Last Time: The white-haired boy laughed, tossing his hair back and placing his hands on his hips in an attempt to strike a sassy-gay-pose. "Oh come on Pitch, It's sooooo obvious that you have feelings for me! After all, why would you keep asking me to help you out with these things? And why would you keep hanging around with me or watching when I'm hanging around with Jamie and Sophie and other kids?"

For a minute, Pitch didn't say anything and just stood there starring at the younger male. Finally, after a minute or so of thinking over possible responses to that statement, the older male glared at him and hissed,"You've been spending waaaay too much time hanging around that Noel kid Frost if you think that I have feelings for you other then disgust and pity." He turned his back to Jack, "Now come on! We have to find Shadow!"

Jack nodded but not before mumbling under his breath, "You fucking love me you douche bag."

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As he looked down over the side of the roller-coaster as it got to it's highest point and was moments away from a steep drop at intense speeds, Noel couldn't help but think that he made a huge mistake.

Beside him, Shadow was grinning like a mad-man and enjoying every minute of this. Typical, he was the son of an insane man so it was obvious that he, himself was pretty insane! The younger boy glanced over at him and seemed to notice his discomfort.

"You alright?" He asked but his voice was faint and hard to hear against the wind, most of which by the way, was being caused by Noel's nervousness.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine!" Noel lied and Shadow rolled his eyes.

"You're whiter then Frost's hair!" He laughed but then his laughing stopped,"Are you scared of heights?"

Noel grunted,"A wind spirit who's scared of heights? No way! Where'd you get that idea!" He forced himself to chuckle,"Now falling, falling is something I have issues with..."

Shadow smiled softly and placed his hand over Noel's which had been gripping the safety-bar for dear life. "Don't worry," He said softly,"I won't let you fall."

Noel smiled back but for two different reasons; yes, it was comforting to know that Shadow wasn't going to mock him for being scared of the upcoming drop but this was also the first time this evening that Shadow had attempted any physical contact with him! Granted, usually by this time he'd already gotten his fill but still it was good to see he was making progress in wooing the stubborn 15-year-old.

He found himself grinning as they went over the drop.

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Shadow held the plushie penguin he and Noel had won close against his chest as they walked along towards the entrance as much as it pained him to admit it this had been the most fun he'd ever had and Noel had shown him a good time.

"So," Noel said as he walked around Shadow, holding his own plushie in his arm. "You have fun?"

Shadow blushed and brushed some of his hair back behind his ear, "Yeah Actually I did."

The older boy grinned,"You see what fun you can have when you decide to be a little bad?"

"Okay so I'll admit, blindly following all my dad's stupid rules was kinda dumb."

"Kind of dumb?" Noel teased which made Shadow snort,

"Okay so I was being an idoit! You were right and I was wrong, okay? I should have tried to rebel and have some fun years ago!" Shadow said, making Noel's grin grow.

"Well then, there's just one more important thing to ask you then." Noel said and then grabbed Shadow's arm, pulling him closer to himself and looking straight down in the younger boy's eyes.

"You want to be my boyfriend?" Noel asked and Shadow felt the blood rushing to his cheeks. Before he could answer though, a hand gripped his shoulder and tore him away from the wind-spirit.

"SHADOW UMBRA BLACK YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE YOUNG MAN!" Pitch barked and Shadow gritted his teeth, Oh shit...

"H-Hey dad!" He said in a shakey voice, "W-what are you doing here?"

Pitch was fuming, although that was easy to tell by the bright shade of red his face was turning. "I CAME TO BRING YOU BACK HOME! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D GO AGAINST ME LIKE THIS SON! THIS IS SO UNLIKE YOU!"

Shadow narrowed his eyes and pushed free from his father, "Well maybe this is what I'm really like and you should stop pretending that you actually know me!"

The nightmare king's eyes widened, "What on Earth had gotten into you?!" He snapped, "I know you Shadow, you are a bookworm who avoids any social situations and hides away in his room all the time!"

"Maybe I just hate the people you try to get me to be friends with!" Shadow shot back, "Maybe I want to make my own damn friends and live my own damn life and not have my father dotting on me 24/7!"

"I do that to protect you and your brother, what part of that don't you understand?!"

"You aren't protecting us from anything! You don't have any enemies except for the guardians and they wouldn't dare hurt either of us! You're just lying so we'll never leave home and have lives of our own!"

Before he could stop himself, Shadow blurted out, "Believe me child that is not the case, I honestly can't wait until your brother and you move out and leave me alone!"

Shadow gasped and took a step away from his father, it only took seconds for his emotions to go from surprised and shocked to beyond pissed. "So that's how you really feel then? Me and Joshua are nothing but burdens on the great and almighty nightmare king's back and you'd be better off without us?! Well that's just fucking great because if you don't fucking care about me then I can do whatever I fucking want!"

Pitch's lunar eyes widened as he realized his mistake, "B-I-I, W-What, I didn't mea-Shadow watch your language!"

Shadow forced a grin, not wanting his father to know how upset he was about his father's outburst. "NO! You know why? Because I don't fucking care about whatever you say to me anymore because you don't give a rat's ass about what I do!"

"Shadow, Listen to me, I didn't mean it you-"

The Halloween spirit didn't want to listen, using bravery he didn't know he had, the young 15-year-old spat at his father and walked back over to Noel's side. Wrapping an arm around the older boy's shoulders and plastering a smug smirk on his face, Shadow did something that no one expected him to do.

"Pitch Black, Father," He said struggling to keep his voice even but so far doing a successful job. "You can go fuck yourself." And with that he held up his middle-finger.

Time seemed to slow down and both Noel and Pitch stood there in shock, everyone waiting for somebody to do something to put an end to this madness. Then, Shadow turned to Noel.

"Come on, let's get out of here." He said and Noel nodded,

"Okay." The wind spirit said softly and they both turned their backs on the boogeyman and started to walk away.

"By the way Noel, is it alright if I crash at your place for a while?"

Noel's eyes widened, he was soooooo going to get laid tonight!

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Jack smiled as he licked his chocolate and vanilla ice-cream cone and walked over to the boogeyman's side at a slow, leisurely pace, happily enjoying his treat with no idea of what just happened.

"Man this is good!" Jack said with a grin, "You sure you don't want one Pitch?"

It was just then that he noticed that Pitch was standing there completely frozen(Pun not intended) and staring off into space with a blank expression.

"Hey did I miss something?" The guardian of fun asked.