Well, hey there! It sure has been a long time, huh? I know, I said I wasn't coming back to this story but well..I can never leave things unfinished. ^^" So here comes the next chapter! Enjoy! :)

Chapter 4

"...and then he said he had to change those damn scripts. I don't know why all of the sudden-"

Jack was interrupted by Oogie's surprised voice.

"Change them?! But how am I supposed to know what's happening now?" he cried.

Jack looked at him, annoyed.

"What's so important about that?" he asked his burlap companion.

Oogie stopped walking and glared at him.

"That I had the upper hand by knowing what the others didn't! Now how else am I supposed to look superior?" he said, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Jack sighed. (If this were anime, he would've sweat dropped.) Sometimes Oogie gave priority to the weirdest of things.

"I suppose you want to know the changes," Jack droned in a dull voice.

Oogie smirked at his friend's idea. He made it seem as he had already thought of it, though.

"Of course. I'll have to sneak into that geezer's office again, but you're coming with me this time."

"What for?" Jack asked, wariness etched in his pale features.

Oogie just smirked evilly.

Jack and Oogie were sneaking through the sets. 'Be quiet, be very quiet…' It was night, so no one would see them enter without permission to the director's office. But it was absolutely forbidden to be around at these hours near the sets, so they had to be very careful.

A guard was approaching, and they hid into the shadows so he wouldn't see them.

"Why am I doing this again?" Jack asked in a whisper, more to himself than to his friend. Oogie shushed him as the guard rounded a corner and then said,

"Don't you want to see what that director has up his sleeve?" he asked mischievously.

Jack sighed again. The truth was that he really was curious at what they director would have in store for them, and he suspected it had to something with him liking Sally. But couldn't Oogie just wait?

They crept through the shadows until they got to a wall with a very tiny window high in it. Now he knew what Oogie needed him for.

"C'mon, his office is just at the other side. I'll lift up so you can enter," Oogie said, motioning him. Jack shook his head with a sigh as he got on his shoulders.

"If I have to enter this way, how did you entered last time?" he asked as he reached for the window and, with a soft click, opened it.

"I had to steal the fool's keys. Right under his nose, but it took me work. It's easier like this." He grinned as Jack climbed through the window and landed with a loud 'thump!' on the other side.

"In case you're wondering, I'm okay," Jack said, annoyed. He had landed on a rather hard part of the floor, and he was rubbing his backside as he got up.

"Just go get the scripts. They may be in the desk," Oogie said from the other side. Jack glared at the wall as if his look alone would melt it, get to the other side, and burn Oogie. He muttered to himself angrily as he walked blindly in the office. He finally found a light and turned it on. Once done that, he began his search in the director's desk.

The drawers had labels. The idiot had put labels on them! 'Let's see… Bills, no.. Random stuff, what the hell? Cast members, damn it, where is it? Scripts, bingo!' Jack thought with glee as he opened the drawer. He returned the scripts they had already done and proceeded to peek through the rest of them until he would memorize the whole movie.

After he went to the forest, Sally went into scene again, and that only made him confirm his suspicion that the director had an evil plan for both of them. He gulped slightly at that thought. He got to Christmas Town, and he eyed with a bored look the other stupid song he would be singing... He continued like this for a long time, reading what he would be doing in the following weeks. He had 4 more songs all to himself; oh, how he hated that director's guts!

'Oh, look, it's Oogie's song.' he thought with mild interest. He laughed quietly at what his friend would be singing. He was definitely going to be there when he sang that.

Then there was something else that caught his attention more than that.

Sally's song.

He read it over and over again until he thought he could perform it himself. He widened his eyes as he looked for the very last script. 'Where is it, where is it?' He snatched it from where it was at the bottom of the pile and started reading the ending.

Snow falling, everyone singing, Sally slipping out the gates.. Him following her! He gasped quietly. They arrived in the snow-covered graveyard and..started singing.. He blanched when he got to that last part. The song was so..romantic. And the movie ended with them...kissing!

He could have yelled his bewilderment right at that moment, but remembered his current mission and slapped a hand to his mouth to prevent himself from doing so. 'How could he just go and do that!?' he thought, as he returned everything into place. He was sure that was the change the director made to the movie, and it was after he found out about his crush on Sally.

He blanched again as he recalled the scene and imagined it in his head. He had hoped he would kiss her eventually...but that wasn't how it was meant to happen!

He climbed through the window again and landed on top of Oogie, who was impatiently waiting at the other side, and knocked him to the ground.

"Get off me, you idiot!" Oogie whispered harshly, as Jack tried to get away from his burlap friend. When he did, he laughed as Oogie glared at him. Okay, he just had to admit that was funny. They got away from there as Jack assured Oogie he would tell him everything later.

It was the next day, and the cast was having breakfast together. Tim had been eager to start early today since he had already finished his modified scripts and gave them to the crew. The actors, though, only got the ones for the next scene. Something about "keeping the element of surprise," Tim had said.

As promised after their adventure of last night, Jack was telling Oogie the details of the rest of the movie. He was just getting to the ending when he suddenly paused. Oogie stared at him confused.

"Hey, bone man, what happened after that?" Oogie asked, with a slight smirk.

Jack came out his daze and glared at him. As soon as he mentioned the battle between them and Oogie's strange taunting line, he had started calling him that.

"I told you not to call me that!" he snapped angered.

"Well then, continue with the story, bonehead!" Oogie shot back.

Jack glared murderously at him one more time before continuing in a near whisper.

"Well.. It said Sally took a flower to the graveyard.. When she began to pluck the petals, I appeared behind her and.." he gulped, blanching slightly "started singing to her..."

Oogie whistled at him, nudging his side. "It seems you got a girlfriend, ey?"

Jack blanched even more, thus becoming unable to continue. He got lost in his own thoughts of how would Sally's face feel so close to his, of how her hands would feel when he took them...

Oogie noticed this and rolled his eyes (or he would if he had them).

"And that was it?" he asked. Jack could only shake his head no, making Oogie more impatient. "Well then, what happened? C'mon, I was just kidding!"

Jack was silent for a while, but then finally said,

"I kiss her... I have to kiss her at the end," he whispered, blanching profusely.

Oogie laughed out loud, but Jack wasn't paying attention to him anymore; he was thinking of Sally again...

'How will it feel when she kisses me?' he wondered dreamily.

Well, that's it! What did you think of it? For some reason, I feel like my writing for this story is getting lousy, so I'm kinda hesitant in continuing it like this... :/