"OK, now. If everyone's ready, let's go explore us a creepy house," Punk grinned as he rubbed his hands together.

Hey, guys! How's the new year been for everyone so far? I hope it's been going well for you all. =)

Today, I'm finally bringing an update of 'Bayley's Universe' for your reading pleasure. We rejoin Bayley and her friends as they set forth in their little tour of the old Bearer house. Who knows what macabre delights await them? *spooky voice* Read on to find out, my dolls. =)

Hearing Punk say this, most everyone else gathered voiced their eagerness to head inside with Bayley meekly adding her own "Sure" to the bunch. Walking forward to the front door, Punk grabbed hold of the doorknob and, giving the metallic fixture a turn, slowly pushed the wooden door open, the hinges letting out a slight squeak at this. Slowly, the group filed inside the house and stood in the dark main room.

"Anyone remember to bring a flashlight along?" Punk asked. "Kind of hard to see in here right now."

"Yeah, I got one right here," AJ said, pulling a boxy black flashlight out of the messenger bag she had. Pressing a black button near the handle, AJ handed the lit flashlight to Punk.

"Thanks, AJ," Punk nodded as he took the flashlight. "Alright. Let's begin our Halloween tour."

"And just what exactly are we even looking for in here, Punkers?" Paige asked. "I doubt we'll find anything all that interesting in here. After all, don't you remember that Mr. Bearer's sons cleaned the house out before they moved out of town?"

"Never hurts to look," Punk began before adding with a smirk "What? You aren't getting …scared, are you, Paigey?"

"What? Me? Scared? You must be off your rocker to even think such a thing," Paige said with a scoff and a laugh.

Hearing the younger Brit say this, Punk only grinned with a slight laugh before saying "OK, everyone. Follow me to the main attraction of the Bearer house."

Hearing Punk say this and following along behind the others, Bayley swallowed around the dryness in her throat and tightened her grip on Sami's hand a bit in nervous fear. 'Punk can't be serious. He can't mean …that room, can he?'

Feeling Bayley's tightened grip on his hand, Sami looked over to see the nervous look on the brunette's face. "Bayley? What is it? What's wrong?"

"Th-The room that P-Punk wants to go see. I've heard stories about it, but …I don't know how true they are," Bayley got out in a low voice.

"What stories? What have you heard about this room?" Sami asked, starting to feel a bit scared himself.

"Well. The old stories about Mr. Bearer were that he was a mortician, meaning that he helped get people ready for funerals," Bayley began before swallowing and the continuing "And they say that he used to do all of that out of here, his very own home."

"Y-You're joking, right?" Sami asked.

All Bayley could do was shake her head No to Sami's question. Seeing the nervous look on the redhead's face, Bayley said "Hey. Those stories I was talking about, …I'm sure they were probably just made up by the adults around here to keep us from coming here by ourselves. It's no big deal."

"Are you sure?" Sami asked. Seeing Bayley nod, Sami let out a somewhat relieved sigh. "O-OK, Bayley. If you say so."

"Don't worry too much, Sami. You've got me and Punk and our friends here. I'm sure we'll be safe from anything that's in here," Bayley assured the redhead.

Hearing Bayley say all of this, Sami nodded in understanding as, this time, his grip tightened on Bayley's hand.

Feeling Sami's tightened grip, Bayley took a breath in before letting it out. 'Don't worry, Sami. I'll do what I can to keep you and the others safe from anything that may be in here.'

The group's silent walk only went on a few minutes longer before coming upon their destinat-

"Guys, wait!" Punk blurted, stopping right in his tracks with the others stopping just as quickly.

"What's the deal, Punk? What's up, man?" a teen with shoulder-length sandy blonde hair asked.

Pointing ahead to the room he wanted to go look around in, Punk lowly said "I don't think we're alone in here," a scared look on his face.

No one knew what to say about this at first, as they thought that maybe Punk was just trying to pull a Halloween prank on them. …But, it wasn't until they heard the sound of a pair of footsteps coming their way that they knew Punk wasn't lying. One by one, the now shocked and surprised gazes of the teens landed on-

"Mr. Bearer?!" most of the group blurted in surprise.

The person in question, a man with jet black hair that was neatly brushed down and with very bad bags under his eyes, who was dressed in a pair of black slacks, black dress shoes, and a button-down white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, stepped out of the room that the teens weren't too far from as he wiped his hands on a towel.

Seeing the group of teenagers ahead of him, the man, Mr Bearer, smiled before saying in a rather high-pitched voice "Greetings, young ones. And, welcome to my home!"

Back At Bayley's House

"That was a really good movie, Seth," Sasha said after seeing a bit of the end credits for the movie Coraline. "It definitely reminded me of the book of Bayley's I read."

"It's one of Bayley's favorites, so we always make sure to watch it for Halloween every year," Seth smiled as he took the DVD out of the DVD player and put it back in its case. "So, since we still have about another hour before Bayley's bedtime, can you all think of anything else you might want to watch?"

"Anything is fine with me, Seth," the Bayley double said with a smile.

"Anything, you say?" Dean asked, a mischievous smirk crossing his face.

"Yes, Dean. Anything is fine with me," the Bayley double repeated.

"Well, in that case," Dean began before looking through the DVDs and pulling out a movie that he had been looking forward to watching all day "I say we watch Insidious!"

"That sounds fine to me, Dean," the Bayley double smiled.

Hearing Bayley say this, Dean couldn't help but blink in surprise. "I-I was only kidding, Bayley. We don't have to watch this."

"It's okay, Dean. Anything to watch is fine with me," the Bayley double repeated once again.

Hearing Bayley say this, Dean and Seth shared a confused look with each other, as, …well, Bayley wasn't normally one that liked watching scary movies-she even had her moments where she'd get a little afraid when it came to scary things that are suitable for kids her age to watch. So, the fact that she wanted to watch a movie like this…. It just didn't sound quite right…and very much not like Bayley.

Seeing the confusion on Dean and Seth's faces, Sasha cut in and said "Um, Bayley, maybe we should watch something else. You don't want to get scared, do you?"

"Yes, Sasha, you're right. We should watch something else," the Bayley double said.

Hearing all of this still sounded quite strange to Roman, so, after rising from his seat, the brunette Gem walked over to where the two girls were sitting. Kneeling down so that he was at Bayley's eye level, Roman looked into the younger brunette's eyes.

"Um, Roman. Is …everything okay?" Sasha asked, starting to feel a bit uneasy.

"Well. Everything will be okay. After you tell us where the real Bayley is, Sasha," Roman responded as he looked to meet Sasha's surprised gaze.

Well, it looks like there are some ...rather interesting developments happening for both parties here. Bayley and company appear to have actually met Mr. Paul Bearer himself (which definitely sounds like quite a spooky situation, considering that he's apparently been dead for years), so who knows what's to come next with that? And back at the Gems' house, it would appear that Sasha's Bayley double has been found out to be just that...a double (Oh no, they've been had! D= ). With all of this happening on both sides, it'll certainly be a Halloween to remember. So, until next time (which will be soon), don't forget to R&R please. =)