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Author's
Note: Thankyou to my reviewers sofar,
it really encourages me to write more and since you asked so politely
here's the next chapter. I hope you like it. I also put it up
quickly coz I'm looking forward to chapter three! Anyway, please
review and I shall write more! Sorry if I didn't edit that well
too, it's not my forte.
The drive to the
abandoned castle grounds was a long one and if it wasn't for Joey
drumming on the headboard and the whirl of the motor all would be
silent. It wasn't an awkward silence, it was comfortable but Tom
still felt he had to talk.
"Joey, I've been meaning to talk
to you about something." He said, glancing at her then back at the
road. Joey stopped her drumming and looked over to Tom, tucking a bit
of hair out of her face. She had put on more make up since they left
Tom's parents' house. She had put on red lipstick and some dark
eye shadow that suited her down to a T. Joey had also done all she
could to get the curls out of her hair, as she liked it dead
straight, she had succeeded quite a bit but it still had a little
kink or two in it. All Tom had done to alter his appearance was mess
up his hair.
"Mmm?" She said.
"We always said we would
go to the same college, I was thinking that we should go to the one
just outside of town so we can stay with the band." Tom said. Joey
just sighed and looked out the window.
"Nah sorry Tom, change
of plans." She said.
"What?! We've been planning to go to
the same college since fifth grade and the band always said we would
stick together, you know Steph isn't going to college." Tom was
kind of annoyed, he was use to Joey changing her mind on small things
but she had always been true to her big promises why would she just
change her mind?
"I know but I can't stay in Denton, I don't
belong here." She said, slowly looking back at him.
"Of corse
you do, you-" Tom started but got interrupted by Joey.
"No, I
don't," She said firmly, looking at him again. "And either do
you, you know that. We're different from Denton people. I can't
stand it here, I need to break off and find where I do belong,
somewhere where I can live the way I want to. You know what I mean?"
Tom looked at her for a quick second and nodded. He felt the same way
sometimes. He didn't belong in Denton either, there was so many
things he always wanted to do but didn't feel comfortable in
Denton. Sometimes he wanted to break out and be who he wanted to be
but he couldn't, his family were all here, in the small town of
Denton. Joey was important to him though, she was the one person who
understood him, even just a little and he was the only person to even
slightly understand her with her unusual quirks.
"Yeah, I know
what you mean." He said, "And Joey, where ever you go, I'll
follow, okay?" Joey got a genuine sweet smile on her beautiful
face, which was hard to get from her.
"Okay," She said, "No
matter what happens we'll stick together." Tom nodded and it went
into that comfortable silence again. The rest of the car ride was
silent, well almost, until they reached the castle grounds.
They
stopped the car on the side of the road in front of the castle
grounds as it would be hard to drive a car up there. Tom and Joey
started walking up when they reached a gate with a sign that read
Enter at your own Risk. Joey stopped in front of it and
Tom continued.
"Dude, look at this sign, it's awesome."
Joey said, "I'm taking it home and putting it on my door." She
said and ripped it off the gate. Tom laughed and shook his head.
"Come on Joey, we haven't got all night." He said, half making
fun of her. Joey rolled her eyes and ran to catch up to him, hugging
the sign.
As they walked up neither of them spoke again, all
that could be heard were frogs in the over groan gardens croaking and
a few crickets too.
"You know, this place feels like it
requires? Singing." Tom said. Joey cracked a smile and said.
"Well then let's sing." And so she did, loudly too. "There's
a light," She yelled, rather than sang. "Over at the
Frankenstein place!" Tom started laughing,
"Where did you get
that song from?" Tom asked, still laughing.
"I don't know,
just kind of made it up on the spot." She said and shrugged, "Now
sing with me! There's a Light! Where Tom?" He laughed again.
"Burning in the fireplace." He said.
"'At a boy now all
together!" and they sang together as they reached their band
members. "There's a light, light, in the darkness of everybody's
life." As they finished they both cracked up laughing. Steph raised
an eyebrow to Chris, who just shrugged. They both ran over to Tom and
Joey.
"Man,
we could here you both the whole time you were singing." Chris
said. Joey and Tom grinned at each other.
"Now, lets see why
you dragged Joey and I all the way up here." Tom said.
"Hey,
I don't care anymore, I've got my cool sign." Joey state and
held it out for the other two to see. They laughed and Chris gave her
a thumbs up, indicating that he thought it was cool.
"It's
over here Tom." Steph said and gestured for him and Joey to follow
her and Chris.
The first thing they saw when they reached the
destination was a red tank, a partial wall full of controls and
another red thing that resembled a cocktail shaker on the ground.
"Dude." Was all Joey could say.
"What do you guys think,
think you can fix it up to get it working?" Chris asked, putting an
arm around Joey and one around Tom.
"I don't know, looks
pretty complex. What do you think Jo?" Tom said, still surveying
the machinery.
"I agree, it seems difficult but I think we can
do it." She said and looked over to Tom, they smiled at each other
and Tom nodded.
"That's the spirit!" Steph said
cheerfully.
"I'll go get some tools out of the trunk of my
care," Chris said as he started to walk away, down the path Joey
and Tom came from. "Stephy, show them the body."
Steph
gestured for the other two to follow her over some of the rubble to
the body. The body was not what Tom and Joey were expecting. First
thing is they couldn't tell how long it had been dead for, as it
was well preserved to say the least but that's not what was
shocking. It was a man in a red tattered corset and fishnets with
makeup, a boss tattoo and a face that looked almost identical to
Tom's, except with a lot of make-up.
"Wow," Joey said,
looking at the body then at Tom. "It's like a gay, dead and
therefore not as hot version of you!"
"That's what I
thought!" Steph exclaimed. Tom just nodded quietly, it did look
spookily a lot like him.
"At least now we know I would look
good in a corset and heels." He whispered. Joey laughed and said.
"Tell ya what, next time we go out you can wear my heels and I'll
buy you a corset for Christmas." Joey joked, Tom scoffed and Steph
went into hysterics and fell to the ground. Truth is Tom wouldn't
mind that, he would gladly walk around in heels and he was pretty
sure Joey knew that. "Steph, dude, it wasn't that funny." Joey
said starring at her friend laughing on the ground with a raised
eyebrow. Tom was now doing the same thing.
Just as Steph got
off the ground and wiped a tear from her eye did Chris get back
carrying a large toolbox.
"Here you go you science geeks." He
yelled to the from across the piles of rubble, "Let's get
started."
"Coming Chris." Steph yelled. Steph and Tom
made their way through the rubble back to the machinery but Joey
stopped to drag the body with her to save the effort of going back to
get it later.
