Chapter 8

"D-dad."

"Jaclynn Andy Skellington, what have I told you about coming in here. It's dangerous, your lucky the boys found me and I caught you." As Jack said this he slowly pulled Jaclynn out of the tube and held her in his arms. His face didn't look to happy.

"Umm...Sorry."

"Sorry isn't going to help you now kid. You will be living in the house for awhile and never leave it but for school. Your lucky I caught you now or you would be flambe by now and how would your mother think if you died. She'd be heartbroken and do you want that?"

"No."

"No what?"

"No sir."

"That's right. Luke, are you still here?" Jack went and looked over his shoulder to see the small little boy scared half to death in the corner with a sheet over his head. He slowly pulled the sheet off his head. Jack and Jaclynn noticed that the little zombie's eye was missing. Jaclynn looked to see that the eye was on floor just by her father's foot. Jaclynn struggled to get out of her father's grip and Jack knew why. So he put Jaclynn down, picked up the eye and went over to the small boy.

"Here Luke." He said with a smile trying not to scare the boy. He got up and before he was going to grab his eye he ran past Jackand gave Jaclynn a very surprising hug. Then something else happen that they didn't see coming was that he started crying so hard. He tried talking when he could and Jaclynn was just...well surprise.

"Umm...Luke."

"J-jaclynn, Oh Jaclynn. I thought you were going to d-d-d-died!!!!!!!!"

"Luke, I'm fine. Please stop crying your other eye might fall out."

"S-s-so-so-rr-rr-ry." He kept on crying and would not let go of Jaclynn. As they all walked out of the tree house Jake and his dogs saw that Luke would not let Jaclynn leave.

"HA! So, it's true Luke did chicken out. Your not brave Tod, you'll always be a crybaby." Jaclynn got ready to go and tell him off but ackwalk in front of them and gave them a scary face they would never forget. After there scare the rest of the kids parents came to get their children.

"Jake!"

"Mommyyyyy!" Jake ran as fast as he could with his dogs behind him running to their parents.

"Jakie dear, whats wrong?" Just as he was about to say how Jack scared him half to death Jack came over and told Jake's mother that there were scared that Jaclynn was going to died.

"Is that true Jakie dear?" Jake looked at Jack's horror face and Jake turned white and just nodded and his dog with their 'tails' behind their legs nodded too. Jaclynn smiled at her father and her father smiled back, then looked away because he remember he was mad at her. As the group started to walk away Sally ask where was Jaclynn's left shoe. Jaclynn looked down to see one foot with just a sock and no shoe. She turned around to see that her left shoe was at the edge of the basket entrance to the tree house.

"Daddy can I go get my shoe. I promuise I will come right back."

"Ok and when you get back we will have to have a talk about what you have done today."

"Yes,sir." Jaclynn ran over to where her shoe was and turn around to wave at her parents.

"Jaclynn..." A voice said from behind her, in the tree house.

"What? Who's there?"

"Jaclynn..." The voice said again. Jaclynn, now with wide eyes looking at the tree house as she heard this rough voice saying her name. She then start to cry and then balling her eyes.

"Mommmyyyy, Daddddyyyy!" Jaclynn ran to her parents and jumped into her mothers arms.

"Jaclynn, sweetie. What's wrong? Come on tell mommy, sweetie."

"I heard..." Then before Jaclynnfinish her sentence she looked at her dad who had a worried face on and not to worry him some more she just said...

... the wind." Jack and Sally looked at each other a bit dumbfound. As they started to walk away Sally, holding her child knew that it wasn't the wind that scared her baby. As for Jack he thought she was telling the truth but as the three walked away, Jaclynn looking over her mother's shoulder as she carried her, looked back at the tree house, she heard the bone chilling voice again....

"Jaclynn...Jaclynn...I will be waiting for you child..."

"Jaclynn. Jaclynn? Jaclynn!"

"NO!" Jaclynn went and wiped her hand and slap back into reality, more to say, slap Luke across the face by mistake.

"J-J-J-Jaclynn." A now very scared teared up little zombie boy said and trying to find out why he was just slapped across the face by his best friend.

"Oh my God! Luke, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to, it's just I was day-dreaming again." Luke wiped away the little bit of tears he had and put on a great big smile.

"It's ok but next time get a sign so I know not to wake you and get bitch slapped again."

"Yeah." The two friends laughed together and Jaclynn looked at Luke with one of her beautiful smiles and he blushed, then cleared his thoat to change the subject.

"So, what were you day-dreaming about this time." Jaclynn look at him then out the window to see the school coming up and the tree house long gone.

"Oh, nothing."

"Come on, please Jaclynn tell me."

"Nope, my lips are sealed."

"So, you wouldn't tell me? Even if I call you...Jackie Pumpkin!" Luke yelled the name her mom uses sometimes and ran off the bus. She really hated that name.

"Your going to get it now Tod." She said in a 'you better be scare' tone but also there was a hint of fun in the voice. She found him in the front yard and tackled him to the ground and started tickling him to 'dead'.

"Jaclynn...ha-ha...stop...ha-ha-ha...before my eye..." POP! To late, Luke's eye already fell out of the socket and roll on the ground till it hit someone's foot.

"! ! Stop this childish horse-play right now!" The two looked up to see their teacher -Dulce ('No tan dulce' is really the translated words for 'Not So Sweet' in Spanish.) She was one of the worst teachers in the middle school and if it wasn't for Jaclynn making a promise to her parents, she would have Bar-B-Q that teacher long ago.

"Yes -Dulce." said Jaclynn as she got up from the ground and help her friend up too.

"And please , put your eye back in your head and try to keep it there." The teacher said as she gave his eye back to him. He was just brushing it off, he was just about to pop it back in when Jake came up from behind him and push him down to the ground.

"God, Tod watch where you're going." As he walked away, his dogs laughed and started walking behind. Jaclynn glared at Jake and her hands started to flame.

"Jaclynn no." Jaclynn looked down at Luke who was on the ground. "Don't waste your fire power on those scums but feel free to use this." Jaclynn looked at her friend's hand who had his eye. Jaclynn smiled and took his eye, wined up for the pitch and throw his eye at a rapid speed. The eye then bounce off a tree, two buses, then school and then hit everyone of the dogs heads and then nailed Jake right in the forehead. It was just like a giant game of pinball. As the dogs and Jake lied on the ground trying to find out what hit them, everyone in the school were laughing at them and Luke's eye slowly rolled back to Jaclynn and Luke.

"Nice shot."

"And dad said skull-ball was a waste of time."

*Skull-ball is the type of baseball they play in Halloween Town*

"Children stop this laughing and get to class now!" said the mean teacher. Everyone start to walk to the doors, Jaclynn and Luke walked by Jake and his dogs, who were still on the ground and as they got to the doors of the school they both turned around and made crazy faces at Jake and the dogs. They just got up and gave them dirty looks.

As everyone got to there seats the teacher turned around and snapped the rule on the desk to shut the whole class up. They all looked up at the scary thing they called a teacher with shocked faces.

"OK, class today we learning about how to add fractions and also we have to pick our field trip which will be..."

"The forest!"

"For the last time , we can't go to the woods."

"But why -Dulce, what's so bad about it?

"Like I have told you and everyone in the class, if we went into the woods we might never come back."

"That's not what my dad told me." Jake said as he got up and started walking to the front of the room of the class.

", sit down."

"My dad told me in the woods are these doors and in the doors are other worlds."

"Other worlds? What are you talking about Jake?" said Jaclynn know curious of what the bully was saying.

"Oh, you don't know?" Jake said with a grin on his face. Jaclynn shook her head.

"Well, what my dad said was years ago, someone went and found the doors and went in a door called 'The Christmas Door'. He went in there and got the idea of taking over Christmas and almost ruined Christmas and Halloween for other world, the Christmas world and also the human world!" The class was shocked and the teacher grabbed the wolf-boy and started to drag him out of the class.

"That's enough . You know your not suppose to know that information at all! It's the office for you young man." As the teacher started to pull Jake out of the class, Jaclynn, thinking out loud said...

"Who would do something stupid like that to risk Halloween?" Jake went and pulled away from the teacher's cluches and landed right on Jaclynn desk with a smirk.

"Who do you think, Jackie dear? That person...was your father!" The teacher came back and grabbed the boy and was gone out of the class in a flash. Then everyone looked at Jaclynn, who just sat there, shocked at what she heard.

"Jaclynn, Jaclynn are you OK?" said Luke now standing next to her. Jaclynn's head was now down.

"He lied to me." she said in a soft voice.

"What did you say Jaclynn?" Her hands then went flamed up and her red hair turned black with a bit of orange in it. Luke fell to the in fear because he knew this is what she looked like at almost full power, the only thing to say that she was at full was that her clothes changed. Jaclynn then picked up a dress and threw it at the wall, leaving a big hole.

"THEY BOTH LIED TO ME!" Jaclynn yelled to her class in the corner and Luke near her on the floor. Jaclynn then slowly went back to her normal self and jumped out the hole in the wall with Luke running right behind her.