Chapter 3

Sharon Woods

The curly hair, the man watches her leave. Intensely. He gets one last good look, then turns and enters the Hardware store. Just as the door shuts, a bus wipes frame, as it passes the store. Inside the bus, sitting in one of the aisles sits a 17- year old good looking boy with a werewolf mask in his lap, Jack Puckerman. He was the type of boy, that every parent worried you about. He glances out the window while gluing plastic claws to his fingers. He almost looks like a girl doing her nails.

Across the aisle, a hot young couple whispers to each other, snickering at Jack. Mercedes Jones and Sam Evans are both in their mid-20s. Jacks hears their remarks and tries to look cool...while doing his nails.

"Ooooh, look at the scary werewolf" Mercedes whisper to her boyfriend, making him chuckle loudly at her comment. "Careful. He might scratch your eyes out." Mercedes cackles. Sam grabs her and they start making out. Trying to look tougher, Jack takes out a cigarette.

"Sharon Woods, last stop!", the bus driver calls out. Jack looks out the window for a minute. It looks like the town is getting ready for a parade. The street is getting crowded with costumed pedestrians. Families set up chairs along the sidewalk. Stores are closing early. "See you around, bad wolf" Mercedes called out as Sam and her are stepping out of the bus laughing, making jack look around the bus, just to notice he was the only one left on the bus, he looks at the bus driver, who was giving him a look, "are you getting out kid". Jack grabbed his stuff and rush out of the bus. Stepping out the bus, he accidentally bumps into a girl, making her drop her glasses. She had long brown hair, with blue eyes, and she was wearing all black. "Sorry," she whispers, hardly lifting her head. Jack bends down to pick up her glasses, "No, I'm sorry, I was in such a rush" he handed her back her glasses and she gave him a shy smile before saying thank you.

Jack nodded and started to walk the street, but before he got far, he turns around and yelled "Marley, wait!" the shy girl turns around, just as Jack ran up to her "look, I know we really don't talk much at school, actually we don't talk at all, but a group of friends and I are going to the Old Bridge, if you want to tag along" Marley has never been invited anywhere, she really didn't have friends, all she did for entertainment was walking around the town, and read books. So it came out as a surprise, that resident bad ass, Jack, was invited her to hang out with him and his friends. Jack on the other hand really felt bad for this girl, she was the schools freak, the weirdo, he knew some of his friends, would be against the idea of having Marley the freak tagging along with them. But he didn't care, he was once an outsider, and this was their senior year, he really like Marley, not romantically, since his heart belongs to someone else, but he likes her, as a person who wanted to know in a friendly leveled."So what do you say?" Giving her a smile, letting her know that he was being serious, and sincere, making her feel a little bit more comfortable. She let out an "okay" making him smile even brighter "okay, why don't you go home, put on your costume, and we'll pick you up" she nodded and walk away.

Happy with his accomplishment, he started walking down the street once again, just as he was about to cross the street, he heard someone calling after him "Hey Jack, wait up!", he looked behind his shoulder to see his buddy Ryder, coming out of the bakery shop.

Ryder was helping his mother close down the shop when he saw Jack walking by his mother's bakery. He called out to his mom letting her know that he was leaving, as he was coming out the shop, he called out to Jack, making him turn around. Ryder ran toward his friend as he notices he was about to cross the street, but he was having a hard time seeing where he was going, due to the fact that he was wearing a black long wig. As he caught up with him, just in time for the rest of his friends to join them.

"Hey, losers!" Jack looked to his side, just in time to see that the rest of his party was approaching them. Walking towards the two boys, were two girls and a boy with glasses. One of the girls, a 5'5 foot tall girl with brown hair and eyes, was wearing an angel costume, on her right side a 5'2 girl with black hair and fake blue contacts, was wearing a nurses outfit, and on her left side, was a boy with brown hair and brown eyes, about the same height of the girl who was were the angel costume, he was sporting a referee costume. "You guys are late?" The angel tells the boys as she approaches them, "Sorry, Bree, I was helping my mom at the bakery, I could've called because my hands were full" Ryder tried to reason. She looked at him for a few seconds before eyeing Jack, giving him a look that was telling him to tell her why he was late. "Car wouldn't start, had to take the bus". "Great our only ride and now he doesn't have a car" Artie, the boy with glasses said, Jack was the only one with a car, and now he was car less. "Okay, the Old Bridge is not far from the suburbans, we can walk there after we collect the necessary items, we need for tonight" the girl in the nurses outfit said, "Tina's right, plus on our way there we can go pick..." Jack lower his voice, not sure how his friends would've take the news, he knew how they were going to react, but he had to tell them sooner or later"...Marley" Ryder who was taking a sip from Artie's water bottle, spits the water out of his mouth, water landing in Bree's face "YOU WHAT?!" He asked, as Bree let out a loud squeal "Eww!" while trying to clean her faces off "sorry" Ryder apologize, "Look, she maybe, I don't know, a little weird, but I think if we get to know her, we might like her" looking at Bree. Bree stared back not saying anything, he really wanted to see some sort of reaction from her. Bree sighed "okay, but she's on your watch, I don't want her ruining our night" Jack smiled, while the other three teens just went along with it. Ryder rolls his eyes, can continue drinking from the bottle "well, what are we waiting for let get going then" they all turn to around towards the outspoken voice.

Mike rides up next to them and hops off his bike, holding now a brown paper sack.

"What are we waiting for, we should leave now, it's,,," he looks at his watch ",,,7:49" They all looked at him for a few seconds, before letting out a chorus of "YOUR LATE" he shrugged " I know, I know, I just needed to pick something up first" he raise his hand and show off the brown bag he was holding, he than looks at Tina and Bree and smiled. "Who's Hungry?" He opens the sack and pulls out a plastic sandwich bag filled with bloody chicken feet. The teens squeal, revolted. Tina, his girlfriend, snatches the bag, hides it in her backpack. "Jesus Mike!, What the hell are you doing?!" He looked at her confuse "Chicken feet! For tonight! You said you needed some so I dug through the butcher store dumpster." this is one of the reasons she loves Mike, and he listens to her, but right now her smart boyfriends, is acting like a dimwit. "Listen, we need to keep this quiet. Your parents would lynch me if they knew what we were doing." Mike sulks "Okay. Sorry. Was just trying to help," Jack chuckled and signed to start moving, he let Bree walk in front of him, but sigh sadly when she passed him without acknowledging him. As they walk, following Bree, Ryder pats Mike on the back. "You've got a lot to learn about women, buddy." Mike shrugged him off "Piss off Ryder".

The group of a teenager walk towards the Main Street, passing a group of news reporter.

Main Street (8:00 pm)

"Werewolves, zombies, and demons of every variety. They've all descended...on the normally sleepy town of Warren Valley, Ohio...where the holiday and all of its strange traditions... are taken very seriously. It's only 8:00 and the streets are already packed with costumed visitors...some to show off, others to blend in...but all to celebrate the magical night of Halloween..."

The cameraman shuts off the camera and starts to wrap everything, pass the reporter you can see a bunch of people in a store trying to get what it seems to be the last bit of costumes of the year.

The store is a costume shop, the only costume shop of this small town, and being the last day of Halloween, those who waiting until the last minute to get a costume, are trying to fight each other for the one. You can see grown women running around looking for costumes, kids hiding in between costumes, while babysitters, and moms looking around for their kids, and on the back of the store was three changing room, in where four young ladies, were changing into their costumes, unaware that a young boy around 7, was peeking through the changing room doors.

"I am not wearing this. It's too small." The first young lady said, she was feeling very uncomfortable with the costume of her choice. "That's the idea" the second young woman said while sliding her glove on. Oblivious to the little kid gagging behind the door. "Don't know why we drove here when there are plenty of guys in the city" the first young lady said, every year, her friends and sister go to some unknown town, a throw their annual parties, this year, she was fortunate enough to tag along. "Fresh meat" the second woman said, while sliding down her dress and zipping it up. There were some giggles in the last door on the left, beside the room, where the second woman was dressing "It's what we do every Halloween, Kitty" the third woman said, while trying to fix her dress. Kitty in her room, was having a hard time adjusting her costume, while looking at the mirror, she tilt her head to the right, while looking herself in the mirror in front of her, "Whatever happened to trick-or-treating? The third woman answered without a bet "Puberty" Kitty smiled at the memory of her and her sister going out every Halloween, with pumpkin baskets and full of candy, not caring about boys, or makeup just candy. "Last year we were in Tampa." A fourth woman said, breaking Kitty out of her thought. "And went as sexy nurses." the third woman said, with a hint of sadness in her voice, it was the worst year of her life, and she didn't want to remember what happen the night after Halloween. "No, Brittany, Tampa was 2 years ago. I remember because you puked..." The second woman pause for a second, just so she could fix her hair a little "…While doing a guy in his pickup" Brittany stop what she was doing, just to give the third person a sad look, trying to apologize for ever bring the topic up, but the third person didn't look at her, she focuses in the mirror in front of her, trying to fix her hair "I ate some bad Mexican, and it was jeep" trying to light the mood, with a really bad joke, but it seemed she was digging herself dipper. Kitty hears their conversation, and feeling the tense aura that surrounded them, decide to bring up something that would cheer them up. "Well, I heard that last years Halloween, you guys went to San Diego." Lighting up the mood of the three other women. "Yeah, we did and we dressed as sailors and ended up with sailors" the second woman said, making all the girls giggled. Brittany was bending down trying to fix her bar when she looked up the mirror, just in time to see the third woman staring at her cleavage. Brittany smirks, giving the third person a wink, while standing up and pulling her dress up, signaling the third person, to help her zip the dress up "Yeah, and Santana's sailor was a girl" Santana rolled her eyes as she zip Brittany's dress with a smile. "So what? She had a nice ass. It all tastes the same to me anyways." Looking down at Brittany's ass, while biting her lip, slapping a little hard, making Brittany yelp playfully. Before the second woman said a word to stop her friends, childish behavior, a loud knocking on her door was heard. "Ladies, there are children out here" leaving while yanking the 7 year old boy while he winced in pain.

The second women let out a sigh, taking a quick glance at herself in the mirror, before saying "Okay, all of you come out on the count of 3. One, 2, 3" instantly three doors opened, revealing three sexy mid-twenty's women. Santana was wearing a sexy, snow white dress with a red headband, while her girlfriend, Brittany was dressed as Bo Peep, their friend was wearing a sexy Cinderella outfit, with her hair pull up with a crown in the front. Noticing that Kitty was still inside her dressing room, the second woman knocked at her door, "Kitty, come on out" trying to get her sister to come on out, so she can see her costume, "No" Kitty let out "Come on Kitty, it can't be that bad, so open the door, and come on out" she try to sweet talk her sister, but she heard was yet another "No". She looked at her two friends and they both shrugged. "Kitty open the door, or we'll huff and we'll puff... Come on, seriously, open up." She was getting tired and she just wanted to leave this shop, Kitty, recognized that tone of voice, it was the same toned of voice her mother use on her when she did something bad. She looks at herself one more time before reaching out for the door nob "Fine, just don't laugh" she opens the door stepping out she looks at her sister not very please about what she was wearing "Quinn, I look like I'm 5" pointing at her Little Red Riding Hood Costume. Santana tired to hold her laughter, but snicker, making Quinn to give her a death stared. Quinn looks back at her sister and smiled at her "Shut up, you look great, plus it's tradition." Kitty let out a "Great"

Santana taking out her phone to check the time, notice that it said '8:30' "What does tradition say we do now?" Smirking at Quinn, who rolled her eyes "We meet our dates". Kitty rolled her eyes knowing what her sister meant with that. This was not how she imagine the night to be.

A few minutes later, a young man, freakishly tall, dress as an elf, bends over the counter, while scanning on the tag of Quinn's costume, "233,30-D" Quinn raised her eyebrow, while he blushes, embarrassed of what he just said to her. "I mean "$234.33", giving Quinn a shy smile, for his previous mistake. Quinn in the other, looked at her sister who was right next her, giving her a knowing smile. Kitty knew this was going to be one of her "sister" lessons on 'how to get a man' or this case a random douche.

Quinn looked back to the elf, who was behind the counter and smiled at him "Thanks", while letting out a giggled. She raised her eyebrows seductively, while leaning toward the counter to looked at the elf's name tag, "Finn is it" He let out a small nodded, while he stared at her cleavage, "You know, this might sound kid of forward, but well, we're just in town... for a party tonight, and I was wondering what time you get off work" Finn gasp kind of loudly, while leveling his eye to see hers. " ...oh, uh" Not really knowing what to say to this beautiful creature in front of him. "I get out, in about 20 minutes, actually" letting out a nervous chuckled, he can't believed this girl was flirting with him. Oh, he was feeling lucky tonight. She nodded slowly "Yeah? You know where Sheep's Meadow is?, Finn's eyed widen of excitement, and nodded eagerly, following with an instant responds "Sure, yeah, of course" Quinn's smiled got a lot bigger, while giving her sister a looked. Kitty rolled eyes at her, but a little impress on how easy it was for her sister to flirt with anyone. "All right. So why don't you meet me there in 45, and don't forget your costume?" Giving him one last smile while getting her things and walking out of the store, the girls following right behind her. Santana being the last to follow, give the young man a fake smile, while exiting the shop and taking a sip out of her flask.

Warren Valley, Ohio

While the girls were exiting the shop, across the hill, in the suburban, a teenage boy, 17, wearing an orange striped shirt, with some brown khaki's walks around the houses, while smashing people's pumpkins. Letting them fall while string guts splatter on the sidewalk at the feet of the boy, Dave Karofsky.

Dave waddles down the sidewalk dragging a pillowcase, looking for something else to terrorize, Crickets chirp and the giggles of unseen children echo in the dark.

He spots a young boy dressed in a goblin costume approaching about a half block ahead. He's dragging a bag full of candy almost as big as he is. Dave looks at his own bag..it's barely half full. He looks at the boy's...his sack is ready to burst at the seams.

Dave smiles and lumbers toward his prey. The goblin boy tries to step around Dave but steps right in front of him. Taking up the entire sidewalk. Silence. They stare at each other for a moment. The little boy was frozen, he has never seen someone as bigger and taller than him, and he fears for his life. Dave grabs the boy's rubber mask and spins it around so the eyeholes face backward. The boy drops his candy sack, reaches up and tries to turn the mask back around. Dave grabs the goods and takes off. "Trick or Treat, kid,, " He says while leaving the boy behind.

Sidewalk- Later

A candy wrapper drops to the sidewalk. Dave rounds a corner, a half-eaten chocolate bar dangling out of his mouth, candy smeared on his chubby cheeks.

SPLAT!

Something small hits him hard and fast, splattering against his chest. He looks down his shirt to see that it was an egg. The slimy yolk oozes down his shirt. "Son of a bitch!" He let out a scream. Laughter echoes, a faint, childish giggling, infuriated. Dave looks around but can't find the source. Finally, he spots the culprit peering out from behind a distant tree. The odd trick-or-treater is dressed as a little scarecrow wearing bright orange pajamas and a flour sack mask with two buttons for eyes and a permanent sewn-in-grin. We'll call him Alex.

Alex steps out from behind the tree, reaching into his bag, and hurls another egg. Dave ducks and it hits a mailbox behind him. "What the hell is your problem?" Trying to figure out who the hell this kid was, and why he was throwing eggs at him. Alex chuckled then turns and scampers down the sidewalk, disappearing around a corner. Dave was angry, he wanted to know who this kid was and started to run after him.

Dave barely run a half block but is already wheezing. He stops to catch his breath and looks around. It's quiet and Alex is nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, he hears his tormentor's unmistakable giggles. Dave gather himself up and starts to run again when CRUNCH! He looks down. A lollipop shaped like a Jack o'Lantern. He reaches down to pick it up when he spots a candy bar on the sidewalk nearby, followed by some licorice further ahead. It's a long trail of candy leading down the sidewalk. "Whoa" He looks around cautiously... still keeping an eye out for Alex. There's no sign of him.

Dave lunges, and grabs every piece he can get with his meaty paws on, throwing everything into his bag. He progresses down the sidewalk, making short work of the candy trail following it pass the old woman's haunted house and to the house next door.

The trail stops. Screaming startles him as three boys come running out of the scary old house next door. Nearly knocking Dave over. Baffled, Dave watches the boys tear down the street until they're gone. He looks back at the dark house and catches a glimpse of a shadowy figure standing in the doorway just as it slams shut. Dave turns his attention back to the candy and tosses one last lollipop into his bag. No more candy. No sign of that kid Alex either. He looks at the house next door.

A mailbox is marked 'Schuester'. A few decorations are taped to the windows, a huge bowl of candy sits on the porch.

Bingo, Dave grins. He walks up a flight of steps onto the porch. The house is completely dark inside. A moth circles a flickering porch light. The candy bowl sits on a small table with a note taped to the edge: "Sorry we're not home, help yourself to one piece!" Dave looks around. This is too good to be true. Screw it. He grabs more than one pieces and puts it in his bag. Shoving one after another.

He started to open a piece of chocolate bar and tossing it into his mouth, not even noticing that behind him, a man with curly hair and a grocery bag in his hands was approaching him slowly. "That can't be good for your diabetes, Dave" making Dave jump a little before turning around, to see his Principle, Will Schuester, walking up to him, "Don't waste a good lie on this" as he points to the bowl of candy. Dave looked at his hands before looking up at his principle "It's just candy" he says, trying to figure out, how to get out of this situation, he seems a little embarrassed, that he was caught grabbing more than one piece of candy. "Guess it's a good thing I got more"…moving toward his bag "Why don't you sit down, stay for a minute?" Dave just wanted to leave, the last thing in his mind was to stay in front of his principle front house, just to converse, when there were plenty of candy out there for him. "Oh, I can't. I have..." But he was cut him off "Sit down, Dave." Will said with a more firm voice. Dave swallowed, allowing himself to sit next to his principle. Could this night get any worse.

A/N: What is Will's problem? Why does Quinn want Kitty to find a date so badly? What are the teens up too? So many question, yet so little to know.

Until the next time.