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Chapter Six

Unexpected Surprise

Brooke opened one eye and yawned as she usually did when she woke up then rolled over and closed her eyes. She heard her door open and close so she smuggled under the covers more in hope that it was some stupid dream that would let her sleep.

A small pitter patter crept across the floor. It sounded like, like.....bare feet. ( ba-gasp-dumdumdum! XD )

Seeing as she knew someone was in the room she pushes the covers back a bit and looked around. Then she sat up and whispered, "I know someone's in here, Evy, Hal-" she broke off remembering they weren't with her, but someone else was.

The sound of feet stopped a a little jingling sound was heard.

Instantly she got up and looked off the edge of the bed. "Santa?"

As she looked down a dog jumped up at her, and not a ferocious blood thirsty dog mind you, a small sort of dog.

It was a thick small dog with white fur and a large brown spot near its hide and big blue eyes big enough to melt your heart. It also had stitches almost all over its body and two metal stubs protruding slightly from each side of its neck. ( Think of a Franken-dog people!)

"Aw! What a sweet little dog, your so cute! Do you belong to Jack?" She started petting the dog around its ears when a child popped up from the side of the bed.

"Sparky is my dog, not my uncle's. Who are you?" She spoke with a small young voice of a child who knew more than she should at her age.

"Uh, hello, I'm Brooke, a friend of Jack's." She felt strange introducing herself to a little girl, especially one who sounded intelligent and less childish than most kids did. Plus, she didn't like introducing herself to new people; at all.

The child stared at her with a sudden deep interest then a clouded expression appeared along with a smile. "So your that girl my uncle keeps talking about. I'm Anne, my uncle Jack's niece. I came up here to wake you up and see if you were hungry."

Anne had a skeletal face somewhat like Jack's did; the deep black eyes and mouth. She wore a long patchwork dress that stopped at her ankles and a black spider bow in her long red hair. Her skin was paper white and stitched in several places along her body. In other words, this kid was irresistibly adorable.

"That's so sweet, thank you. Can you just wait for me to get dressed and I'll be right out?" Brooke leaped out of bed and headed towards the bathroom as Anne walked outside the room and waited with Sparky at her heels.

Brooke then walked into the shower for a little bit then got out and dried herself and redressed in her clothes. Before she walked out she ran a comb through her hair so it didn't look entirely bad.

Anne was sitting besides her dog waiting patiently and looked up surprised when Brooke came into the hallway. "Wow I didn't expect you to go so quickly, my mommy always takes a long time in the shower."

'Anne is such a polite child, Jack's lucky to have her as a niece, but I do wonder who her mom is.' Brooke thought as she followed Anne down the stairs and into a long hallway then after that down the stairs and into the kitchen where a whole table of food was laid out.

Sparky ran and skidded over to his food bowl and started devouring its contents with insane speed.

"Did you cook this all by yourself Anne?"

"Yup, every bit of it."

"And your how old?"

"Six years old."

"Wow." Brooke was more astounded than she'd been in a while. Jack's niece could cook entire breakfast buffet all by herself and she was a six year old. Halloween Town truly was a weird place.

She sat down next to Anne and started eating bits of everything. It tasted like breakfast bits of heaven.

Around the time when she was almost full with food Jack walked in.

"Oh I didn't know you two were awake, especially you Brooke. And I also see you've met my niece and tried her wonderful cooking skills."

Brooke smiled and leaned back in her seat. "Yeah."

Anne glanced at both of them and a look of extreme happiness and hope flitted across her face.

Jack cleared his throat then stepped over to Brooke. "Oh, and I need to talk to you about something if you'll follow me for a second."

She followed him past a couple of rooms fully decorated as each holiday.

There was Christmas, the one decorated the best, Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, Easter, New Years, and even Hanukah (no offense to any Jewish people reading this or any Jewish people at all! ).

Then he stopped in front of the room decorated like the Real World ( don't ask me, like Mrs. Peters my ILA teacher said, I'm insane XD ) and turned to face her.

"I feel I should explain Anne's parentage and how I'm involved in it, sorta."

Brooke stared. "Please don't tell me this is gonna be an episode of Jerry Springer, please!"

He raised a brow then shook his head and continued. "Well, a while ago me and Sally had a little romance. Nothing big but big enough for people to call us a couple. To make the long story short we discovered the hard way that some people weren't meant to be regardless of what they said. So we split up and went other ways. She went off and married my brother Brack ( again, do not ask! ) and had Anne together. You can see how she looks like me a bit but she's my brother's kid so there you go. I don't exactly know why but I thought you should know that." He finished somewhat lamely.

"Wow, that wasn't expected. I thought at first she was your child. But your lucky to have such a sweet niece." Brooke said with some surprised still in her voice.

Ottsel of the Ages: Sorry to leave it there but yea. And there it is folks! Any better for ya? Review and tell me what you think!