Todd always enjoyed Friday nights. The group agreed to have 'family' time for a bit on every Friday. The time range varied, but today, it was at night. No parties were going on, there was no place to go, and it was just bonding time. Todd sat on the couch, next to Pepito and Sam, who sat close together. Dib occupied an armchair, as did Gaz. The TV was showing the newest episode of Mysterious Mysteries.
No one really cared about the show, except Dib. Pepito and Sam where whispering quietly to each other, smiles plastered upon their faces, especially Sam's. Gaz was…can you guess? I bet you can….yep! She was playing her Game Slave. And Todd was munching on that Frooty Pop he bought the other day.
There was a bang on the door, like someone trying to get in. Sam screamed slightly. Everyone looked up to the door. There was another pounding. They all looked around at each other. Then, all eyes landed on Pepito.
"Fuck you all," he muttered, standing up and leaning Sam more over towards Todd as he walked over to the door and pulled it open, "Hola."
"Who the fuck are you? And what the hell are you doing in my house?" the voice asked.
Todd let out a very high-pitched Squee. He told them he would come back. The man pushed Pepito to the side as he walked in. He looked pretty good. He was still tall and lanky. His messy hair was all over the place now(and it grew back!). He looked paler than when he left.
"Johnny?" Todd asked, standing up and walking over to them.
"Who the fuck are--Squee?" he asked.
"Yeah! Its me!" he said with Frooty Pop still in hand.
"Squeegee! You look great!" Nny pointed out, looking the boy over. "Now, who the fuck said you could move into my place?"
"Sorry, Nny," Todd said, sheepishly. "I couldn't live with my parents anymore so I thought that here would be the safest place. I had Pepito, here, move in with me. He's the Anti-Christ. He got rid of the Thing in the wall."
Nny looked too the horned kid that walked back over to the girl on the couch, "So who the hell are the other three."
"Dib and Gaz," he pointed out, "are brother and sister. Their dad had to go somewhere for science and he couldn't take care of them. They didn't want to be alone so we three invited them to live here."
"And the other girl?" he asked.
"We don't talk about that, senor," Pepito said, wrapping his arms around Sam.
"And why not?"
"Because….I get haunted a lot when I do…" Sam spoke up.
"And I don't want to deal with her nonsense while I'm trying to fucking sleep," Gaz growled from her game.
"Okay then…"
"Si, Senor, she's touchy," Pepito said, but got smacked.
"I'm not touchy," Sam growled, "Just paranoid."
"Stop touching in my house," he glared, causing the two to let go of each other.
"We cleaned up the place so we could live with me," Todd said, leading Johnny towards the stairs.
Nny followed Todd down the stairs as was requested. He was looking all around the place. There wasn't a spec of blood to be found.
"What the hell?"
"Yeah…Sam's was on the squeamish side when she first moved in," Todd told him, "but by the time we all finished cleaning most the blood, she was just fine."
Nny blinked a couple of times.
"Yeah, she's the most normal of us all," Todd said, "besides the fact that she's in love with the son of the devil."
"That's his son?" Nny questioned. "Figures."
"Yeah, I'm not a fan of him either," Todd told Nny as they continued down the stairs.
"So why do you put up with him? He's not bullying you to be his friend, is he?" Nny asked, a killing look filling his eyes.
"No!" Todd declared. "Back in the mental place, they were going to give me a lobotomy, but I didn't want it. So…I kinda signed my soul to the devil to save myself from it."
"Squee! Why'd ya do that?" he asked.
"Its not like you were there to save me again," Todd said lowly. "I didn't have another choice. It hasn't been that bad. I mean, at least, I have a friend that hasn't left yet. He's even lived with me for a while. And he protects me and stuff…most the time. He saved me from Zombie Girl Volleyball Players the other day."
Nny just stared at the boy. Finally, the sixth landing. Nny followed Squee to a door. He watched as the boy took a key out of his jean pocket. He unlocked a door. The room. It had all of the old stuff. The bunny ear TV, the couch, the skettio cans….all of it! It wasn't in any order, but it was it.
"Wow….you kept everything?" he asked.
"All the torture stuff, and blood, and stuff is in another room. I keep it locked up," Todd said. "I don't want the other's messing with your stuff…because…its your stuff."
"Thanks, Squeegee," Nny said, smiling softly. "What do you say we go get some a Brain Freezy and come down here and talk a bit. We haven't seen each other in years."
"I can't," Todd told him. "Its family night with the house. We always spend this time together."
"Fine…can I join you guys?" Nny asked him.
Todd wondered why Nny would ask this. He never liked people. He would try to kill Pepito if not all of them. Todd just figured he was lonely. Everyone had to get lonely at some point. That's why Todd wanted Pepito's company. That's why Gaz and Dib moved in. That's why Pepito and Sam always went back to each other. None of them wanted to be lonely. No matter what he said, Nny was still a person. He didn't want to be alone either. That was a good reason.
"Yeah, sure," Todd said. "Then, we can go get the stuff and talk…cause I really want one."
The show wasn't on for much longer after the two finally made it up the steps. Only about five or seven more minutes of torture. Pepito and Sam went off to a party Sam got a text about. Gaz went off to do some online gaming. And Dib sat there and waited for another episode of Mysterious Mysteries to come on and waited for Zim to show. Todd brought Nny out to his car and the two were on their way to the 24/7 shop.
"So…Squee…How has school been for you?" Nny asked. "Anyone picking on you anymore?"
"No, I'm doing really well," he told him.
"How so? Is that devil boy paying you to say that? His father was a cheerleader once!" Nny told Todd.
"No, I'm the star player on the baseball team," Todd started, "I have a so-called family that cares about me, people at school talk to me without calling me names, and all the teachers like me."
"But do you like you?" Nny asked him.
"What do you mean?" Todd asked back.
"Well, if you don't like who you are, why the hell should you care about what the other people like?" Nny said. "The Fuck-tards out in the world don't give much of a rolling fuck about you later in life, but you have to live with you all the time. Don't fold to what ever the hell they want you to be."
"I'm not," Todd said softly…lying a bit. "I'm happy."
The two went in silence into the 24/7 shop. They walked out and go into the car in pure silence. They traveled to the house in pure silence. Talking wasn't needed much. They both knew there wasn't much to talk about without yelling. They had been apart for so long, and the tensions were building.
Todd pulled down the street. He noticed a car in the driveway. He couldn't figure out who's it was. It wasn't anyone he knew, and Zim's car was parked in front of the house. Todd pulled up into the drive way beside the car. There was a tall woman outside, standing by the door.
"Nny, stay here…probably just another Demon Bitch looking for Pepito," Todd told him, getting out of the car. "Excuse me!"
"Huh?" The lady turned around, giving Todd a feel of familiarity. "Oh! I'm looking for my niece, Samantha. Papers said she would live here."
"And who the hell are you?" Todd asked.
"I'm Devi," she told him, "and I'm not sure she would live in this house. I dated a guy who lived here. That asshole tried to kill me."
"You're that Devi?!?!" Todd exclaimed.
"Devi?" Nny asked, opening the car door and stepping out.
"HOLY FUCK!" she screamed, jumping back.
"Devi, calm down!" Nny and Todd shouted in unison.
Soon, they were all blinded with lights. They looked over to see Pepito's black hummer. He parked behind the driveway, stopping Devi from getting out. He jumped out of the car and walked over to the other side and opened the door. He bent over and let Sam jump on his back. The two stopped all their laughing and giggling as they noticed the other three people outside.
"What's going on? Toddy, did you get friends?" Sam asked.
"No, but you have an aunt…"
"The fuck I don't," Sam said. "My parents told me I had no other relatives."
"Your mother was never a fan of me," Devi said. "Now, I've come to take you to my place to get you the fuck away from this house and this fucking psycho!"
"He doesn't live here anymore, we live here," She said, pointing to herself, Pepito, and Todd. "I don't even know who the fuck he is."
"Fuck you!" Nny shouted. "This is my fucking house!"
"Fuck that!" Pepito fought back. "You moved out and we needed a place to stay. This may be your damned house, but its our fucking home!"
"Sam, you have a home!" Devi argued.
"Fuck that! That isn't a home!" Sam glared. "That was worse than Pepito's basement. A home is somewhere where you feel loved. I feel loved here."
"That's because you and him are screwing each other in my house!" Nny shouted.
"Let her talk, Johnny, you little shit!" Devi glared.
"Besides that, but they are my family!" Sam said, wrapping her arms a little tighter around Pepito's neck. "We take care of each other and help each other survive in life. We've been through every trouble each other has faced in the past years…and its just not fair that you can tell us that we aren't a family."
"Sam?" Pepito spoke up.
"Yeah?" she asked.
"STOP QUOTING THE DAMN HALLMARK CARDS!" he screamed.
"Fuck you," she told him calmly and sing-songy.
"Can we bring this inside?" Todd asked, quietly. "The neighbors are watching."
He pointed across the street to his parents looking out the window and left Pepito to reply with, "And those assholes still have no idea you are their son. I should have killed one of them."
"I should have killed the other," Nny muttered, following Todd towards the door.
Walking inside the house, Dib and Zim were sitting on the couch, playing a card game. They looked at the group coming in. Zim seemed to get a little uneasy at all the humans walking in. Dib placed his hands on Zim's and gave a comforting smile. The two looked at Todd, Pepito, and Sam.
"What's going on?" Dib asked.
"We're going to head down to one of the basements," Todd told them. "Please, you guys, stay up here…Gaz too."
"Yeah…sure…" Dib said, watching the group following behind each other and walk down the stairs.
"What is this about?" Zim asked.
"No idea…"
Getting into the ninth basement, Squee finally flipped on a light switch. There was nice living area there. They had a bar, fridge, couch, love seat, two arm chair, and big pillows. In the middle, there was a coffee table. Pepito and Sam grabbed a pack of beers out of the fridge and sat them on the table before Pepito threw the both of them on the couch. Devi took and arm chair. Nny sat in the other. And Todd took the couch. He sighed, sipping on this Freezy.
"So what's there to talk about?" Devi asked.
"What the hell is going on here," Todd said.
"What about it?" Sam asked. "This woman is crazy."
"Stupid! Here are the papers! I'm your mother's sister!" Devi scowled, handing them to her.
"Looks like she's telling the truth," Pepito told Samantha, kissing her forehead.
"And what is he going to do? Stay around?" Sam asked about Nny.
"Yeah, this is my house!" Nny said.
"Well, Sam's not saying. I'm her new guardian," Devi declared.
"Fuck that," Pepito said before Sam could. "She's not leaving."
"Then, I'm staying," Devi said.
"Its settled," Todd said. "We're all staying."
