Second Haunting:
No, not again! Dark continued struggling as he clenched his eyes shut. Suddenly he felt something crash with his mouth and something invade his mouth, Dark increase his thrashing and finally broke free of his immobility. The force that was on his mouth disappeared as quickly as it got there. Dark sat up panting, what the hell was that? Nothing like this ever happened before...He stayed up for the rest of the night, the next thing he knew his alarm was giving out a distressed yet static-like wake up call.
Shit I'm going to be late! All thoughts on the night's events fled his mind. He got changed and ran downstairs, he grabbed an apple that was lying on the counter and ran out with his bag. While he was running, he started to eat the apple, on the way he spotted Krad who was walking calmly down the street.
"Yo! Aren't we going to be late if we keep walking?"
Krad checked his watch and gave Dark a funny look, "We still have half an hour until the bell rings and it only takes twenty minutes top to reach the school."
Dark smacked his forehead, "Damn it! I woke up earlier than I needed to, and now all I have is an apple for lunch!"
Krad pointed to the apple that Dark was eating, "You mean that one, the one you're eating?"
Dark stared at the apple, "DAMN IT! Now I don't even have a lunch!"
Krad just snickered, "I didn't think you'd get anymore forgetful than you already are. Did I mention that you look worse then yesterday? You look like you've seen a ghost."
Dark stuck his tongue out at Krad, "I'm going to starve now."
Krad sighed and reached into his bag and pulled out an obento, "You're just lucky I packed two lunches today, I had a feeling I was going have to share my lunch with you again."
Dark looked at the obento, and Krad, "Aww! You always look out for me don't you? I'm the luckiest Dark in the world with a bestfriend like you!"
Krad rolled his eyes, "You're the only Dark in the world with a brain that wouldn't even be considered a brain."
The dark haired boy huffed, as he put the obento into his bag, "Hey Krad..."
"Hm?" Krad raised a brow.
"What's that thing called again? Where you're asleep and you can't move, and people think it's caused by spirits." Dark asked.
"Sleep paralyze? Why?" The blonde looked at his friend weirdly.
"Oh yea! That's it! Uhhh...I don't know, just curious I guess..." Dark answered.
"Hm..." Krad didn't look convinced, curiosity is a better explanation than, "I was paralyzed at night and I almost got raped by something and I think it's a ghost but I wouldn't know, I think it might be the stalker too but I have no proof. You think I'm crazy don't you?" Dark sighed and continued walking, Krad looked at his bestfriend, something was wrong, it wasn't hard to tell since Dark's nonstop talking mouth stopped talking.
Dark continued walking not noticing that Krad was waving his hand in front of his face until he ran into it, "Ow! What was that for?" Dark demanded while rubbing his nose.
"I've been waving my hand for some time now and you didn't notice until I smacked you on the nose. It was either my hand or the pole." Krad shrugged.
Dark looked in front of him, a few more steps and he would've walked into a pole like an idiot. "Oh..." He walked into the pole anyways, Krad raised a brow, Dark just ran into a pole that he was warned about two seconds ahead of time.
Suddenly this kid ran into Dark and tried to take his bag away, Dark tugged at it and got it loose from the kid's grip, the kid let out a, "Damn it!" And ran off.
"Uhhh...what was that about?" Dark asked, Krad shrugged and looked at the kid running off.
"He was trying to mug you, or pickpocket you, but you never keep anything in your pockets so he couldn't have stolen anything." Krad stated, Dark nodded and they continued walking.
In the classroom Dark was looking around when he spotted the boy who tried to take his bag, "Hey it's you! Kid who tried to take my bag!"
The teacher looked at Dark, "Is there a problem back there?"
"Yea! This kid tried to take my bag today!"
The kid shot up from his seat, "What?"
"You tried to take my bag on the way to school!"
The teacher apparently gave up trying to calm the boys down and waited to see which one would prove the other wrong.
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did you take a good look at my face when I tried to take your bag this morning?"
"Ha! See, you DID try to take my bag!"
"What? I didn't say that!"
It appeared that the teacher decided on the guilty one and stood up, "Young man, I'll be seeing you after school today, Dark, please take your seat."
Dark smirked at the boy and the boy returned a scowl. In the middle of class, Dark fell asleep woke snapped out of it when the teacher asked him, "Dark, how old was this twenty year old man?"
And Dark being half asleep answered groggily, "Thirteen."
The class laughed as Dark fell back asleep; the teacher looked annoyed, "Dark! Try again, how old was this TWENTY year old man?"
Dark didn't bother to look up, "I told you, thirteen!"
"Dark Mousy!"
Dark groaned, "Five more minutes..."
The class roared with laughter, the teacher was about to yell when the bell rang. Krad poked Dark several times before getting him awake, "What do you want Krad? Waking me up in this unearthly hour."
Krad sighed, "It's not an unearthly hour Dark, its noon and time for lunch."
Dark shot up, "Lunch? Where's lunch?"
"In you bag?"
"Right, I knew that."
Krad sighed, "I'm sure you did, come on, let's go already, Daisuke and Satoshi are going to be waiting."
Dark looked at him a funny look, "Wha?"
"The other two are waiting."
"Oh."
The two made their way up the stairs onto the roof, Daisuke greeted them first, "Hi! What took you so long?"
Krad looked at Dark annoyed, "This guy fell asleep in class and wouldn't wake up."
"Did you try kissing him?" Satoshi asked while eating.
Krad and Dark blushed, Dark shot back, "I bet you wake Dai-chan like that don't you?"
Satoshi replied sarcastically, "Yea, I do, lots of times!"
Daisuke blushed as he tried to hide his face, Dark laughed, "Look what you did! You embarrassed Dai-chan! There's a new meaning for redheads now!"
Krad snickered along; Satoshi just glared at the two and looked at the redhead who was as red as his hair.
Dark finished his lunch and looked out, it was cloudy and it looked like it could rain any moment then. He looked down at the courtyard to see a shadow like figure slowly making its way towards the middle of the place, its eyes never leaving Dark. Why you...Dark took off down the stairs towards the courtyard.
Krad yelled after him before getting up and following him, "Dark!"
When Dark reached the courtyard, he found it free of any shadow figures, Krad came up behind him, "What the hell are you doing?"
Dark didn't hear him, he looked around to find no trace of anyone standing there, the last thing he heard was "Hey! Heads up!" and "Dark!" then everything went pitch black.
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Krad stared in amazement at his swirlyeyed friend lying on the floor. He was usually able to dodge in coming sports equipment with ease, but just then he was hit in the face with a soccer ball, and it wasn't even going very fast...very un-Dark like.
"What just happened?"
"He was all over the place senpai! Honest! I had to kick the ball several times just to hit him!"
"What? You had to kick it several times just to hit him?"
"Uhhh...hey, shouldn't you get him to the medical room or something?"
Krad looked at the boy then at Dark, "Yea...I think I should...good idea..."
He carried the unconscious Dark back into the building and into the nurse's room. The nurse came rushing up to him, "Oh my, what happened here?"
"He got hit in the face with a soccer ball...and a pole." He said as he laid Dark down onto the bed.
"Oh..."
Krad looked at Dark who had a scratch on his nose leveled with just under his eyes, it was bleeding slowly, "Maybe you should put a band-Aid on that or something..."
The nurse looked at him with a smile, she handed him a band-aid, "Good idea, would you like to stay with him until he wakes up?"
"Err...sure..."
"What a nice friend you are." The nurse left just like that.
Most nurses would check for broken noses and such, she didn't even stick the band-aid on him. Why did she give it to me? I'm not the one who fainted with a bloody nose. Is she seriously a qualified nurse?
Krad sighed and stuck the band-aid on Dark's nose; Dark moaned and turned on the bed. Krad brushed the hair out of Dark's face, looks like he hasn't slept in ages. Krad looked around; there wasn't a chair in sight, what kind of medical room is this? He kneeled down by the bed and rested his head on his arms; Dark had other ideas for Krad's arm though, he grabbed one of the arms and started to hug it like a teddy bear. Krad looked at Dark who was still asleep, and tugged his arm, apparently Dark had a death grip on the arm, and soon the blonde had no choice but to give up.
Dark cuddled the arm a bit and mumbled smiling, "Mmm...vanilla...just like Krad..."
Krad blushed, wha? Is he still asleep? I don't smell like vanilla! Do I? He looked at the happily sleeping Dark and smiled; he rested his head on his free arm and soon fell asleep.
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Dark woke up to the smell of vanilla, mmm...vanilla, Krad...mmm...vanilla Krad...his violet eyes fluttered open and he saw that he was hugging someone's arm, someone's pale arm, he followed the arm down to the owner of it, Krad. So it IS Krad! Wait...huh? Krad? Krad was asleep, Dark looked at his sleeping friend and smiled, he looked around the room, I'm in the medical room...how'd I end up here? But damn that was the best sleep I've had for awhile now. He looked at Krad and smiled, you're always looking out for me aren't you? The best friend a Dark could have...he kissed the blonde's head.
The blonde mumbled a bit and his eyes opened lazily, "Wha? Dark? What are you doing here?"
"I could be asking you the same thing."
Krad looked around the room and looked back a Dark then tilted his head, "Huh?"
Dark snickered, Krad looks so cute when he's just woken up.
Krad rubbed his eyes, "Oh yea...you got knocked out by the soccer ball and I carried you here...then I must have fallen asleep."
Dark blinked, and he blinked again, Krad carried me here? Did he know that I was hugging his arm? Did I say anything stupid? Oh god...
Krad looked at his watch, "Well, it looks like I got to class because of you."
They looked out the window where a baseball game was being held, Dark started to act like an announcer, "The ball is going back! The boy in green in going after it, he jumps, he trips and hits his head and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to the infield, this is a terrible day for the boy in green's team."
Krad started laughing, Dark looked at him, "What?"
Krad controlled his laughter, "Shall I repeat what you just said?"
Dark nodded, "Please do."
"The boy in green jumps, he trips and hits his head and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to infield." Krad snickered.
Dark laughed, "Opps, my bad, looks like his head's still on his shoulders."
The blonde looks outside, "I wonder who the umpire is."
Dark shrugged, "Who knows, he's got a mask on."
Krad asked him, "What's he wearing under his mask?"
"Err...his face?"
Krad rolled his eyes, "Nevermind. Let's go home already."
Dark froze for a moment, right now; he dreaded the word home, when they went back into the classroom to grab their bags. Dark grabbed his bag but then a fluffy white head with long ears popped out, "Kyu!"
The boys took a moment to comprehend their situation before realizing that it was With, "With! What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at home?"
Its head drooped and it gave a sad, "Kyu..."
Dark sighed, "Oh well, it's time to go home anyways. Hey Krad, can we not take the forest route?"
"Huh? Why?"
"No reason, just don't feel like it...hey why's there a band-aid on my nose?"
"Fine...that's where the soccer ball hit you the hardest, and the pole from this morning too, try not to get it bleeding again."
They walked down the street and when they came to a house a block or two away from Dark's Krad turned in, "See you tomorrow."
"Bye."
Krad disappeared behind the door and Dark looked at With, "I really don't want to go home either..."
"Kyu, kyu..."
They walked home, With perched on Dark's shoulder. "What should we have for dinner? What should I have for dinner? You have your strawberries, I swear don't you ever get tired of eating strawberries?"
"Kyu!"
"I'm thinking...pizza..."
When the walked into the door there was a cold chill around the house, it's warmer outside. He walked into the kitchen and grabbed a pamphlet with the pizza menu inside he read through it, vegetarian pizza: pepper, mushrooms, tomato, and chicken...chicken? Let's get something else...hot chocolate with ice...what a weird place, opened 7 days a week, closed on Sundays...free coffee, a dollar per cup, no refills. Dark sweatdropped at all the typos and settled for something he knew couldn't go wrong, Hawaiian. He picked up the phone and dialed to the place.
"Hello? I'd like to order a medium Hawaiian pizza."
"Do you want cheese on that?"
"Err...yes."
"What about pineapple?"
"...sure..."
"Ham?"
"Why not?"
"How about tomato sauce?"
Dark sweatdropped, "Okay..."
"What size is this?"
"Medium."
"Is it for here or to go?"
"Uhhh...to go."
When Dark finally finished ordering his pizza With was finished with his strawberries. Dark smiled and poked With in the stomach, "You're going to get fat if you keep on eating like this."
"Kyu!" With said and fell over from the poke.
Dark laughed, then the phone rang, he picked it up, "Moshi moshi?"
There was nothing but static at the other end, that's weird...he hung up. Then the phone started to ring again, Dark picked it up again, still static, if this is a joke, it's nowhere near funny. Dark slammed the phone down, but the second he did it started to ring again. He picked it up and yelled, "STOP IT! IF THIS IS A FUCKING JOKE IT'S NOT FUNNY!" and he slammed it back down, but he didn't pick it up when it rang again. It didn't stop ringing, Dark opened his answering machine so he didn't have to put up with the ringing. His answering machine clicked.
"Hi this is Dark! I'm probably home right now but I'm too lazy to answer the phone, and I don't want to risk talking to people I don't like, leave a message and if I don't call you back, you're one of the people I don't like. Fuck off and have a nice day. This is where you say something-beep-"
While it was recording Dark just listened, there was a lot of static but soon it changed to panting, heavy panting, the type where they'd run a few laps around the field and they'd be out of breath and sweaty. The panting continued for quite awhile until Dark couldn't take it anymore; he unplugged the phone and turned off the answering machine. But even though he unplugged the phone it rang, what the fuck? Dark picked up the phone and the panting continued; Dark slammed it back down and muted it. He backed up until his back was against the fridge, what the hell's going on?
Even With was scared, the rabbit jumped down and crawled onto his stomach for reassurance from his master, Dark himself was panting, panting from fear. When he controlled his breathing again, he could hear someone else panting, and it wasn't him. Dark got up and looked around, With was hiding behind his leg, Dark yelled out to the house, "Get out or I'll set the dogs on you!"
Actually, Dark only had With, but saying set the dogs out was better than 'I'll set my pet rabbit on you and if he's not too scared to listen to me, and if you don't have strawberries or look too big and scary, he'll come and maybe even nip at your finger!' And it was way better than, 'Once I get my legs moving, I'll find you and tie you up if I can then make you eat the mystery meat from the back of my fridge!'
The panting didn't cease, but there was dead silence when someone knocked at the door. Dark walked very slowly to the door and opened it, it was the pizza boy.
"Here's you Hawaiian pizza with cheese, tomato sauce, pineapple, ham, on the dough. It even comes with a free bag of peanuts!"
"Err...thanks."
Dark paid the boy and brought the pizza into the kitchen, he looked at the pizza lid, is said, "Warning: may be hot while fresh." Wow...who would've thought? Dark thought sarcastically, he took a look at the bag of peanuts which said, "Warning: may contain traces of nuts." Who would've ever guessed that there would be nuts inside a bag of peanuts...Dark rolled his eyes and opened the pizza box. With buried his head into Dark's shirt when large red eyes appeared in front of him, Dark looked up quickly and the red eyes vanished, he then saw a shadow in the corner of his eyes and he whipped his head around just to find nothing. He ate a slice of pizza and decided that he wasn't hungry so put the pizza into the fridge and went upstairs and got ready for bed.
While he was sleeping, the panting started again, Dark couldn't sleep with all the noise, when he finally fell asleep, he woke up to be pinned my something, his eyes fell onto his clock, 3:30 in the morning, the panting was still panting, he could see the pair of red eyes hovering right above him, Dark was immobilized again, not again!
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Nya Ya, Dark's kind of a dope, but we all love him anyways, since he's still Dark, and Krad's not all that a sadistic bastard! I hope this is scary enough to give you goosebumps!