Chapter 2

Sally's POV

"Sally!" the professor scolded "I told you to come straight home!"

"I know." Sally quietly answered.

"And you've lost your hand!" the professor croaked.

"I know…" Sally repeated, again meekly.

"Who were you talking to anyways!" the professor demanded.

"The…the Pumpkin Prince s...Sir" Sally stammered.

"Oh Jack! Such a clever boy……" the professor mused.

"Mmmmhmmm." Sally agreed half dreamily.

"Well just don't stand there," the professor began "go to your room!"

Sally trudged up the stairs to her room, her footsteps softly echoing throughout the lab. She reached her room door and plopped down onto the bed. She touched her remaining hand and smiled to herself. This was the hand Jack had touched. She sighed and closed her eyes.

'It's too good to last.' A taunting voice sneered in her mind.

She swatted this thought away. She hoped Jack had found her hand. To think what her classmates do if they found her hand or saw it was missing! All these thoughts began to tire her, therefore causing her to fall into a deep sleep.

Jack's POV

Jack tossed the small hand in the air. 'He'd have to return this to Sally before everyone got to school. But How? Maybe she would come to school early.' Jack thought 'yeah he had seen her there early once.'

He set the small frail hand on his bedside drawer. He stared up at the ceiling and began to think.

'Would his classmates shun him because he hangs out with Sally RagDoll?'

'Should he care what they think?'

'Maybe he should care what they think, considering his reputation is at stake.'

'But Sally is nice and understanding'

"Uhhhhh!" Jack groaned while rubbing his aching skull.

He slowly got into his pajamas and walked over to the window. He stared out at the vast, dark village. His eyes lingered for a moment on the Professor's Lab. After a few moment of hoping that Sally would come to her window had passed Jack closed the curtain and headed to bed. He clicked of his skeletal light and fell asleep.