Wayside school

by morgan kingsley

The school year of Todd and his seventh grade life. ONLY THE FIRST PART IS UP THE REST WILL COME LATER

2. Chapter 2

Todd was looking around and when he was looking around he saw that Diana was trying to keep her eyes off of him. Todd was wondering why she was doing this. Considering the fact that he thought that they were getting good. Or maybe she is just doing this so that way nobody would think too oddly of it or anything on it or anything like that. "Well, so this forest is a little bit different from how I remember it several years ago." Todd admitted as he was taking a little bit of time to just look around the place. All of this was something that he still didn't really like doing at all. Maybe Todd can be able to convince them to leave at some point.

"So what are we going to do?" Byron asked and then when he had asked that Kevin thought that there was not really anything to do besides just walk around. That was what Kevin had said and when he had said that the others thought that there was a level of truth to it so the group just kept looking around. Then as they had kept looking around, Todd was sort of wondering when the first really strange thing that he could find would be. There would be a point in which they will find something really strange, but he was just not really sure what or when that would be.

"What are you all doing here?" There was a strange voice that had asked that question. It was a voice that none of them had ever heard before. This made them all really confused as Marcia said that she couldn't find the person that had said that. Then Todd started to look around a little bit and then found something at the top of the tree. Which made him really confused how anything could have been up there.

"Who are you?" Marcia asked when she had finally seen what was going on and then when she had seen who this person was, the others saw that the guy was a man wearing all black. But the clothes were mostly destroyed so it was like not really all that big of a deal. "Why are you up at that tree for like no reason at all?" When she had said that the guy shook his head.

"I live up here for a very good reason. This is where I live. I watch this area every single day to see what could be here and everything. I just like to see different activity of different people. I know that many people will think that I don't really have that interesting of a life style, but that is the thing that I personally like to do. I have lived here for like four to five years or something." The guy said and that was when Todd knew that he would not be able to keep anything to himself anymore without starting to reveal his secret.

"Were you here the last time I came to this forest?" Todd asked and when he had asked that he saw the look on the mans face examine him out of utter confusion for a little bit before he started to finally realize what was going on. Then he shook his head. Todd started to see something through the face of that man.

"You remind me of somebody that I knew back then." The guy said and then Todd sort of flashed back to that day and when he saw the guy in that car get hit by the light post. Then Todd started to think things out a little bit and when he started to think things out a little bit, he came to realize that the man might have been the guy who had been declared dead from that car crash. He was the driver.

"How is that even possible?" Todd asked and he was really shocked in the way that he was saying that. Byron was the only one that seemed to catch the way that Todd had said that and was about to question him when the guy who was at the tree decided to answer Todd's question.

"I decided that I would rather live out the rest of my life here over be out there. So I faked everything that had happened there." The guy said and then Todd shook his head. Todd was not able to keep his anger inside of him anymore at this point. There was something about the thing that the guy had said that had pissed him off very much. Probably the fact that the guy had told him that he basically lived the last five years of his life thinking that he had wasted everything and that there was nothing that he needed to worry about.

"I spent so many years thinking that I had done something wrong. Turns out that I didn't even need to worry about that so much. Turns out that I could have been just living out my life and everything." Todd said and as Todd was saying that the others seemed to notice the tone that Todd had in this statement. They were able to get that something had happened that Todd had gone through in his past that had turned out to make him hate the forest.

"You need to relax. You don't even really know me that well. You don't know the reason that I made the this choice. Things would make so much more sense once you got everything." The guy said and Todd sighed. He was annoyed and pissed, but maybe there was a thing that he could see as valid there. So he thought that maybe giving the guy a chance would be right.

"So why did you do any of this? What made you think that this was such a great idea?" Todd asked and then the guy who was on the tree decided that maybe Todd had deserved to know what this was all for. So he jumped down and somehow that did not hurt him in any sort of way. He just wiped the dirt off of his shoes and he began to explain the story.

"Well, I had a job. The job was something that I had really enjoyed at one point in time. Everything that I did was all for getting my promotion and not only me getting my promotion but also to be able to spread my ideas out to the world. I would work on my own personal things every night when I went home and have been doing this for twenty years. Ever since I was sixteen years old. But when I turned 36, I had started to realize some things about all of this. Everything that I had been doing had all not really had any sort of follow up or great turn out for it. Nothing I did was good. Nothing I did worked. Every time I tried to pitch my ideas to others they always just shot it down and told me that it would never work at all period or told me that I needed to try it a different way. I had been trying it in so many different ways by that point in time that it had felt like I was just not really going to reach anything. So I decided that maybe it would be good to just leave. Just get the hell out of the area. But if I moved or something, then people would know right away and try to change it and be asking me why every twenty second what I was doing and all that. It was just something that I had not wanted to deal with. So I decided to just leave. Not leave in the sense that I would just get out of the town and then I would come back some time later. I am talking about leaving in the way of death. So when I was driving around that one day, I slammed my car into that light post and the car started to set on fire. I just had enough time to get out of the car and then I left the area when I saw that nobody was watching. And pretty much ever since then I have been staying the rest of my life here and letting time go by. I have been trying to build a house but I decided to give up on that. I just have been living in the forest ever since then." The guy said and he put his hand in what seemed to be his basically destroyed pockets. Once he had pulled something out of that, he looked down at it. There was something else that Todd wanted to ask to make it seem like he would be able to try and get this point more. Not that he would really be able to get it at all. He just wanted to at least attempt a understanding of this guys insanely dumb back story.

"Okay, but did you have a family or a group of friends that you pretty much left behind just because you did not like the fact that there were a lot of people who did not like your idea? This whole thing makes no sense. You make no sense. Just stop this madness. Own up to what you did and go on and tell the people what you had done so that way people can be able to get some sort of move on with their life." Todd said and the guy decided that this conversation was just over. Todd just really did not get it and there was no way that he would be able to understand it at all and there would be no way to ever get it to happen.

"Maybe one day you will be able to get it. But I will leave you alone now. Come back to me one day when it seems like you are able to realize the stuff that I have told you. But if you want to know what I am talking about, just go to this address." The guy said and then handed Todd a piece of paper that looked like there was barely anything on it. Todd could hardly see the hand writing and Todd was just so confused as to why there even was a piece of paper this guy had with an address on it.

"Okay, see you again someday. Perhaps. Maybe one day when I finally get it. If I ever do finally get it." Todd said and then when he said that, he started to walk off. His friends all came with him and then they were all really confused on that and they wanted to know what they were having this debate over.

"Do you want to tell us what any of that was about?" Diana asked and then Todd looked at her. He just shook his head and that was him trying to get the point across that this debate was over. The others really wanted to know more about this but at the same time they would not want to risk losing any sort of friendship with Todd and with that in mind, they dropped the matter for a while. "You should tell us eventually though." Diana said quietly and that was her way of making the request without making it sound forced.

"So now that we are leaving that subject behind, what else is there that we can do?" Marcia asked and Todd was starting to feel glad that at least one of them was willing to listen to his request and wishes to let this be a subject of the past. That was when Todd and the others all found something that confused the literal fuck out of them. To the point where they felt like there would probably be some form of a nightmare that could come out of this whole thing.

"Is that a staircase?" Byron asked and when he had asked that, he was pointing towards the staircase. The others almost paused at the spot and wanted to go back home at that point. There seemed to be a general agreement of horror that was shared between them. Jenni was the first one to speak since the whole sight had first come to them.

"I think that this is supposed to be a sign. Maybe we should be going to it." Jenni said and she started to walk forward towards the staircase. The others seemed to think that Jenni was doing something absolutely insane as she was coming up that staircase. "Why don't we all see it?"

Todd was still sort of just waiting for something terrible to happen. It felt like there was going to be a person that was going to die in the next couple of minutes as a result of this staircase. Jenni walked up the first step and with each step that passed the rest of the group got more and more uncomfortable. Even Jenni was starting to think that they should have stayed away from the staircase.

"Jenni get off of that." Kevin said and he started to walk towards it. He stopped after a couple of steps because he was starting to see what he was doing himself. He knew that he was starting to be a little bit of a hypocrite by doing so. But he was trying to make sure that Jenni would not get harmed from this whole thing. So he just told her to get down one last time and then he waited to see if she would actually listen to him or not. The more that he waited, the more that he was starting to think that she was just not going to do it and that she was just doing something on her own by this point in time.

"Don't worry so much. It's just a random staircase. Nothing terrible is going to happen." Jenni said and as Jenni had said that, the others seemed to keep quiet a little bit longer. They knew that they were not going to be able to convince her out of all of this. So they just accepted the fact that this was what she had wanted to do and just left her alone for the most part.

Once Jenni had reached the top of the stair case, there was a loud noise. The loud noise wasn't like a car passing by or something. It was like a scream. A scream of pain and misery. A scream to show that somebody might have been getting killed or something. The group stopped what they were doing instantly. Jenni then started to get what they were talking about and then as she did so, she started to run down the stair case. She had wanted to get as far away from there as possible since it was true that nothing like that went down until she had reached the top of the stair case.

"So what do we do now?" Diana asked since she knew that whatever they did, they had made a giant mistake. And since none of them wanted to have any problems with a giant mistake. So they knew that getting out of this forest was probably the best bet. Todd was the one that had beat them to it though since he had wanted to say this for such a long period of time that he was glad that he was able to say it then.

"Lesson is that we should never go up a staircase that is in the middle of the forest." Todd said right before they started running out. Then when they were running out, Byron looked over for just a second to see the staircase one final time but then he had noticed that it was not even there anymore. That was the part that had scared Byron. The other things he was able to handle until that had shown up. It took about ten minutes on a full sprint and them not messing with anything else for them to leave the forest.

After they left the forest Todd started to think a little bit to himself. As he was thinking to himself, he was starting to make some thoughts that would probably make him come off as a little crazy to the others. But at the same time, he knew that this whole thing was crazy. He was going to go back there one day and then check to see if there was another staircase. He would keep doing this and check to see what they all do. There has got to be more than just one. And if there is more than just one, he would go there and try to find the meaning of them all. This was going to be one for the history books.

"That was a pretty odd spot. I think that maybe we should leave that place alone for the rest of our lives." Todd had said and then when he had said that, Todd waited for the others to make some form of response. He could not believe that they were pretty much being zombies at this point. Almost as if they had hated the idea of ever going to the forest to begin with, which was just so odd to him that had now been acting this way after what had just happened for the course of like one minute.

Todd started to walk off and he was starting to think that this birthday of his was a pretty interesting one, until Byron called out to him. "Are you going to be doing anything else today? Do you wish for us to leave us alone right now or would you be fine with us coming along still?" Byron had asked and then Todd turned around with his right hand raised up in a claw like shape of a dragon. Everybody either didn't notice, care, or thought that it was a little bit of a scary look. Besides Kevin, who had thought that it had looked pretty darn good. He would use that in the future and while he didn't know it at the time, it would go down as a symbol of terror and fear among those that he was more power than.

"Well, I don't really know. It is starting to get pretty darn late and I think that maybe we should start to all head our own way." Todd said and the others didn't even want to argue with him at all. In fact, some of them had thought maybe it was a good thing that Todd had been the one who had said that. Since by saying that, they could all go home and just sort of pretend like that whole encounter had never happened with the stairs. Todd was the only one that had wanted to expand that whole sight to see what there would be to it aside from what they had seen. He was the only one that did not want to remove that whole thing from his life.

"Well, if that is the case, then I hope that you have a good day." Kevin had said and then he waved towards Todd in the way that had made it sort of more official that they were done for that day. Kevin headed off and Todd nodded. When Todd had nodded, the others had slowly begun to head off and Todd was going on his own. He was sort of thinking about how he could find the next stair case, how good the Halloween party was going to be, and how amazing this whole day was going to be. He also thought about what he had wanted for Christmas since he had said earlier that he had not been too much of a great expert when it came to asking what he had wanted for Christmas season. Since Christmas season was seriously the one season that he just was not ready for at all. No matter how hard he tried, he could just never be able to get it to work. Then again, that was still almost two months away and Todd was just trying to enjoy the last few birthday minutes.

Todd felt like there was not that many things he could even do anymore at this point in time. He felt like this was going to go along pretty well. Not that there could have been so much more that they could have done anyways. All that maybe could have happened was just them stay a little bit more into the forest or something like that. But they spent the worlds longest time on the planet just messing around and talking in his own house that it had been kind of insane to even think that anything could have been able to happen in the mean time.

Once Todd was home, he got to his room and then flopped onto his bed. He closed his eyes and as he was closing his eyes, the other members of the group were pretty much well on their way home and they all had some last minute thoughts before they all went to the bed. Such as Diana, who had gotten on her book and read a couple of chapters but every word that she read she was thinking of how great her adventures were and that even the books that she was reading were not as good anymore.

Byron when he got home was thinking more about things that he could be able to do in order to win the votes for him being class president. That was still the thing that he mainly cared about more than anything else. All he wanted so bad was to become a class president. He thought that maybe he could use the banning and lack of crazy stair cases as part of his campaign. That is if there even was a campaign that he could run in the whole thing.

Jenni started to come up with outlines of new moves that she could use in her little daredevil lifestyle. That was all that she had really cared about. She just so badly wanted to be a daredevil that she was pretty much trying to get everything possible onto that.

Her mother had come into her bedroom to see what she was thinking about at the moment. She had sort of an idea on that, but she just wasn't one hundred percent sure since she had been wrong about the things that Jenni had been thinking about a few times here and there. But once she saw Jenni drawing on her beaten down notepad that had been used to death since fifth grade and only had about four or so pages left, she knew right away that she was once again trying to think of ways to be the daredevil that she had so badly wanted to be.

Marcia was just thinking about Todd when she had finally come home. That was all that she had liked to think about. There was just so many things about the guy that she had loved and she was really hoping that Todd would get to like her back someday. She had felt like thought that maybe if she just kept trying hard enough, he could be able to go on and win her love and everything. Not that she was going to be able to get it right away, but she thought that she will get it eventually and the more that she tried, the sooner it will come by.

Diana had enjoyed the birthday party. But she still really badly wanted to know what terrible thing that Todd had done to make it so that he would just not talk to her about his personal experience. But then again, there was no reason to just do that. Plus that whole conversation that he had with that guy was just so bad and strange that it had sort of made her think that she was going to not really be able to be appreciated when all he does is just stay away. Hopefully one day, Todd will understand what she wants and then tell her and when he does so, then their relationship could finally be able to take off.

Kevin had made it to his house and once he had made it to his house, he wrote a lot onto his journal and as he was writing in his journal, he started to realize that he was already on page like 70 of the thing. Which was about 1/4 of the thing. A little under 1/4 of it, since it was actually 300 pages, and 1/4 of it would be 75 pages. Sam was starting to wonder if this notebook writing was going to be a more stable thing or if he was going to quit doing that eventually. Sam was also not really sure which one he had hoped Kevin would actually do. In his entry, Kevin spoke about how much he liked the party but was scared at the staircase and he was talking about how much he had hoped he would not have to deal with any sort of follow up with that staircase and then that this would just be a one time really bad thing that he and his friends had to deal with. Even though Kevin actually did tell Sam about the staircase when he was done. Sam had explained that he had never even heard of that whole thing and that he probably just found something that even to Sam sounded strange, might have been a gate to a different world. When Sam had suggested that, Kevin considered the whole thing and what could possible happen with the idea was true and that this place truly was a gate to a different world. But then again, Kevin just mainly left the idea alone and started to move on with his whole life.

Once Todd was left alone at his house, he had brought himself right to work. He knew that once he had gotten himself right into work, he was going to be spending hours upon hours trying to figure out all the details. He was looking around his bedroom for a way that he would use to help himself with all this. Then when he had thought about it for a moment he decided to just make a sort of blue print of that. He looked at his floor and found a graph paper book that his parents gave him when he was eleven. He grabbed it, and then he saw that there were only like ten pages left of the forty page notebook. He went to the first page of which was open and then he grabbed a pencil from his back pack he used from school but since he had so many he wasn't worried about using it. Then he started to draw down all of the stuff that he saw with the first several yards on all directions of the stair way so that way he could get the best visual experience out of it that he could have been able to get.

Soon enough, the night had passed and Todd had forced himself to go to sleep. After he had made himself go on to sleep, he just sort of let the past thoughts of the day pass by that he sort of tried to forget about it all. But soon enough, the next day of school went by and things were just normal school work for the 29th and 30th, the first two days after his birthday. Then on the 31st, the day of Halloween, the day that he was really looking forward to was now finally there. He wanted to see if the holiday and the parties that were told to him were really as wonderful as he had been hearing all of this time.

When the school day was about an hour left, he was walking around and it had looked like a bunch of the people there were starting to get into their Halloween clothes. Well, not really clothes as much as costumes. Todd was going into his back pack and then he started to look at his costume. He pulled it out and then after he had pulled it out, he was getting ready to put it on.

His costume looked as if it were some sort of music set. He knew that most people would be very confused when they would see that for the first time, but he knew what it had meant so he did not really worry all that much. In fact, he just thought that it was pretty cool to be wearing an outfit that was just like that. As he was walking around though, he did notice that it was a little bit hard to do that. So maybe he would have to get some help and maybe some of the people there would have to help get him directions on how he was going to be walking so that way he didn't make any stupid mistakes.

When Todd walked up to Steven, he saw that Steven had no costume on. He was just wearing some normal street clothes and Todd had thought that this was a bit strange that he was doing this. "Why are you wearing that? Where is your costume?' Todd asked and he was just not getting it at all. When Todd had asked that Steven looked over at him and then was all like super confused. How did Todd not get it? This was his costume, and he thought that this was pretty obvious enough.

"Todd, this is what I am going to be wearing for Halloween. My elf clothes are my normal clothes and your normal every day clothes are going to be my costume for the day." Steven said and then when Todd had actually heard it come from Steven himself, Todd did actually feel a little stupid for not actually knowing that any earlier. Not that it was even all that much of a should have been a given type of thing. It was just sort of considering Steven as a person that it was a little bit obvious when it was actually just said to him.

"Well, I guess I should have figured that out sooner. Anyways, well, I hope that you have a good day at Halloween today. I will go out to check the others out and see what they want to say and what they are wearing for their costume." Todd answered and then he started heading off. As he was heading off, he was getting more and more ready for the great party. Since that was just all that he had cared about to begin with.

"Hey Marcia, are you going to be a princess for Halloween?" Todd asked and then Marcia turned around to him and she was super happy and excited that he had talked to her at all. This made her think that Todd was wanting to be more of a friend with her. She smiled and when she was smiling she was starting to move closer to Todd. He didn't even really care all that much as she just told him her answer.

"Yeah, I am so pretty for a princess. I really like to go around and swing my dress around. I hope that you like it to." Marcia said and then she was wondering what Todd was going to say. He seemed to consider her for a moment and then decided that maybe she wasn't so bad after all. She did look pretty decent in a red dress actually. He just did not want to admit since she would probably punch him out of excitement.

"Well, I mean it does go well with you." Todd said and he felt like this was probably the nicest way that he could say it without having it be considered a giant declaration of love and that would mean that it was just a sign of friendship. Which he felt like was totally fine and safe.

"Well thank you Todd. I was really hoping that some of my friends would like it. There were a few that I am really glad think that it is good. I am sure that you can figure out which ones I am glad about liking this." Marcia told Todd as she gave him one more happy look and then Todd nodded. He was thinking of who next he could be able to talk to. Well, if there was Diana in the area, then maybe he would talk to her for a bit. Since he thought that she was always going to have a good outfit for Halloween.

Soon enough, he had seen her and then he started to walk in her direction. When he had reached her, he asked her what the hell she was wearing. He was just beyond lost on what it was. It had looked like a giant rule book and not only was it a giant rule book but it had also looked like she was wearing a teachers outfit. So she was a rule book and a teacher at the same time. Todd asked her what her intentions were when she had decided to wear something like that.

"Well, I just thought that since I love rules and I love teaching, that I would combine both into one and not have to pick one or the other. And when I made that choice, then I felt so good since everything had started to go out into my favor. I hope you like how it looks." Diana said and this was her trying to get Todd to like her but he also knew that unlike Marcia, she was actually good at it and Todd actually did like her. Well, Todd didn't hate her but he didn't like think she was the most lovely person on the planet either.

"So Diana, what are you going to do right after school? Are you going to go right into trick or treating? Or are you just going to go home for a little bit and do some activities at your house before you head on over?" Todd asked and he popped his knuckles a little bit since he had wanted to get that bad feeling off of his hands. Unpopped knuckles gave him the worst feeling on his hands on the face of the planet. Todd sat down on one of the desks and he didn't even care if nobody really liked that or not or if it were part of the rules or not.

He wondered what would even really be considered a good choice for her. He never even really knew how far away she had lived and since he had no idea where she had lived, he decided that maybe she should just go right into trick or treating so that way she would not have to waste any sort of time being in this area. Well, by this area, meaning where she had lived. "Well, I am probably going to stay at the school and then head out for my trick or treating afterwards. I won't head home most likely since the reality is that staying here would be much easier and can give me a little bit more relax time before I have to go on several hours of walking."

As Diana had said that, Todd was just so glad that he got to be able to relax with the fact that he was in that music box costume that it was just something that would have made a lot of work to go by much easier. Then when he was thinking this, Byron came up them and when he came up to them, it had seemed like he had a really great idea for a conversation. Well, what he had thought was a really great idea even if nobody else had really agreed with it. But he was kind of blind to that so he didn't even really care.

"Well, I am not surprised at all who you are dressed up as." Todd said when he had seen that Byron was wearing a suit. He thinks that Byron was trying to dress up as a sort of president or something like that. When he thought about it, he was thinking that Byron had been dressed up as president Kennedy. Todd just rolled his eyes since he was not even thinking that Byron knew variety. At least he could have switched up which president he was going to dress up as.

"I guess all of my talking on being class president had been sort of making it pretty obvious on the fact that I was going to dress up as that. I was not really sure which one I wanted to dress up as, so I decided that I would just go on and be easy." Byron had said and Todd thought that maybe there was at least a little bit of logic when it came to the reasoning as to why Byron had dressed up as the one that he did.

"Which president is your favorite? I think that if you have one, you should have dressed up as that." Todd had asked and then when had asked that question, Byron was silent for a moment. Todd had knew that he had gotten Byron with that question and he tried to think for a moment. Like holy shit, Todd thought to himself, how could a man like one idea so much when he had no idea what he had liked or not liked.

"I am not sure what my favorite president is. I will have to think about it a little bit more." Byron told Todd and then Todd rolled his eyes. It felt even worse when he had to actually hear it in person. Then he decided that he could not even handle talking with Byron anymore without feeling like he was just wasting his fucking time. So Todd walked on over to Kevin. Once he was done talking with Kevin, then he would go on to see Jenni and see what she had for her costume.

Kevin had been wearing something that looked like a spy. Todd was wondering what the context about that was. Then he had remembered that there was that new James Bond movie that had come out. Maybe Kevin had really liked that movie and since he really liked that movie, he decided that he would dress like that. This was what Todd had assumed at the very least.

"Are you a fan of James Bond?" Todd asked since he thought that maybe if he gave it a try, then he would get to see what the truth is. Kevin forgot what was even going on for a moment but then turned around to see Todd there. After a quick second of thinking about it, he answered the amazing question that Todd for him.

"Yeah, I saw it and thought that it was pretty cool. I decided that I would dress up as James Bond as a result of me thinking that the movie was pretty cool. So with that, here I am to be here with the James Bond outfit. Do you like it?" Kevin was responding and Todd thought that this answer was okay, but he had thought that there should have been a better outfit he could use. After all, James Bond was a series that would have probably shut down after a year or two. Oh how little he knew.

"Well, at least you are enjoying the stuff that you are wearing." Todd decided and then when he had said that, Todd looked around and was wondering where Jenni was. Ken had taken the subtle hint that this was what Todd was doing and decided that he would take part in it. He had liked to see Jenni and if Todd was already going to be looking for her, then he might as well partake in it. Suddenly they had both gotten what they were looking for.

"She looks pretty cool." Kevin said when he had seen her. Despite the fact that Todd had zero romantic interest with Jenni, he could not be able to help but feel sort of that same way. He did think that she was pretty good looking. Todd then turned around and then saw that Ken was looking away so that way he would not be able to possible keep himself embarrassed at the moment. Kevin was getting worse with hiding this crush the more that he hung around her and the rest of his friends.

"So Kevin, what are you even going to do with her? I heard that you and Jenni were going to be hanging out during Halloween. Is that even going to be true or is that planning sort if changing as we kind of speak?" Todd asked and as he had asked that, he saw that Kevin seemed to be thinking of all of this in great detail. Todd was wondering what else Kevin could even possibly do to make sure that Kevin could be able to fall in love with Jenni and have the two sort of become more of a couple.

"I think that if I try and talk to her right now, then she will thank me for trying but then tell me that she would rather hang out with somebody like Noah." Kevin said as Todd looked at her really fucking confused. Like who the fuck was Noah. When Todd was trying to keep that thought in his head for a little bit longer, he realized that there was just no way that he could. So he decided that if he wanted to put his thoughts to rest, then he would have to question it even further.

"Who the hell is Noah? I have never even heard of him before. Is he somebody that goes to Wayside?" Todd asked and Kevin tried to think of a time that Todd might have actually met Noah and he just did not really know about it or something like that. But the more that he had thought about it, the more that he was thinking that perhaps there was nothing that the two ever had in common with each other.

"Noah was somebody that went to our school last year. He and I had a little bit of a rivalry. It had nothing to do with Jenni as much as he accused me of being a dick and I accused him of being a dick as well. It was sort of a back and fourth fight the whole time. And then it had just gotten to the point where everybody around us had started to suffer with the quality of the debates." Kevin said and then Todd was thinking that if this was the case, then Kevin had sort of needed to move on from this and then with him moving from this, then maybe things could start to go easier for Kevin in his life.

"So why did you even continue this rivalry? What made it end? And besides, how did it even start off?" Todd was asking and then with all of those questions, Kevin seemed to try and think of at least some answers to the questions that Todd had asked. After all, Todd was being nice about the way that he was asking it. So with him being at least nice about it, he had felt there was no need to just hide it.

"Well it started like my fifth week in Wayside. I had enjoyed my first month of the school very much and when I was trying to go along normally, I saw this guy with a slightly tan skin and brown hair walking around. I decided that I wanted to be nice and ask him what he was doing and how he was at that moment. He told me that his life was none of my fucking business and that I needed to leave him the fuck alone. I decided that while there was a level of truth to it, he was sort of being an asshole about it." Kevin started and then he put his hand on his chin and was trying to remember how the story even continued to begin with.

"So with all that, Noah and I started to act like I had said the worst thing ever to him. And I hated him for that reason and then as that happened, the two of us started to get into some arguments on how much we were actually even supposed to be involved in what the other is doing. Things seemed to be a little bit calmer for a day or two until Noah had found my backpack and filled it up with pencil shavings. What I did was a response was break all his pencils in half. Simple stuff. But that was how it all started." Kevin told Todd as he laughed at it a little in hindsight, but still couldn't believe that this even happened to begin with.

"Well, if it was simple stuff like that, then what was so bad about it? Just seems like most of the stuff that made you guys so called rivals to begin with just were things that you could fix in the matter of a few seconds?" Todd had said since he thought that there was nothing really too bad about just being annoying with school supplies. Kevin thought more on it and decided that he would only start to tell the whole important parts of the story to avoid making Todd think this wasn't too big of a deal.

"Well, when it was close to this part of the year, Halloween, I was going around and doing my own thing of Trick or Treating. Byron and Diana were going around with me and when we were walking around just trying to have a good time and not really worry about things, Noah had come up. I told him to please leave us alone. He told me to make him. When he had said that, I pushed him a little bit since I was really starting to get so fucking tired of that guy. Then afterwards, Noah took out a fucking knife and when he took out that knife, he started to swing it at me and tried to stab me. I had a feeling that he was actually wanting to full on kill me for a moment. That was the part that was scary." Kevin had said and then Todd was quite shocked at that. He almost could start to believe what Kevin was saying about this guy being a terrible person and he could almost start to see why there would have been a sort of rivalry that could have been formed out of this.

"Well, I will admit that this does sound pretty bad. Did it get any worse from where you have told me?" Todd asked and then Kevin nodded. This was starting to think that Kevin might have either been lying to get some form of a sympathy statement, or maybe Kevin had a pretty shitty first year at Wayside. But then Todd decided to stay quiet as Kevin began to explain what the next really bad thing was that had happened between them.

"So after that whole knife incident and I was saved mainly by the fact that Diana and Byron were there and yelled for help, Noah was still not kicked out of the school and we both got off with only a week of suspension of school each. When we both got back, we started to go back to our general rivalry of messing with all of each others things. Then afterwards, starting near Winter Break, I gave everybody a gift. Even Noah I gave a gift to. Then when I did that, Noah threw the gift at me and told me that he didn't want the gift at all. Then I told him to go fuck himself. That was when Noah jumped up on me and we got into a fight for a little bit. But since Noah was the one that started the fight and we were in a classroom, in which everybody had seen it, I was able to get off just fine and Noah was suspended for another three days." Kevin explained and it almost seemed like Kevin was excited to think about Noah getting suspended despite it being an event in the past.

"If he kept getting suspended, how was he able to be a person who had kept getting in your way all the time? Couldn't he have just started to leave you alone more?" Todd asked since he thought that if he was always getting suspended, then he would learn his lesson and not go around to do the thing again since he wouldn't want to miss more school. Or maybe Todd was just not able to understand it at all.

"Because he kept using his suspensions as a reason to go at me even worse than before. He would say something like this being his revenge for the things that I would do to him. I did it because I felt like I had to in order to you know, keep myself safe and I was always getting annoyed over the fact that he acted like that. There was a time in which he called the cops on me for being late to class. I got pulled over by the police but when they heard how silly my situation was, they decided to just let it go." Kevin said to Todd as he tried to comprehend the fact that people would actually fall for shit like that. But then Todd decided that there was maybe more to it than Kevin was sort of giving this credit for.

"I will tell you more about it later on. I want to talk to Jenni right now. I think that this subject can wait for a little bit. I don't even know if you cared all that much about what I was telling you." Kevin had said and then he laughed in a way that was showing that he was a little bad uncomfortable over the idea that Todd might not have cared about any of that. Then Kevin just said that it was just something that he really wanted to talk about and he was glad that he was able to get something off his chest on this whole thing. Todd thought about it and when he had thought about it, he was trying to think of something that he could say to Kevin to show that he did care at least a little bit about the subject.

"So how many more things did you guys do in your guys feud before it all ended off in a terrible way I am assuming?" Todd had asked and then when he had asked that, Kevin wondered what else he could even say to this anymore. There were always the times in which they would start to mess around with their lockers and put stuff in there.

"Well, we would always put shit in each others lockers in order to make each one of us more and more pissed off at each other." Kevin said and then Todd thought that this could have been a big deal depending on what type of shit was put in all of the lockers. Before Todd could even asked Kevin saw the look on his face and decided to answer. "It started off really nice and simple. At first we just put stuff like incorrect homework papers in there as well as fake love letters which led to all of us being super embarrassed in front of the entire classroom. But then it started to get worse. After a while, we started to send death threats to each other and this was the point in time in which our rivalry had gotten even worse than it already was before." Kevin continued and then he took a deep breath. "Soon enough, they got even worse than just some death threats."

"How could they be worse than death threats?" Todd asked and this was the first time in the entire conversation that Todd had actually been interested in what Kevin was saying. Even though he was ten times more interested in Jenni and talking with her. He decided that for sure once this part of the conversation was done, then he would go on and talk to Jenni. He was putting this off for long enough and didn't want to deal with this dumb ass conversation anymore.

"Well, he started sending me details off my address to my house, which was kind of scary since I never even dreamed of telling him. He also gave me letters based on information on everything that I do after the day of school was over and I just had no idea how he was even able to know all of this stuff since I never even let him within a hundred yards of my house. Then one day he told me that he was going to come to my house. So I decided to go to his house first and when I had done so, I went into what was told to me to be his room and then I started to flip everything around and changed where all of his belongings are. Just simple things. Then I saw something of his that looked cool and was tempted to steal it. I decided that I wouldn't but if he did anything to my room, then I would go on and steal it." Kevin explained as he also explained what Noah did once he got to Kevin's house. "He put something in my room that would go off when I entered it and when I did, it did go off and send out something that seemed a little bit like a smoke and it made me gag and I passed out. My mother found out that it was a sort of gas, not meant to kill me, but to make me sick. It was at this point in which it was finally brought to the school board and when it was finally brought to the school board, the principal didn't want to deal with this anymore and as a result just expelled that fucker. I thought that was the last of it until two weeks later when he came to the school one day and he was at the track. He tried fighting me one more time but I finally grew a pair of balls for once and then I hit him back until his nose started to bleed. At this point, his parents just finally sent him out of the town." Once they moved away, it truly was over."

"Well, it seems like you guys had a pretty crazy rivalry. Well, I don't really know what to say to that. I think it is time for us to go on to talk to Jenni now." Todd said and then he stood up and started to walk to Jenni, who by some miracle had not walked away from where she was a moment ago and then he went on over to her to have a conversation with her.

"Hey Jenni, how are you today. You seem to really like that type of clothing." Todd said since her clothes were pretty similar to how she would normally. It was pretty much her exact same clothes with only a couple of exceptions. She wore black instead of white, and there were a bunch of cuts on the top and bottom of her clothes and she had a bunch of fire buttons on her clothes. Then there were a few rips that made the clothes a little more revealing, which Todd had probably realized was just a way of her showing that she was a true dare devil and all that. Jenni turned around and laughed a little bit and then Kevin walked up to Todd and her.

"Well thanks for liking my costume. Yours is pretty interesting to. I like the vibe of being a music box actually." Jenni said and then Todd moved around the fake settings on his music costume box to sort of show that it really was a music set. He knew that it was pretty fucking obvious, but he just wanted to do that for the moment. Then Jenni had turned around to see Kevin and what he was wearing for Halloween.

"Seems like you decided to a spy outfit." Jenni said and then Kevin nodded. That was all Kevin had wanted to do when he dressed up. Have a costume that everybody would be able to figure out and not have people constantly wondering what the hell he was wearing. He then put his hand out to Jenni and then she shook his head. Todd then wondered how many things were even going to be allowed at the party coming up in the next couple of minutes.

"I love these Halloween parties. It is one of the things that I am the most excited about every single school year that I have." Jenni said and then she walked to the table of the classroom which had a bunch of a juice and small snacks to eat that was sort of to be expected when you go to a party. Todd walked up to Jenni and poured himself a cup of the juice and drank it. He liked the drink a lot and Kevin came up to them. Marcia saw what they were doing and came up to Todd to try and flirt with him a little bit.

"So Todd, I love your music set. Nice outfit Jenni. So Todd, are you going to play some music with that?" Marcia asked and then Todd had thought about it a little bit. It was a good question but not one he had even considered for a single second of his life. Then he rubbed his chin a little bit and then Kevin laughed a little bit when he saw Byron trying to walk around and then kept hitting things with his walking around like a idiot. For once, Todd was not really able to blame him on this one since the placing of the tables were actually pretty fucked up.

"Well, I think that we can all hope that there will be a sort of dance in the middle of our party." Kevin said since he liked to do some dances when he was going to parties. It was like the one time that he was the popular kid since he was actually pretty good at all that shit. Suddenly Marcia got really excited all of a sudden and then went up to Todd again.

"If there is a dance will you go on and dance with me? I think that we would do amazing together. We are meant to be together." Marcia said and then Todd was able to handle all of it up until the part when she said that they were meant to be together. Then Todd decided not to walk a step away, but he did shake his head a little bit to show his point.

"I might dance with you a little bit. You know, to hang around and have some fun. But I don't think that we are really meant to be together. That is a little bit too far. But thanks for the offer." Todd said and then Marcia seemed like she was half broken. She was able to handle part of it before, but even then it was hard for her to take.

"Well Todd, I thought that you had really liked me." Marcia said and then Todd was not really sure what he could be able to say. It wasn't something that he directly wanted to say, but he was sort of wanting this to end so that way he can talk with Jenni or Diana or something like that.

"I like you as a friend. Don't get me wrong. But I don't really think that we are meant to be lovers or anything like that." Todd then said and when he had said that, Marcia was starting to think that Todd was a little bit cruel for what he was doing. She hated it when Todd would say something like that since Todd was like her first real big crush and she had thought that he was going to be the best person in the world.

"Well okay class, our party is starting soon. Make sure that nothing bad happens since we don't want our principal to come along and force us to end our party. That would be no fun at all." The teacher said and then she rolled her eyes a little bit. Not in the way that she was pissed off at anybody. But in the way that she was trying to show a little bit of her wild like behavior. Todd then saw Diana try and speak to him for a moment.

"Hold on for a second, I need to do something for a moment." Todd said and then he had walked up to Diana. Once he had walked up to her he looked over to see what was going on. "Why are you wanting me to talk to you over here instead?" Todd asked and then Diana told Todd that the two of them should get out of the class for a moment and then Todd thought about it before he decided that maybe he could do something like this anyways. It would probably only be a minute or two so this didn't really worry him that much, if at all.

"Todd, I have a really good idea right now. Do you want to hear what my idea is?" Diana asked and then Todd nodded. He was not really sure where she was going to be heading with this, but he decided that there must have been something good to it if she had wanted this to be so private. "I think that once we are done with Halloween, I think we should go to my house. And you know, maybe stay the night."

"You mean have a sleep over? Okay I don't really think that my parents will care so much. Let's go ahead and do it actually." Todd had said and then Diana seemed to be so excited when he had said that she was barely able to keep her excitement contained. But then Todd was wondering if there was perhaps something else that she was trying to head with this whole idea. "Or are you thinking about having something even further than that?"

"I think that I would really want to do something like that. I think you know exactly what I mean here." Diana said and then she smiled a little bit as she rubbed his neck a little bit. Todd was confused and then he gulped a little bit. Then he sighed when he was starting to realize that he might be able to lose it that night. Suddenly, Diana hugged Todd for a moment and Todd turned around since he did not want to have Marcia see what the hell was going on.

Once that was all done with and they had made a agreement to sort of have move forward, Todd walked back into the classroom and then Diana joined him in terms of walking back into the classroom. Once Todd was right back in the classroom, he walked up to Marcia and the rest of the group.

"Hey Byron, are you going to stop messing around with hitting everything?" Todd asked and he was meaning it as a joke but then he was a little shocked but did feel a tiny bit bad when Byron actually did take this thing seriously. Byron turned around and told Todd that he wasn't any better of this stuff than he was. "Dude calm the fuck down, I was just messing around with you. Don't freak out so much over it." Todd said and then Byron saw the look on Todd's being was the truth and then he left Todd alone about it.

"So how do you like music?" Byron asked and then Todd was smiling that so many people were liking his costume. Then Todd said that his music preferences were all dependent on what was going on with his moods. He never loved or hated any sort of genres.

"Although I think country is the closest that I come to all out hating while rock is the closest that I am to full on liking." Todd decided since he was pretty sure that Byron wanted Todd to come up with a clear answer. So with that, Byron nodded as if he pretended like cared but in reality he actually didn't really care all that much about that.

"Well I guess that this is cool. Talk to you later after I am done getting people to vote for me." Byron told Todd and then he headed off. Todd rolled his eyes for a second since he knew that it was impossible to get Byron to not talk about the idea of people voting for him. No matter how hard he tried, he just could not be able to help do that for more than a couple of minutes.

Todd went back to the other members of the group. "So how are you?" Todd asked all of them at once and he was not really caring which one had answered him. Since they were all his sort of directed. Jenni was the one that had actually answered. Todd was convinced that the one who would answer him would actually be Marcia in a way to have even more conversation with him, so he was a little bit shocked when Marcia actually did not take that chance as he had planned.

"Well, I am doing alright. I am curious with what you were talking with Diana about. Was it about your plan for Halloween? I guess that it is about that." Jenni said and then Todd nodded to show her that it was related to that and he was also trying to show that he didn't really want to talk about it all that much.

"Well, I guess that you guys are going to have a great time tonight." Jenni said and then she winked. This was when Todd was starting to think that maybe she had known exactly what Todd and Diana were going to be doing. Maybe Diana had talked with Jenni about it before? Not that it really mattered all that much, since Todd was just trying to get excited for the entire night as a general.

"Well Marcia, how did you get that princess outfit?" Todd asked since he thought that maybe he should try and be nice with her for a little bit and all that. Since as Todd said before, even if he didn't want to date her or anything, he certainly did like her as a friend. Which had meant that conversations with her were never really a problem. Todd then laughed as Marcia blushed a little bit.

"Well, thanks for asking. I asked my mother for a Halloween outfit and she didn't really think that she was too excited for it, but she did buy me the thing without arguing at all. She just looked like she didn't want to do it. She bought one that had cost about twenty dollars." Marcia explained as Todd looked at her in a way that was asking her if twenty dollars was all that expensive or not. Marcia seemed like she didn't really get the look on his face and then she let him just continue looking at her since she had liked him staring at her and all that shit. Todd then glanced at Kevin after about half a minute or so of this since he was not really sure how much longer he could play this sort of staring game.

"So Kevin, what does Sam do for Halloween?" Todd asked as Kevin looked like he was wanting to slap Todd a little bit for asking him any sort of question about Sam, but he thought that maybe there was nothing too bad about this. After all, he was just trying to have a conversation. And a little bit of talking about Sam would not be the end of the world or anything like that.

"I think he will just be hanging around with some girls and try to get one of them to date him. He always hits on girls and tries to get some girlfriends. It's not like what he does is really all that bad, but he was just doing something that I would not really like to do myself. I think that if I do start to get girlfriends, then maybe I will start to ask him for advice. That is if he is actually good at it. Which I have no idea if he actually is or not. But then again, the fact that he tries at all is much better than anything that I do since I have never really gone on and tried to go out with a girl." Kevin answered as he pointed towards the door.

"What the hell is that?" Todd asked when he saw something golden at the door. He thought that this was a little bit out of nowhere. Todd then looked at Marcia and decided to be a little bit playful with her, not because he wanted to be a dick or anything, but because he thought that it would have been funny to say this. "Hey Marcia, I think that this person would be a great boyfriend for you." Once Todd had said that, Marcia started to get really angry over Todd. Since she only had eyes for Todd and this was showing her even more that he had no real interest in her. Which was something that still kind of pissed her off.

"Todd, don't taunt me." Marcia said and then she held her fist out. Then after she did that she punched him right in the chest and then he fell down to the ground which made him groan really loudly. She smiled at him and told him that maybe he would learn to actually want to go out with her next time and not be an asshole to her. Todd then said that it was just a joke and then she said that she didn't want to hear any of it.

The others just stare at Todd for a second and Diana got him eventually. Then after that, Todd rubbed his shirt off a little bit and walked around a little bit. As he was walking around, he saw that the golden thing was actually a knights outfit. The knight outfit came into the room and then everybody looked up and finally saw what Todd had meant. All of the girls in the place thought that this person was just super fucking sexy and then they started to run towards the knight man. Then they started to laugh and ask him a bunch of questions, something that would never get more responses. Even Jenni, Marcia and Diana came up to that knight and started to try and get wooed by them.

"What the hell? I don't even know what the hell is going on right now." Todd said since he was starting to feel a little sad now to see the others just sort of hanging out with this one random guy who never even went to Wayside. And now seeing Diana or hell even Marcia flirt with this guy made him feel like shit. Then when the girls finally gave him a little bit of a break, the guy who was in the knight suit went down to the table with all the refreshments. "I will talk to you a little bit." Todd told Kevin and Byron and then went on over to the knight.

"So I don't know who you are, but you should not be here right now. I don't know what you think is okay about you just coming into here and then flirting with all of the girls here. Now here is the thing, Marcia is my girlfriend. I mean my friend who is a girl. You get what I mean." Todd said and then patted the guy with the knight outfit. "Just leave them alone and I think that we will be fine." Then afterwards, Todd walked away from the guy a couple of steps.

After he walked away a little bit, he felt like he had gotten his point across. Then Todd laughed a little bit when he thought that he had won the fight. Then Marcia came up to him and then she started to rub his shining armor and then she grabbed them and started to dance with the knight. That was when Todd felt like he was not able to handle this anymore. He got up and started to get closer once Marcia was done with the dancing.

"I thought that we had a little bit of a understanding of what we had said earlier. I told you that we were not going to dance with these girls and that if you do that then we would be fine with each other." Todd said and then he lifted up the helmet and saw who was under there. He saw that it was... a dead rat. Todd looked really confused since he was not able to really get this after all.

"How the hell did you get into this?" Todd asked and then he rolled his eyes. He felt stupid that he had even asked this at all. Since this was a dead fucking rat. Then he just closed the rats helmet and then once he had closed the rats helmet, he had realized that nobody else was even watching what Todd had done at all. Marcia even had not noticed what the hell was going on.

"Well, if Marcia is wanting to dance with this guy and then is not really able to do this, then maybe I should go in there. That way the two of them can be able to enjoy each other. Or I guess the two of us." Todd said and then grabbed the dead rat out of the helmet and then he put himself inside of the outfit in the span of less than a minute. Then Marcia decided that she wanted to dance with the guy with the helmet once again and then started to come up to him.

"I think that we have our party winners." The teacher said when she saw how much Marcia was enjoying the time that she was having with this guy in the golden armor. Then she clapped a little bit upon figuring

out just how great of a dancer that this guy in the golden armor was. He really was winning her over in her mind. That was what she was feeling like at the very least. Marcia wanted to figure out who this guy was so badly that she could not wait until she could take off that helmet. Todd was in a combination of hoping but also not hoping that she would take it off. It was a odd feeling since he felt both ways. That was when the teacher had come up with a class interruption to get all of their attentions.

"So as I said a moment ago, we have our party winners. For the best female winner, we have Marcia and her amazing princess outfit." As the teacher had said that everybody in the classroom had clapped since they thought that she had totally earned it. Then the teacher was getting ready to announce who the best male was. "And the best male for the party is the guy in that amazing golden armor." At that part, everybody in the classroom got up in a great cheering. Even Byron had come on and joined in with this since he knew that he had been beaten this time and he was actually totally fine with being beat by this man.

"Oh mystery man, how are you today? You are so amazing that I can't wait to see what you are like under there." Marcia said and this made Todd realize that she was probably going to be moving in to remove the helmet much sooner than he had expected that she would have. Which was both scary a little pleasant for him at the same time.

"Is she going to do it? Is she going to actually remove the helmet and see who he is under there?" Jenni was really excited at the thought of being able to learn who this mystery man was. She liked to think that it was going to be like a really dreamy guy or something like that. She's not as much into the whole romance thing as Marcia is, but she is still a sucker when it comes to nice romantic shit like that.

"I think that she is. Just give her a little bit of time." Kevin said who was standing next to her. Jenni wondered if Kevin would be fine with the idea of dancing with her. She was able to tell that he liked her, since he was never really ever trying to hide that fact, but t o actually do something with her might be a different story of its own and he would probably fall under the pressure. It's not that she even like super duper loves him in the romantic sense, she just thought that it would be a good test in a way to see how he was really like.

With that, Marcia actually started to remove the helmet off of the guy with the golden armor. She was getting more and more excited the more that it was going off. But then when she saw that it was Todd, as well as all the others, they gasped and Marcia dropped the helmet. She was shocked at what she had seen. Not because Todd lied to her earlier or anything, but because he actually went on and did something, anything that was of romance to her and that made her feel like her heart was going to go boom boom. "Oh thank you Todd. So you do like me after all." When she had said that Todd was about to correct her and say that this was only because they were friends, but then he decided that he shouldn't and decided to let her have this one. Even Diana seemed to understand since when Todd looked at her she actually smiled in a way to let him have this one dance with her now.

"You know, there are things that I really do like about you and I feel like I should be able to show you that when the times is needed." Todd had said and then she started to look over at Todd as if she were really happy that she was able to have this moment with him at all. "Let's just have a nice moment and dance with other rest a nice song."

With that, Kevin pressed the music button in the classroom radio and then everybody in the entire classroom had started to dance around in the way that they would be able to really just sort of piss the night away. Marcia did ask Todd one question that he had hoped she would not ask but he was not really surprised that she did ask him in the end of the day. "How were you able to stay in that outfit and be in your music box outfit at the same time?"

"Well, I was able to do it with some form of magic. But I can't tell you what magic it was or else that would ruin the sort of... you know... magic to it all." After Todd said that, Marcia laughed and smiled a little bit when Todd said that and then she asked him if he had liked her and Todd once again decided that for the sake of this one night, he would say yes so that way she can at least have this moment.

"Oh Todd, you need to tell me more soon. There is so much that I want to know." Marcia said and then she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. Todd thought that this was okay for a one time thing. After all, they were, for the next five minutes, short term boyfriend and girlfriend. He was going to let her enjoy the moment while it lasted.

"Well, maybe if in the future this things lasts longer and we do have a full on relationship in the future, then I will tell you more. But give it a few months for now." Todd said and he was asking that mainly because he had wanted to give her enough time so that way it won't seem like it was a big deal when he would tell her that it was a dead rat originally and let her believe it was Todd from the start.

"How many more days are you going to wait?" Marcia asked as if she was already wanting him to tell her what the fuck had happened. Then Todd shook his head and then Marcia had given up on the whole thing and then the two of them started to continue to dance. Then as they had done that, Todd put his arms around her neck and Marcia was even more shocked that this was the case. Diana was starting to get a little bit annoyed, but she was still going to let this slide for now.

"You have a nice neck." Todd said and then he was not able to believe that he had literally gone that low with flirting. That was quite possibly the worst flirt on the face of the planet and he literally felt mentally retarded that he had said that. Then he told himself to relax and that he was just sort of over blowing this whole thing. Marcia seemed to not really mind the fact that he had said that.

"Well at least you admit that something about me is nice." Marcia told Todd and then he supposed that this was the truth. Then with that, Todd told her that there was just nothing that he was able to say that would make it feel like he was having a normal conversation with the girl that had the biggest crush on him that he had ever seen. But he was just trying really hard to have a normal conversation and no matter how hard he tried, it just kept on failing after a couple of moments.

"I guess that this is true. So Marcia, what are you going to want for Christmas?" Todd asked and then he felt like this was the first time that he was able to have a normal conversation on this whole thing. Then Marcia seemed to think about it and tried to come with a response that had seemed to be at least a little bit reasonable.

"Well, I think that for Christmas, I really want to get a new sort of jacket. There is a green jacket that I saw in the store that I thought would really work for me. So yeah, if I would need to get something, I would want that. If you can get that for me." Marcia said and then when she had said that, Todd was not really sure if he could get it for her or anything but he sure as hell could tell it to somebody who could go on and give it to her.

"Well, I will see what I can do. I don't know if I can give it to you. But I can at least try." Todd said and then when he had said that, Marcia seemed to accept that and then was just glad that Todd was wanting to help her at all. So she had considered this to be a good moment. Soon enough, the song had been over and then it was at this point in which the two had to break apart. Then with that, all of them just started to dance as much as they could since they wanted to just have a epic dance and party as much as they could. Diana came up to Todd when Marcia was out of the area. He knew that he was fucked at this moment.

"So how did you enjoy dancing with Marcia and having that kissing moment with her and having your arm around her neck?" The way that he had asked that was very angry and Todd was super scared that this was the case. Todd started to think harder of a way to answer her question without getting totally fucked up and soon enough, he just started to do silly moans and groans as he was coming with an answer.

"Don't worry Todd, I'm just messing with you. I know that you were doing this to make her be happy. So I wouldn't really worried about it right now." Marcia said and then Todd took a loud sigh of relief. He knew that Diana was fine with the whole dancing bit, but he was not sure if she was alright with the other parts. So that was the part that made Todd just try to work normally. Todd started to dance more with Diana for a minute but then Diana and him decided that they needed to do some more just personal dances. So with that, Todd and the others in the whole classroom started to just have a epic dance off.

Todd knew that he was a sort of stupid dancer, but he wanted to still dance for the hell of it though. But with that, he started tapping his feet around and then he moved his feet up and down a shit ton and then he started to jump around the whole room and tried to do things like the lawn mower dance and everything. Todd was just messing around and he was enjoying messing around a whole lot and after a moment or two, the other members of the classroom started to either clap and cheer for Todd or maybe even joined along with Todd on the whole dance off. But Todd knew that this was only going to make him popular for like a minute or two and then afterwards he would be sort of thrown back into just being a normal kid that people didn't hate, but don't love at the same time. Aside from his instant group of friends, obviously who think that Todd is a really great guy and all that.

Even with that, Todd just started to enjoy the moment and then he was jumping over a chair and that was when the teacher was about to yell at him for fucking up too much and having to go on home before the party was over. But she decided that this was his way of celebrating at a party, so she decided that she would let it slide this time. Maybe he didn't have to go home with kindergartners this time around. Just get a warning and leave it at that. That is if it gets worse in the future.

The party had lasted about another twenty minutes before the true school day had ended and the classmates all had to head home or do whatever they had normally done when they had gotten out of school. It was when Todd just sort of have some simple conversations with some students that he had in class with. But he didn't think that any of these conversations were really a big deal at all. The only one that he thought was kind of important was the one that he had with Steven.

"So when are you going to go on and do your trick or treating?" Todd had asked and then Steven thought about what Todd had said. There was no too much of a thought that he had to put into it. Something that he only thought on for like five or so seconds before he laughed and smiled and then answered Todd with waving his fingers around as if he were trying to act like a ghost for a moment.

"I think I will go out and do it at five or six. You can't wait for too long before you go on and have some great moments of going on and eating candy. If you go on and get what I am saying. I just love the candy and the spooks so much that I want to spend every single second possible seeing it." Steven said and then he started to laugh so hard that Todd had thought this guy might be a little bit insane. He knew that this wasn't really the case, but that was how it had felt.

Todd then started to walk on his way home. He didn't want to waste to much time in this place. He knew that he wanted to get at least some bit of fresh air before anything else. He walked down the thirty floors of Wayside and was used to doing that at this point and had not really gotten too worried about the whole idea of walking as much as he does in this school. It took about fifteen minutes, but that was much less than the forty or fifty minutes that it took him at the start of the school year.

Once he had left the house, he saw something a little strange. First off, Todd had forgotten that he had brought his music case outfit out of the class and he was still wearing the knights armor. So he was wearing a bunch of more weight than he really needed. Then he turned around and thought about getting it but knew that he didn't have the time. He would get his costume during school the next day. But what had scared him was the fact that on the other side of the street, there was a guy wearing a suit and had long arms and had no face staring at him. The longer Todd stared, the more convinced that he was that there was something this man was going to do. Like go on and try to create some form of paranormal bullshit to him.

Todd started running as fast as he could and there were some other members of the classroom that had looked at what Todd was doing and was wondering what the hell he was going to do. He was running around cars and jumping around a bunch and all that shit. He was going as much as he could. Then he started to see the guy in this black suit starting to walk away and there was this point in which Todd started to follow them.

Byron had been seeing what was happening and then he looked around to see if for once he could actually be able to help out with this guy. Byron looked towards the guy who was working around in the school as the cleaner and organizer. He was basically one of the most popular people in the school and then thought that he would be old enough, experienced enough, and smart enough to help this guy out. This was happening as he was sweeping out some cow hay and all that.

"Louis, can you please help Todd?" Byron asked and then Louis turned around and was really confused at what Byron was doing. He was used to Byron freaking out every once in a while, but this was something that seemed different to Louis. Usually when Byron bitched, he did it to try and improve his chances of winning class president. But Louis knew that Byron was actually doing this to increase Todd's chances of survival. Well, he didn't know any better.

"What is even going on right now? I was in the middle of my job." Louis asked and then Byron pointed down the street. Louis looked down a little bit and then saw that Todd was running down and chasing this guy. The more that Louis was looking, the more that he was convinced that Todd was doing something that he would later regret and that Louis figured out that there was a small chance that he actually be able to help. And with that, he put the rake down.

"Just stay here. I will be back in fifteen minutes." Louis said and started sprinting as fast as he could. He waited until the cars were out of the way and then he would continue his running. He reached the other side of the street a few seconds later and then Todd was now half way down the block and the guy with the suit was starting to gain some distance on Todd. Then Todd found a skateboard. This was when he grabbed the skateboard and then he started to ride the skateboard as fast as he could.

He was going very fast for his standards. The faster he was getting and the more that he was riding, the more that Louis was trying to catch up at the very least to Todd. And Todd was getting closer to this man and then he would twist and turn the skateboard as much as he could and started to ride around cars as they were honking their horns at him as if Todd was the most insane person that had ever been made in the history of the planet. there was a point when he turned his skateboard around and then jumped up several feet with his board and then he landed on the sidewalk and then started to ride once more.

The guy with no face turned around for a split second as Todd was started to ride off more and then when he landed on the sidewalk, he was only a couple of feet away from the guy with no face. That was when Louis was over a hundred yards away from Todd and that was when he knew that whatever was happening, Todd was going to have to fight this battle on his own. There was no way that he was going to continue chasing after him anymore since they were so far apart in distance and the distance apart kept growing due to their different methods of travel.

The guy with no face had been running and moving things out of the way and sometimes even at the wall of the buildings with his long as arms and Todd would skate around a lot of that shit. The skateboard escaped Todd at one point and then he jumped up and person and then ran as fast as he could and then he got back on the board and then he was going on even further and faster at this point. This had kept going along and Todd had kept going faster until he had finally reached the entrance of the forest. This being the second time he went there in the course of a fucking week.

The guy with no face turned around and then looked at Todd once again. That was when Todd shook his head and then started to skate once again. he was not going to let fear get in the way of figuring out what the hell this guy was. This guy had started to make Todd interested and curious to see if he was actually at all related to staircase. The guy with no face turned around and then got into the forest and Todd went inside the forest and once he was in the forest, he saw that it almost didn't even look like a forest at all.

This was the part that had scared the shit out of Todd. He had seen a pathway that looked like a sort of walkway to a house that was probably long abandoned by that point in time. Todd got off of his skate board and decided that he was going to walk down for this next part. As he was walking down, he was looking around and seeing the trees and how the closer that he had had gotten to the end of the path, the more brown and dead the trees had gotten. This had meant that Todd had been getting closer to the dead of the forest.

Todd's arm that he was holding the skateboard with was starting to get a little bit shaky. He could not be able to handle the fact that this was happening. After what seemed like forever, he had walked into what seemed like the front yard of a large mansion. Todd looked around and then realized that he basically wasn't even in the forest anymore. Hell, he wasn't even sure if he was in this city anymore. Was he actually in a different section of the state? Which was totally unrealistic, but he was scared enough to consider this to be a reality.

Todd started walking around in the yard and the more that he was walking around, he was witnessing something change at the moment in a way. He looked up and saw a missile flying from the sky. Todd gasped when he saw the missile and then he saw that there was the entrance of the house. He wondered what it would be like if he had at least warned the people in the house that there was something going on. When he had thought about that, he saw that he could just walk on right in. With that, he thought he would make an alarm to them and then run right home after that.

Once Todd had walked into the house, he noticed that most of it was all destroyed and looked like it had not been used for years. He started walking around and as he was walking around, he walked up the stairs and checked one of the bedrooms. Well, rooms is a better wording. All that Todd found there were a bunch of ruined boxes as well as bookshelf. Todd grabbed one of the books and realized that it was not even written in. It was totally blank and no matter how hard he looked or tried to find any form of writing or evidence of what book it was, he could not find anything. Then with that, Todd felt like he was starting to feel like there was nothing that he could do in that bedroom and he decided to put the thing in his pocket so that way he could be able to examine it better and all that. Then he might tell his friends and all that for when he decided that he could and would find something of interest.

Then he had walked out of the room and when he had walked out of the room he saw something vague in the middle of the living room. Then Todd started to walk down the stairs and then got into the living room and then saw that this vague figure was gone. Todd looked around and saw a few more rooms. There was a room that was about twenty feet away. Todd walked those twenty feet and then walked into that room. Then when he was in that room, he knew that he probably had gone into the dining room or something like that.

The dining room was just what he had expected it to be. He saw that the table was an absolute mess. There was a bunch of stains on there that it was gross. And that there were more stain spots than there were white spots still. Todd saw that the food and plates there were completely messy and rotting as if they had not been attended in the course of several years. Todd felt mentally disgusted at that part.

That was when Todd had looked up and when he had looked up, he had seen that there was that weird looking no face guy walking by. But for the fraction of a second, he had realized that this was going to be the death of him. he saw for a second what this guy actually looked like. He saw the guy who now looked like a middle aged man and when he was examining more, he saw that the guy had black hair and he a couple of teeth missing. Todd then wondered how he had went faceless. A couple of seconds later, he left the area and Todd blinked and wondered what the hell was going on anymore.

Todd then left the dining room and was just trying to figure out what was in the other rooms. Once he was done looking in all of the rooms of the house, he would leave and probably have like no time to get ready for Halloween and he would probably have to see Diana right away. He still realized that he was still wearing the knights armor and when he had realized that, he wanted to take it off but then realized where the fuck he was at and decided that he would not.

Once he was back into the living room, he saw that there was a second set of stairs a few feet to the other side of where the set he already was at. He decided to walk up the stairs and then when he was up the stairs he saw yet another bedroom. Todd walked into this one to see if it was any different from the one that he had been in like five or ten minutes ago.

In the room he saw a small set of paintings. He would grab the paintings and when he was looking at them, he was wondering who the hell was even into painting in this whole fucking dead like household. He then realized that these paintings were older and that this house had been left behind years ago and the owner of the house forgot to take things with them. Todd put the paintings down and then he headed out of the room. Once he was out of the room, he saw one final room that he could enter.

He started to walk towards that room and the more that was was walking towards that room, the more that Todd had forgotten all about that missile. He had started to think that he was seeing something of a thing in his imagination and that the actual missile, if there was even a missile, was just not true at all. So Todd just walked into the final room, and when he had walked into the final room, he realized that he had just entered into a hallway and then there were like seven other rooms that he could go into. So he decided to check each room one at a time.

He started to go to the furthest room to the left. When he was in that room, he saw a bed that looked like it was used only like three times in the entire existence of its life Todd patted the bed and realized that there was just a shit ton of dust that came to his face. He put the dust off of him and then he realized that there was really nothing else in that room. So he left the room and then when he left the room, he went the very next room over. Thinking that there was probably a lot more of stuff in that next room over.

Once he was in the second room, he found a small box. He grabbed the box and then opened the box. He was sort of wondering what the hell was even in it when he had grabbed it. The box had a picture in it. The picture was of a man, who looked to be very similar to the man in the dining room. Next to him was his wife, close to being his same age. Then with the two of them was a girl that was most likely their daughter and Todd wondered how old this picture was. Regardless of how old it was, Todd put it in his pocket and he was going to study it a lot more when he got home. He left the room and headed on to the third room.

In the third room there was a large television. Todd walked up to it to see what the hell a television was doing in a room that looked like it was like a hundred years old or some bullshit like that. Todd turned the on button on and then he waited for a second or something like that. As he was watching, he felt like there was a malevolent feeling to it. As if the more that he was watching it, the more likely that he was going to fucking die. Then he saw that there was some sparks coming out of there. He turned the button off and then got up for a second. He stood up and then just left the bedroom and then decided that he would go to the fourth bedroom.

In the fourth bedroom he had found a painting once again. He saw that the painting contained what looked like a dead body. Todd touched it a little bit confused. The body actually had their eyes move around as if they were watching Todd and everything that he was doing. Todd took a gulp and then he walked out of the room really confused on what he had just witnessed.

At the fifth bedroom Todd was scared shit less. He saw a girl who looked like she was probably eight or nine years old. She looked at Todd for like the split fraction of a second and then walked right through Todd. This was when Todd realized that he had just seen a ghost. He had been in a haunted house, and this scared him even more. But he decided that he would need to see the last two rooms and with that, he headed out to the sixth room and was a little less confused by this one than the last two.

Once he was in the sixth grade, he had seen a small piece of paper. He grabbed the paper and saw that there was a letter. The letter seemed to look like it was two thirds of the way through the writing. It had seemed like this guy was going on and sending a message to a friend. Todd had wondered who these people were. But the letter, or the person that the letter was going to be headed for was named Salvador. Todd grabbed that letter and put that one in his pocket like how he grabbed pretty much everything that was of interest to him and then he headed off to the seventh and final room. This one being the worst of all of them.

When he had gone into this final room, he saw a dead body. This was starting to scare him. He went up to the dead body and saw that it was the dead body of a guy. The guy looked like he was a teenager. He saw that this person was probably dead for a couple of weeks. Todd put his shirt up to his nose and then he felt like he was going to gag. But he was looking through the clothes of this person and found the last thing that would seem of interest to him and put this final thing in his pocket. What he had known was that what he grabbed was something like a wallet. He didn't want to see what was in the wallet when he decided to just leave the house. The moment he left the house, he felt like he had walked into a horror film.

The man that had no face was looking directly at Todd. When Todd had seen that, he had taken a scared gasp of shock. The fact was that the man had a house when they were in the house but as soon as Todd had left the house, they had no face on anymore. Then Todd asked what the hell was going on in the house. The man with no face pointed up and then moved their hand a bunch in in different shapes. Well, they weren't really writing them with his whole hand as much as their finger.

"What is this?" Todd had asked, then the guy was still writing out their sentence. After a little while, Todd had realized what was going on and then he read it out loud. 'There was a story of how a man in golden armor would come and free our souls. A golden knight. Our hero. When I saw you, I knew that you would be the hero. Can you please bring peace to our family?' When Todd read that last bit, he felt like this was just insane. Todd was just too young to do something like this and possibly be able to survive to see the end of the day. After all, he had only turned like thirteen three days ago.

"But what if I can't do it? I'm not really the man that you must be looking for." Todd had said and then when he had said that the man with no face had continued their writing with their finger. Todd was not really sure which one was more scary. The fact that there was a man with no face, the fact that Todd had went into a haunted house, the fact that Todd was able to read all of this, or the fact that Todd was forced to be destined that he was going to be a hero. Todd then shook his head and no matter how much he tried to get across that he couldn't do this shit, the man with no face would still make their own message.

Soon enough, this second part of the message had been finished and then Todd had read it. 'You are certainly the one. Age does not matter. Please find the second staircase. Once you do, you will know what you need to do and then we will be put to piece finally. Please, do it. It may be too late to change our fate. But it is not too late to change yours.' Then Todd felt like this was getting too much, and he stood up and said that this was getting to the point where it was just unrealistic.

"If I find a second staircase, I can try and help you then. I don't even know if I can find a second one at this rate." Todd said in a totally honest way and he started to come up pathway. As he was finally a few feet up the pathway Todd turned around and saw the man with no face give one final message to him. The message says 'Please.' That was when Todd just turned around and then started to run up as fast as he could with the knight armor.

Once he was at the top of the pathway he grabbed the skateboard and then he started to ride out as much as he could. This was when he had finally figured out what time it was. He realized that there was at least three or four hours that had passed during this time. Todd was ride up as fast as he could so that way he could get to Diana's house and have her feel like she was not waiting for a man that would turn out to be a total asshole who lied about everything that he had said. Which he really did not want to deal with or even consider dealing with or anything like that.

Todd had remembered where Diana had lived with all of the walks that they had taken up to their homes from school. So he was able to go there as fast as he could. Todd felt like he had been very lucky to make it out of that whole thing alive. He was not even sure how the hell there was even a man with no face. There was still a theory that he had that he had just walked into a horror film and that maybe there were a couple of scenes that were being filmed and that Todd was either now the main character by mistake, or he was just a person to add in a little bit of filler to the film. Or maybe this really was the truth and that this was something that Todd needed to try to at least do for their sake.

Todd was riding as fast as he could and when he was riding, he found Diana's house after probably twenty minutes of him riding around. Then when he saw her house, he took a moment to look at the decorations of the house. Todd started to then walk up the pathway and he was thinking more and more about what he had dealt with. He was for sure to read all of that shit and look at it when he would go him that night since he was convinced that this was something he needed to at least try and research.

"Hey Diana, I'm ready to head out now." Todd said and then when Todd had said that Diana looked at him and smiled. She commented how he was still wearing the knights armor after a few hours. "Yeah, I decided not to take it off. I don't know why, but I just couldn't really take it off." Todd said and then he held his arms out. Diana put her arms around his and then Todd put the skateboard right under his right arm as they started to head off to the other parts of the city. Todd was starting to enjoy this knight armor the more that he had worn it.

"So why have you not taken it off yet? Please tell me the truth right now. I really want to know. Are you a great knight?" Diana had said and then Todd had tried to think of what to tell her. He thought he would tell her that he had been running and skating a lot, but then he would leave it just at that. Then he would leave it right at that, and then Todd would hope that he would be fine with just telling her this little bit of his crazy life story.

"Well, I was running and skating a lot. I wanted to get myself to be as great of a skater as I can, and doing this would be able to help me get better with building up my muscles and all that." Todd had said and then when he had said that Diana thought that there was something that she could believe Todd would do. Even though she had never been able to see why he had liked skating so much, but she was never able to argue with his interests and all that.

"Well, at least you are still enjoying wearing that armor." Diana said and as she said that she knew that she needed to ask him one more important question. One that would truly see if Todd was lying or not to her and basically everybody else. "Todd, why did you get in that armor? Please don't give me any of that magic stuff, I just want to know the truth."

"Well, I was a little jealous since I thought that it was a little shitty that Marcia was not flirting with me. Something I started to miss more the more that she had been flirting around. Then I went in the armor and saw that I was able to go in there. I didn't want Marcia to dance with something that had not been in existence or something like that. So I went in there and decided that I would let Marcia have one epic moment with me." Todd had said and then when Todd had admitted her the truth, Diana told him that she was not really sure if she was able to believe him or not.

"Well, I don't really get it either. That is just what I had seen." Todd said and Diana left him alone. She thought that there was no point in arguing with Todd at all. That was when Todd had decided that he would drop the subject. Diana decided that this was something that Todd would not really want to know the truth on. She thought that Todd had perhaps a deal with the guy who was under there in real life and he just decided to get into it on his own.

That was when Todd and Diana had reached their first house to go on and do some sort of trick or treating. Todd and Diana went up to the house and Todd knocked on the door. There was a answer on the door and the woman who saw Diana and Todd said that the knights armor was something that they had never seen before and that Todd should be glad that he had been able to find it. Todd thanked her and then the two of them left the yard and then the two of them started to head off and walk around to a second house.

"So Todd, can you please tell me what happened in the forest that would make you hate it so much?" Diana had asked and then Todd thought about it for a little bit. He was trying to figure out if maybe he should tell her the truth now. But then he decided that he would not tell her the experience of what had happened when he was only eight and decided that instead he would just tell her of what happened after school that day. But just not tell her that it was that day and that it was more of several years ago. Or at least try and imply that it was that range.

"Well, one day I was walking around the forest when I was like eight years old or something like that. When I was walking around, I had found a guy with no face. I followed him out of confusion and then I found a mansion. I came in the mansion and the more that I looked around, I saw things that looked like it would be from a horror film. That scared me more than anything else and I never want to go to that place anymore. However, a few days ago when I saw that staircase I thought that I would come back to it and do some research on all that." Todd had said and then Diana decided that this was really sad or at the very least very odd and all that. Todd decided to tell her what he had seen, obviously still in the view that this was a few years back.

"At the time I left the mansion, I found the guy with no face. He told me that I was a hero and that I needed to find some peace for them. I don't really get it and I don't think that I will ever get it. That whole thing scares the shit out of me and that I will probably never even find that mansion again. So I think that this thing was just a terrible experience that I had to deal with in my life. That is what my guess is at least." Todd was done with the story and he wondered what Diana would say to this. If she would say anything at all.

"Do you think that there was a level of truth to this or do you think that it truly was something that was just a scary event and that you will never see anything like it again?" Diana asked and Todd shook his head. Not in the no type of way, but in the way that he truly just had no idea.

"Do you really think that there is anything to it really or do you also think that it was just something odd?" Todd asked her and he told her that maybe there was nothing to it besides what he had said. "I truly believe that it was just a super crazy moment that we will never have to deal with or follow up on."

"Well, maybe you should probably give it a chance. After all, things happen for a reason. I know that this may sound a little silly to say, but I feel like this was a sign. A sign that you were meant to do something else in your life. And with you seeing that, maybe you should really look as hard as you can to find the house again and then once you find it again, try to see what is in there a second time to see if it is like what you imagine." Diana told Todd as Todd said that he wasn't sure.

"I just don't think that I will be ready to confront my past to be honest." Todd said and there was a truth to what he was saying. After all, he had seen that a few hours ago. Which was, in a way, the past. Well, anything at least one second prior was in the past. Todd and Diana reached another house and knocked on the door and it revealed a man who looked to be twenty two or something and he gave them the candy and they just walked out of the area again.

"Are you just saying that because you do believe that you can't or just because you won't do it?" Diana asked and then Todd thought about it. There was a valid question there, and when he had heard her ask him that he felt like he had to think really hard about it since there was something that seemed to be true in it. Todd decided that maybe she was right in the end.

"I don't really think it is a matter of me not being able to do it. I think that you are right. It is just a matter of the fact that I won't. Or at the very least won't yet. But maybe at some point I will get myself to do it actually." Todd had said and then he moved his knee a little bit since he felt it hurt a little bit. It was his left knee and he just needed to do it just in case. Almost as if he had went through a injury. Then Todd and Diana reached a walk way. This was really pretty to look at.

"So, how do you like being here and hanging out with me in Halloween?" Todd had asked and then Diana had smiled at Todd once again. She was wondering why he had even been asking her this. She should have expected Todd to know that she was enjoying this whole thing. Well, aside from the fact that Todd was basically being really evasive about the whole thing that he was talking and dealing with about in the forest.

"I love it of course Todd. I don't know why you even need to ask me this. I mean, I wouldn't have gone on to join you if I had not enjoyed this whole thing." Diana thought that Todd was not really getting anything anymore. Or maybe he was just being a little worried about her and that he was just asking a simple question. Then Todd decided that he would just make sure that this was going alright.

"Well, that is really good." Todd had said and then he held her hand and then he put his hand closer to her head. As he was doing that, Diana had started to think that he was going to try and kiss her. She went on with it and then she had kissed him back. the two had enjoyed it for a second or two before Todd moved his face away and then he smiled at that moment. Diana was able to enjoy the moment as well.

"I think we need to continue going on and go to some more houses." Diana had said and then she let go of his hand. Then the two of them started to walk on more and more and the more that they walked, the closer to the next house. Once they had reached another house, the two of them knocked on the house and took the time to see what the spiders in the yard were. The yard was just all spiders. The two of them figured out that this guy really, really liked spiders. Then the two saw that the person there was a old man and he gave each of them one piece of candy. Afterwards, Todd and Diana walked out of the yard and started to head to the next house.

"I really like going trick and treating. I know that all of this is something that I can only be able to be excited for once a year. But I still really enjoy this stuff. After all, it's the only day of the year you get free candy." Todd had said and then he was eating one of the pieces of candy that he had gotten with her. Diana laughed because she was so glad that Todd had been able to enjoy all of the stuff that they had been doing and all that.

"I like it to. But are you worried that you are going to be too old to do it next year?" Diana asked and Todd had seemed to consider what she had asked. It was hard for him to consider himself too old when he was just a teenager. So with that he shook in head to say no. However, he did raise his finger up in a way to show that he was going to concede something to her.

"I will admit that in a couple of years, like when I am sixteen or seventeen, then I might be too old for this. That I will grant you." Todd said and then once he had said that, Todd continued on walking and Diana had seemed to accept what Todd had said to be mildly valid and to not really think that she would need to argue with what he had said.

"Well, at least you are able to accept that you will soon be too old for this." Diana had said that she was glad in that whole thing. Todd had no idea why she had cared so much on his trick or treating habits. After all, it was how he did, not how she did it. Then with that happening, the two of them had found yet another house that they had thought would be cool for them to go into.

The two of them went to the door and saw that there was probably nothing there. The windows were all closed and Todd had assumed that this was just the time that the guy or girl had already given up with kids coming along or maybe they never went at all. Todd and Diana decided to just leave the area and then when they had left the area, the two of them were just enjoying their time and there was a woman who looked outside of the window. This was the thing that she had liked to do. She would watch all the kids walk by and see their happy faces when they were enjoying their time being outside. It was exciting for them to see.

Todd was wondering how much longer the amazing trick or treating event will last. He decided that he would ask Diana about it. "Well, it probably will end after we go down a couple of blocks before we just go to my house. Remember how you promise I was going to let you come to my house after the event is all over. I hope that you keep to your end of the bargain." Diana nudged Todd a little bit and Todd felt so glad that Marcia was not there since if she had seen this, she would flip the fuck out.

"So are you glad that there were a lot of nice candy that we get to both eat together?" Todd asked since he was playing with one of the pieces of candy and it seemed like he was slowly moving it to her mouth. It had all seemed like they were starting to become a old like couple and that they just didn't really give a fuck on who had seen what they were doing. They were having the times of their lives and that was what truly had mattered.

"Well, I really think that things are going to be great once we get inside of my house." Diana told Todd and he was getting even more excited to see what she was going to show him inside of there. She had been really hyping up this moment for the last couple of hours and Todd was wondering just what truly would be there. He was so into the idea of hanging out with Diana more after Halloween that he had no real way of being able to show it.

But with that, the two of them seemed to slowly head on their way to the house. The more that they were heading there, the more that Todd realized that he was probably going to have to get out of his armor, and that was getting a little sad for him. Since he had grown to really like wearing this outfit and he didn't want to stop wearing it any time soon. He couldn't believe that he was enjoying wearing a outfit that wasn't even really his. He wondered what his parents would say if they had seen what Todd was wearing now.

"Do you want to be a teacher now?" Todd asked since he was used to her wearing a teaching outfit but he had wanted to see if that was what she had wanted or not or if it really was just wearing for the sake of having a cool costume. Diana put her hand to her nose for some reason and Todd was confused on this but he had decided that he would not really question it since she was just doing something Todd was used to in a way by this point.

"I think that it would be pretty cool if I had become a teacher. But I don't think that I will have the dedication to put several extra years of my life to it. I think what I will actually become is just a library assistant or something like that. Something on the level of helping people and on the level of research, but nothing too scary and nothing that would take years upon years to fully do. I just don't want to spend so much time in my life getting ready for my goal that I will never be able to actually go through with the goal." Diana told Todd as the two of them were getting close to being at the entrance of her house.

"I don't think you need to worry about spending too much time in a place. I think you should just try to enjoy the time as it goes and just sort of aim high in a way. That is how I feel about it at the least. Well, but either way, it truly is something that you should decide if you really want to take the risk on or not in the long run. Either way, I will think that you have done a great job at school and that is what really matters in the end. Well, that is what really matters to you I would know." Todd said and then he saw that the house was only a block away.

"Thank you for saying that to me. It seems like you always know how to make me feel better. I don't really know how you are always able to do it. But that is just something that I am able to love so much about you." When Diana told Todd that, he was shocked when she said the actual word of love. He was not at all ready to hear her say something like that. A love declaration just seemed to be something that was a little out there for the two of them. But then they were right at the first couple of steps in the walkway to the house.

"I will try as hard as I can to make sure that you want to truly get in the thing that you want to be in. I don't want you to go on and do something that you will end up hating doing in the long run. That just is something that would break me and I know that you won't really do something like that obviously, but I am just saying it the way that it is." Todd told her and he held her hand one final time. "It will be nice to see your parents. I hope that they like me."

"Oh I am pretty sure that they will like you. But I think that we shouldn't waste any more time and just go right into the house. I want to go to my room right away." Diana gave Todd another kiss and Todd felt like he was going to get very used to that soon. He had liked Diana kissing him a lot. It was just so nice to see her reach out to him and give him a sign of affection. The two headed out of the outside and into the house and then the two of them ran, or sort of ran, right into the bedroom where Todd closed the door.

"Wow, it seems like you are ready to jump right into whatever you want to do with me." Todd had said before he was able to get a moment to sit down. Which was a total bitch for him to do with the knight armor. Diana decided that she would go on and try and help him on this. So she had grabbed one of the pieces of the armor and removed it. Then she dropped it to the ground. Then she picked up the next piece and after the third or fourth piece, Todd was able to start taking it on his own.

After what had seemed like five or six minutes of moving around and all that, Todd had finally been able to take all the armor off. He felt so strange since he had worn it for the last nine or ten hours. He started to feel like it was actually his own shit for once. Even though it wasn't even his own armor. Then Diana grabbed Todd's hand and forced him to go to her bed. Todd knew more and more that she was planning on sleeping with him. Something that Todd was still not quite so sure about but he sure as hell was not going to complain about the fact that they were going to have a great moment together soon.

"Diana, are you sure that you are ready for this?" Todd had asked and then Diana nodded. She kissed him right away and Todd gulped a little bit. Then she started to place him on the bed with him laying down and her being on top of him. Todd felt like he was getting a little bit of a boner. He knew that he was not really doing a good job hiding it since Diana had laughed when she had seen it.

"I know for sure that you are ready for it." Diana said and then she unzipped her pants. Then she moved part of his underwear around and put his dick inside of her mouth. Todd was so glad that he was having sex and all that, but he just was not really sure how he was able to comprehend the fact that she and him were sort of going right into it and not taking it slowly.

It was starting all from now. After that, Todd and Diana had ended up having their first time ever having sex each. Both of them thought that it was great and everything and neither of them had really known any better since they were only young teenagers. So they just had no real idea on what would be considered good sex or bad sex. But Todd just didn't really think that it was the worst sex of his life several years down the line while Diana thinks that she did have better sex. Not that she had too much sex after this point.

After all of this, Todd had slept with Diana that night and this was the first time that he ever spent a full night at somebodys house. Well, right next to them that is, physically at least. Since he had spent the night at other peoples places before, such as when he did with Kevin, but he never slept with somebody in the same bed. Todd had loved seeing Diana asleep and he was starting to think more and more that they should be all together in a great way.

On the total opposite end of the spectrum of the Halloween night, Kevin and Jenni had done their own thing. Most of the first hour or so was pretty much the exact same. Them going to houses, knocking on them, getting candy and talking every time they went between houses. Then the two had reached a park that seemed to be only having one thing in it. And that was the swing. So the two walked up to the swings and each one took one. They decided they would take a five or ten minute break before getting more candy and being better with their hunting.

"This park blows. There should be other things here to make it a better park for kids." Kevin said and then he was looking at Jenni to see if perhaps she would agree with him. After all, she was pretty quiet a lot when the two were just standing there or sitting there. They only really talked a lot when the two of them were walking around and being active. Kevin took out one of his pieces of candy and started to eat it.

"Yeah, there could be some massive improvements that could be made to this place. But I doubt that the improvements will ever be made. I feel like this is sort of a pit stop." Jenni said as she whipped her hair a little bit back and fourth. Kevin knew right away then that she was basically one of those types of girls. The ones who would whip their hair to sort of give her upper head a little bit of time to breath.

"I think that this was a good place to sit down for a couple of seconds. But nothing really beyond that. Maybe you are right after all on this one." Kevin said and then when he was done having that piece of candy, he stood up and started to move his upper body around as if a way to exercise it. Jenni stood up to and they decided that they would both leave the place.

When the two of them had left the park, or whatever the hell it was, they just walked around for a bit. They were looking for another house that they would be able to get some candy from. As well as little bit more time to hang out and talk to each other. The two had walked around for about two minutes or so until they found a house that had Dracula on it and when people walked by, it was like the vampire actually came back to life. After that, Kevin and Jenni walked towards that house to get some candy from there to.

When Jenni and Kevin had gotten the candy, the two of them walked out of the place and then when they were walking they two of them decided that they had no real idea on what to do next. "Well, it is obvious that we should just go along and go to more houses and get some more things of candy. Or at the very least keep doing that until we find something else to do." Kevin was saying and Jenni decided that it would be better to just go with this and not argue with it. After all, Kevin did have a point. It was better to do something easy than just go out of their way to do something that would be way over the top.

The two had been walking around for a little while. The two of them wondered what the hell was even going on when they had seen one person there. This one person had changed everything in Kevin's life. Well, he didn't know it then but it would be pretty obvious what this change would be in the future. Kevin and Jenni had seen a guy who looked to be a little young, but was still easily twice both of their ages. He was standing in one spot. As if he were not really even able to move around at all. This was what was starting to scare Kevin, but he thought that maybe this person was just really odd, so he didn't think much of it until a little bit later.

"I wonder who the hell he is?" Kevin had said since he was a little bit scared. He looked over at Jenni and was wondering what he could do at the moment with this really strange looking guy. There was no way that this guy was normal. Kevin was able to tell just from his face and clothes away. He held her hand for a second.

"Kevin, don't worry about so much. Just look away. He will leave us alone if you walk away and I will come with you." Jenni told Kevin and then the two of them nodded. Both of them had agreed that this guy was something, or somebody to be more correct, that was after them. Well, after Kevin at least. Kevin and Jenni started to walk away and pretend as if they had never seen this guy.

"You guys can't avoid me forever. There will come a point in which you will have to battle with me. and when you guys have to battle me, I am sure that neither of you guys will survive or even be able to hold a chance with me. I think that you will never be able to look at life the same way ever again and I am so glad that this is going to be the end." The guy in the purple jacket said as he had slowly taken off a picture. This was something that brought him a little bit of sanity.

In the picture it showed him as a kid. There was him holding his arms up and his father was having his hands on his shoulders. The two of them sort of were having the time of their life. It was them winning a sports game and they were trying to have a time celebrating the moment. The man with the purple jacket smiled and then put it back in his pocket. Then he started to follow Kevin and Jenni again to see what the fuck they were doing now.

"Let's just try and forget that even happened. Can we agree with that right now?" Kevin said and then Jenni nodded. She had wanted to think that she had a really bad moment and that there was nothing bad about this night so far. Then again, there might be a level of truth to it. Then Kevin started to think a little bit about Todd. He was thinking about his time with Diana and how much he probably is enjoying the hell out of himself right now. He wasn't even sure what he was doing with Diana, but he was just sure that they were having a blast. That was all that he could be able to think about for the duration of about a minute. Jenni looked up at him and started to try and speak with him.

"At least the guy has not followed us anymore. How about we just drop the subject and try to find something else that we can talk about? I mean, there are a lot of things in school that we can have a conversation about. Well, that is what I believe right now." Jenni said and then she snapped her finger when trying to find a topic that the two could talk about and enjoy talking about. "What did you think of Todd and his whole knight armor situation?"

"I am not really sure if Todd even really did what it looked like he did. I am not accusing him of lying. That would be a little bit of an asshole thing to do. But I do think that he played with us since the start of this all. And I don't really know what I should feel about it. I just feel like he should have been more honest with what was going on." Kevin had admitted and he was sort of wondering what else Todd had done that again, Kevin would accuse of him lying on, but easily twisting and turning what they had considered normal for his own sake.

"I am pretty sure that in a couple of days from now, everything will settle down and nobody will really care all that much anymore. I don't really even think that most of the classmates care anymore. So I think that maybe we should give Todd a rest on all of this. After all, he gave Marcia a moment that she would have been able to enjoy. I think that Marcia will not get over this moment for a little while. She was finally able to win the gut that she had a crush on. Even if it was just for a split moment." Jenni said and she seemed to get real involved with the romantic side of it. As if she wanted to have been the one to have her heart carried away from a guy that she might have a crush on.

"Jenni, please be honest with me, but do you like anybody that we have class with? I know that it is mainly not my business or anything, but I just can't help but ask you. I feel like if I don't get an answer on this soon, then I will feel like I have gone away and look at this as the one that got away. I think you get where I am trying to head at right now." Kevin said and this was his way of trying to nudge at the fact that he had liked her. But not you know, say it right there to her. So he was going with the somewhat subtle way.

"Well, I think that there is one guy that I like. But I am not really sure if he knows or if I will really want him to know. I feel like he is just too into his own feelings for somebody to even notice." Jenni said and for a split second, Kevin thought she might have been talking about him. But then he changed his mind and decided that she was talking about Steven, Todd, or hell maybe even Byron.

"I think that I will finally get the balls to tell the person that I like that I have a crush on her and when I finally get the balls to do so, I feel like I will either be much more at peace or I will feel like I would have made a terrible mistake. I am not really sure which one it will be. I just know that I know that one of those things will be what happens." Kevin said and then the two of them had reached a dough boy statue in the middle of down town. Well, more like the outer end of it. Kevin then turned on over to Jenni and talked a little bit about the statue.

"I remember when I saw this statue the first time when I was hanging around with Sam once. He was trying to show me what the town was like one time when we had first moved here. I thought that this was him just trying to one up me once again, but it had proved to be a nice time when we were just walking around, making good jokes and memories about the place we had lived at prior. Then we saw this statue and Sam tried to climb up it to show that he could do something like that. Then he quit after like half way." Kevin said and then Jenni decided that listening to Kevin was a little bit interesting since he always had some form of story that he could be able to tell her at the very least.

"Well, I think that when I saw that for the first time, I think in general that I just didn't really care all that much. I just sort of looked at it and was all like okay cool and then I moved on pretty quickly after that. I know that this sounds a little lame for me to say, but I mean I am just telling the truth here." Jenni told Kevin and then Kevin rubbed his legs inside of his pocket a little bit. He didn't want to do anything more since he didn't want to get too obvious with what he was just trying to do.

"I guess that everybody has their own different stories on how they handle things or react to things. So I don't really think that it is all that big of a deal." Kevin said and then he pointed at the hotel that was clear on the other side of the street. "I stayed there for two nights once. I had a former friend coming on over to town to visit, and he stayed there for the time being. I came on over and stayed there with him for two nights."

"I hate staying in hotels. You never get the chance to do things that you want to do and usually do when you are alone in your room. It seriously limits you down by a lot." Jenni said and then she looked at Kevin. The longer that they had been talking, the more that the two of them had wanted to go on and kiss each other. Kevin thought that he would make the movement.

"I never really stayed in hotels all that much. So I guess I never really was able to get an impression on it one way or another. I suppose that I never got the chance to go to hotels all that much. After all, most of the time, my family just remains in this house and never leaves it for any reason. I think that when I grow older, and leave this city, I will start to explore the world a little bit more. I don't know what I would really do once I start to explore, but I will find something." Kevin said and then he started to move his face closer. Despite what he was expecting, Jenni did not go on and stop him. The two had their mouths meet each other and they had kissed each other. This kiss was the first one that Kevin had ever had. So obviously it was the best one that he had ever had. But none of the less, it was still a good one and he did enjoy it a lot. Then when they had let go Jenni was looking at Kevin. As if she were trying to come up with a sort of answer on what she had thought on this kiss. She was not sure if it was just okay or really good.

"I wouldn't mind having another one." Jenni decided when she thought that she had finally made an conclusion. Kevin smiled since he thought that this was probably the best that he was going to get out of her. That was when the two had been forced to stop their conversation when there was a loud laugh. Kevin had a terrible feeling that he had known exactly who this guy was. But he still turned over anyways for confirmation.

Kevin had seen the guy with the purple jacket starting to walk towards him and Jenni. He held Jenni around his arms, and he knew that he was being a hero for just the split moment. Kevin then spoke out to that guy to prove that he was willing to fight him if it was needed. "Hey guy, leave us alone. We are just trying to enjoy our night. Can you please go away?"

"I was just trying to have a little bit of a conversation with you. I really hope that you don't treat everybody that wants to talk with you like that. I really don't appreciate it." The guy with the purple jacket said and Kevin seemed to consider that for a split second. He thought that maybe this guy should be given a chance. He took a deep breath and then raised his hands. As if that was his way of conceding defeat. For the time being at least.

"Fine, I will give you a chance. Can you tell me what you wanted to say?" Kevin said and then the guy still seemed to be mad at what Kevin was saying. But he also thought that Kevin was not going to get any nicer with this. So he just nodded and decided to go along with this. When he decided that maybe he was going to let this slide for the moment, he answered Kevin's question and told them what he had wanted.

"Well, I really need you. I know that you may not know who I am. But I sure as hell know exactly who you are. And trust me, you are exactly what I need for my success in life. I need you to help me succeed in my great plan. I am sure that you know exactly what I am already going to do. I know what my plan is. And it involves those staircases. Or at least, that is a part of it." The guy in the purple jacket popped his knuckles and Kevin thought that this was a chance enough to give that guy.

"Jenni, do you feel safe at all?" Kevin asked and when he had asked that, Jenni shook her head as slowly as she could. That was her way to try to not show that guy what her response was. Kevin and her took a step back. The guy in the purple jacket pulled something out of his pocket. He had what looked like some form of futuristic device that was used in science fiction movies.

"Please, come with me. I need you so badly that if I don't get your help, I will be stuck here for the rest of my life. You have no idea how much I don't want this to be my life. I can't even get why you guys are able to tolerate this fucking place." The guy said and he closed his hands to make a fist. Kevin and Jenni looked at each other for a split second. That was when they had knew that there was no fucking way that they were going to stay there any longer. Kevin and Jenni gave it another three seconds and when that guy released his fist the two of them started to run off as fast as they could. This was getting too much for them to handle.

As they were running off, the guy with the purple jacket seemed to be very offended that these kids had been running off without even giving the guy a chance to reason with them. He shook his head and yelled a little bit about how people don't understand what his vision is at all. That was when he started to run after these kids, who had gotten about a forty second head start on them. This was when Kevin had a complete feeling of terror that everything that was going to happen would fuck up their chances.

After Kevin and Jenni ran for about two or three minutes, they saw an alleyway. they jumped right into it and waited for a couple of seconds. "What the hell is even going on? Why does that guy want to use me so badly? I just don't fucking get it. God damn it!" Kevin yelled but then he realized just how loud he was being when he had said that. So he got much more quiet since he didn't want to risk the chances of getting caught at all. Then Kevin turned to Jenni.

"Do you have any sort of idea what is even going on at all? I know that you don't, I am just so scared that getting any sort of answer would be nice for me." Kevin said and Jenni looked like she was even more scared of Kevin. That was when he put his hands on her shoulders. "I am so sorry that this is happening right now. I wish that this wasn't going to have to happen." He looked over to see if this guy was there at all and when they saw that he wasn't, Jenni answered his question.

"Despite how much I wish I had an answer to this, I just don't. This whole thing is scaring me so bad. Are you going to get help when we get home tonight?" Jenni asked and Kevin thought about it. Kevin knew that he would either have to get the police, or maybe even try to get Sam to help him. The more that this school year had passed, the more that he was relying on Sam. He could not believe for a fucking minute that he was using Sam to help him so much lately. This was totally insane and was a complete turn of events. One that he would have never predicted for a second of his life that would happen. But that thought was cut short when they heard his voice running by again. Kevin and Jenni looked at each other and decided to run out of the alleyway and head to Jenni's house. Since she was closer to where the alleyway was, so they decided it would be easier and safer that way.

The two of them had really hoped this guy had not seen what they were doing. Once they were near the end of the alleyway, the guy with the purple jacket seemed to finally realize what was going on. He turned around and then when he saw Jenni's shoes, he knew that he had caught them. At least they would be able to get some more distance on him than they had earlier. But that was until he would start to go even faster and then ruin all their hopes that they had been able to escape the area.

He started to run as fast as he could. As he was running, he could feel his jacket starting to come off of him. He held onto it since he knew that he couldn't let that thing open. Whatever was under there was totally secret to him and nobody was allowed to know. It just wasn't for him. Which did make him get a little bit slower as Jenni and Kevin were now almost an entire block ahead of him.

Jenni and Kevin were running up the hill, and as they did so, Kevin put the candy inside of the pocket. Since he didn't want anything to fall out of the hands of them. He might have been in a scary ass situation, but he still fucking loved candy and didn't want to lose any of it at all. Although he was well aware of the fact that there was many more things that they should be worried about over just candy. Eventually they had reached the top of the hill and once they did so, the guy with the purple jacket stopped trying to catch them.

"You win this one. Next time we see each other, I will try even harder. But I will let you have a few more days of enjoying your life as it is. But in a couple of months, I will have to find you again. And when I do, you will not be able to escape. I need to get out of here as soon as I possibly can." After he said that, he started to walk away. This was going to be the start of yet again another rivalry that Kevin would have. Except instead of Noah which was just simple innocent making fun of each other and doing shot to each other, this was one that could ruin the lives of each other.

Kevin and Jenni had reached her front door. "Sorry for all of that. I was not expecting any of that to happen. I hope that you can forgive me. If you forgive me, I think that we can still keep a good friendship." Kevin was saying and she told him to be quiet. She said that everything was alright, and that he needed to relax. There was nothing wrong with what Kevin did, just the situation that Kevin was sort of in.

"Well, I think it is time for me to head out of here. I will see you when school comes around tomorrow." Kevin said and then after he had said that, he started to walk away and was thinking about literally everything that he had to deal with in the last hour or two. He had hoped that this was just a one time thing and that he would never have to deal with something like this again for the rest of his life. Or at the very least, not with that guy in particular coming up. He shook his head.

When Kevin had reached home, he sat down at the chair where his notebook was. He was going to go on and write a entry when Sam had walked up to his general area. "Hey Kevin, what are you doing right now?" Sam asked and then Kevin turned around and just still had no idea what the hell he could be able to say to Sam. There was just now way that he could tell Sam this without feeling like he was about to have a mental break down from all the shit that he had just experienced in the last few hours. But he knew that he had to at the very least try.

"Well, when I was going around for trick or treating, or at the very least just hanging out with my friends, one of them, Jenni and I found this guy. He had a purple jacket and he kept claiming that he needed me in order to solve one of his great problems. I didn't know what he had meant, but I was just scared and I couldn't really stay around the guy and Jenni and I started to tun around the city." Kevin said and then Sam sat down on his bed. He didn't want this conversation with Kevin, but he knew that he would have to in order for Kevin to feel like he wasn't going to freak out.

"Well you know Kevin, everybody will run into somebody who scares them. What even about this guy was so scary for you? I have a feeling that this was just a guy who was pulling a prank on you to see if you would fall for it." Sam said and then Kevin shook his head. He knew that it wasn't really all that easy. There was just something about that guy in particular that seemed like Kevin was near the verge of death.

"I just don't know if that guy is going to come back anytime soon or not. That just don't really get it at all." Kevin said and then Sam just decided that this was something that Kevin was just dealing with at the time being. "What if he comes by again and he tries to do something to me and I can't really be able to stop him."

"Well, then you can come up to me and tell me that I was wrong. I will admit that I was wrong if that thing comes up at any point. But I really just don't think that it will happen. I honestly feel like you just had a bad break on this and that you just need to not really worry about that too much at all." Sam said Kevin tried really hard to believe Sam, but no matter how hard he would try, he just could not be believe him. He didn't even feel like Sam was lying to him, but he just didn't think that he was correct and that was the problem.

"I will try to not think about it for the time being. I will hope that you are right. But if you are wrong and I am right, then I am probably going to not be able to have any sort of defense for that guy and I will probably end up dying at some point in the next few days. Or the next year or two. Well, unless if he comes back in like several years from now and I totally forget about all of that and everything." Kevin said and then he looked at the ceiling. He wondered what he could do at this point.

"That is probably the right away of looking at it. Don't think about it too hard. If he comes up again, I will be the one that was wrong and even if he doesn't, the worst that it will be is that you just had one bad day and that you were the one that was wrong and I was right. But either way, I don't think that it matters all that much right now. So let's just leave this subject alone for the time being." Sam said and then he just calmed down. That was when the two of them felt like their conversation was over. So Sam stood up and started to walk to the door of the room.

"You should just try and go to sleep. Maybe everything will go calmly again tomorrow. That will be what I am assuming." Sam said and then walked out of the room. Then with that, Kevin looked down and decided that he wanted to write an entry in his notebook. As he decided to do something like that, he worked on it for like forty or so minutes and he was getting what he would have considered to be enough. After he was done, he stood up and then then went to his bed and soon as he hit the pillow, he was asleep right away.

That was the end of the Halloween legacy of that year. November 1st came along and once it had come along, everybody was done thinking about all the shit that had happened. And Todd was enjoying spending the night with Diana. He had nothing else to worry about aside from maybe how his parents would react to him not being in the house. That was the only thing that had bothered him at least a little bit. Todd was not going to think about that too much. He would deal with his parents bitching at him when he came home that next day.

The next morning, Todd had woken up and then when he woke up, he saw that Diana had already been up. Todd just put his clothes back on and then once he had put his clothes on, he left the bedroom and got that knights armor picked up and then he got his skateboard ready. Once he was out of this bedroom, he saw Diana eating some breakfast. He saw that she was so focus on that she didn't notice what he was doing and with that, he walked right out of the house. He was just mainly glad that neither of her parents noticed that he was there.

As Todd was walking to school the next day, he was thinking about the previous day as well as him getting his actual outfit that he used for Halloween before he grabbed that knights armor. This was just something that Todd was not even sure if he was going to keep. And he was probably not because he didn't want to deal with that whole stupid ass forest prophecy or anything like that.

The next three days of school had went by pretty usually. That Wednesday, he grabbed his costume that he had originally used for Halloween and then once he did that, Byron said that he was jealous of his cool golden armor. Todd admitted that he was probably never ever going to use that again for the rest of his life. Byron said that he should because it looked really cool and that he was probably able to pull it out much better than most people ever thought that he would have been able to pull it off. Todd and Marcia talked for about half an hour about their moment that previous day and Todd said that he did it to be nice.

On Thursday, Kevin and Jenni had a talk about what had happened on Tuesday and they both admitted that they should start off slowly again. Not just jump into something. They were both just worried that this was going to get one of them, if not both of them killed off for good. Toss started to think things out. He decided to go down to the garage of his parents house. This was because there was a bunch of work out gear he could use. And he decided that he was going to work out a little bit. He did a few curls on weights and then he used a punching bag for about five or so minutes. This was when his parents were out of the house so he didn't have to worry about what they were going to say to him as he was doing this. Todd was coming up with a plan.

On Friday, it was the final day of the school week. Todd had finally admitted that he was getting too invested in the idea of finding another stair case. This was since he spent the entire school day drawing and outlining what he was going to do now. Nobody had really known what he was doing, and he was glad that this was the case. He was just shocked that his teacher had not seen what the fuck he wad doing. But he was just trying to get his job done and he was just trying to get himself ready for that next day.

After school on Friday, he went on over to Kevin's house and he hung out with Kevin for a couple of hours. They talked a bit about the previous week in school. Although neither of them were talking about their Halloween stories. Kevin said that he would talk about that more next week, when they had some time to be alone and some time to let the events sort of become a thing in the past. Todd said that he was considering the forest idea as well as the whole thing was getting more interesting to him since he was now wanting to prove all of the things that had happened to be the truth.

That Saturday came along, and it had been around a week since his birthday and it was now four days since the whole Halloween incident. Todd decided that he was going to grab his study material and a couple of pencils and he grabbed his knights armor as well as his skate board. He was not really sure why he cared so much and he snuck out of the house in the early afternoon before his parents would notice what he was doing. Once he was all alone, he got the armor on and then started to ride on the skateboard again. He was just going to go into the nearest entrance of the forest. He was wanting to study and investigate as much as possible with his time.

Once he was out of the city and into the forest, he opened up the helmet of his armor and put the skateboard to his side once again. He told himself to be prepared for anything that could go on and happen. He was thinking that over and over again as he was walking the forest. There was now way he could believe, no matter how much he was trying and realized that this was the reality, that he was doing this in the first place. He could not believe for even a moment that he was going on and going in the forest and was looking around the forest.

He stopped after about fifteen or so minutes of him walking around and once he had sat down he started to draw the area that was around him. He was trying to capture the visual while he was right in that area. Then he laughed and realized what he was doing. This was making him lose sight on what the hell was even going on at that moment and all that shit. He laughed hard as he realized that he barely drew more than five feet in front of him due to all of the detail that he was putting into it. So with him deciding that he needed to try and make progress, he started walking down even further.

The more that he was walking, there was more crackling of noises. He heard a voice that made him stop what he was doing. "You have returned. We have been waiting for your return. Thank you for coming back." The voice said and then Todd turned around a couple of times. There was something that had been talking to him. That much was for sure. But there was nothing in the area that showed evidence that there was something was there. That was when Todd was starting to give up on the idea of finding something that was talking with him.

Todd started to walk down for a couple minutes more and then as he walked on for a little bit longer, he saw that there was a hole. He put his sketchbook down and drew that hole and the fact that it looked like it was the start to a giant maze. He rubbed the ground and was trying to figure out what the hell was going on. He put his feet inside of the hole and jumped inside the hole. He had no idea why he was doing this, but he was wanting to check out the fact that there seemed to be something there.

When Todd had realized that there was something at the bottom of the hole, he started to walk in the direction. He saw that there was a light. There was just something about this light that was interesting to him. As he kept on getting closer, he saw that it was either a thing that was a different entrance to the forest. That or it was something that looked like a strange treasure chest or something.

After Todd reached the other side of the pathway, Todd started to go on and step up. As he was standing up, he looked around and saw that there was a tree. The tree looked like it was dying. That was not the part that had scared him. What had really confused Todd was that there was something inside of the tree. It was very obvious that there was something in there as he could see with a perfectly shaped O in the middle of the tree.

Todd truly had no idea what the hell was even going on anymore. As he was walking closer, he saw that he could put his arm right through the O. He decided that he would try to do just that. So he put his arm right through the giant O and all that. Then he started to move around a little bit and all that. Then when he knew that he found something, he grabbed this thing. Then he started to move his hand around and pulled it out soon enough. Once it had been pulled out, that he had been utterly confused at what the hell he had found.

Todd had just pulled a fucking sword out of the tree. He stared at it for a moment. He had no idea how to really comprehend this. He started to wave it around to see if it was nice to hold on and all that. This was going to be something that he will have to use when he is going to try and save that mansion. This would go well with his knight armor. That was when Todd had started to think that this was better for him to have instead of not have. With his knight armor and this blade, he would be a true knight now.

After that, Todd started to walk out of the section of the forest. He grabbed a small rope and then started to pull it out. As he was going up that place, he reached the top of the hole after about five minutes of going up it. Then once he was at the top of the hole, he grabbed his skateboard and this sword. Then he started to walk around and try to see if he could use something else here. Or maybe if he would have to start to go on his mission to save the people and family in that mansion. But he couldn't think on that as he was walking around.

"Where do I go right now?" Todd asked and then he started walking a little bit more. As he was doing this, the more that his suit was wearing down and all that. He was thinking that this was going to be a problem and that he needed to sort of clean this all up pretty soon. He didn't want to be a hero that had no clean outfit or anything. That was when there was a loud noise that had pretty much stopped Todd right in his tracks.

He looked up and saw something like a giant wolf jumping down at him. Todd was scares shitless and a result he brought up his sword. As a result of this, he swung his sword around and then as he swung the sword around he saw this wolf jumping around what he was doing. Todd moved backwards and used his skateboard as a shield. When the wolf was going to attack him, Todd stabbed them in the chest and then when they were stabbed in the chest, Todd pulled it right out. Then he saw that one stab was enough for him to win the fight. Then he looked around and was wondering what the hell was going on in this whole place.

That was when Todd was starting to think more and more that this was a alternate world that he had walked into. He kept walking around and as he was walking around, the more that he was looking around, the more that he was wondering where the hell was going to find this fucking staircase. After a little while, he found something that looked like the start of a pathway. He wondered what was going on, and he wondered if maybe he can find another staircase. With that idea in mind, he started walking inside of the pathway to see if any of his theories were true.

Todd seriously was wondering what the hell was even going on. There was just so many things that are going on in this place and all that. One day, Todd was going to make a book about this and he know that people were probably not going to believe anything that he says in here, but he was sure as hell going to try since he felt like it was needed. The attempt was something that people needed to see. As Todd was going down this pathway, he was wondering what else was on the wall. Since he saw in the first three feet a giant piece or writing at the wall. It said "The more you look for this stair case, the more that you will fine things to not go in your favor."

After Todd had said that he sort of nodded. "Well no shit obviously. I am looking for something that shouldn't even exist in a place that has a lot of things that don't exist at all." Todd said and then he kept on walking down the tunnel. As he walked down the tunnel, he was sort of wondering what the hell the person who wrote this was even thinking about when he or hell maybe even she had written this. It was a little bit disturbing.

"This is only one way out. And that is coming through the path ways of the staircase." Another one of the writings on the wall had said and then that was when Todd had realized that eventually, he had no real choice besides to just go up the stair case when he eventually finds it. But that also meant that he was going to find it. "Look over and try to defend yourself right now." The next thing of all writing said and then Todd turned around and he was a little shocked.

As Todd had turned around he had seen a ghost like thing starting to fly towards him. As this thing was flying towards him, Todd held up his shield, which was technically his skateboard and as he had held it up, the ghost hit it. Then he swung his blade and he was still sort of confused on why the hell he even had that to begin with. After he took that swing, he put the skateboard on the ground and then he started to ride down the rest of the tunnel and as he had done so, he was at the end of the tunnel after a moment.

As he was reaching the end of the tunnel, he saw another staircase. But instead of going up the stair case, he rode to the side and then rode off the side and fell down the ground. He looked up on the staircase and then as he was looking up he saw that the staircase had nothing under it. In fact, all that was there was just the staircase. Then he stood up and started to check things around to see what it looked like.

Then he looked around and saw that it was a few feet long. As Todd counted from the side, there was twenty six steps. Todd took note of that when he saw that. As he was trying to examine it and he realized that the staircase was red (which didn't really matter, but he wanted all the details possible) he heard a voice that was coming towards him. "So you finally found one of the stair cases. What are you going to do with it?" After that question, Todd looked up and saw what looked like a shadow being staring at him with something that seemed to be red eyes.

"I don't know what to do with it? I saw one of my friends trying to go up the stair case one day, and it resulted in a really loud scream that scared the shit out of everybody." Todd said and then when Todd had said that, the guy who had the shadowy look with the red eyes laughed at Todd like he was the best comedian ever. Todd knew that he fucked up with that response.

"She wasn't ready to try it out. You are so much better than her. You will be ready to go up there and battle whatever comes up. I know that you need to find all the staircases for your destiny, and you need to see what is up there for your destiny to continue." The voice said and Todd raised his blade up. He had a feeling that this was going to start something up. But he wasn't so sure and as he was holding it up, the eyes started to close up a lot. This meant that Todd was getting ready for a battle.

"Why are you getting ready to fight me? There I am, trying to help you out. To give you advice on what is going to happen coming up. But then you come in here and threaten me in a way to kill me. You can't even kill me if you had tried." The shadow said and then Todd lowered it a bit. When he had lowered it, the shadow seemed to be more calm to speak to him again. "That is much better. You need to know when you need to use that and when you don't need to to use it."

"What is going on? Can you at least explain to me what I am going to see when I get to the top of the stair case? I really need to know if I want to actually help out and do something meaningful." Todd said and then when he had said that, the shadow like figure waved their arm around. Todd thought that this wave was fucking retarded, but he decided to keep that to himself since he didn't want to make this situation even worse than it already was.

"You will not know until you get up the stair case. It is different for each stair case and when you go up it, you will start to know what you are supposed to do." The shadow thing said and then when Todd was about to ask another question the shadow figure said something else. "And make sure that when you are done with that stair case, you never go up it again. You are already messing up the timeline enough with what you are going to be doing?"

Then right as the shadow was about to fade away, Todd asked one more thing. "What are you fighting for? What the hell am I fighting for?" When he had said that, the shadow like figure decided to stay around long enough to answer this one last question. Then with that, Todd would be left to be on his own no matter how much he wanted the help. Or hell, maybe even needed the help. But people needed to find their own ways.

"You will fine out when you make more progress in your quest to save the beings in that mansion. You will see everything and as you see more, things will make more sense." The shadow said and then when the shadow had said that, Todd sighed at all of this. Then with that, the shadow faded away and all of that shit. Then when Todd was all alone, he looked at the staircase. When he walked up to the staircase and the first step.

When Todd had been thinking about it for a little bit, he decided that he needed to get through with this as soon as possible. He got on the first step and then when he had stepped on the first step. With each step that he took, he felt like he was gaining like a hundred pounds and he had no idea why this was even feeling this way. As he was looking around, he was starting to see things all change around him.

By the time he had reached the half way mark, he had seen something that looked like a battlefield. Something that seemed to be a historical war or something like that. But then when he was getting close to the top step, he saw that things were changing. Things were starting to go back like a thousand years. With each step he took, it was like he was going back in time thirty or forty years. Then he saw the top step, and then at the time he reached the top step, he thought things were getting completely different and that Todd had no idea what to do.

"What do I do now?" Todd said and then he moved his hand around. He wasn't really sure what to do when he was moving his hand around. But he was sort of assuming that there was a sort of door that he could go on through. After a few seconds of looking through, he felt a door knob and then he opened the door. After he opened the door, he walked right through it.