainted and later, we'll bring the kids." Atticus replied.
"If you don't lose your mind with Estelle being around boys." Cherry smirked.
"I'm no longer overprotective since the whole Summer Wars thing." Atticus said.
"I know, but you were worse than Simba with Kiara." Cherry teased.
"Ha ha, very funny." Atticus said.
"Thank you." Cherry smirked before taking out a fruit basket.
Both families soon went out to greet the new family.
