DISCLAIMER: I in no way, shape, or form own Halloween, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday The 13th, or any related characters. I only own Original Characters and other things not in the movies.

Author's Note: I'm back! I promise to not leave such a long time period between updates again. After thinking about it for a while, I don't think I'll bring Alice and Jacob Johnson into the story (like I said I would in Chapter 1), since the story would become too complicated. Now let's go on with…

Chapter Two: Werewolves Are Cooler21 Oak Street Springwood, Ohio

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Twelve-year-old Steven Lloyd looked up from his Nintendo DSi, his brown eyes squinting in confusion. "Sorry, Mom, what was that?"

His mother, Kara Strode, sighed and tucked a lock of her red hair behind her ear. "I told you to go get your sister," she repeated, before taking a sip from her coffee cup.

"She's not my sister. She's not even Danny's sister, really."

"Stevie, I know. But we have to treat Rose like a member of the family while she's here with us. Now, please go and get her for breakfast."

Steven sighed dramatically. "Fine," he said. Then he got up from the table and jogged up the back staircase, raking his hands through his raven hair.

At the top of the stairs, Steven knocked on the locked bathroom door. "Rose, you in there? Mom says you have to come for breakfast." Silence. "Y'know, no amount of makeup is ever gonna make your face okay for a date with Ben Seeley…"

The door opened, revealing a dishevelled, scowling Rose. Her eyes were bloodshot and her blue blouse was crumpled.

"Shut your face, jerkwad," she snapped, before shoving past him and flouncing – actually flouncing – down the carpeted staircase. Steven smirked and followed.

When the pair got downstairs, they found Steven's nineteen-year-old adoptive brother Danny sitting, exhausted, slumped over a sheet of trigonometry homework. His dirty blonde hair was tousled and his blue eyes were shut against the painful light.

Kara passed around orange juice and toast. "You guys better hurry up, you're going to miss the bus."

Danny raised his head to look into his glass. "Pulp, gross," was his only comment before he fell back onto his book.

"Would you like some more toast, Rose?" inquired Kara. She picked up the bread knife.

Rose took one look at the shiny knife in Kara's hand and rushed upstairs. They heard the bathroom door slamming upstairs.

"… I'll take that as a no…"

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Fifteen minutes later, the school bus pulled up in front of Springwood High School. Rose and Danny got off the bus and walked through the parking lot. Her friend Casey Rivers almost immediately met Rose. Danny kept walking towards the school.

Casey Rivers was a plain-looking girl. She had brown hair in a retro bob, and was dressed in a nondescript pink T-shirt and jeans. Then again, the state of Rose's blue blouse and white skirt looked as though she'd never seen an iron, so she wasn't one to talk.

"Hey, girlfriend!" chirped Casey, in her best (aka not very good) imitation of Queen Latifah. "Didja get that stupid math homework done?"

"Yeah…" said Rose distantly.

"What's up?"

"Didn't get much sleep. Can't concentrate."

"Well, we can always sleep in study hall," said Casey in a deadpan tone of voice.

"True. Anyway… back to our little disagreement… JACOB'S WAY COOLER!!!"

"Damn, beat me to it. NO, EDWARD IS!!!"

"Werewolves beat vampires any day of the week."

"LIES!"

"Guess what? You're both crazy!"

This last was coming from Sean Gray, Casey and Rose's other friend. He was slightly awkward and gawky, with his messy red hair and quirky (but cool on one level) clothes, but he was a very fun person.

Casey scoffed. "Crazy, please! I mean, it's not as though they actually found the bodies!"

"Yeah, because you threw them into the furnace, right?" As he said "furnace" Sean got an odd look on his face for a moment. But then he was back to his slightly off-kilter, zany self.

"About your "debate". First of all, yes, werewolves are cooler. But," he continued, catching the murderous glare in Casey's eyes, " I did some research last night… and Twilight totally ripped off Buffy The Vampire Slayer," Sean finished triumphantly.

"…"

"Say what?"

"Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It's this really cool show about this teenage girl who kills vampires. Anywho, the first two real relationships that the lead girls are in are with a vampire called Angel and a werewolf called Oz. Coincidence? I think not!"

"A vampire called Angel? Isn't that kind of… non-vampire-like?" asked Rose.

"Oh, yeah, and Edward is a vampire-like name?"

Casey spoke up. "Whatever. That's the bell. We'll continue the Twilight Wars later. TEAM EDWARD FOREVER!!!"

"Yay. Time for another boring week at school."

The three friends mounted the steps and went inside, Rose rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

Little did they know what a week they were in for…

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Author's Note: Okay, short chappie this time. I know I didn't explain the relationships between Rose and Steven and everything, but I will next chapter, so just hang in there!