Chapter 2: Glove in the Closet

"Come on Sarah, I think it's a great day to make snow angels!" Jimmy squealed the girly way he does while getting on his snow pants. "Alright Jimmy just a second!" Sarah replied from her room as she woke up a bit. That boy was the only one Sarah probably would ever let sleep in her bed with her as he wouldn't try anything naughty, such a nice boy he was. Sleepily Sarah got up and dropped to the floor getting a shirt and pants on then rubbing her eyes a bit and sloshing out the door.

"Come on sleepy head!" Jimmy said anxiously and fully garbed. "Okay okay, hold your horses," the red head replied slipping into some boots and getting on a coat, "Let's go make those snow angels!" The two leapt happily out the door immediately being drenched in the dandruff of the heavens. Jimmy landed with a POOF! in a pile of snow on the ground and began joyously forming one of the angels. WOOFF! Sarah landed right beside him and visciously tore at the snow with her arms and limbs of all kind making her friend laugh hysterically. "There we go!" she said jumping up, "Just what anyone's shadow will look like after a fight with me!"

Slish slosh slish slosh. "What's that?" Sarah asked spinning around and spotting the shadow in the distance. "It's a monster Sarah!" Jimmy screamed drawing Sarah into a paranoia fit. 'Monster' the word echoed in her mind. She could remember some far off memory, something of a nightmare it seemed like. She turned on the TV one night and finally found one of those old black and white movies entitled the Terror of Baron Von Beef Dip. "Excuse me," Double-d's voice said as he reached the couple, "But I have a few questions I must ask you."


"How horrible!" Sarah cried viewing the old B-Movie. The evil Baron O' Beef Dip had just annihilated an entire town and sent Sarah crying to her room in fear. Ed frantically called after his littler sister trying to comfort her but to no avail. Seeing no other option Sarah hid beneath the covers in her room. Tears slipped down her eyes as the door creaked open a bit and Ed entered. Light spilled out about her covers along with her brother's shadow while she sniffled beneath and looked towards her closet at the far side of the room. She could just barely make out something in it, a piece of torn clothe connected to a withered glove it seemed. If she could just dash in there, would Ed still find her?

Taking up her courage the littler sibling darted out and sped for the closet at top speed only to have Ed grab her. "There you are baby sister!" he cried joyously, "Now let's get back to the movie, I'll close your eyes at the scary parts okay?" Sarah kept crying a bit but nodded after giving her brother a hug and climbed on his back for a piggy back ride to the couch. She could just barely make out a glove like thing connected to clothe, just barely…


"Is that all you remember?" Double-d asked curiously, "Just seeing Nazz yesterday and then she left for something she said was important?" "Yes, we told you already Double-d," Jimmy explained with his eyes closed, "she just said it was real important, we didn't know she was attacked or anything…" Sarah nodded her head in agreement and looked away, "Yeah, we had no idea…" "Well I didn't think you two would as it happened at 2 in the morning," Double-d told catching Sarah's attention and causing Jimmy to let out a gasp. "Well I gotta go wake Eddy and Ed up, we still have work to do it seems."

Suddenly Double-d's cell phone rang and he picked it up saying, "Hello…" "He's next to the candy store…" "Who is this?" Double-d asked irritated, "What do you want?

You have the wrong number and I-" "He saw the attacker…" At this Double-d dropped the phone then ralizing it had fallen picked it back up, "Who are you and what is your location!" "He's next to the candy store…hehe, have fun…" With that the phone hung up before Double-d had a chance to say anything more then turned to the two younger children shouting, "I got a lead, have to go wake the others, see ya later!"

Double-d shot off into the snowy horizon disappearing rather quickly. "Well Nazz is in the hospital…" Sarah sighed and winced, "What do we do?" "We should help her!" Jimmy replied immediately and grabbed Sarah dragging her inside the house. The red head grabbed the frame of the door ceasing the pulling on the her body, "Jimmy, Double-d and his pals can handle it, in fact, hows about you get going home? You'll be safer there." Jimmy's expression dropped as his hands let go of his friend and he thought. Sarah wandered into her house and without saying another word hoisted Jimmy out of their and slammed the door locking him out.

Sarah sniffed a bit remembering the two days of the past and the conclusion of it. The horror, her little secret, her little skeleton in the closet that she hadn't even known about! It was unfair and terrifying but it had happened and she couldn't take it. Hastily she ran upstairs as fast as she could, tore into her room and slammed open her closet door breathing heavily. "It's not real, it never was!" she cried kneeling down on the floor crying, her tears flowing out of her eyes in sadness.


"Baby sister!" Ed shouted joyously creeping closer to her hiding place. The small girl had hidden herself under a pile of dirty clothes near her closet for two reasons. One, to stay warm and another to be near the closet and touch the glove she had seen the other night after running away from the movie. Giggling she crawled closer inch by inch to the leathery substance and touched it, though it did not feel like how she imagined it. She had thought of it being smooth and silky however the glove felt a bit chewed up and jaggedy. The nails on the glove were pitch black. Suddenly the clothes were thrown back and Ed grabbed his younger sibling causing her to forget about the object and continue with their game of hide and seek. "You're it!" he shouted and ran off as she began counting.
"My word!" Double-d gasped as his two friend's eyes went wide at the scene. There before them layed Kevin beneath some ruffled clothe. "Ed! Inspect!" Eddy ordered and the big boy began touching the jock boy's body in various places. Double-d got out some equipment and confirmed that he was still alive and swore that he could hear Eddy curse under his breath. At the top of Kevin's forehead were a few puncture marks. "Wonder what could have done this, and so neatly too…" Double-d pondered aloud and Eddy told Ed to pick Kevin up.

Double-d gasped looking up and seeing some words written in what appeared to be graffiti resembling blood on the wall in the alley. 'FROG MELT KID STRIKES!' is what it said with a picture of a head in shadows with two points at the top of the head on both sides like a little devil or something. The bricks in the wall reminded Double-d of bleachers he noticed as Ed and Eddy looked up. The smart Ed looked in back of him as the alley reminded him more and more of a gym for some reason or another. There was grahfitti everywhere of sports equipment, various balls in particular.

Edd began shaking a ton and finally his eyes came to rest on a particular object in back of him. It was a humanoid figure with the head of the devil creature with batman sort of ear things for horns and three fingered hands that looked like suction cups in a way on the end. The eyes looked like goggles without straps over where his eyes shood be and a dome figure seperated the horns at the top of the head. About its feet swirled what appeared to be a sort of cape or cloth or something. Suddenly the figure sprung to life and the cape spread out into four ripped up long cloth strips. Two of the strips rose above his shoulders and head while the other two nearly touched the ground. FWOOM! The thought to be predator was gone in one sweeping motion as it zoomed upwards when its cape slammed to the ground making an enourmous wind propelling it upwards to the rooftops.

"What was that!" Eddy yelled feeling the wind from behind him while Double-d just gawked, "Yo Double-d? Sure it was a big gust of wind but it didn't freeze you over did it?" Edd snapped back to reality realizing that the other two had not seen what had just happened, either that or they had completely ignored. Figuring that the being had just been a mirage Double-d helped pick Kevin up and begin carrying him. As they left Double-d looked back and was surprised to see the the walls were clean, no graffiti at all just plain bricks, not even the bleacher design was left or the words of the perpatrator. "This cold must be getting to me," Double-d told himself as Eddy said, "We had better get paid for this assignment!"


Sarah huffed and puffed into her hands trying to keep herself warm out in the freezing cold as she traveled to Peach Creek Red Cross. After hearing what had happened to Nazz she just had to see her pal and check up on how she was doing. She just could believe that Nazz had been attacked though, the head cheerleader, the girl every boy wanted to be with and have descendants with, attacked! It just didn't seem possible for such a perfect person to suffer such a fate, Sarah just had to find out what happened.

According to Double-d's report she had been reported to have been assaulted in the AKA Makeup Department Factory but no marks at all were found that would have seriously wounded her, in fact no marks at all were found except for a bit of red were her head had hit the wall hard when she fell. "Heya Sarah!" Johnny exclaimed rushing up to her from the other side of the street, "What's up?" "Oh just going to check up on Nazz, did you know she was in the hospital?" Sarah replied with her head down. "Oh yeah, sure did, Double-d came and questioned me and Plank here about her. I can't believe she was attacked!" he told her.

"Yeah I know!" Sarah agreed perking up a bit and looking at the odd boy, "It's so strange, all that I remember her talking about was like a little accident she had as a kid. The strange thing is that she was raped or mugged or anything, just…smiling unconciously with her eyes open…" "Oh so that's how it was?" Johnny asked looking at her, "I never really got any details on her condition, just knew that she was attacked." The two children walked alongside each other for a bit through the snow breathing in and out just looking at the ground or in front of them.

"Well gotta go, here's my stop," Johnny told Sarah as he looked at the sign before him that said, Peach Creek Nature Trail, and darted off to the side leaving Sarah to ponder things on her own. Her mind crept back to when she was little and worried yet again about the glove in the closet. It was all just so clear to her, the paleness of it with the black fingernails and the chewy texture that it felt like. It sent a shiver down the girl's spine just thinking about it.


"Ed, what do you think it is?" Sarah asked her big brother whom she had finally revealed the object to. The older sibling touched it and squeezed it in various manners before letting go of it. The glove dropped to the floor with a THUNK! and Ed turned to her. "It felt cold and old…" he told her, "Why not check out what is all inside there?" "Because," she replied looking a bit irritated, "There are still all these boxes and stuff blocking the way into the closet that Mom and Dad still need to move!"

"Darn parents," Ed commented. "Got that right!" Sarah agreed picking up the hand like object again and feeling, "The thing makes me feel all crawly inside, ya know?" "Sure do, it's how I feel whenever I think of what it would be like if zombies or something were crawling all over me." The girl just looked at her brother oddly and dropped the hand before gulping, "Ya think that's what it is?" "Nah," Ed replied, "If it was it would've eaten you in your sleep by now." Sarah gulped again.


"Here's miss Nazz for you," the nurse told the younger girl showing Sarah the way in, "She just recovered this morning." "Nazz!" Sarah cried rushing over to her. "Sarah!" Nazz cried back and caught her in an embrace, "It's so good to finally get a visitor! I thought Kevin would've at least bothered to come and see me." "Well you know that Kevin, he has a lot to do all the time he says," Sarah told her, "Me and Jimmy were so worried about you!" "Oh man, I felt awful, the last thing I remember is someone grabbing ahold of me and then I woke up here, I feel so relieved!" Nazz sighed laying back on her bed. "So who attacked you, do you know? And why on earth were you at AKA Makeup Factory?"

"That's where I was?" Nazz said, "I can hardly remember anything from that day except I know I talked to a few people like you, Jimmy, and my Mom. I know I was attacked but, man, I just don't remember anything really other than that stuff, I know I had something on my mind all day long but I just can't remember what it was." "You were talking about a little accident you had with makeup when you were little ya know," Sarah informed her sitting down on a stool.

The older girl just stared at her for a bit before saying, "no…I don't know, I have no idea what you're talking about…" Sarah looked at her friend oddly as well and decided to change the subject, "So how're things and service here in the hospital?" "Oh man, it sucks, all they give me to drink is this orange juice stuff and some other things, and they even took away my clothes so I have nothing to really wear other than the little apron they give you and stuff." "Well glad I'm not here haha!" Sarah laughed joyously. "You said I had been talking about a little makeup accident," Nazz said, "Was I troubled about it cause it seems silly to me at the moment before I can remember it again." "Oh yeah!" Sarah said rolling her eyes in a bored manner, "You would not shut up about it and kept blushing in embarrasment whenever me and Jimmy sang about it. It was just awful."

"Hmm…don't you have anything like that that you're afraid of?" Nazz asked causing Sarah to stop immediately and turn a tiny bit pale, "Sarah?" "Well yes, but it's much more serious than any makeup incident!" "What is it?" Nazz asked leaning on her arm. At this Sarah was taken aback. It had been at the back of her mind all day long and now it just sprung forth full force. The closet, the glove, the red brownish tears in it, the black finger nails, it made Sarah want to upchuck. "No!" she screamed startling Nazz and nearly making her jump out of bed, "I'm sorry Naz but I gotta go!"

Nazz was left blinking in her room as Sarah darted down the hallway past a group of doctors who were wheeling a young boy with a red hat and three strands of orange hair to the ER. "No no no!" she screamed as she leapt hastily out into the snowy grounds beyond the building for the injured, "I just can't take it! Fine, I'll just show myself, once and for all, that nothing is there!"


"Well here we go…" the young girl told herself moving the boxes full of moving equipment out of the way. Well, actually they sorta fell more than moved making a loud racket everywhere. Sarah immediately sprung into action digging the big objects out of the way and tunneling to the closet door where the black finger nailed object waited for her. "Finally," she panted, "I'll get to see all of it!" Moving the last bit of boxes out of the way the little girl gripped her hands on one of the handles and pulled. Ed arrived just in time to hear a scream from his sister that would've woken the whole cul-de-sac.
"Just run from it," a happy toy sort of voice said in her mind as the girl walked into her room present day gripping onto the handle crying, "If there is nothing to fear why on earth are you crying? There is something dreadful to fear, that night years ago when you opened this door, who's to say it won't be any different this time? Sure everyone found out but who says it's gone."

Tears were now streaming in a river down Sarah's cheeks onto the floor from fear; she felt as if her lungs were being crushed and her eyes were on fire. She kept crying and sniffling and hacking as she creeked open the door. "You shouldn't do it! Don't! Run! You can't face your fears not like this you moron!" the voice yelled hysterically. WHAM! She flung open the door and this time there was not a sprawled out, beaten to death corpse, but a small horned costume being with three suction cup like fingers and goggles where its eyes should that looked up at her uncrossing its arms and leaning on the doorframe as it said, "boo…" The cul-de-sac was silent.


Well how's that for another chapter? I decided to use Ed's made up sidekick name for Eddy as the antagonist if you didn't notice (it's right out in front there) Thanks for the reviews, glad ya like it so far, hope to keep you entertained. Next chapter is going to focus around well...nevermind don't wanna spoil it wanna keep the suspense if there is any