Here is another chapter. I don't know why I write so many chapters in one day. I'm just really impatient to get on with the story. Oh well, enjoy!

"Thank you for the dinner Mrs.Skellington." Maria said. "That was the best spaghetti and eyeballs I have ever had."

"You're welcome Maria." Sally replied cheerfully. She started to collect the dishes so that she could clean them, but Maria stopped her.

"I'll do the dishes Mrs.Skellington. After all after that delicious dinner it is the least I can do."

"Well, thank you Maria. That's very thoughtful of you."

But Chris was upset by this. He had been hoping that after dinner, if he had the guts to ask her, he wanted to take her up to the hill. Suddenly, an idea popped into his head.

"I'll help with the dishes." Chris said. His parents starred at him in disbelief. Chris had never offered to help to the dishes before. Why now? They thought. Although Jack had a pretty good idea of why he was, but he didn't say anything about it.

"That's a good idea." Jack said.

So Chris went into the kitchen to help Maria with the dishes. Maria also thought that this would be an excellent opportunity to find out information about the Skellingtons, even though she didn't want to.

"So Chris," Maria tried to say casually, "What do you and your family liked to do?"

"Uh, well we don't really do anything together. I just kind of like to sit by myself and think, or read."

"Oh. Well is there anything your dad or mom doesn't like."

Chris found this question a tad odd, but he wanted to keep the conversation going as long as he could. So he answered it. "Well my mom is afraid of toads, but I don't know much about my dad."

Maria was a little disappointed that she couldn't get anymore information out of Chris, but she didn't want to get any more information out of him so she just stopped talking. When the dishes were finally done Chris asked the question that he wanted to ask her all day.

"So Maria, since the dishes are done, I was just wondering if maybe you wanted to see something."

"Could you be a little more specific?" Maria asked

"Would you like to see a hill?"

"A hill?"

"Yah. It's really cool."

"You mean just the two of us."

Chris gulped, his voice becoming more and more nervous. "Uh, yah, if that's alright."

Maria thought for a moment, and finally came to the conclusion that this might be one of her only chances to ask Chris about his family alone.

"I would love too." Maria said

Chris smiled one of his best smiles. He was very happy, and relieved that she said yes.

"Great. Well let's get going!"