Will wasn't the only new occupant to be starting school soon, a bald teenage boy with piercing blue eyes stood watching the fleeing redhead and sneered as he saw three other girls go after her. The two blonds had stayed behind apparently to go talk to an older woman, perhaps a teacher of the foul establishment. He pulled his black overcoat tighter around his pale bulky frame as he moved to see if he could overhear what was going on.
"Missus Vandom, Will just ran off." The golden blonde said hysterically. Apparently the older woman wasn't a teacher but the redhead's mother or maybe older sister but that couldn't be as there was supposed to only be the mother and daughter.
"What happened?" Missus Vandom asked with worry lacing her voice as she stared at the two blondes.
"She freaked out when Irma confronted her about her dad being a cop." The silvery blonde asked, her looks seemed familiar to himself for some reason which he filed away for future reference.
"Irma's dad is a cop?" Missus Vandom asked in shock
"Well yeah." Cornelia said as if she was answering a stupid question, "Sorry, keep forgetting you guys are new here. Irma's dad is captain of the force here."
"I have to go find her, Dean." Missus Vandom said.
"I'll go with you." The man with Missus Vandom said, apparently he was called Dean.
"No, I need to talk to her alone. She's had some very bad experiences with cops and refuses to trust them." Missus Vandom sighed rubbing the bridge of her nose.
"What happened?" The silvery blonde asked worried.
"I'm sorry dear but it isn't my place to say." Missus Vandom said grabbing her purse, "Thank you girls for telling me what happened."
The boy watched stoically as the elder woman rushed from the courtyard.
"And we have the winner of the costume contest." The old woman known as Knickerbocker called from the stage as the noise finally died from the idiot prancing around on the stage playing those infernal instruments. The woman read off a card and pointed toward the boy. "The young man dressed up as a Sith Lord."
"What?" The boy asked in confusion as everyone surrounded him exploding in applause and cheers, "As with every Halloween the winner gets to light the Great Pumpkin!"
Again the applause exploded as the crowd pushed him toward the strange looking pumpkin that had apparently been mutilated, cut up with some kind of weird face carved into it. The old woman gave him a lit torch which he held looking from it to the old woman to the pumpkin.
"Go ahead, light it." The woman smiled motioning for the pumpkin. He quickly realized that he was expected to light it and shrugged, tossing the torch into the mouth of the pumpkin. Was there supposed to be a sizzling noise though? Moments later the pumpkin exploded as projectiles shot off in all directions, each exploding with loud bangs throwing off multi colored sparks. One headed right toward him exploding on contact singing his clothes leaving him covered in suit, his face black from it. Opening his mouth a little bit of smoke escaped as he shock his head in confusion at what just happened.
"Sometimes I really hate my life." The boy coughed before falling back, passing out from the shock of it.
WITCH
Irma ran with Hay Lin and Taranee following the retreating redhead away from the party as she blindly ran down street after street almost losing the group of girls until entering a run down neighborhood and finally into an apartment complex that Irma knew had been close to being condemned on more than one occasion with the owner doing the least amount possible in repairs to keep it open every time it happened. Irma watched in shock as Will stopped in front of one and dug a key out from inside her hat using it to push inside and slamming the door shut behind her.
The three girls quietly made their way to the door moments later, each lost in their own thoughts. Irma tentatively reached out and tried the door a little surprised that it wasn't even locked. Pushing it open they could hear muffled sobs coming from the back of the desolate apartment that didn't even have any personal touches to it much less anything else.
"I knew they were a little bad off but I never thought it was this bad." Taranee whispered while looking around. The light in living room there wasn't very bright but gave off enough light for them to see. As they walked through the hallway the could see there were two doors, both open and as the passed the first one they noticed it was just a bathroom. The second one however was a single bedroom with an alarm clock on the floor next to a large mattress with Will laying face down with her face buried in a pillow sobbing.
"Will." Hay Lin said softly causing the redhead to freeze. "Sweetie, are you okay?"
"What are you doing here?" Will asked, her voice oddly even as she slowly turned over and sat up to glare angrily at the three girls. "How did you get in?"
"The door was unlocked, Will." Taranee said quietly, "We were worried about you."
"Will, we're your friends." Irma said but her voice caused the redhead's expression to darken considerably.
"Bullshit!" Will shrieked throwing a pillow at them angrily. "How dare you barge in here? Get the hell out of here! GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!"
"Will, we're only trying to help!" Hay Lin cried.
"Get out of my home! I'll bring your damned dress by tomorrow!" Will snapped.
"But Will." Hay Lin tried to say but Will started angrily stripping causing Irma to look on in shock.
"Fine, take it!" Will snapped throwing the costume Hay Lin made at the smaller girl and stood there angrily in her bra and panties shaking though they couldn't tell if it was from anger, the strain from trying not to cry or from cold as they all noticed it was a little chilly in there.
"Girls, please go ahead home." Susan said walking in behind the girls, "Let me talk to her, it'll be okay."
"Are you sure?" Hay Lin asked while looking up at the elder woman with tears streaming down her face.
"As if you give a damn mother!" Will sobbed storming past them and out into the hall and into the bathroom, slamming the door shut.
"It'll be okay." Susan sighed as she hugged Hay Lin for a few moments. Hay Lin carefully gave the dress back to Susan, it was more than just a costume, with a few alterations it could be a normal dress. Hay Lin wanted to give it to Will as she was sure it would look stunning on her friend and she was right. She wanted her friend to have it and refused to take it back.
"Please make sure she gets this." Hay Lin said, her voice cracking.
"Thank you honey." Susan said, "Irma, please understand that Will doesn't really have anything against your father, she's just had some bad experiences with cops and its hard for her to trust because of it."
"What happened?" Irma asked softly realizing it must have been bad if it was causing Will so much pain.
"I'm sorry Irma, I can't tell you." Susan sighed, "If Will wants to then its okay but its not my place to say."
"I guess I understand." Irma sighed looking to see a very shaken look on Taranee's face.
"Will she really be okay?" Taranee asked with a barely audible voice.
"She'll be okay once she calms down, sweetie." Susan sighed, "Please don't hold what happened against her, she needs friends like you that really care."
"How do you know we really care?" Irma asked unable to keep from asking it though she knew she did care, more so than she probably had a right to.
"Because you all would have ran off by now if you didn't." Susan said with a sad smile, "Please go ahead and go back to the party or home though girls, I really need to talk to my daughter."
"Okay, goodnight Missus Vandom." Hay Lin sighed.
"Please tell Will we love her and are here for her." Irma said as she followed Hay Lin down the hall.
"Missus Vandom, if Will needs someone to talk to we are all here for here but if she needs someone more…Maybe a counselor…My mom is a judge, I'm sure she can help get her one." Taranee said.
"Thanks Taranee, I'll let you know." Susan said hugging the mocha skinned girl before she too followed her friends out leaving Susan to deal with her daughter.
"Will, honey, please open up and talk to me." Susan said as she knocked on the bathroom door. She knew Will would talk to her, they talked about everything but what the redhead said to her a few minutes ago really hurt.
"Go to hell!" Susan screamed, her voice choking from her crying.
Susan sighed, for once happy about one of the things that was broken in the apartment. Susan opened the door to find Will sitting on the toilet with the seat down, hugging herself and bent forward crying as if she had lost everything. Susan had never seen Will in this condition, not even after Tony had attacked the last time.
"Sweetie." Susan said softly moving over to the trembling redhead.
"Please don't abandon me." Will sobbed. Almost unable to understand what the redhead was saying.
"Will!" Susan gasped as she dropped to her knees and wrapped her arms around the redhead, "Honey, I'd never leave you. You are my world."
"I saw you kissing him! You're going to abandon me like dad did when he got with what's her name. Y-Your going to s-start hitting m-me."
"Sweetie, I'd never hurt you. I love you so much." Susan cried rubbing Will's bare back. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you I liked Dean but just because I do doesn't mean I'd ever abandon you or hurt you."
"I don't want to be alone." Will cried as she clung desperately to Susan.
"Honey, your dad didn't become like he did because he cheated." Susan said sadly, "He did because he started taking drugs. I tried my best honey to get him to stop and that's when he started beating me. When he got so bad that's when he hit you and I found out that the man I married was gone and I wasn't keeping you there to be hurt to. Will, your dad loved us but the drugs took that man away, not another woman and it wasn't something you or I did."
"He was on drugs?" Will asked after a few minutes, finally getting control of herself.
"Yes honey." Susan sighed sadly. "Sweetie, why don't you go get some clothes on or at least a robe and come to the kitchen, I'll have some warm tea made I got today."
"How about cups?" Will asked.
"The landlord's wife gave me some kitchen stuff. And some stuff to clean the apartment." Susan explained, taking some tissue from the roll and dabbing Will's tears away. "I spent most of the morning cleaning."
"I can't believe I never noticed it." Will sighed.
"Its okay honey, go get changed and I'll have you some nice tea ready when you come in.
It didn't take Will too long get a robe on and into the kitchen where Susan was taking two blue mugs from an older microwave, one of the ones with a dial instead of buttons on it. Susan sat at the table beckoning Will to take the other seat which she did accepting the warm tea her mother offered.
"Feeling better honey?" Susan asked earning a small nod from Will.
"Mom," Will said nervously, "If you really like Dean…I don't want you to stop seeing him if he makes you happy. After everything that's happened you deserve some happiness."
"You do to, Will." Susan said reaching over and hugging Will with one arm as the two chairs were side by side since Susan moved them when she came in to make the tea. "Will, not all cops are bad, I know the ones back in Fadden Hills were crooked but Irma's father isn't like that. And Irma, she really cares for you, I can see it. All three of those girls care for you, they were so worried about you."
"Mom…I can't trust him, I can't." Will whispered shaking her head.
"Will, don't throw a friendship like the ones you have here." Susan pleaded.
"I…I need to think about this mom." Will whispered, getting up from the table.
"Why don't you go la down honey and get some rest?" Susan said as Will nodded and slowly made her way from the room as Susan rubbed her eyes trying to stop the tears forming over the pain her daughter was in and she knew no amount of words would truly fix it. It would take time for Will to recover from her wounds.
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