Jane looked carefully to the alley behind the chinese restaurant and saw that nobody was there. She called Charles and they walked inside the dirty, narrow alley. They walked towards the dumpster and Jane sighed, disgusted. Charles helped her move the dumpster and, through the wormhole, they ended up in Holiday Island.
"What was that? " Charles asked.
"I have no idea, but it worked!" Jane yelled, excited.
Charles, a little scared and also bewildered, took Jane's hand. They walked to the Holiday Island High and started to walk around the hallways until Jane recognized a guy in a green shirt getting books out of a locker.
"Yo! St. Patrick's day guy" she called, running towards him.
"Oh, hey, you look familiar".
"Yeah, I am Daria's friend Jane. Halloween, Guy Fawkes day and Christmas started a band with my brother Trent and I helped you bring them back here" Jan reminded him.
"Right, Jane. It's nice to see you".
"Yeah, well, do you know any holiday here that may know anything about supernatural things? Kind of like Halloween... maybe I could talk to her".
"Well, she's at the cafeteria. But if you want to know about supernatural things the Day of the dead may help. He's a goth guy, probably at the cafeteria too" St. Patrick's day suggested.
"What does he look like?".
"Black clothes and black and white makeup all over his face".
"Thanks" Jane said leaving with a smile.
The cafeteria was full of holidays. Jane saw a table where Guy Fawkes Day, Christmas and Halloween were sitting with the President's day presidents, talking. Some tables away from them, the kid described by St. Patrick's day was sitting by himself lighting candles on the table.
Charles looked at Jane, even more confused than before, and she gave him a kiss that soothed him. They sat next to him and he stared at them confused.
"Hi... uh, I'm Jane, he's Charles. Are you the Day of the Dead?".
"You can call me Santiago" He replied with a deep voice and a smirk ". What's up?".
"Do you know about... supernatural stuff?".
"I, of course, know about death, but something tells me that is not what you mean".
Jane shortly explained the events of the recent days, from Daria's visit that first morning to the conspiracy theories with the guys at Boston. After thinking about what he had just been told, Santiago lit another candle and looked at Jane.
"That sounds like something from a movie... or something that El Diablo could have done".
"El Diablo?" Charles repeated confused.
"The devil" both Jane and Santiago translated.
"What makes you think it has something to do with that?" Jane asked.
"For what you've told me, there is nothing else that could explain it. That's all I can do for you. It's up to you to think who would do it" with that said, Santiago went back to the candles.
"Uh, thanks, Santiago".
Jane and Charles got up and walked out of the building. When walking in the direction of the wormhole, Charles started to ask many questions. How had she met them, how had they gotten there, how were they supposed to figure out who had decided to pact with the devil to ask for such a stupid thing.
Jane couldn't even answer the first one, she was too busy trying to figure out the last one. Who would ask for something like that? She thought. By dismissing Andrea, she had dismissed all the misfits. If what they wanted was acceptance, they would had changed things in a different way. Someone like Brittany? In Lawndale, nobody as cheerful as Brittany was smart enough to pact with the devil. Would Daria...?
No.
She couldn't think of anyone doing something like that? It was simply ridiculous, pointless, stupid. Maybe Ms. Li, anxious to make everyone perfect and happy. Daria was now still smart, but she was much more enthusiastic. Jane thought that made enough sense. She was the principal, after all, so she could had constructed the secret room Charles had told her about, something that wouldn't surprise Jane since Ms. Li was quite a paranoid person, the kind of person who could easily wake up one morning, think about what would she do if the apocalypse caught her off guard during her daily duties at Lawndale high and decide it was time to take some of the school's money to buy a secret room where she could wait for the Armageddon. But how could she find that room and catch Ms. Li, forcing her to make things go back to normal?
"Hey, Chuck, you remember exactly where the room you told me about was, right?".
"Yes" Charles said ". Why?".
"I've got an idea".