**Disclaimer** Ah, so the time has come to write another. :) Ha, I'll bet that you're getting really sick of these annoying little things, but oh well. This is a pretty long chapter, but who cares! The characters, except for the ones from Middleburg heights aren't mine, and I hope that I used them well. Here it is! Oh~"Fun times" Comes from Amanda, but Megan is the one who spread it around. I named Jedediah's little sister Sarah, because I don't know her real name.
The next day was pretty warm, but it didn't bother me. I woke up, and got dressed in one of my black outfits. Yes, I still wore black, but I was getting better and better at variety. Anyway, Marie and I had made plans to meet at my house, and when she rang the doorbell at 11:36 am, I was ready to go. Opening the door, I saw her and Jenny standing there smiling. Jenny winked at me, and I smiled back at her. "You guys ready," I asked. They both nodded, and Jenny told me that she had called Dave earlier, and told him to go to the fair today because everyone was going.
"He'll be there. I know he will. I was talking to him a few days ago, and Marie, he says that he still likes you." Jenny talked as we walked to the fairgrounds, and Marie and I walked by each other, but we didn't touch. It was kind of strange, because of what we, or at least I was used to. We kept walking, and all of a sudden, Marie grabbed my hand, and smiled sweetly. I didn't know what was going on until I looked up and saw Dave. I looked at jenny, and she looked back at me with an "I don't know what's going on look," and I just stared back.
"Hey, Marie, hey Jen, Micah." Dave was being what I might even call nice to me. It was surprisingly nice. "So what are you all up to? I mean, I see that you're going to the fair, but you know, what else?" We all just kinda said that nothing was going on, that we were just walking, and he asked if he could walk with us. We told him yes, and we kept going.
A few minutes later, we got to the fair. I bought my tickets as well as Marie's, and in we went. It wasn't that crowded, but there were a lot of people there. We split up from Dave, and walked around, talking to the people that we knew. After a few minutes, I realized that no one was afraid of me. No one was looking at me like I was going to murder them all. It felt good. I was being accepted and respected for who I was, for Micah. Not for being possessed by He Who Walks Behind the Rows. I smiled, and looked at Marie. She was talking to someone that I hadn't met yet, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. Turning I looked into a face that I hadn't seen for at least a month. Jedediah.
"Jedediah!" I said, turning. "What's this about? Danny said that you didn't make it. What about that? Where, how, wait WHY are you in Ohio?" I asked with a huge smile on my face. He smiled too.
"Micah, I ran! What, do you think that I'm crazy? As soon as you told everyone to kneel, and that light hit you, I ran. I grabbed my sister, and we ran. We both made it, and a family in Middleburg, the Kaines adopted us. They have a daughter named Samantha, who is about Sarah's age. So it all worked out. What about you?" He asked me.
"Well, you see that girl over there in the shorts and the black halter?" Jed nodded. "I'm here with her and her friend. It's definitely fun times. I'm enjoying myself." We walked over to Marie, and her friends. " Hey, Marie, you've introduced me to so many people, and now it's my turn. This is Jedediah, my closest friend since I was two. Jed, this is Marie." She turned around, and gave him a hug.
Any friend of mine was a definitely a friend of hers, I assumed. After we talked for a few minutes, I excused myself for a few minutes to talk with Jedediah about what had been going on. We were gone for longer then a few minutes, though, because when we found Jen and Marie it was almost 2:30. They were sitting on a bench eating an elephant ear or something like that, and I walked up behind them, and put my hands on Marie's eyes. " Guess who?" She stood up and turned around. Smiling, she walked around the bench, and wrapped her arms around my neck.
"Pretend to kiss me, Micah" she said with a smile. "Please do it." I leaned in as she leaned down, and he hair covered half of my face, so I guess it looked like we were kissing, but we were just standing there. I thought that I was going to fall asleep, she smelled so good. After a few seconds, she pulled away, and leaned in to hug me. "Thank you." I only stood there and looked stunned for a few seconds, because at that moment, Jenny asked me to go on the spinning strawberry ride with her. Grabbing my hand, she pulled me up to the entrance, leaving Marie and Jed to talk.
"Did you kiss her?" Jenny asked as we sat down. "Did you finally tell her?" I asked if Dave was anywhere near where we had been, and jenny replied "Well, yeah, he was standing under a tree about ten feet from the bench, but-"
"Then it was all a ploy to get him to see us, and make him jealous." I snapped as we began to spin. "She came up to me and said '
The ride stopped, and the four of us managed to amuse ourselves for the rest of the day at the fair, and by the time the vendors were selling the glowsticks, we were a little bit tired. Walking around, Dave was nowhere in site, and Marie decided to "let me" put my arm around her shoulders. I told Jenny and Jed to go on ahead, and I stopped Marie, and led her over to a bench, and sat her down. Looking into her eyes, I didn't want to do what I knew I had to, but I did anyway.
"Marie," I said gently. "You know that this is wrong. Maybe you should just tell Dave that you still like him. Lying is wrong. Look where it led me. I killed people because I was lied to. Dave likes you, and you like him. It's time to end this game that we're playing. I like spending time with you." I knew that I had to choose my words carefully. "I hope that even after you and Dave get back together, that we can still spend time together, because you are a great person. You have been the best friend that I could want, especially since you knew what I did. If you do not tell him by the end of tonight, then I will. He needs to know the truth." Nodding, she stood up, and so did I. Pulling me into another hug, she said OK. On what I guess was a second thought, she leaned back in and kissed me on the cheek.
"Thank you, Micah. I need to do this. you're right. I have to go find Dave." Turning on her heel, she called back that she would walk home, and that we shouldn't wait for her. I walked around for about ten minutes before I found Jenny and Jedediah, and when I found them, they were playing that one game where you had to throw the little balls into the glasses, and Jenny had three in, and out of his seven, Jed had gotten every single one of his into a blue one, meaning that he was very very good. I told them what had happened, and shortly after their game ended, the three of us walked back to our houses.
John had told us about two weeks after we got to Ohio that he didn't think that we were going to go to New York, because of the wedding, which was fine by me, so we had moved more permanently into the Morgan's house. I had a lot of stuff in my room, which was just mine, because Danny had moved into the attic. Among this stuff were pictures of everyone that I had met so far. I didn't want to loose all of these people because of what Marie and I had done, but only time would tell what was going to happen. I laid down on the bed for about a half hour, and fell asleep.
I dreamt that I was in the corn (of course) and that He Who Walks Behind the Rows was yelling at me.
"MICAH! YOU INSUBORDINATE FOOL! YOU HAVE BECOME WEAK BECAUSE OF THIS GIRL, AND THAT IS NOT ALLOWED! YOU MUST BE PUNISHED."
"No. I haven't done anything wrong. Please, she is a great person, and doesn't deserve this. She-" The beast raised his hands above his head and pointed at me with one of them.
"THIS FOOL MUST BE TAUGHT A LESSON. KILL HIM!" A blinding white light came from the sky, and hit me square in the chest. I woke up, drenched in sweat, and looked at my clock. 3:00 am. Laying back down, I finally fell back into a dark, troubled sleep. I didn't dream of anything else that night, but as I slept I saw people's faces floating around me, and the one that I most remember is my own, with tearstained cheeks and mussed hair as I wept for some unseen tragedy. My sleep that night was light and not resting at all.
