The next day, Johnny was downstairs as Squee ran out the door. The bus pulled up, and Squee sat next to the purple haired girl. "GAZ! GET AWAY FROM HIM!" her brother shrieked "alright, alright. Don't get your trench coat in a twist." She got up, and sat next to her brother. "Why can't she sit next to me?" Todd asked "you know perfectly why! Your dad killed the entire school except us yesterday!" the brother answered. "How do we know you won't pull out a pencil and kill us?" the green skinned kid chimed in "I am NOT going to expire on this FILTHY planet because of YOUUU!" Squee sighed. "Is this seat taken?" asked a little voice that sounded a bit like Squee's. He looked up. From her clothes to her face; the girl even LOOKED like him! "No… you can sit here." She did. "Where is everyone, uh…?" "Todd." "Todd?" "Dead. My daddy's a homicidal maniac. By the way, I don't think I caught YOUR name." "It's Lilly. Did you say your daddy is a homicidal maniac?" "Yeah." "My MOMMY's a homicidal maniac! Did your daddy just adopt you yesterday?" "Yeah!" "So did my mommy!" "Cool! Hey, is your nickname…" "Eep?" "Mine is Squee!" "Small world." The two children spent the entire ride to school talking, but, neither had any idea that their parent were about to meet as the day progressed.
Jenny walked to her house, 888, and all she was thinking about was her little girl, Lilly. She closed her eyes, and flashed back to why she adopted her
"Hey, Eep, can we talk for a sec" Jenny F. asked her little eight year old neighbor girl "o-o-okay…" "Eep, Lilly, do your parents hurt you?" Eep rubbed her bruised arm. "Yeah but, you don't have to worry. It's my fault." Jenny tried her hardest to keep her cool for Eep, for Eep, for Eep! She reminded herself "Lilly, honey, go to school. Mommy will take care of the neighbors." Lilly was surprised that Nny called her by her real name, that Nny called herself mommy, that she had called Lilly 'honey' but, did as she was told. Nny went to the neighbors' house, and knocked. "What?" Lilly's drunken father asked "I heard you didn't want your daughter." "And?" "'And' I want her. May I please have her?" "You actually WANT that stupid little punching ba- girl?" "Yes." "Fine" the hung over Mr. Facile said. "Great! Wait right here!" Nny ran off, and came back with adoption papers and a pen in her hands. Mr. Facile Signed, and called his drugged-up wife to sign them as well. Jenny stuffed the papers back into her pockets. "Now, A LITTLE REVENGE ON EEP'S BEHALF!" she shrieked lunging on the pair, slitting their throats with the pen. "HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO A SWEET, ADORABLE, INNOCENT LITTLE GIRL? JUST DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIEEEEEEEEEEE!" she calmed down, brought Eep's things over to her house, and tried to- oh, how she hated it- sleep. That afternoon, at two, Jenny walked up to a school once filled with people, scanning the yard for a little girl. She spotted her. Eep. Her adoptive daughter, Eep. She spotted her. "Hello, sweetheart! Mommy's been looking for you." Eep looked terrified "m-m-mommy? B-but my parents-" "signed this?" Jenny thrust the adoption papers into Eep's tiny hands. "So, legally, you are mine. If you even thought about running away, and why would you ever leave mommy at all my baby? But, if you did, the police would bring you back, and I'd be very disappointed in you. Now, come on my little miracle." Jenny picked her up, after seeing the bruises on her legs, and walked home, 'her baby' in her arms. "Why did you do this? Where are my biological parents?" Eep asked, horrified of the answer "Your old mommy and daddy are in hell. I couldn't stand by and watch as you were beaten to death." Eep's eyes trailed to a newspaper; two families killed, same perpetrators suspected. A picture of her "new mommy" and a man who creepily looked like her. Look, is everyone getting the picture here? Same thing as jthm in girl form, yadda yadda? Good. Let's wrap up this flashback.
Jenny was so wrapped up in her flashback, she ran into someone. A man. "Sorry! My bad!" they said at the exact same time. Johnny reached for the knife she had dropped. It was a lot like his, only this one had peace signs on the handle. Jenny reached for the knife he had dropped. It was a lot like hers, but, it had smiley-faces on the handle. "I, uh, I think you dropped this." They said at the exact same time. They kept accidentally speaking in unison. "Look, I'm- I was just- I didn't- ha ha ha ha ha!" they laughed in unison. "My name's Jenny." Jenny said "I'm Johnny." Then they said, "You can call me 'Nny'." At, you guessed it, the exact same time. "So, 'Nny', do you have a family?" "A small one. My adopted son Squ- Todd and I." Jenny's eyes grew big as dinner plates. "You were about to call him Squee, weren't you?" "Yeah, why?" "Because MY adoptive DAUGHTER'S name is Lilly, but, I call her EEP!" "Wow! Are you into homicide?" "Yeah!" "So am I! Want to come to my house, 'Nny'?" "Sure, 'Nny'. We can be Nny squared!" the two laughed at Jenny's joke. They walked back, each holding the other's knife.
"So, 'Squee', why did your daddy adopt you?" Eep asked Squee as they walked along the playground "my biological parents tried to abandon me by moving, but, my daddy ended those plans abruptly." Squee answered. "What about you?" "Oh, my daddy drank, my mommy did drugs, and they hit me. My new mommy had them sign some papers, and then killed them. She used their blood to paint over a door in our house. She says there's a monster in that room. So, to keep me from going in it, she padlocks it." "Do YOU think there's a monster in the room?" "I think it's just a closet. Fluffy says she's crazy. But, I know she's not." Squee stopped dead in his tracks "Who's fluffy?" he asked. Lilly reached in her sparkly pink backpack, and pulled out a baby blue stuffed kitten with white button eyes. "This is fluffy," she put her ear to the doll, as if it was telling her something. "Yes, that's Todd." She put her ear to it again "No, he's not!" she yelled at it. Squee pulled Schmee out of his backpack "this is schmee," he said. He put his ear to the bear "yes, that's Lilly." He put his ear to Schmee again "no, she's not!" he yelled at it. The children laughed. Well, since it's obvious neither of our parents is coming to get us, let's start walking home." Squee said, extending a hand to Eep. "Sure. Where do you live?" "777" "I live at 888." "We live across the street from each other?" "Pretty much." They started laughing as they walked off hand in hand. When they got to her house, Eep looked at the driveway "mom's motorcycle isn't here." "And there are TWO motorcycles in my driveway." They walked over to 777, to see their adoptive parents making out on the couch. A million things were going through Lilly's mind, 999,999.999 of them, not even in an earthly tongue! The one she did understand was, mommy's kissing Todd's adoptive daddy! This was just too much. So, what did she do? She passed out.