"No I want to but not here," he replied.
"You are right," she said.
Craig moved back over to her and sat down on the bed next to her. He smiled
and put his hand on her cheek. She returned the touch by caressing his
hand.
"So what does this mean?" she asked.
"I don't know," he looked into her eyes, "What do you want?"
"You," she pushed his hand aside, "but Manny."
"She isn't here and from the way it is going I don't see anything," he
grabbed her hand.
"Please Craig," she sighed, "before we do become what ever please just make
sure I am what you want."
"Yes," he smiled, "I know."
She got up and left. Craig lay there on the bed trying to figure out what
to do. He got up and went to find Koby.
"Koby," Craig shouted over the music, "can we go now?"
He grabbed her hand and pulled her aside, "It's you that I want. I can't
wait forever for Manny. What we feel is real. Please can we go and talk?"
They went back up to Hazel's room to talk. Ashley followed to see what was
going on.
"So sit," she said.
Her and Craig went over to her bed and sat down. They did not know what to
say. They were still in shock.
"Now what?" he asked, "I mean what do we do?"
"I don't know," she replied, "I honestly don't know. It's really hard you
know."
"Well how about we try to go back to how it use to be and then maybe if it
don't work we can give it a try," he suggested.
"Fine with me," she agreed, "If we cant just be friends then we try it
out."
They had no clue Ashley was Eve's dropping on them. She grinned and decided
to make trouble for them.
Later on the group went outside and sat around a campfire telling stories.
Jimmy told one about Bloody Mary and Hazel told one about a scary mirror.
When it came time for Koby to tell hers she got a bit shy.
"Well in France we talk mostly about a guy that goes by the name Jack
Skellington. You all probably seen The Nightmare Before Christmas, well we
see him as real. A self confessed "Master of Fright" and "Demon of light"
Jack is the Pumpkin King who every year holds the most terrifying, exciting
event he can muster for not only the people of Halloween, but for the
world. He's both been there and done that and wants a change, and he knows
one is out there."
"Wow Koby this is good tell us more," Paige anticipated.
"Well who is he you ask, he is a skeleton. Maybe he was human once, who
knows? Though he doesn't run Halloween town alone, he does play a very
important part in organizing basically everything to do with Halloween and
making the holiday what it is."
"This is cool," Spinner butted in, "I just thought he was a guy from a
movie."
"To you maybe but in France he is huge. His job tends to bore him at some
points. I mean the same Halloween pranks over and over gets really boring."
"How come you know so much?" Hazel asked.
"Well you see Jack is like our Bloody Mary," Koby replied.
"I like," Craig announced, "Tell us more please."
"Okay," She replied, "Jack is just a man who wants meaning to his life, and
feels he isn't getting it through his traditional role of scaring people,
it just isn't fun anymore for him. It's almost like a mid - death crisis. I
know, lame joke. He sees the admiration that the woman of the town have for
him, but feels people like a side of him, which he doesn't like himself. He
goes through the year causing chaos for everyone."
"Cool," Jimmy interrupted.
"Well that is all I got any more from you?" Koby asked.
"Not really," Craig continued to tell a few stories.
The night continued the same. No one went to the tent to sleep because they
all fell asleep around the fire. It was a long and eventful night. Koby and
Craig kept their distance trying not to have a repeat of earlier.
