Eli: Sorry I've been MIA. School and such... Here's the next chapter, Enjoy!!
The three kids were all cuddled on the couch, the lights off and the windows covered. Beth had her back to the side and had her legs up on the couch. Andy was sitting behind her legs and had his on top of hers. Jamie was sitting upside down, his head almost on the floor and his legs curled over the top. They had food and drinks scattered everywhere, but they were too caught up in the old movie to really eat. It was late in the afternoon on Saturday, and their Mom was at work, and their Dad was gone for the weekend for his job.
"I want to tell you my secret now." The boy in the movie said. "I see people.... I see dead people.... Some of them scare me."
Andy scowled. "Wimp!!!" He called out as he threw a handful of pop corn at the TV. Beth and Jamie shoved him as they told him to be quiet. "But he's being a wimp!! It's not scary!" He complained.
"Not to you! You've never woken up to a half mutilated body part lying near you." She snapped at him.
"What'd you know?! Shane was very nice, he just dripped all over the bed!" They told him to shush, and went back to their movie. They were quiet for a while. They were just about to discover why the little girl was sick and were on the edge of their seats, never noticing the lock on the doors turning, or the door opening.
SLAM!!!
Jamie fell off the couch as Beth jolted, making Andy jolt as well. The light went on as they heard laughing. Bethany glared. "That wasn't funny!"
Dominic smirked. "Yes it was!" The three siblings on the couch glanced at each other before they started throwing pop corn and candy in his direction. He dodged most of it, until Jamie picked up a milk dud, aimed, and shot, pegging Dom right in the forehead. They dropped their ammo and laughed. Dominic rubbed his forehead, looking not as amused as they were. He went over to where Jamie had been sitting and took his place, tossing popcorn at him as he cleared the seat off. "Hey!" Jamie complained. Dom pointed to his forehead, where a red welt was beginning to form. Jamie started laughing again as Dominic kicked him playfully. "You are your damn aim." He murmured.
"Leave him alone, he can't help his deadly aim." Bethany said as she shoved his shoulder and turned up the volume on the movie. Andy scooted closer to Dom and stared at him. He leaned in and put his finger to the side of Dom's chest and felt his ribs. "Dominic, don't ya eat?" The teenager flinched back. "Yeah, I do. It just doesn't stay."
Andy frowned. "Well, where does it go?" He asked. Beth and Jamie started giggling as Dominic coughed and grabbed the remote from Beth to turn up the volume, trying to distract him. The little boy was not so easily discourage. "Well, did it run away?" That caused another round of laughter. Andy didn't see what was so funny, he just wanted to know where everything went. "C'mon, where does it go?" He kept pestering them until it wasn't funny anymore. "It's in the same place where Daddy buries all the dead bodies." Beth snapped at him. Andrew, being Andrew, didn't even flinch at the thought.
"It's in the backyard?" He asked as the big secret of the movie was about to be revealed.
"Andy!" All three teens shouted. He shrugged his shoulders. Bethany paused the movie. "Junior...." She said smugly. He hit her with a pillow. He HATED being called that. He didn't think he should be called Junior just because he looked like his Dad, though Beth and Jamie loved to call him that to be annoying. "Ready to be quiet?" She asked.
"Okay, I'll be quiet." He murmured. "But I'm not Junior!" He crossed his arms and slid down the couch.
-Later-
Andrew stomped up the stairs. 'It isn't fair!!!' He thought to himself. The big kids were watching a scary movie, but they said he couldn't watch it because there were things in it not suitable for someone only eight years old. To make things worst, Jeanne was trying to talk to him again. "Be quiet!" He told her as he passed her on the stairs. "You got me in trouble last time! Mommy hated the pink painted on her motorcycle!" He informed her. He stood still as she persisted. He began to listen again, when he remember that he wasn't suppose to and covered his ears. "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Grandma Lizzie!! Jeanne won't leave me alone!!!" He whined out. He saw his great great grandmother appear, hands on her hips, reminding him of what his Mom looked like when he put the frog in the coffee maker. She tilted her head and scolded the young teenaged wielder. Jeanne hissed, but left.
Andy smiled and thanked her before he went into his room, slamming the door behind him. He went over to his desk and turned on the light. He took out his Magic the Gathering cards and started going through them to make up a good deck. Nicky, Chris, and Dominic had taught him how to play when he was younger, and when they had grown out of it, he and Jamie had inherited their cards. Just as he had finished his new dragon deck, he heard the springs on his bed go down. He turned in his chair and saw someone sitting down on it, their face hidden in their knees.
"Hello?" Andy asked it. It didn't respond. He came closer and studied it. The 'it' was a girl in a green tube top and jean pants. She had blonde hair mixed with red, and her nails had a broken set of those nails that changed color when you touched it with the right button. He went over to the bed and sat down next to her, careful not to scare her away. "My name's Andy. What's yours?"
The girl turned her head and faced him. She looked confused, but didn't ask anything. He saw she had a necklace and leaned forward to look at it. "Iris. Is that your name? If it is, it's really pretty." He told her quietly. She gave him a strange sorta half smile before she looked around his room, not sure if she should be there. "It's okay that your here." He assured her. "A lot of people like you come here." She nodded and hugged her knees to her chest. Andy looked down and saw that she had blood stains on the front of her pants in the place where you really don't want it, so he decided not to ask her about how she died. Besides, she didn't look like she wanted to talk.
Andy held up his deck and started telling her about the cards. Iris seemed to like it, and she smiled a bit more. Just as he showed her his 'Easter of the Dead' card, she looked uo toward his door and was gone. Just then, someone knocked on his door before coming in.
Sara looked inside his room curiously. She had felt her bracelet warm up when she had passed and decided to check in. "Hi sweetie, whatcha doin'?" She asked him.
He put his cards away in their holder. "Nothing, Mom. Beth and then wouldn't let me watch the movie with them! Tell them to let me watch!"
She shook her head. "You're still too young."
"But Mommmmmmmmmmmmmm......" He begged, using the dreaded Nottingham kicked puppy dog look. She turned her head in time. "Andrew, I said no. Besides, the movie is almost over." She looked over at his bed and noticed the dark spot on the edge. "Have another visitor?" She asked.
"Maybe." He told her. She sighed. "Pass me your comforter." He pulled it off his bed and handed it to her. "Please try to encourage the blood drenched ones to stay somewhere that doesn't stain." She told him as she carried it off to the washer. "It's always the bloody ones that like to visit." She mumbled.
-The Next Day-
Andrew hated recess. All the kids liked to make fun of him because they thought he had 'imaginary friends'. He tried to ignore them, but they called him things. Bad things. And whenever he got back at them, he got in trouble. He had stopped playing along time ago and just tried to get away.
Currently, he hung out on the roof. He had learned how to get up there from Beth after he told her how the kids made fun of him. He sat on the edge, wishing he could play kick ball with the others until someone tried to peg him with a wall ball. Then he slunk back.
"Andy!!! Andy!!!" He heard someone call below. He carefully glanced over the side and groaned. It was Eden!! He scooted all the way back up against the wall. "Ah, c'mon, Andy! Don't you want to play? You can use my green DD jumpers instead of the pink ones!" She offered. He shuddered. No boy would be caught dead playing with DD jumpers, which were two pairs of jump ropes together that rotated different directions from the handles.
He stayed quiet as her calling got closer and closer until... "Andy!" She said from beside him.
"How'd you get up here, Eden?" He asked. She only smirked. 'She's soooo annoying!' He thought to himself. Eden was two years younger than him, but followed him around everywhere. She had brown eyes, dark skin, and really dark hair, and just would not leave him alone.
"What are you doing up here?" She asked him.
"None of your business." He told her smugly. "Now leave me alone!" He demanded, pointing out toward the playground.
She pouted. "Fine, I don't care!" She turned on her heel and climbed back down. He shook his head. 'Crazy girl!' He thought to himself as he turned his head to the side to see a pair of eyes looking into his own. "Eden! I sa-" He stopped himself. "Hi Iris, sorry, thought you were stupid head." She laughed a little. "I don't know how she got on the roof, but I hope she doesn't do it again! My big sister taught me how to get on the roof so that they wouldn't make fun of me. They're really mean." He turned to her. "Did people make fun of you?" She nodded. "Are they the ones that hurt you?"
Iris looked down and nodded, tears coming to her eyes.
He nodded as well. "You probably won't want to talk about it with me, cause I'm a boy, but my Mommy is really nice, and she can see you to. She can help sometimes." She looked back over at him, cruiously. "She could help you, too. She'll understand, she's like me." The bell rang, and Andy stood up. "I have to go now, Iris, but it was nice talking to you." He went over to the side of teh fence and started climbing down. He glanced over at Iris, but she was already gone.
-Later-
"Ohhh, don't take out his eye, he still needs it!!!" Andy told the TV. "He has to get money to pay for his daughter's medicine!!!! No!!!" Andy turned his head away as they removed the man's right eye. "Oh, I hope Mulder kicks your-"
"Andrew!" His Mom called. He looked up as his door opened. "Yes, Mom?" He asked sweetly. She was smiling, which was weird since she was usually grumpy after work and could be very scary. She came over and rubbed his head. "You are a very good boy." She told him. He looked at her suspciously as she kissed the top of his head and handed him a DVD. "You can watch the movie, but don't blame me if you get scared." She told him.
"All right!!!" He jumped off his bed and went over to the DVD player, removing his X-File DVD for later. Sara shook her head and started to leave his room when she remmered what else she had come in there to do. "Andy?"
"Yeah?"
"This is for you." She dug something out of her pocket and tossed it to him. "She said for you to have it." He looked down and saw a gold chain with a charm that said 'Iris'.
Coming Attractions:
All American Boy
The three kids were all cuddled on the couch, the lights off and the windows covered. Beth had her back to the side and had her legs up on the couch. Andy was sitting behind her legs and had his on top of hers. Jamie was sitting upside down, his head almost on the floor and his legs curled over the top. They had food and drinks scattered everywhere, but they were too caught up in the old movie to really eat. It was late in the afternoon on Saturday, and their Mom was at work, and their Dad was gone for the weekend for his job.
"I want to tell you my secret now." The boy in the movie said. "I see people.... I see dead people.... Some of them scare me."
Andy scowled. "Wimp!!!" He called out as he threw a handful of pop corn at the TV. Beth and Jamie shoved him as they told him to be quiet. "But he's being a wimp!! It's not scary!" He complained.
"Not to you! You've never woken up to a half mutilated body part lying near you." She snapped at him.
"What'd you know?! Shane was very nice, he just dripped all over the bed!" They told him to shush, and went back to their movie. They were quiet for a while. They were just about to discover why the little girl was sick and were on the edge of their seats, never noticing the lock on the doors turning, or the door opening.
SLAM!!!
Jamie fell off the couch as Beth jolted, making Andy jolt as well. The light went on as they heard laughing. Bethany glared. "That wasn't funny!"
Dominic smirked. "Yes it was!" The three siblings on the couch glanced at each other before they started throwing pop corn and candy in his direction. He dodged most of it, until Jamie picked up a milk dud, aimed, and shot, pegging Dom right in the forehead. They dropped their ammo and laughed. Dominic rubbed his forehead, looking not as amused as they were. He went over to where Jamie had been sitting and took his place, tossing popcorn at him as he cleared the seat off. "Hey!" Jamie complained. Dom pointed to his forehead, where a red welt was beginning to form. Jamie started laughing again as Dominic kicked him playfully. "You are your damn aim." He murmured.
"Leave him alone, he can't help his deadly aim." Bethany said as she shoved his shoulder and turned up the volume on the movie. Andy scooted closer to Dom and stared at him. He leaned in and put his finger to the side of Dom's chest and felt his ribs. "Dominic, don't ya eat?" The teenager flinched back. "Yeah, I do. It just doesn't stay."
Andy frowned. "Well, where does it go?" He asked. Beth and Jamie started giggling as Dominic coughed and grabbed the remote from Beth to turn up the volume, trying to distract him. The little boy was not so easily discourage. "Well, did it run away?" That caused another round of laughter. Andy didn't see what was so funny, he just wanted to know where everything went. "C'mon, where does it go?" He kept pestering them until it wasn't funny anymore. "It's in the same place where Daddy buries all the dead bodies." Beth snapped at him. Andrew, being Andrew, didn't even flinch at the thought.
"It's in the backyard?" He asked as the big secret of the movie was about to be revealed.
"Andy!" All three teens shouted. He shrugged his shoulders. Bethany paused the movie. "Junior...." She said smugly. He hit her with a pillow. He HATED being called that. He didn't think he should be called Junior just because he looked like his Dad, though Beth and Jamie loved to call him that to be annoying. "Ready to be quiet?" She asked.
"Okay, I'll be quiet." He murmured. "But I'm not Junior!" He crossed his arms and slid down the couch.
-Later-
Andrew stomped up the stairs. 'It isn't fair!!!' He thought to himself. The big kids were watching a scary movie, but they said he couldn't watch it because there were things in it not suitable for someone only eight years old. To make things worst, Jeanne was trying to talk to him again. "Be quiet!" He told her as he passed her on the stairs. "You got me in trouble last time! Mommy hated the pink painted on her motorcycle!" He informed her. He stood still as she persisted. He began to listen again, when he remember that he wasn't suppose to and covered his ears. "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Grandma Lizzie!! Jeanne won't leave me alone!!!" He whined out. He saw his great great grandmother appear, hands on her hips, reminding him of what his Mom looked like when he put the frog in the coffee maker. She tilted her head and scolded the young teenaged wielder. Jeanne hissed, but left.
Andy smiled and thanked her before he went into his room, slamming the door behind him. He went over to his desk and turned on the light. He took out his Magic the Gathering cards and started going through them to make up a good deck. Nicky, Chris, and Dominic had taught him how to play when he was younger, and when they had grown out of it, he and Jamie had inherited their cards. Just as he had finished his new dragon deck, he heard the springs on his bed go down. He turned in his chair and saw someone sitting down on it, their face hidden in their knees.
"Hello?" Andy asked it. It didn't respond. He came closer and studied it. The 'it' was a girl in a green tube top and jean pants. She had blonde hair mixed with red, and her nails had a broken set of those nails that changed color when you touched it with the right button. He went over to the bed and sat down next to her, careful not to scare her away. "My name's Andy. What's yours?"
The girl turned her head and faced him. She looked confused, but didn't ask anything. He saw she had a necklace and leaned forward to look at it. "Iris. Is that your name? If it is, it's really pretty." He told her quietly. She gave him a strange sorta half smile before she looked around his room, not sure if she should be there. "It's okay that your here." He assured her. "A lot of people like you come here." She nodded and hugged her knees to her chest. Andy looked down and saw that she had blood stains on the front of her pants in the place where you really don't want it, so he decided not to ask her about how she died. Besides, she didn't look like she wanted to talk.
Andy held up his deck and started telling her about the cards. Iris seemed to like it, and she smiled a bit more. Just as he showed her his 'Easter of the Dead' card, she looked uo toward his door and was gone. Just then, someone knocked on his door before coming in.
Sara looked inside his room curiously. She had felt her bracelet warm up when she had passed and decided to check in. "Hi sweetie, whatcha doin'?" She asked him.
He put his cards away in their holder. "Nothing, Mom. Beth and then wouldn't let me watch the movie with them! Tell them to let me watch!"
She shook her head. "You're still too young."
"But Mommmmmmmmmmmmmm......" He begged, using the dreaded Nottingham kicked puppy dog look. She turned her head in time. "Andrew, I said no. Besides, the movie is almost over." She looked over at his bed and noticed the dark spot on the edge. "Have another visitor?" She asked.
"Maybe." He told her. She sighed. "Pass me your comforter." He pulled it off his bed and handed it to her. "Please try to encourage the blood drenched ones to stay somewhere that doesn't stain." She told him as she carried it off to the washer. "It's always the bloody ones that like to visit." She mumbled.
-The Next Day-
Andrew hated recess. All the kids liked to make fun of him because they thought he had 'imaginary friends'. He tried to ignore them, but they called him things. Bad things. And whenever he got back at them, he got in trouble. He had stopped playing along time ago and just tried to get away.
Currently, he hung out on the roof. He had learned how to get up there from Beth after he told her how the kids made fun of him. He sat on the edge, wishing he could play kick ball with the others until someone tried to peg him with a wall ball. Then he slunk back.
"Andy!!! Andy!!!" He heard someone call below. He carefully glanced over the side and groaned. It was Eden!! He scooted all the way back up against the wall. "Ah, c'mon, Andy! Don't you want to play? You can use my green DD jumpers instead of the pink ones!" She offered. He shuddered. No boy would be caught dead playing with DD jumpers, which were two pairs of jump ropes together that rotated different directions from the handles.
He stayed quiet as her calling got closer and closer until... "Andy!" She said from beside him.
"How'd you get up here, Eden?" He asked. She only smirked. 'She's soooo annoying!' He thought to himself. Eden was two years younger than him, but followed him around everywhere. She had brown eyes, dark skin, and really dark hair, and just would not leave him alone.
"What are you doing up here?" She asked him.
"None of your business." He told her smugly. "Now leave me alone!" He demanded, pointing out toward the playground.
She pouted. "Fine, I don't care!" She turned on her heel and climbed back down. He shook his head. 'Crazy girl!' He thought to himself as he turned his head to the side to see a pair of eyes looking into his own. "Eden! I sa-" He stopped himself. "Hi Iris, sorry, thought you were stupid head." She laughed a little. "I don't know how she got on the roof, but I hope she doesn't do it again! My big sister taught me how to get on the roof so that they wouldn't make fun of me. They're really mean." He turned to her. "Did people make fun of you?" She nodded. "Are they the ones that hurt you?"
Iris looked down and nodded, tears coming to her eyes.
He nodded as well. "You probably won't want to talk about it with me, cause I'm a boy, but my Mommy is really nice, and she can see you to. She can help sometimes." She looked back over at him, cruiously. "She could help you, too. She'll understand, she's like me." The bell rang, and Andy stood up. "I have to go now, Iris, but it was nice talking to you." He went over to the side of teh fence and started climbing down. He glanced over at Iris, but she was already gone.
-Later-
"Ohhh, don't take out his eye, he still needs it!!!" Andy told the TV. "He has to get money to pay for his daughter's medicine!!!! No!!!" Andy turned his head away as they removed the man's right eye. "Oh, I hope Mulder kicks your-"
"Andrew!" His Mom called. He looked up as his door opened. "Yes, Mom?" He asked sweetly. She was smiling, which was weird since she was usually grumpy after work and could be very scary. She came over and rubbed his head. "You are a very good boy." She told him. He looked at her suspciously as she kissed the top of his head and handed him a DVD. "You can watch the movie, but don't blame me if you get scared." She told him.
"All right!!!" He jumped off his bed and went over to the DVD player, removing his X-File DVD for later. Sara shook her head and started to leave his room when she remmered what else she had come in there to do. "Andy?"
"Yeah?"
"This is for you." She dug something out of her pocket and tossed it to him. "She said for you to have it." He looked down and saw a gold chain with a charm that said 'Iris'.
Coming Attractions:
All American Boy