Longest Novel: Fall of the Republic

by morgan kingsley

In 2018, nearly twenty years after he sold his honor and integrity to a media company for cheap money and entertainment for kids, a middle aged author decided that he wanted to make one final book in his career that would tell the truth of the adventure he had when he was young. An au of seasons 1-4 that takes place in the united. Also the world will be in dark danger.

11. Preparing for Prom

Chapter 10: Preparing for Prom (1966)

It all started at the month of May 1966. During that month of that year, there was this one guy who was sitting around in his lunch room at school. This was during the early morning, before the first period class had actually started. There was nothing really about that school day that would be of a good deal. However, there was something about the end of school that day which would be something to be worth taking note about.

The guy was named Ken. He was sort of wondering what the hell he was going to do that day. It was going to be the biggest day of the school year. Well, at least after the school day was over with. The stuff that was going on after school that day was prom of that year. Prom was the biggest deal. The prom dance was going to be the best things that most people would have. Every student had wanted to go to prom that year.

After all of this, Ken was thinking about how he was going to ask out a girl in order to get a date for the dance. He knew that she would probably not really say yes to him or anything, but he knew that he had to at least try to do so. If he had tried to do this, then he would feel good about the fact that he didn't just feel like he was going to bitch about things that he didn't even try to fix. So that is the fact that Ken was going to ask a girl out was going to be one of his best and biggest achievements in a while. He had did some great things in seventh grade, but that was a different story for a different time.

That was when he found this one girl. She had brown hair and she was walking along near the wall. There was something to it that gave Ken the feeling that she was feeling a little bit isolated and as if she had wanted to talk with somebody. That was when Ken had thought that this girl would be the perfect person to ask out for the date to prom. He knew that he was going to fail on this as he started to walk on closer and he was starting to not want to do this anymore as he was getting closer to her.

"Hey how are you?" Ken asked when he was right next to the girl. She looked over at him as if him being right there was one of the most unexpected things that she had ever seen in her life. But then she nodded and decided that she would talk with him a little bit. "Hey, I know that this is a little bit out of nowhere and I can see why you would say no to me, but I don't have any prom dates and I was wondering if you had any as well."

"Well, I don't have any dates either. I don't really know if I even want to go on the dance at all anyways. I think that I will just be sitting this one out." The girl had said and then Ken started to consider this a little bit. Maybe he could try and convince her that this would be a good idea. Or maybe he couldn't. Either way, he was going to try at least a little bit harder.

"I had a feeling that you and I will be able to make to help us have a better time. I know that if I go to prom right now, I probably would not be able to enjoy it all that much. But I can be able to have a good time, you know, if this night had somebody at my side." Ken said and then he started to think more on her and the idea of them dancing. It did make him a little bit excited. She seemed to consider it for a brief moment. But then she decided that she still wanted to stay home alone without him.

"I think I will stay home still. I appreciate you thinking that I would be a great date, but I still need to stay alone. Thanks for asking me. You seem to be able to have a good dance. I think I have seen you dance a few times before at previous school dances. I think that you don't need a date for you to have a good time. Most people probably need a date, but I think you are different." The girl had said and then when the girl had said that, the more that Ken was a little bit disappointed that she didn't say yes to his offer.

"Thanks for at least being nice about it." Ken had said and then when Ken had said that he started to walk off. Soon enough, he reached the table and sat down at it. As he was sitting, there was about a minute or two of silence. He was not really sure what to do about this. He was probably to go to the dance, but he was not really sure if he would want to do it since nobody would be with him.

"Hey sorry for being a little bit rude, but can you please move out of the way? I am trying to talk with some of my friends and I don't want to stand up talking with them. You seem to be alone right now and not hanging out with anybody." There was a guy that had said that and then when he had said that, he saw that Ken wanted to leave this place. He was pissed off that people would just not be able to leave him alone. Maybe the guy just didn't get it.

"Yeah, I will move out of the way. I don't really have any real reason to stay here after all." Ken said and then when Ken had said that, the guy nodded and Ken started to stand up and walk away. As he was walking away, the guy called out towards him in a way to show that there was nothing that he had meant to give off a terrible impression.

"Hey I'm sorry if I upset you in any way. That was not what I was trying to do. I don't really even know you, so it would be sort of a dick move just to try and ruin your mood without even knowing your name." The guy said and Ken seemed to consider that to be a good point for a moment. Even if he did not want to exactly admit it. "Anyways, now that we are on the subject, what even is your name actually?" The guy said and Ken decided that he would bite and see where this would go if he played along.

"My name is Ken. I only have been here for a couple of years. Nobody really likes to hang out with me. Well, not anymore at least I should say. Back in the day, a lot of people would like to talk with me and stuff. But those days are over." Ken sighed and he was actually thinking back to his so called glory days, when he could actually say that he was at the very least kind of popular. But any chance of him being popular was crushed two months ago when he was caught doing what people considered to be one of the most dishonest and gross things any normal human being could do.

"Well, my name is Brad. Nice to meet you. Don't know if we will ever see each other again, but it was nice to talk with you while it lasted." Brad said and then once Brad had said that, he started to sit down where Ken had sat before and Ken nodded. Now he wasn't angry any more. He actually seemed to be glad that at least one person had actually gone out of his way to talk with him even if it was for all of two minutes. It was still more than what any other person gave him since March.

As Ken started to head on his way to his first class period, he was sort of wondering what there was to Brad. He was sort of wondering if Brad would be asking anybody out to prom or not. If brad already had a date or not. Or if Brad was even going at all. Ken had no idea why he cared so much, but maybe there was just that bit of interest that he had.

Soon enough, Ken sat down at the table in the classroom. When he was in this classroom, he was thinking about what exactly to do. There was nothing that he could do that would make him feel like he would be able to do anything justice. There was nothing that he had felt like would actually get people to start to like him again. He didn't even know if people had ever liked him to begin with. Maybe it was a lie.

Ken was sort of thinking that he truly had no idea what to do. But then this was when he opened his back pack and when he had opened his back pack he was looking at a composition notebook. He was supposed to use this for school work, but then he thought that with only one month left in the school year, he would not need to use it anymore. So he took out a pen and made sure it had at least some ink and once he had made sure that nobody was watching, and most importantly the teacher was not watching him, he started to write down on the paper.

"Hello here, my name is Kevin. Well, actually my nickname is Ken. My biological name is Kevin. I have not been using that name ever since I was just in the seventh grade. That was when I had come to the next school of my life time, and this is the school that I have been in ever since I have been in eighth grade. I am going to be writing this as a way to try and get the trust of people again. If somebody writes this, they can see the good intentions I have and the way that I wish to help people out and even if they don't like the method that I am going at it, they can respect the fact that I have been trying my very best to save my city and do something that actually matters ever since I was in the eighth grade.

Well, something happened in March that made people start to lose hope in me. That is a different story for a different time. It is a story that I will explain when I am done with this story, the one that I feel like I really need to talk about. And that is indeed going to be the story of how I had lost the trust of all of the people that I had ever gone to school with and everything. Alas, I am stalling out a lot here.

So the story starts in eighth grade when I was going by the idea of my friend that I had in my previous school, which was named Wayside. My friend had what I would consider to be one of the best ideas on the planet. The idea could have been so good if it had worked out more and better. The worst part is that the idea did not actually work out too well for me and my friend. He took something that he thought would work out and then turned out to sort of drag things down to the ground. But then to be fair, I would end up doing the exact same thing. In fact, I would probably end up fucking things up even more than my friend had, which is something that I did not even think would be possible until it had happened.

So the idea is that he thought he could sort of become a superhero and sort of save the city and stuff. He thought that if he had saved the city, he could be able to go down as one of the greatest people who had ever lived in that city as well as something that he would be proud of. I thought that it was a good idea, but one that could be really dangerous on top of that.

I still remember when he had taught me his idea and how he thought it could be able to work out. I actually thought he could be able to pull it off. And when I thought that he could pull it off, I decided that I would work with him on stuff like that. But then as it would turn out he would almost die and the school that we had went to at the time was pretty fucked up and Todd, the name of my friend thought that the best way to be a hero was to repair the school and he has been spending the last three years repairing the school and from the letters that we have sent to each other, the school was still being repaired and as the school was still being repaired, there is about three fourths of the repair done and Todd would predict that there would be one more year left before the repair was all done.

I knew about the bad risks of all of this stuff and despite all of the bad risks about all of these things, I decided that I didn't care and that I could still do the work. I could still be able to pull it off. And for a while it had seemed as if I could be able to pull it off. I actually spent a lot of time out lining all of this stuff and I would say for a at the time fourteen year old it was actually quite possibly the most well thought out thing that a person of that age could have been able to do.

I spent most of my eighth grade year sort of improving my plans and doing a lot of drawing and creating a lot of ideas for suits and how the suits could work. Once I got done with school in eighth grade and ninth grade had started, I spent August of so actually getting lessons of sewing from my mother. I had lied to her, as she would later find out that when the whole hero gig was over. I thought that I would be able convince her that I was more interested in sewing and making some great pieces of clothes and stuff and while she was a little bit interested over the fact that I was doing something like this, she decided that she was kind glad I was kind of getting into stuff like that.

So I would use the facts that I learned from her and started to sew together things and when I was doing stuff like that, I had began to make a bunch of outlines at the very least for my suits and stuff like that. I thought that this could work out after all by the time that december rolled around and had made the first full on suit.

It was at this point that I thought I could actually become a hero at this point. By this point I was fifteen, two years higher than the thirteen years of age that Todd was when he had started to do his hero gig. I thought that the two years would actually have been able to make a ton of difference. How little I knew how wrong I was when I had made that assessment. I thought that a extra two years of development and growth could be able to make me so much more ready to take on the world and all that. While two years did indeed enhance my physical ability at the very least, it was still nowhere near enough for me to actually be able to do anything of real difference.

On January 10th of 1965, I had made my first attempt at being a hero. There were people being robbed and I had hated the fact that they were being robbed, so I jumped down as I was watching this stuff and as I had jumped down, I started to beat up the robbers and the robbers left the scene and the family was going to thank me when I jumped up and started to go away. I looked down at the family and their confused faces and them starting to walk away and stuff like that. I was watching them and I was glad that I had finally been able to make some real progress and do some things that had actually mattered. I had saved the day once and by this point I was being a hero in some way. I had thought that this could work out.

When this was happening, and I had returned home I returned home and as I returned home, my brother was coming home from hanging out with his girlfriend and he had looked like he was not that shocked at what I was doing. Just a bit disappointed I was into this.

I told him that he would not be able to convince me out of it and he had said that this was what he was scared of me saying. He had thought that I could be able to actually be taught some fucking sense, but in the reality I convinced him that there was no way that I could be changed to do something like this ever. He hated this fact but then decided not to argue with me and that as long as I would not die or anything like that, but could not really argue with me at all.

So with this, the two of us decided to drop the subject and over the next four months of so, I would ditch class a bunch when I heard of a robbery or a murder and while I was a vigilante by definition, I considered myself a hero as I had stopped nearly twelve cases during those three months. I had thought that this was something I could be proud of and everything like that.

I still managed to pass all my classes. Although I only got a D in my Math class and a D in my English class. On Science, Physical Education and Community Service I got a C, a B, and a A on respectively. The Community Service class was something I passed since I went to a couple of town events and counted up the hours really quickly after just the first couple of weeks of doing this. This was something that would be pretty good for my own sake at the end of this whole thing.

During the summer I did something pretty bold. I had found out about illegal drugs that were being made and I broke into that place where the drugs were being made, stole the drug and then brought the dug over to the police and gave them the information. This bust had taken a couple of weeks to really figure out and fully execute and everything. But once it was done, I was actually thanked and said that I needed to stop while I was still considered at my peak and when I did something that they could actually respect me doing.

The tenth grade school year was something I had a lot of hard time doing. The classes were hard to do and the classes were not only hard, but I was trying to get a date for home coming as well as find a couple of crimes I could actually bust. But there was nothing so it had seemed that due to the activity that the idea could just die off. But then due to me calming down and not working at it too much anymore, I ended up creating more crime since there was the impression that there was nothing left anymore. I decided that this would be something I would have to do all the time if I wanted to actually keep crime gone for the rest of my life in the city.

Once Thanksgiving was coming around, after a couple of months of peace and freedom to the city, I had to start fighting crime again. There was a bombing that hit during the Thanksgiving day celebration and caused the deaths of sixteen people. I was heart broken over this and took a hour or two to mourn over their deaths. Then after I was done having this moment, I decided that I would try and figure out the cause of this bombing and who exactly had done it.

So with that, as my family was going to actually try and have their Thanksgiving meal, I snuck out of the house and when I returned that night with thankfully enough time to get out of my suit before they came in, they were very pissed at me and was wondering what the hell I was doing. I didn't tell them the truth and I don't really know if they realized that or not. What I did that day was look around the town for certain buildings. I found one that only had one car parked and saw that there were no lights or anything inside. I decided to go and check it out and see if that house was the one that I would need to find. Thankfully it was the house that I needed to find after all.

I went inside the house after finding a small hole and when I went inside the house, I saw a bunch of bottles filled with stuff like pee as well as plants and other experimential things. I was over all grossed out by this as you would expect, but I decided not to really pay attention to those gross ass things as I went up the stair case and as I was now further inside the house, I heard that there was some sort of deal being made. I stayed away to the side to hear this deal and not get caught.

The deal was talking about a second bomb that was going to be dropped on the town mayor hall and the bomb would destroy the mayor as well as all of the workers in that building. I thought that this would be a big mistake so I headed on my way down to the town hall and I thought that if for nothing else, I could try and convince them otherwise to do something good as my time as a hero. This would be a really long shot, but I needed to try at least.

Once I had reached the mayors house and at the time I got to their town hall, I was wondering what I could say to the mayor to get them to believe in the fact that I was telling the truth. Well, once I had gotten there I was able to explain that the attack that day was not the first one and that there would probably be more that would be rapidly coming after this point in time. Given the attack that day and the fact that people were sort of upset over this and in mourning, I think I was able to convince them relatively easy just due to that stuff. This was one of the thing that I thought would go down as a heroic moment in my time as a hero. They asked me what the next attack was probably going to be. I told them that the next attack was most likely going to be in that town hall and I was able to convince the mayor as well as all the people there to get the hell out of there in time. This had actually worked and they followed me outside of the town hall and once we were two or three blocks away, I saw the town hall blow up and the mayor thanked me for saving their life and they thanked me for being safe and stuff. They did ask me how I knew about this stuff and I told them that I had saved the day because I had been paying attention to all of the conversations for the people in the town. I then said that I needed to continue my search and look around more.

Things started to go by easier for the next couple of hours and nothing really to work out all that much until it had started to get towards the nighttime. By that point it was starting to rain and I found a sort of area under the bridge that cars would drive by to the next town over. When I was there I found a gun and grabbed it. For some reason I had thought that I would need that gun. So then after I had grabbed the gun, I started to look around a little bit until I found somebody who looked to be kind of older. Well at least kind of older in comparison to my age as you can guess. But then again who isn't old compared to my age at this point in time.

As I had gotten there, I started to talk with him about what he was doing and what I was going to do in order to prevent him from blowing more places up. He said that this would be great until he pressed another button and blew up another building. This was the clock tower and this killed everybody in there since I had no time to stop that from happening. So when this happened I looked at the guy and asked him what he was doing. Why he was doing this and he seemed to think that I was stupid and decided to give me a few minutes to hear his story and his side of things.

He had explained how he was doing this as way to show the world that there will never be any peace. That peace is a lie and that there is no reason to try and ever even shot for peace since there will always be people that destroy places and kill people. I thought that this guy was wrong at the time and that there obviously could be world peace and all that you needed to do was just try really hard for it. That was what had made sense in my eyes to my sort of innocent self at the time. But with each passing day, I am starting to believe more and more that this guy was telling the truth and that there really is no world peace.

I had even tried to tell him that he was dead wrong about this idea and that there was the possibility of world peace and that all you would have to try hard to make the peace happen. I said that I could be a peace walker and that I could walk in a way for world peace. He said that I was wrong and that my younger age is just sort of making me feel like I could do something like this. I said that this may be true and I held my gun up to the guys face. I would not ever want to kill a person myself or anything like that, but I did not want to have this guy try and kill anybody else anymore so I decided that doing this would be the lesser of two evils. I kicked him in the face and he fell down to the ground. After he was at the ground but before he could try and do anything else, I aimed the gun right at his head a second time. I waited a couple of seconds as if to decide if I wanted to do this or not or if I was better than this. The guy then was wondering what I was going to do as he just yelled at me to do it. I fired the gun at his face and as I did so, I sort of had the feeling that everything around me went black and I did not really have any thoughts as I did so. Everything just felt cold at that moment, despite how fucked up that may sound.

I threw the gun into the water and when I threw the gun into the water, I started to walk home and made it back to the house at around ten in the evening. I have described this story in pretty good detail and that was the second biggest thing that had happened during my time in this whole hero act.

Later, the new year started and we were now in the year of 1966 and the 10th of that month came by once again and it was year since I started the whole hero gig. I don't really know what else to say to this whole thing. It was just sort of me looking and taking a moment for the fact that it has been this long already. But it was just a simple as that. There was one more mission that I did before the whole death of the hero gig had happened and the end of this would need to come along.

I would stay out until like midnight or two a clock in the morning every day due to how many things I was trying to do. I would do a bunch of one day things and I would do a bunch of random stuff. Sort of one day hero things like stopping robberies and other things. Deals that I felt I could be able to pull off and not risk dying at.

It was in later February to early March of that year that I finally figured out the one final mission that just changed everything and ruined the whole reputation that I had been able to gather up here. I thought that this would work out but in reality it just did not. I decided that this was taking it too far. There was a guy who was making weapons and shipping them to other countries in the world and I thought that I needed to stop this to prevent more shipments from being made and I could be able to end this whole thing off. I thought that I actually had a real chance to do something of value.

As I had made that one last big attempt to do something of actual use, I ended up messing things up even more than I had by that point. It was quite the hell. I had found a truck and when I had gotten into that truck, I saw a bunch of explosives and I had almost set them off and when I jumped out of there the truck had blown up. This was just the saddest thing ever when I realized that I was causing more destruction than I had actually done to help things out in.

There was a guy who was watching this and he seemed to be working with the group. He shot me in the arm and I screamed out loud and during my time of screaming, I fell down on the ground and as I fell down on the ground I saw the guy rip off my mask and the police saw this guy do so and everybody seemed to stop when they had seen that it was me. Somebody of my age and somebody of my ability and low level popularity.

When the person was considering if they should even try and go after me anymore, I kicked them right in the balls and then grabbed their gun and then shot them dead and by doing so ended off the whole weapon creation business. But as I had done so, the police had stopped me and when they had stopped me, they put me in the police station and asked me a few questions.

When I was in the police station I told them the truth and everything I had done and was thinking that I was going to be spending the rest of my life in prison. They were going to put me in jail when the police chief came in and said that I could not legally be allowed to be put in jail when I was just somebody of that age. However, despite me not being put in jail, the information of what I did would now be leaked out to the public so by that point everybody would know the truth of what I had done.

And that is where I am right now. As a result of me not going to prison, everybody now knows of what I had done and many people had thought that I was doing a terrible thing and that I was a massive traitor who had pretty much gone against everything that would be considered correct at least in the moral sense. If there was anything of the moral sense to even consider in this whole thing. Not that it mattered anymore.

So this pretty much just how things had ended for me. Ever since then I have been looked at as a terrible person. I really want to go on and redeem myself. If I redeem myself, then people will probably be able to forgive me. That is all that I want to do right now. If there is one thing that I want more than anything else, it is just to be able to return at least a little bit of a competent life by this point now. I will see how it goes now."

By this point, Ken was finally done with his writing. He stood up and then when he was done with all of this writing, he heard the class bell ring and he had to head on his way to the second period class. Second period was just math class and Ken just did a few problems from the text book that he was supposed to do and by doing so was able to finish two of the topics from the book. He still had to do like fifteen or twenty left before the end of the year.

The third period was much more interesting. It was global studies and the class had talked all about Vietnam war and how the war was going to work out. The class was talking about their thoughts on the war as well as how they think that the war could have ended and all that stuff. The teacher had thought that this would be a good conversation point, but at the same time, Ken was feeling a little bit terrible for all of this stuff. He felt like he could do something about this war but just did not. This made him feel bad deep down.

When the third period class was over with, Ken started to head to his lunch period. In that lunch period, Ken was wondering what the hell he was going to be doing then. There was not all that many things that he could do during that lunch period. Well, maybe he could talk with Brad and see how the guy was. If Brad would ever want to talk with the guy again, and if he didn't feel like that talk during the start of the school day was just going to be a one time thing or some bullshit like that.

When this was going on, Ken sat down and he was just looking around the classroom. He didn't really know what else to think at the time. He was just sort of wondering if he was going to try and ask another girl out. Ken thought that perhaps something like this would be a good attempt for his own part. He had been thinking about asking a girl out really badly. Well he did ask a girl out before, but that was just one girl and it had failed. There was no real reason think that he couldn't be able to ask at least one other girl before the start of the dance and everything.

But that was sort of put to the start when he sees something that Brad is doing. He sees that Brad was trying and ask a girl out on a date. He thought that this was such a interesting idea that he wondered what the hell he was going to be doing. He was wondering if the girl would actually accept what Brad was asking her or if she was going to turn him down. Ken hoped that she would accept his offer.

"Hey I was meaning to ask you something." Brad had said and then when Brad had said that, the girl seemed to be thinking about what Brad was saying. As if she had not wanted to talk with him or anything like that. She had wanted to go to her normal school life, and it wasn't even like she needed a prom date. She already had one date of her own and all that, so Brad can't even help her on that. But Brad didn't really know that then.

"I was thinking if maybe you and I should go out and go on a date with each other. I think that you are quite beautiful and I like the way that you always do good on your tests. And yeah I am doing terrible on this." Brad said and then he blushed. The girl liked the terrible way that he was doing this, but she decided that this should be cut off before then. "Well, here is the thing. I had a girlfriend and we broke up a month or so ago and I wanted to have a date with me so that way I could have a person to be with and I was hoping that you would say yes to this and everything."

"Well, if I didn't have a date, I might consider saying yes. But I already do have a date. So I won't be saying yes. I don't want my date to feel like I am betraying him or something like that. I don't really want to deal with that right now. I just want to have a good time same as you. Maybe you can find a different girl who will say yes to you. You will find somebody most likely." The girl said and then Brad nodded. He took it pretty well for somebody with his expectations. Then he started to walk away. He was wondering when Ken would try and talk to him. He didn't mind the idea of Ken talking with him, but he just sort of wanted this to be over with already and not be putting this off at all or anything.

"Hey Brad, I heard some of that. Seems like we both got the short end of the stick. I feel sorry for you. I will leave you alone for now. Just wanted to let you know that it sucks to have that happen to you." Ken was saying and then when Ken had said that, Brad remained silent and he didn't really know what else to say to that. He felt glad that Ken was being as nice as he was but at the same time he was not really sure if he wanted to continue talking with him or anything.

"Yeah, I don't think I will want to ask another girl out yet. I feel as if you and I should sort of go stag. I don't really want to go stag at prom, but I don't think I want to ask people around all the time for something that they will most likely just end up saying no to anyways." Brad had said and then when Brad said that, Ken decided to just leave it off as a nod to him.

"I wish that people would want to go on dates with us more often. I really wished that the girl that I had asked earlier had said yes to me." Ken had said and then when Ken had said that Brad seemed to think about it. Brad wondered what else he could say that seemed to be either enough to drag on the conversation related to prom or just go on and start a new conversation.

"I really think you need to maybe just do some things of community service. If you do some things of community service, then perhaps people will see that you are better than you were at one point and that you are willing to put your time and effort into making the town a better place and everything." Brad said and Ken thought that this was a tone deaf but probably a good idea. Even if he didn't want to do community service, that would probably be the only thing that he could do in order to get the respect of the people once more and to show them that he is a good man. Then maybe he could actually be able to get a date on to a dance afterwards from this point forward.

"I just don't want to deal with the commitment of spending several hours, maybe even days of my life doing service for things that I thought would actually be a good service." Ken said and then when Ken said that Brad decided that Ken probably still don't want to do this anymore. He decided that he didn't want to argue with Ken at all since Ken had already decided that he was in the right and that nobody else was really in the wrong at all.

"Brad, I know this may be a little bit out of nowhere, but why are you talking with me right now? Aren't you going to be hanging out with your friends more? They are probably much more interesting to talk and hang out with than me. I mean I am just being realistic here." Ken had said and then when Ken had said that Brad decided that there was a good point there. But then Brad had thought that maybe Ken was actually kind of a interesting figure to go on and hang out with and everything.

"I don't really know. I just feel like there is something that I could get out of you. I feel like maybe there is something that can make both of us understand each other a little bit more." Brad had said and then when Brad had said that he did stand up and he realized that he was actually supposed to hang out with his friends. He arranged something with them earlier.

"Speaking of my friends, I just remembered that I needed to hang out with them. Nice to talk with you and maybe we can talk with each other a little bit earlier." Brad said and then when he told Ken that he stood up and then began heading on his way over to the group of friends that he had. This was when Ken decided to just think about the conversations that he had been having with Brad.

Like he wasn't even all that much of a friend with the guy, and yet he was getting more along with the guy than anybody else in the school at the time. He did not really know just how sad that truly was. It was really sad in the end. How some guy he had met that day earlier was more of a friend than anybody else in the school had ever been ever since March. He had wished that people would just give him some attention. He really needed that right now. He needed somebody there to let him know that he wasn't entire alone. But he just knew that it wasn't going to be the case. Ken looked at the two people fifty feet away from him kissing, and Ken was thinking about what a couple they make.

When Ken was just trying to get all of this over with before he would return to class, there was a girl that sat down next to him. Ken had no idea why a girl would be trying to get caught dead talking with a loser like Ken, but he decided to count his blessings. 'It's seems like you are pretty lonely right now." The girl said and Ken nodded, she was right about that at least. Nobody seemed to really want to talk to him. "Who was that guy that you were talking to earlier?" For a very short second, Ken had actually forgotten that Brad had even existed. He could not believe that this had actually happened. He thought about it and then he thought that maybe there really was no harm talking with this nice lady.

"Just a junior named Brad. He was just talking with me. I only met him today. probably trying to be nice to me after a incident that had happened earlier today. Still more than I can say about most people in this school. If I just vanished away, nobody really would care." Ken said and he looked at the girl for the first time and said "What is your name?" The worst part was that there was actually a tiny sense of truth to what Ken had said about the nobody caring thing if he had left. But he didn't get to see the truth come out yet.

"My name is Ally. I'm a senior at the school. I have seen you once or twice in the school, but you never really seem to talk to anybody. Are you just one of those people who do not like making friends or something?" Ally said and Ken remained quiet for just a couple of seconds. "I get that friends are hard to make. I really do get it. I don't blame you if you don't want to go out there and be everybody's best bud or something like that. But you should at least try and get to know people a little bit. After all, they might start to really respect you in the end" Ally said and Ken shook his head.

"I tried to do that. I thought that it was working for a while. But it seems that I am just not normal enough here. Back in my old school, that wasn't really a problem. Nobody cared if you were normal or not. It was really easy to get by there, just had to basically show up to class every single day and you were good. But here it is different. There are quite a bit of standards that I have to meet up to." Ken was basically facing the exact same problem Todd had but in a reverse school environment. Todd had to deal with going from normal to crazy while Ken had to deal from crazy to normal.

"Now that I think about it a little bit more, you look like somebody who was on the news once. What did you do to get on there?" Ally asked and Ken was glad she didn't know the exact context. If she did, then there was no way in hell they were going to talk with him any more since he killed a few people even if it was indirectly.

"I just got involved in some things that in hindsight I should not have started to try and deal with." Ken said and he decided that leaving it as simple as that was effective enough and that it would still be able to get the point across. Ally considered that and she was wondering if it was really all that bad or if he was just saying it to get her off the subject. Besides, she knew that classes were going to start soon anyways.

"If you had a second chance, would you have gotten involved in these things that you say you shouldn't have or would you have stayed away from it knowing what would happen?" Ally asked and Ken thought about that for a moment. As they were having this conversation, the people foot ball and how annoyingly loud they were being was distracting Ken a little bit, but not enough to make it so that he couldn't process what he was trying to say. All had to end up waiting about seven seconds or so before she ended up getting the answer that she was wanting.

"I would still do it. Despite how crazy that may sound, I think I would still do it. Maybe I would do it differently with the hindsight factor kicked in and knowing what I would need to do to stay out of trouble. But I would still do it regardless. I think there would still be a merit to doing it after all regardless of how the final turn out would be. Besides, for all we know, things might end up being worse if I did nothing at all." Ken said and he could not believe that this was the answer that he had given Ally.

"Well Ken, I would really like to hear what your perspective is later. Right now we should be heading to class." Ally said and got up to start heading off. Ken sat back a little bit longer thinking about the class thing. He was honestly just thinking about not going at all. It would be easier if if did that after all. Besides, it wasn't like he was going to pass the classes. He was going to drop out anyways after the prom night after all.

There was nothing really else that Ken had to do really do for the rest of the school day. He walked around the high school track a little bit to sort of see what the hell was going on there. Well, that along with actually getting a little bit of exercise which he felt was a good idea. Only when he was there for like ten minutes or something and he did about two tracks of walking the bell had rung and Ken had to go onto his fourth period class, which was his science class.

Science class was one that he was not really all that interested in going to. All he did there was just write a bunch of Biology notes and all of that stuff. This was sort of a boring thing for him to do. He was not really all that interested in stuff such as Biology. Like he wasn't really going to blame the people who had liked the class, but he personally just did not like it all that much. It was a personal preference that he had in the long run.

During fifth period, it was his English class. While he was in his English class, he was getting ready for a essay that the entire class would be forced to write. He was not a fan of essays at all and he hated doing them. Then again, who would really want to take them at all. But he decided that he would just do them for the sake of passing his classes. He cared more about passing his classes than doing something that he had actually liked. Not that he had really cared if he had passed the classes or not at the long run of it all.

Once the school day was finally over, Ken decided that he would just try and head right on home. There was no real reason for him to stay there any longer. Besides, he needed to go and get his suit on for the dance. He knew that he needed to do this if he wanted to get people to be impressed with his performance at the dance. He thought that if he saw Brad once again, then maybe he would talk with him once again.

By the time that Ken reached the school track a second time, he would actually find Brad was standing there. Well, it started off with him just standing there but eventually he would walk on his way towards the exit of the track. Brad was most likely just starting to head on his way back home, and Ken thought that maybe he could get a chance to talk with him once again. Ken started to walk there a little bit faster. It was totally off in the way of where he had lived, but he thought that maybe he could thank Brad being so nice to him earlier that day and everything.

"Hey Brad, just wanted to thank you for hanging out with me. It was a really nice thing for you to do. I barely have talked with anybody in recent times, so I thought that you could know that you really gave me a good time. The fact that you talked and hung out with me at all makes things so much for me than they were earlier." Ken was saying and then when Ken was saying that, he started to walk on his way home. Since his house was on the other side of town as compared to where Brad had lived. But before he had fully gotten away, Brad had called out to him once again.

"Hey Ken, I know that you probably don't live in this direction, but maybe you and I can hang out for a little bit. I mean there are still like five hours before the dance starts. Maybe you and I can talk for a little bit more before the dance starts." Brad said and then when Brad said that Ken stopped. He thought that Brad was being even more nice than he was originally just for this moment of reaching out and everything.

"I think that we can perhaps have another final good conversation before prom. I was thinking that prom might be my last big thing before I leave high school in general." Ken said and then when Ken had said that, Brad decided to ask him where the hell he was going from there. Was he planning to drop out pretty soon, which would have been one of the worst ideas on the planet for him to do.

"When I am done with prom, I do plan on just dropping out of school. I don't want to do this anymore. I want to leave this place and just never have to worry about coming back or anything like that. I want to leave this place on a high note. So that way I don't end up hating this place even more than I already do." Ken said and then as he was walking as fast as he could, he was trying hard to not go so fast that Brad would be several feet away. Brad was trying to find a way to argue with Ken to make him understand that this was a terrible idea in the first place.

"You know that if you do this, you will not be able to get a bunch of opportunities to show up in your life again. You will just be shut off and you will never be able to get a good job. Obviously this will not be all that big of a deal if you just hang around your house and live off of insurance money. I don't know if that is something that you plan on. But whatever, it is your choice at the end of the day." Brad said and then Ken was nodding. He knew exactly about all of this. But he still wanted to make this choice all for himself and not deal with people telling him this was a terrible idea.

"You know I get that. But I just don't want to be in this school anymore. I just want to be able yo do my own thing. I want to not be forced to do a bunch of hellish things that I will not even be able to enjoy anymore." Ken said and then after Ken had said that he shook his head. "I can get a gas station job or something like that. Just something that I might be able to work at for the time being and all of that stuff."

"I guess that you could be able to get this job, even if you won't be able to make a full living off of it. I doubt that you will be make a full on living off of a job such as this. But then again, you are at least coming up with something that could be considered a good alternative. I doubt that anything too bad will happen if you actually do this." Brad had said and then when Brad said that Ken was looking at the statue near his house. He had never known about why the statues were there, so he decided to never really pay too much attention to it. But he decided that he could talk about it that once.

"Seriously why the hell was this thing even made in the first place. It never really makes any sense that this is just here. I mean out of all the things that they could build, they could have built a doughboy statue or something like that. But then again, there is that forced attempt to have so called equality even if it makes zero sense in the context that it is being used in. To be totally honest, I feel like liberalism is just a bunch of bullshit and just one of the most annoying things that somebody could make and try and work out with." Ken said and then when Ken said that, the two of them looked over and Ken pointed to that staircase nearby.

"My house is up these stairs. I don't need to do anything here besides just grab my suit for prom. Unless if there is something else that I need to grab that I don't remember. Such as you know, money or something like that. I think that I might use some money for the sake of buying a ticket and get some other things for the dance. But aside from that, I probably won't really get anything else." Ken said and after he had said that, Brad and Ken were going up that staircase.

"I am surprised at how big your house is. I was not really expecting it to be all that big. No offense at that to be honest. I don't really think that you give off that impression of having a big house at all. If you get what I am saying here." Brad had said and then after afterwards Ken reached the front door of the house. He opened the door and the two of them waited outside for a couple of seconds before Ken went inside and then Brad went inside a second later. They started a really strange conversation after this.

"I'm really bored right now, and I don't really know what to do right now. I guess that aside from getting ready for the dance, there is nothing to do. I really hate trying to make new friends, and then having them all leave me when they are done with me. Like their purpose with me has been served and then they never want to talk with me again after a while." Ken said and then after he had said that, Brad considered that and he was trying to really ponder what it would have been like to be in Ken's shoes. Talking with somebody who they only would get to know for a couple of days, or even hours in this case, and then they were just getting thrown away. Brad thought that maybe they can just talk at his house for about ten minutes or so.

"How bad was it really... being at your previous school and having to deal with different friends once you started to move on to this school? Did it really change your life all that much?" Brad said and Ken looked down on the ground and he knew that Brad just would never be able to understand.

"Yes it was truly awful. I had spent a whole school year helping some of my friends try to form a good life, a life that they would actually be a little bit proud of, dealing with some terrible monsters, and then I was forced to move away since I was the one that was indirectly responsible for what had happened. Trust me Brad, if you had been there with it, seeing what had happened, you would see what had made that whole thing so hard, and that group so special." Ken said and Brad was wondering what that whole thing was really like.

"Maybe it really is because I wasn't there that I can't really understand where you are coming from, not from lack of trying, but maybe I just need to be in your spot a little bit more to fully understand." Brad said and Ken stood up as he was rubbing his head. The more that he was talking with Brad, the more that this was really annoying him and the more that he was wishing that he had just kept his mouth shut and not tell Brad what he had been thinking and everything.

"You know Brad, I know what you are trying to do and I really appreciate that, but this is too much. I don't really think that you will get it. I don't blame you for that, but that is just how it is." Ken said as Brad stood up and then Brad thought that he could really make Ken see that he did care and he was really trying to understand Ken and that maybe Ken really could start to see his point of view before Ken just would shot him down here. But Brad did not really know what he could really tell Ken before it would start to get too far into his own back story.

"Ken, did somebody die when you were working with your friends at Wayside? I feel like I would only really understand if that is what happened..." Brad said and he was just going to leave it at that. He was hoping that Ken would figure out what he had meant and that he was just going to be allowed to only leave it at that and not go super in depth over any of the guilt that he was going to feel.

"Yes Brad, that did happen. Some of the people that I was friends with at Wayside when I went to school with them died on the final few days that I was at their school. I tried really hard to protect them. My friend Todd did as well. Todd was a good man, and he did his best to work with me. But in the end, the two of us did have some different ways of looking at things. That led to a little bit of conflict. While we were never rivals or something like that as you may imagine, but still, I wish that if we had come up with a more clear vision of what we both had wanted, the two of us could have eventually saved the city even more than we did. I think that maybe one day, I can see Todd again and we could truly understand each other once more." Ken told Brad as he was hoping what Brad would think.

"To be honest Ken, there is a point in time when you have to take your past, and just move past it. There is a point where no matter what you did, if you continue to look further and further back on it, the more that the event will really start to eat at you. Do you want to have a huge amount of survivors guilt?" Brad said and as he had told Ken that he was trying really hard to not talk about his past, since if he did, that was going to do a great job being the exact opposite of what he was telling Ken about.

"I don't want any of that, but I feel like I need all of it. I feel like the only way to truly remember what had happened and what I did that was wrong, I need to remember the stuff that had happened and continue the survivors guilt as much as possible." Ken said and he was wondering what about that was really making Brad thinking this way. It didn't really make sense for him, and it made even less sense for Brad. "One of these days I suppose, I can get over it. But that was only three years ago..."

"If something happens to my younger brother Tuck, then that will be on me. I at least feel like that will be the case. I know that he is sort of his own thing, and that he is ten now and when you are ten, you can do your own thing, but still, I feel like I am still at least a little bit responsible." Brad told Ken as Ken looked around to ask about the brother.

"What was your brother like? What makes you feel like everything that happens to him if directly your responsibility? Sam was never really that way with me." Ken said and then when he had said that, Brad thought about Sam and the more he had thought about it, the more those repressed memories were starting to come up.

"Well, I think I am just worried that they will start to do some things as me. I mean there were a few things in this last year or so that I should have never gotten into, and if I had a second round to do so and change everything, I would have changed it and not done any of that stuff at all." Brad told Ken as Ken was starting to think that there was a good way of looking at it and then when Ken was starting to think that if he had a sibling, he would have tried really hard to protect them.

"I am really glad that you are looking at it that way. This is better than the way that my brother ever looked at it. I don't know though, I don't really think I want to talk about rough stuff anymore. it is starting to really get to me. I will go on and change into my prom clothes." Ken said and then when he had said that, Brad was starting to wonder what the fuck was going on and what they had done and if somebody had heard this whole thing.

Brad was thinking that if somebody knew what they had said that this would really turn everything to the shit hole. "That is probably the best thing to do. I don't mind staying here, but this is something that I want to kind of get to the point of since I do want to go to the dance soon. Even though that is like four hours from now." Brad said and then Ken agreed to that. He needed to just enjoy at least one night of the time that they were outside and he was just hoping that prom was going to be even half as good as people had hyped it up to be.

So with that, Ken was starting to get ready to go on and get the suit ready when Brad was wanting to ask who was there. And he was sort of letting the fact that he exposed all of these details to a guy he barely knew really sink in but then soon enough he called out to Ken and then he was getting ready to ask the question that was in his mind.

"Is there anybody in the house right now besides you and me?" Brad asked and there was no real reason for him to ask that question, but he just felt the interest and need to ask him how that is. "I mean everything is pretty quiet here right now. I know that there are not all that many things that would be too affected by your answer, but whatever."

"I don't know. I bet my parents may be in their bedroom. But if they don't come out of the bedroom, then there won't really be anything to worry about here. I don't really think that I will need to talk to them about anything of you coming here if they don't ever see you. After all, there are only a few minutes that we are going to be here." Ken said and then he went into his bedroom.

"What is even going on here in your bedroom? You have a lot of things here that it looks like you have never used. Or at the very least not used in a very long time or something like that." Brad said as Ken placed the back pack on his bed and then Ken nodded. There was a level of truth that there was to this. He just didn't want to admit it. Not that he could use a lot of the items that he had gotten, aside from gifts from Todd and his notebooks.

"Yeah to be totally honest, I don't use things that people give to me all that much. It is a little bit of a self weakness. Then again, if I have no real reason to use it, then I should not even bother. I guess it really doesn't matter all that much. Unless if you count the money used to get it as wasted as a result." Ken replied and he didn't ever really think about the wasted money aspect as much as the fact he never really needed a lot of this stuff.

"Well, I guess whatever suits you in the long run. I mean, I would have tried to use a lot of the stuff that I have been given from my friends and family. I guess that is just one of the many aspects that makes the two of us different. But anyways, so where is your suit and what does it look like on you?" Brad concluded that little debate and then he would go onto the main thing that made the two of them go to the house in the first place. Ken then snapped his finger when he remembered that prospect.

"Yeah I will need to get that now. Thanks for reminding me. I would have totally forgotten had you not brought it up. I was more focused on the little conversation that we were having." Ken said and then after he had said that he went to his drawers. Then he pulled out what the clothes were and flashed them for a brief second to Brad. "I will change the bathroom over there. I will be back in about a minute or so." Ken said and Brad couldn't really say anything at all before Ken went right inside that bathroom. He just sat down at Ken's bed while he had waited for Ken to come out again.

Brad was wondering if he should check out more of the room or not. He was just really curious to know more about this dudes personal life, but he knew at the same time this would be extremely disrespectful to just sort of go through the dudes belongings. So despite the fact that he would admit he was very tempted to do so, he decided not to do it. But he did lay down on Ken's bed and pretend to be sleeping there for the minute or two that he would wait for Ken to be done in there.

As Ken was in the bathroom, he took a short second to look at himself. He usually did that when he was in the bathroom. No real reason besides the fact that he had a chance to. Once he was done taking a second to evaluate himself, he took his shirt off. After he had taken his shirt off, he placed it down on the ground and looked at the black button down shirt he was going to be using for prom. He grabbed it and then slowly put it on as if he were going through a personal transformation or something silly like that. After that he took his shoes and socks off and placed them next to his now useless shirt. He then grabbed the black slacks and brushed them off for a couple of seconds to get rid of that annoying dust that would get on there and then once he was done cleaning it up on a low level, he placed the clothes over his body slowly and then zipped them up when he was done. That was when he grabbed his black socks and slowly covered his feet in them and then put his dress shoes over that. The dress shoes he barely ever wore but did do when there was a major event coming up. Once he was done with that he took another look at himself and was kind of surprised at how good he had looked despite the fact he put virtually no effort into it at all. Then he left the bathroom to head back to Brad and talk with him further there.

"So that is what you look like when you are wearing nice clothes. I guess that you don't look that bad. Although I can see why you don't o out of your way to do it every day. You don't really look like that type of person who would be able to pull it off all the time." Brad said once he had seen Ken and he felt as if he were able to make a better assessment on the matter. Not that it really mattered all that much. It was just interesting to kind of compare and contrast a little bit to what he thought in his head to how it actually turned out in real life.

"Well I don't really think we need to be in here for any longer. So I think that we can actually head on our way out now." Ken decided and then when he decided that he then remembered one tiny thing that he could not believe he had almost forgotten about. He needed some money to go on and get read for the dance. If he didn't have any money, he couldn't get the ticket and all of this would have been for nothing. So he decided to go to his personal desk and see if perhaps he could get something from there.

He pulled out one of the drawers in his personal desk and when he had done so, he grabbed the money that he would need to go to prom and maybe get something to eat at the same time. Then when he was done doing that he then said that they really could leave this time. So with that, Ken and Brad began heading their way out of the house and on their way to prom. As this was happening, Sam saw what they had done and felt glad that Ken was actually taking action for once and was going to try and have a good time at this dance or anything in his high school life for that matter.

"Honestly, high school is just a heaping load of bullshit in my opinion. I don't understand the purpose of it and I doubt that I ever will. I know some people will find that to be some terrible thing to say and that I should respect the education system more. But why should I value a system that has so little value for the students in the first place? It honestly is just bullshit if you ask me and I am not even going to pretend that it isn't. We need to be more honest about the system." Ken said and then he looked at Brad wondering what he had thought on it.

"The school education system does have a noble goal on the end of itself. I will give it that. But it is really hard to see how it can exactly live up to that when the teachers seem to only be there just to get their pay check. It is sort of a cynical thought I have to admit, but I suppose that in the end there is a level of truth to the whole thing. I wouldn't slam the entire school system because of teachers that don't really seem to care though." Brad gave his thoughts on it and Ken was not too sure if he had felt the same way. He sort of got Brad's defense, but it still seemed very shallow in his mind.

"I sort of see where you are coming from, but I still don't really feel totally sold on the whole thing. I know that maybe I just need to relax a little bit and accept the fact that not everything is perfect, but I don't really know yet either. I feel like there should be at least some attempt at a perfect education system. That is how I feel on it at least." Ken stated and Brad was wondering what even would be a perfect school system in his eyes, or if he was just sort of thinking truly outside of the box.

"Where do you exactly plan on this if you don't mind me asking?" Brad questioned and Ken was thinking about it. Even though he had not wanted to say it, there was a good reason that many of these things had been the way that they were. Perhaps school was just a broken system. Perhaps he should just accept that fact for what it is.

"I can see if I can try and fix things later. I don't think there is anything wrong in trying in my opinion." Ken said and he was just too far out there and unrealistic on these type of things to really have a good grasp of things. He knew that, but he wished that things just actually would go well in the world that he didn't even care how far out there and unreal the whole thing was. He just wanted justice. Was there anything wrong with that wish in mind?

When Brad and Ken were sort of on their way over to Brad's house, Ken was sort of thinking of things he could say that could have any way to continue this conversation. He knew that he and Brad could have a lot to talk about he was just sort of having a hard time figuring out where to go. Maybe this was a sign that the things they had a common. The views that they had shared, were slowly started to come to an end. Which would have been a bloody shame to be totally honest.

"I just sort of thought of something. I know that this be out of nowhere. But is there something that you ever saw in your life that just scared the shit out of you and you had no real clue what the hell it was? I think I have seen some things like that in my life time. Stuff I don't know the answer to, or I guess I should say don't want to know the answer to. But have been sort of forced to see the answer to it in the hardest ways possible." Ken was saying and he was thinking about one man. This one man had ruined everything in his life and he wanted to get revenge but didn't know how he could at all.

"Yeah when you mention it I guess I do have one thing that sort of is in my life. Something that I wish was never in my life. Something that I would deny being in my life if I could. A man I had met when I was younger. A man in a purple jacket. I have no idea why he liked that jacket so much, but I guess that maybe it is his certain type of style. I just have a feeling that this guy wants something to do with me. I don't even know what it is though. Why would he want anything to do with me when I haven't done anything yet?" Brad was saying and as he was saying this Ken could tell that he had sort of triggered Brad into a topic he didn't really want to get into. Not that he could really blame Brad at all.

"What made you see the guy in the purple jacket? He was one of the things I was talking about in terms of people who have sort of ruined my entire adulthood life. I guess I should say teenage life. I just don't really know what is going on with him or what his problem is and I don't even know if I want to know. If you get what I mean when I say that." Ken said and then he shivered at the idea of this guy showing up again and trying to do anything with him once more. Ken really fucking hated that guy.

"This guy has tried to ruin my life so many times I truly have lost count by now. I don't even know if I want to keep count anymore at this point. I just wish that he would go away and never be in my life anymore." Ken said and then when he had said that, he waited to hear what Brad would have to say on the matter. He was curious to hear what Brad would say about this after all. Since he did ask for his thoughts on the whole thing.

"Well I think I was in school one day. I think it was the end of my previous school year. Which for me was my tenth grade year. I was super excited about finally being done with it all as you may be expecting. I threw the school supplies into the trash can with my friends and after I did so, I saw the guy for a moment. He was standing there across the highway of the school. He was just looking at me as if he wanted to attack me or try and get my lunch money or something silly. Of course I did not know any better at the time. Scared the shit out of me a couple of hours later though when I had time to reflect on what I had just saw. But then I decided not to worry too much about it when I went home and decided that I would head my way off to sleep. That would only be the first time out of several that I would see him." Brad answered as he shook his head. He could not quite believe that there was that guy to begin with. Seemed like something you would hear about in a fictional story made for just selling copies.

"What were the other times that you had seen him if you don't mind me asking. I can see why you would not want to answer that question though due to how much of a touchy subject this kind of is." Ken was saying and by this point, the two of them had passed by the park that was near the school and was getting near the curved high ways that would eventually lead to the large ass hills that would just be able to soon lead to where Brad had lived. Brad thought about what Ken had asked and if he did want to answer the question at all or if he had wanted to end the topic right there.

"I don't remember the next time I him was. The time time that I remember though was when I was hanging around near the movies with some of my buddies. We were talking about the movie that we had just seen and what we had thought about it. It was just a general play around for the group of us. But then something happened that put a sort of stop to my blood. I saw him again. Sitting in a car staring at us. There was a point in which I did get the courage to talk to him. Not during this encounter. I think it was the next encounter. I saw him a ton during that one summer of off time I had that year." Brad had responded and he had shook his head when he realized when that this guy was actually still a real life thing. He had thought that maybe this was just a thing that only really affected him and stuff.

"What were some of the things that you had seen that year? What were some other encounters that had happened during that time?" Ken said and then Brad shook his head. He had no idea what the hell was going on here. But he knew that if he wanted to help Brad defeat this asshole, he would need more information on what they had done during that time period. Ken didn't really have to deal with the guy too much in the last couple of years. After the whole Wayside incident, he has only seen him like once. And since he wasn't really sure if he was making this up, he decided that he would just talk with Brad and then things would be better.

"I don't really get what I did when I saw him next. I think I was hanging around in that sort of town lake near by. I was trying to build a fort or something like that with my friends. We were just trying to have a nice and fun time. Nothing more, nothing less." Brad said and then he shook his head when he truly did remember what this all was. "As I had built the fort and all that stuff, I saw him looking at us and then after seeing him for at least three times, I decided to see what was going on. So I began to walk my way over there and then as I began walking my way over there, he smiled at me since he was excited to see me coming over there."

"What the hell did he do next after that?" Ken asked and then Brad nodded as if he felt like this was going to be easier for him to deal with now. Living these memories once again were easy for Brad to do now given the fact that Ken was there, and there was at least one person who had been able to discuss what had happened then. So he decided that he would continue on this conversation and give a answer to what Ken said.

"Well when I had seen him, I told him that I had seen a few times and I had no idea who he was or what he was doing." Brad said and then he tried to remember what he had said as a response to this whole thing. "I don't remember what he said, but it was something related to taking something over."

"Oh my god, that asshole is still obsessed with taking that fucking place over? I thought he would have gotten the point by now and that nobody wants to help him do this evil shit. I just thought that he would have gotten the fucking message by this point in time." Ken said and then when he was saying this, this was making him actually really pissed. But nothing really makes sense to this. The two of them were now at the hill nearby the house. This was when Brad was asking him what he was talking about by this point in time.

"I have no idea what you are talking about right now. He didn't really talk all that much about what exactly he had wanted to take over. He was just being really vague and said he wanted me to take some place over and he had just left it at that. I didn't really know what else to say besides the fact that I just didn't know what to say or if I wanted to do this at all." Brad was saying and then when Brad had said that, Ken decided that he would explain what the world this guy was talking about was. He didn't ever go there, but there was some things that he had heard about it from his friend Todd and all of that stuff.

"I don't know anything about this world at all. I hope that I will never have to learn about that world at all. It is kind of scary for me to think about even the idea of me learning about the world or anything like that. However, I heard something from my friend who I had talked with and was really close with at the time. He had told me all about what this world was like and all of the things that he had to do in this world." Ken said and then he decided to go into what he felt was the best description possible to it.

"There was something digital about it as he had described. He said that there was something odd about it. As if he had gotten out of time or something like that. Like he went back in time to a different century or something like that. I was confused when I first heard about this and I don't think that most people would actually get what the hell had happened when they saw it on their own. But there was something to the way he described it that made me believe in him." Ken said and then he and Brad were starting to get close to the entrance of Brad's house. They would talk on detail to detail once in Brad's house.

"This whole world thing just seemed to be one of the dumbest things that I have ever had to hear about in my whole life. I don't really know what the hell else to say about it besides that right now. Although I do wonder what the hell he was talking about when he said he was in a different time. He did say that he had gone into the third crusade for a little while. After he had been in there, he had been forced to go on a bunch of contracts that would actually be going around and killing tons of people for the sake of keeping things closer to a good and up to date timeline. I don't really know if he was telling the truth or not here. But I don't really know or care if he was telling the truth or not." Ken had said and then when he had said that, when they were inside the house the two of them had no idea what else to talk about there.

"I don't really know what this world is all about. I don't even know if this world exists. I really feel as if the person who had said this and made these offers to us might be on a lot of drugs. That really would not surprise me all that much." Brad had said and then when Brad had said that he decided he had no real clue where he was going to go from there.

"I don't really know if I would want to talk about that disaster of a guy anymore or not. I feel like he is just out there to secretly kill us. I doubt that he actually wants to do anything for our own personal gain. I just feel like he is trying to lure us into something so that way he could be able to kill us this way." Ken told Brad and he felt like this was going to be one of the worst things that he would ever have to deal with. "If I ever see this guy again, I am going to try hard and defeat him once in for all so that way I will never have to deal with the guy ever again."

"But are you sure when you see him again, that he is not going to try and kill you first and probably be able to succeed at this. I feel like if you are trying to defeat him, he will find some strange things like a gun or maybe some force powers to defeat you. If this other world he was talking about what was true, then maybe he has some force powers." Brad was almost seeming like he was a Star Wars fan, which surprised Ken a little bit despite the fact that everybody at the time was a Star Wars fan.

"Well, it could be worse I suppose." Ken said and had no idea where he was even going with that. "I mean, I guess that we could be dead right now. I mean I had honestly thought that I was going to die several times during the time that I had known that asshole. In fact, I would say that there were several times that we should have died." Ken was saying and then when Ken had said that stuff, Brad decided that maybe there was a little bit of truth of this to what he had said.

"I guess that maybe there is something that you can be glad for. For all of the times that you even admit that you should have died, you have not died. I feel as if you could always be looking at the ways that it could be worse. But to be honest, that is not what really matters. What matters is the stuff that you have been forced to deal with for all of this time."

When Brad had said that the two of them had sat down at the couches and they were ready to talk with each other a bit more and stuff like that. "You know, I do wonder what it would have been like if I had said yes to his offer. Do you think that I should have said yes to his offer. I know that this really does go against everything that we had said earlier, but I feel like we could always talk about a nice alternate history universe or something like that while we are on it."

"I feel like if I said yes to his offer, we would be in a much different spot in life. I would not be trying to be a fucking hero and a great person when I would have no real need to do so at all. I admit to that. I would have probably been in that world and doing things there that I will admit that I would not be able to imagine at all." Ken said and then after Ken said that he looked around and thought about what he would have done. "If what my friend had said was true, I do wonder what that world would have been like or what different time period I would have been forced to go out and check in."

"I feel like if I had to go to a different time period from the one that we are in, I feel like maybe we should have been in the future. The future is something that we could have really changed and done something that matters. But the past is so locked in that I do not really think it matters anymore and besides if I mess with the former timeline too much, I will probably change things and I would never exist. You know, like in the whole idea of the butterfly effect." Brad had said and then that was when Ken thought about the point that Brad had raised and thought that this actually was a pretty good point to bring up.

"When do you think that we should go on and head down to prom? I do not want to be late to the dance or anything. I mean, I guess if I was like ten minutes late or something like that I wouldn't mind, but anything beyond that I feel like will sort of take away from the experience and fun of being there." Brad said to Ken when he sort of remembered that prom was still a thing and not just that asshole in the purple jacket who had ruined everything in their life.

"Maybe in like twenty to thirty minutes. I don't really see any problem in staying here for a little while. I mean we came here for a reason and there is no reason just to leave due to the fact that there is a dance in several hours from now. Although you should probably change into your outfit sometime soon so that way maybe you don't forget about it or anything." Ken had responded and then when Ken had responded to that question, Brad decided that maybe Ken was right to that on a certain extent.

"I should probably get my suit on right now. If I don't do that, then I will probably forget that I am supposed to do that and then I will be going in stag and you should never go in stag when you go to prom. Like Winter Ball and Homecoming is one thing, but prom is something else entirely. Like I know I sound strange when I say this but prom is sort of like a creature of its own if you get what I mean." Brad said and then when Brad had said that he stood up and then looked at Ken. "I will probably be back in a few minutes. See you when I am done getting ready."

With that Brad had gotten out of the room and Ken was just sitting there and he was wondering what the hell he was going to be doing while he was waiting for Brad to get dressed up and Ken was almost certain that he would be much better dressed up than Ken would be for the dance. It was a little bit pathetic that he was so bad at this stuff but he really could not help himself.

So with that Ken started to think about what Sam was going to say when he saw Ken come back home. Ken always hated the way that Sam would react to when he would actually do some things that would be considered fun in the eyes of most people. Sam was honestly probably the most annoying brother that had ever been created in the history of brothers. Well, at least in the eyes of Ken or something like that.

Once in the bathroom, Brad took a moment to look at himself in the mirror to see what he had looked like. He was just taking a moment to see the expression on his face and if he really felt good about what he was doing at all. This whole thing was just something else to him. Not just because of the fact that he was hanging out with Ken, a person who he didn't even know existed back twelve hours ago but the fact that they were talking about this really evil guy in the purple jacket. Well to be honest, was this guy even all that evil at all. Or were Ken and Brad just sort of over thinking it and this was just some random guy who really had no ill intentions and Ken was just over doing it. Well not really Ken ad much as Ken and Brad. Not that it really mattered all that much.

After he took a moment to think about this, he took the suit from the hanger that was in the bathroom and then afterwards he quickly took off his clothes and then once he took off his clothes he realized that this was something that was not what he wanted to do. He was worried that somebody would be watching in the window up above and try and take a moment to examine his nudity or something fucking stupid like that. Then he grabbed the white shirt and then looked at the white shirt for a moment for relatively no reason. He then put the shirt on and then he took a second to look at the black vest. He really like the black vest and then put it on over his shirt and then brushed his hair to be a little bit spiky and all that. He liked the idea of spiky hair for some reason. He then put on his black sports underwear and then his brown pants and then he put on his black socks and then his black dress shoes and then tied them up and then he smiled after he looked at himself in the mirror. Then he headed on his way over to Ken and talk with him more.

"Hey Ken, how are you? Were you just sitting there the whole time? That must have been pretty boring. Sorry if I gave you the impression that you weren't allowed to do anything while I was up there." Brad had told Ken and then when Brad told Ken that Ken shook his head. He really didn't care all that much that he was not doing anything for like five minutes. He was just a little bit bored, but he didn't care too much since he knew he would talk with Brad again soon afterwards anyways.

"Well, I was just thinking a little bit more on the subject of that guy in the purple jacket. I know that it feels like I should probably just let this subject go and leave good enough as it is. That would be what I would normally do if I had any trace of sanity left in me. But I don't really think that I am fully sane anymore. So that is why I am still on this subject." Ken was saying and then when Ken had admitted that he should have dropped the subject, Brad felt a little bit glad that that even Ken admitted that this subject needed to be over with.

"The last time I had seen him was at the end of the summer last year. I was walking around town and when I got near the hospital, I saw him right next to the bus stop right there. He seemed to be smiling when he had seen me because I saw him actually turn over at me. He told me to follow him and there was that part of me that felt like I needed to check out what the hell was happening. So I followed him for a little while just to see what he would do or what he was going to say. I thought that if for nothing else, it would have been at least a little bit interesting to see what he would have said to me." Brad started the final meeting story and he was wondering just what the deal was with the fact he was near a hospital was, but he decided to let the subject go.

"After a while, the guy was at a gas station and since he was so much faster than me, he decided to just wait for me while I was walking on my way there. When I reached him at the gas station, he had said that he would wait for us until we had reached him since he was so unlimited with time he didn't really care about how long it would take for his targets to meet him again. I have no idea what context that would fit in, but whatever. Anyways, so when I saw him again he told me to keep following him and that he needed to show me something else." Brad had said and then when Brad had said that, he shook his head as if he didn't want to remember the thing that he had seen.

"When I had reached him once again I was in a empty part in town that was crossed off by a off limits trespassing sign. I felt like if I wasn't smart enough, I would get in a lot of trouble but I decided that it really didn't matter, so I just walked on my way over there and didn't really care what the sign said and if I got in trouble, I could just explain what happened and get myself out of trouble that way. So when I saw him, I saw something that looked like a ritual and two people that were sleeping there that he put in a hypnosis." Brad continued his story and Ken gasped as if he remembered something in his earlier past.

"I think I saw something like a ritual when I was only like 9 years old. I don't really recall all that much of it or what was behind it. I doubt that anything was really behind it. Well, I guess I should say doubted. But if this guy was behind them after all, then I guess it will put context to the fact I remember it so clearly." Ken was saying and then he shook his head because he refused to believe that even the guy in the purple jacket had been related to that insane ritual.

"What did you even see in that ritual? I saw a bunch of people hanging around a circle and they were singing some form of oath to join a cult. The cult was something about a man named Blackwood. And something called the Blackwood company. I have no idea what the hell this is all about and I don't really know if I ever want to find out all about that. Not that there is anything that I could do to stop this cult, if it even is a thing." Brad told Ken and then when Brad told Ken that, Ken started to think really hard about what he had actually seen when he was there.

"I think when I had seen the ritual, the ritual was just talking about something called the Monster Hunters. I think that sounds even more insane and unlike anything from real life than what you are talking about. At least you have heard of something that sounded like it could have been like a real person or something like that." Ken said and then shook his head. He wondered what had happened with Brad after he had seen that ritual and what he had done. If he had ever even done anything after that ritual. "What did you do when you saw the ritual?"

"When I had seen the ritual, I jumped in the area and kicked down one of the candles which started a fire. The guy in the purple jacket looked over at me and he was extremely pissed off over the fact that I got in the way of his ritual. He pulled out his hand and seemed like he was ready to try and kill me. He had said that he was wrong about me and that I needed to be eliminated in order to not get the word. That was when I knew that I needed to get out of the area as soon as possible." Brad seemed like he was reliving the memories of having to escape like his life depended on it.

"Then when I heard him say that he lunged at me and I looked over and saw a giant window. I thought that maybe this window could be something that I could use to save my life. So I ran on my way over to it and then I broke the window open and jumped out. I fell down and got inside a hole. Which I feel like is the only reason I am even still alive to this day. I stayed inside and waited in that hole for a while." Brad said and then he ended off by saying that he had never seen the guy ever again afterwards, and he was saying that he was glad this was the case since he had never wanted see him again.

"I have no idea what to think of that. I mean you do have a pretty bad experience with the guy. But compared to what Todd would have to deal with when he knew that guy, what you had to do was pretty easy. He actually had to drive a car and almost drive it into a staircase and kill himself as crazy as it sounds in order to defeat the guy. Or what I thought would have been enough to defeat him, but since you knew him afterwards, obviously he was not defeated at all." Ken pounded his fist onto the couch and he couldn't believe that he was so angry about all of this. He was way too invested in this whole thing.

"Wait a second, I think I see something outside. I don't really understand if what I am seeing is true or not." Ken said and then he pointed out in the direction of Brad's window. The two of them stood up and opened the curtain and they had seen that Ken's fear was totally true. They had seen the guy in the purple jacket. But what he was doing wasn't really all that scary. It was just a little bit strange.

"Is he here due to the fact that he had heard us talking with each other?" Ken said and then he shook his head since he knew that is this was the case, they would have to be a lot more quiet about the way that they were talking since he didn't want to get in any trouble over what he was doing here. He thought that they could be able to have a casual conversation and not get caught for what they were doing.

"I really hope that he doesn't know what we are talking about and I also hope he doesn't get in the way of us having a good prom night. I don't want to get into a giant fight during prom." Brad told Ken this and he shivered over the thought of him being forced to fight this guy. This was the worst thing that he would ever have to do during a school event. Ken would have to agree, but again, Wayside and Todd.

"Maybe we should be heading out soon and going on to the prom event. Maybe in a few minutes so that way he would be able to gone by the time we head out. You should get your money. I think that this would take long enough." Ken decided and then he closed the curtains. After he closed the curtains, Brad nodded thinking that this would be something that he could do that would take long enough for the guy to go away.

"See you in a couple of minutes. I didn't even notice that I never got my money yet. That would be something that could ruin everything. I don't want to be forced to be turned back at the front door of the dance. That would be almost even worse than having to deal with the guy in the purple again." Brad headed off to his bedroom and he was in there for a much shorter amount of time than he was in the bathroom.

When Brad walked into his bedroom, he grabbed his wallet and made sure there was at least twenty dollars in there or so. He thought that he might need another ten. So by that standards, there would now be thirty dollars that he would have for the dance. Then when he was done, he walked into the living room again and Ken took another moment or so to check out if there was the guy out there or not.

"He is gone. Thankfully he is gone. I thought that he would have been out there for as long as it would have taken us to start heading out to prom and everything. I mean, considering how crazy this guy was, I would not be surprised if that was what he was doing." Ken got up and began to head on his way over to the front door of the house. Brad thought that Ken and him should head out there before the guy would show up again and try and kill them or try and make them join some cult or something like that.

"We should head out of here pretty soon, but I still feel like this one of the better things for us to do right now. If we leave the house, then he might know what we are talking about of him since it is in the public, but at the same time I don't want to drag this thing out too much. Give it another ten to fifteen minutes, and then I think we should head out." Brad said and then Ken was thinking that this was a good plan. Ken and Brad were thinking about other things to discuss now.

"How is Tuck? You mentioned him a little bit earlier, but it seemed like you were not wanting to really expose any details of him outside. Are you will to tell me some things now that you have gotten to know me a little bit more?" Ken asked and then when he had asked that question, Brad considered it and while the answer that he was actually having was no, at the same time, he was knowing that Ken was a relatively reliable guy, and he was thinking that maybe he was going to play along with this for the time being. He felt like a couple of details for the guy wouldn't really be all that big of a deal.

"My parents had Tuck as a way to try and make my life more exciting since I was starting to complain about how life was boring with no siblings and being the only child. So my parents decided that maybe if they did this for me, then maybe my life would start to get more exciting and I would not feel like things were so boring anymore. I feel like for the most part, that this was what had happened." Brad said and Ken wondered why Brad felt like that.

"If I was the only kid, I felt like things would have been so much easier and better for me. I wished that this was the case honestly." Ken said and then Brad felt like he and Ken were very different on that aspect, and then Ken just added in a "I feel like Sam just makes my life so much harder than it ever needs to be and he mainly does it for no real reason at all. Just kind of pisses me off."

"I wonder if Sam will be at prom. He seems to be kind of vague about it. He talks with Susan, his girlfriend, all the time and I am pretty sure that they are going to go on some form of a date since they do that every friday since they started to date. But at the same time, I am sure that even if they don't go to prom, they are going to do something like have sex. I just hope that if they do go to prom, they leave me out of it." Ken said and he was not even trying to shit talk Sam, he was just wanting to be sort of independent.

"I bet they will be going to prom. I really see no reason why they would not be going to prom. After all, prom is one of the biggest nights of the year and it will be odd for a already established couple to not go there. At least in my opinion." Brad said and then Ken nodded at that, Brad did have a good point. It would actually be a little odd if they didn't go to prom. Ken was just trying to think best for himself really at that.

"I guess you're right. I mean, my parents would probably be more shocked over me going to prom over Sam doing it. There is no reason for them to be shocked over Sam going to prom. In fact, he has probably been going on with it for the last several weeks, and my thing was sort of last minute. Besides, my suit isn't really all that impressive compared to say the suit that Sam would most likely be wearing to prom..." Ken said and then he figured that he was going to drop the Sam thing there.

"So Ken, what do you really think the purpose of life is? No I am not talking about what brings everything together, I am talking about what is sort of driving the world forward? What do you really think we are supposed to do in our life?" Brad asked and Ken was wondering why Brad was asking him this, but at the same time, Ken thought that maybe there was a valid point to this question, so he decided that he was going to answer it and not really talk down on Brad for the fact that the question was being asked.

"I think that we are put here to sort of create a story of our own. We are given a chance to really see what life is like on our own. I don't know where we are when we start off our life or anything like that, and I don't really any one of us will ever know, but I feel like whatever it is we are brought forward from there to try and give our life a chance and see if perhaps we can really change things one way or another." Ken said and then he felt like he said all he could handle on that subject.

"It is strange to think that way, but I do see where you are coming from in a certain point of view though as odd as your idea may be. I am wondering though if that were the case, then why the hell would there not have been some form of a sign about it early in our life? I feel like since there is no real sign about anything like that, maybe there really is nothing for us to accomplish and that maybe there is no divine being at all." Brad said and then Ken nodded to that question.

"Yeah I mean I don't think that maybe there is one single divine being that defines everything, but I do feel like there could be something. I don't fully believe in the idea, but at the same time, I never want to debunk the idea and I am willing to admit that the idea could be there." Ken said to Brad and then he was starting to think that maybe they did need to head out soon, as the fact that they were here was starting to make him feel a little bit at an unease.

"I don't really know, and the fact that we will never know is one of the things that really scares me. The fact that there is no answer so the fact is that basically anybodys idea could actually be the right one. I don't really know if I want to consider that, since it would mean that the ideas that the mormons have could be as right as the other ideas, and if you get to know me a bit better, you would know that mormons are not really people that I respect all that much." Brad said and Ken was seriously pondering asking Brad about his huge problem with Mormons.

"I feel like if we stay here now that the guy is going to be coming back. I feel like it is time for us to head out again." Ken said and then he stood up as Brad was staring at him. For a few seconds, he had totally forgotten about the whole problem that they were forced to be dealing with in the first place. Brad slowly stood himself up and he was taking a slow and deep breath and then he started to rub his pants a little bit.

"Yeah, perhaps you are right. I don't want to end this conversation off. Considering the fact that I was thinking you were really getting to know the whole thing behind Tuck a little bit, but I figure that maybe that was something that we were never really supposed to be taking about to begin with. Maybe one day, we can meet up again and tell each other all of the details about our life that we had not talked about earlier, and that we might want to know of a little bit more." Brad said and then right when they were getting ready to head out, there was a strange calling that made both of them stop what they were doing.

There was something that a shaking in the house and then there was the lights flickering off and then Ken took a deep breath and he was starting to think about the worst part himself. This was what the man in the purple jacket did before he started to attack them at their school, and he was starting to fear that this was what was going to be happening, and that they needed to get now. Ken looked at Brad and they looked like they agreed and they were ready to leave.

Brad and Ken got out of the house as soon as possible and there was still two hours left before the dance would start. "Do you know of the best way to enjoy myself at the dance? I don't really know if I could actually be able to enjoy myself since I am sort of a social reject and while I get why I am a social reject, nobody will ever want to dance with me at all and this pisses me off honestly." Ken said and then Brad felt like he would actually be able to help Ken out here. He thought that Ken could actually get some good use off of Brad's advice.

"I think that you should dance your heart out. If you are not going to get a date, you can always be able to just dance as much as you can to show that you are still enjoying yourself. And besides, it could be a good workout. As much as that sounds silly, but I am sure that you will get it once you try it out a little bit." Brad said and then Ken had nodded. He knew exactly what Brad was talking about here.

"I do that every once in a while. I did that for Winter Ball. I really hurt my ankle while I was doing so. My ankle has never been able to recover from it ever since. If I move my foot around a little bit, you can hear a few pops here and there. It feels like it is wearing down. I really hate that and I can't really walk around without feeling like I was aging a ton in the course of just a couple of seconds." Ken was saying and then when Ken said that he really wanted to feel his ankle, but he didn't want to stop walking or anything.

"That must really suck. I didn't know that you had something like that happen to you. How are you able to handle it at the rate you are going?" Brad had said and then as Brad had said that, Ken nodded. He knew that Brad was just saying that and that Ken didn't want to argue with Brad there or call the fake sympathy card but he thought that there was a lot of things that were more important than the comments that Brad would make here and there.

All of a sudden Brad and Ken saw something that interrupted their conversation that they were having. They were seeing a guy that looked like he was going to prom riding a bike or walking his bike.

Ken was wondering why the guy who was going to prom is just bringing his bike along with him. Like he knew that he probably wanted something that he could use for transportation, but why not just ride the bike instead of just walk it down the hill. That was why it didn't really make any sense to him and probably not really to Brad either. Well to be fair, Ken didn't really know what made sense to Brad or what didn't make sense to Brad. So he was just sort of guessing on that. But he thought it was a pretty safe guess.

"Hey what are you doing over there?" Ken had asked and then the guy who was walking his bike actually stopped and looked over at the two of them to see if they were were really talking with him or not. He smiled when he see Ken nod at him since he felt like he was finally getting at least some form of attention for once.

"Yeah, what are you wanting to talk to me about? I want to get to prom as soon as possible so I don't get to miss out on any of it." The student had said and then when the student had said that, Ken started to think about what he was going to say to this guy. Maybe he would just ask about the bike as well as his date for prom and then leave it off at that.

"Why are you going to prom with a bike? I would assume that if you wanted to go to prom with a bike, you would just ride down there and not just be walking it down. And besides there are like two hours left before prom. Do you seriously need to be heading down there so soon and right now." Ken said and then the guy decided to think about the point that Ken had made there.

"I was hoping that it would have gotten me to prom a lot faster, but it seems as if that is not the case. I am guessing that you guys are going to be going there as well. I think I might have a little bit of time to spare after all to have a little bit of a chit chat." The dude said and then sat down on the seat of the bike. Neither Brad nor Ken decided to tell the kid that this was a bad idea and that he could fall on over.

"Do you have a date for prom?" Brad decided to ask and that was when the other guy blushed in a moment of not wanting to day anything. Truth was that he just wasn't into that type of stuff. He liked the idea of dating and would like to date. Just not in the way that people would think of when they are talking in the general sense. He was strange in that way to say at the very least. It would make sense the more that you were able to know that guy.

"No I don't have a date. Not really interested in any of that stuff to be honest. Don't really want to go into a lot more detail than that. I just sort of keep it to myself what my thoughts are." The guy said and both Ken and Brad were thinking that this guy was acting more than just a little bit strange. But neither one of them wanted to comment on it, so they remained silent for the most part. But Ken was starting to make theories a little bit.

"What is your name?' Brad decided to at least get to know the guy a little bit since he was there was he didn't want to be a dick. After all that was what he had done with Ken. And Ken had turned out to be a pretty decent guy, so he had thought that maybe he could give this dude a chance and see exactly what he was made of after all. And if he wasn't all that good of a person, they could just leave him alone and go on their own way and act like the event never happened.

"My name is Eddie. I just moved here this year. Trying to fit in. Got sent here after some sort of embarrassing stories that I don't want to talk about. Lived with my mother formerly but I live with my father now. He is more tolerant of the stuff that I do, although not by too much. Even then, he would never threaten to kick me out or anything. That is why I moved here. But I will stop talking about me and let that be for a different story for a different day when I get to know you two more. If I ever do get to know you two more that is." Eddie said and he felt a little bit stupid inside for going off on that long tangent that neither Ken or Brad probably really gave a shit about at the end of the day.

"Well, I feel sorry that you had to go through that." Brad said in a way that was sort of half meant it half didn't really mean it. He was just too confused to really say anything beyond that point. Was still better than what Ken was doing, who was just sort if trying to add in the pieces together. "Well, my name is Brad. I will probably see you more around school now that I have met you and sort of have a visual of you in my head."

"Well I guess that makes me feel better. I don't know if I will ever really talk with either of you again though. Not that it really matters though. You two seem nice enough to at least talk to for a couple of minutes." Eddie said and then that was when Ken decided to bring the guy into the topic that he and Brad had been talking about for the last hour or two. He might eventually regret it, but he felt the need to know what Eddie would say on it.

"Did you see some guy near this house a few minutes ago? He looks a little bit strange. Has a purple jacket. Probably a middle aged man. He also looks like he doesn't really care about anything in the world at all. Kind of makes me think he is a little bit of a creep to be totally honest." Ken said and then that was when he thought that he should say his name, so he sort of randomly brought it up kind of out of nowhere. "Oh yeah by the way, forgot to say earlier, but my name is Ken."

"Well that is one way you can change topics really easily. Talk about some strange dude who you think is sort of a creep and then introduce your name afterwards. Although now that you do mention it, I think I do know who you are talking about with the guy in the purple jacket. Saw him once a few weeks ago. Didn't really know what to think aside from the fact that he looked really fucking strange with that outfit. Probably got it from a thrift store." Eddie said and then Brad and Ken both stopped what they were doing when they heard what Eddie had just said.

"I thought that this guy was a bit strange. I didn't really know what to think of him due to the whole purple jacket. But I don't really think that it mattered all that much. Although when I did see him, I could have sworn that he was staring at me and he was wanting to talk with me or something like that." Eddie had told the two of them and he put his hand on his pocket as if he was wanting to make sure that there was some pills there or something like that.

"I wonder what he did or if he was doing anything. Was he trying to get you to pay attention to him or do you think he was just looking around to see what you were going to do at that moment?" Ken was saying and then he was trying to figure out if the recent sighting was actually real or if Ken was just imagining the whole thing. If he had seen the guy, then he would know that he truly wasn't dead but if this was fake, then Ken would now be going insane right now with these fake seeings.

"I just saw him staring at me. This wasn't really all that big of a problem to me. I just saw him do that and I walked away. The biggest problem was the news that came up soon afterwards. I saw the news and in the news, the report was talking about a high school student who had recently died. I think you guys heard about that. Their body was found in the sewers and the death was reported to be about forty minutes after the time I had seen that guy. Which means that had I shown up a little bit later, I would have been the one who was killed. So I am starting to be glad that I was never the one who was killed since I was less than hour away from being the one who was killed then. I am convinced that this guy was responsible for the death of this student. I seriously just can't look at any other way and any other person would could have been responsible for the whole thing." Eddie had said and then as he had said that Ken and Brad looked at each other. They heard about their death and there was a second one who had died a couple of months prior. Nobody talked about it in fear of being looked at as a heartless asshole, but it did happen.

The three of them were waiting to see who was going to ask first. "Do you think that he actually is the one who had killed this person or do you think that it is just a really bad coincidence. I mean I am hoping that it is the latter, but I highly doubt that it is that nice. I have a strong feeling that this is the truth." Ken had said and then he rubbed his hair because he was not too sure if this was just the truth or if he was just over thinking it along with the other two in the area.

"I bet that he is the one that did it. I don't really know how he did it exactly. I am not even going to pretend to know how the hell this guy is able to do something like that, and I don't really care to know." Brad had said and then when Brad had make that decision, the three of them remain silent for a moment. Eddie said something that made the other two think more about what was going on.

"I think that we should try and ask other people about the death. Maybe we can ask some of his friends about it and see what they think about it. Or some of her friends. I don't even really remember what the gender of the kid was. Although I don't really think that the gender is all that important at the end." Eddie said and then he thought into it a little bit more. "I also think that maybe we could ask the principal of the school and see what the principal has to say about this. See if I can get their house address and I can ask their parents what happens by visiting them. After I earn their trust a little bit. If I am able to even talk to them at all." Eddie thought that he might have been going a little bit too far with this whole thing. And that maybe he needed to get the hell out of there. If he had stayed there a bit longer, then he would be taking this whole thing way too far.

"Well I might be seeing you a bit later. Prom better be good. I don't want this to be a waste of four hours of my life. You don't know what I can be able to do with four hours of my life." Eddie said and then took Brad and Ken's advice and got on the bike so he would actually ride it to the prom place.

"He does have a good point. If we want to be able to get a little bit more, maybe we should ask the school around and see what they say. After all, the principal would probably give us the kids address if we really press for it." Brad popped his knuckles since he usually liked to do stuff like that to prove his point. He and Ken really needed to get the hell out of this place, and head to prom. So they decided they would head there now like Eddie.

"I think that if we stay here for too much longer, then we will not be able to make it to the dance in time. Not that it would really matter if we end up being a few minutes late for a dance like prom. But I don't want to do anything like that." Ken had said and then the two of them started to walk around. The school was about twenty to thirty minutes away from where they currently were at the moment.

"I think that the sooner we drop this subject, the more that we will be able to enjoy this dance for what it is. I think that once we get inside of the school, we should just drop the subject and leave it off at there. I don't think that you will really blame me for that in the future." Brad told Ken and then when that was done, Ken decided to agree that they would drop the subject during the duration of the prom. But he did feel like he needed to say one more thing before they would drop the subject.

"While I would agree that we need to let this go during the dance, I think that one more agreement we should make is one that I think we should agree on. That if we ever see the man again in the near future, then we should try and and fight him off. If we fight him off, then we can be able to move on finally. I feel as if this is one thing that we can agree on. That we will leave him alone until he shows up again." Ken decided and Brad decided that he would go by this promise and agreement even if he had not wanted to at all.

"I wonder what will be at the prom. The school dances usually are a lot more things to school dances than just the general dance and songs. They usually have stuff like snacks or maybe a couple of games to be able to entertain the people who are in the school." Ken had said and then he wondered what type of snacks there even would be at the school if there would be any at all. "Probably just a bunch of chips and salsa and most likely some form of punch since there always is punch at the school dances."

"I don't really know or care all that much. I just sort of go there for the dances and dance with the people who are in the school and see what I can be able to pull off." Brad answered and he just really wished that there would be at least one person he could be able to dance with even if he didn't know who that person would have been and to be honest he didn't even care who that person would have been at all. Not that it really mattered all that much.

"I like dancing a lot. But I just really want to make my day even better than just dancing. So I will go around and try and ask a girl every few songs or something like that. I don't really know what to say about that. Maybe once I get a couple of dances done with, then I will a girl out and use my dancing as a way for them to say yes to my offers." Ken said and then Brad had shook his head. Brad thought that Ken was being totally unrealistic about this whole thing.

"I think that if you really want to get a girl to dance with you, you should probably get to know them a little bit you. You know, see how you guys get along and see what you guys have in common if you guys have anything in common. I mean you guys need to give them a chance on that type of level. If you don't really know them personally, will the dance really mean anything." Brad told Ken and he thought that there was actually a level of validness to all of this stuff. But he just wasn't all that great of a talker at all.

"I don't really have all that many things that I would be able to talk with a person on. I don't really think that I will be able to talk to somebody with them shooting me down for the fact that I have been considered to be the biggest piece of scum in the entire graduating class. I just don't really think that I will ever get any respect ever again. And that just makes me sad." Ken said and then after Ken had said that, he shook his head and just did not know how else to put it.

"Look just because nobody likes you now doesn't mean that you should just not try at all. You may have to try if you want to have somebody like you at all. Don't dismiss something just because it doesn't seem to go too well at the moment. Trust me, I feel as if once you really open up a little bit more, then things will start to go better for you. If it doesn't, then I will eat dirt and admit that I am wrong." Brad said and Ken laughed at the image of Brad eating dirt over things related to Ken. He knew that he didn't actually mean it, but it was just a broad term.

"I just am too scared to even try and do this. I will maybe try a little bit later. Like when I am done with high school and I am far out of the school side of my life then I think that I will be ready to do things related to dating." Ken told Brad and Brad thought that Ken shouldn't even wait the two years for that and that he should try and do something sooner. But maybe that was just a personal bias that Brad had been facing.

"How much does the dance actually cost?" Ken decided to ask a little bit out of nowhere. He didn't even think about how much it would cost until that had been a thing he had felt inside of his pocket. He took about thirty dollars from his pocket, and he felt that hopefully that would have been enough and that in reality it probably would have been enough. The most expensive dances in the school were usually thirty dollars or so.

"I would not really worry about the money that you would need for prom. I would be more worried about the songs that are being played and if the songs are going to be any good or not. If the songs are not any good, it would be really hard to actually enjoy dancing around. So I hope that for your sake, that the songs are good and that you don't get turned off just from the songs alone." Brad laughed as he said that and Ken was wondering what the hell was so funny about that stuff. He thought that it might have been interesting if that was the case, but he was not really all that worried about the dance or songs. But Brad might not be right that the songs are the only important part but it could turn him off from having a good time at the same time.

"Honestly, just as long as I get one dance, I will be happy. That is all that I want honestly. I just want to get one nice dance. I think that this is something that people can be able to understand that I just really want to be shown that I am not totally forgotten here. I know that I sound a little bit silly and paranoid when I say that, but I just sort of can't help but feel this way." Ken told Brad and then after Ken had told Brad this, the two of them were now on the final hill before they would actually reach the school.

"Either way, this is going to be fucking awesome. I am still really excited even if I talk about how annoying it is to be like this. I just think that this will be the best part of my school year. It will probably the only part of the school year that I will actually be able to enjoy here." Ken had said and he did a couple of air wave punches that seemed to make no sense to anybody else even to Brad but Brad decided not to talk at all since he could tell that Ken was enjoying the moment a lot, despite him shit talking earlier.

"You know, this will be the best dance I have ever had. It seems for me that each dance gets a little bit better than the last one. So that way if this trend keeps going up, the dance next time will be even better than the last one and then afterwards, the one at the end of my high school years will be the best dance I have ever had in my entire life." Brad said and then when he had said that, the two of them reached the entrance of the school and were ready to pay for their ticket.