Disclaimer: I do not own The Nightmare Before Christmas
At exactly 2:04 am, the alarm on Jack's cell phone went off. He and Sally woke up startled. Zero rose up from his bed and started barking like crazy.
"Jack, what's going on?" Sally screamed.
"I don't know," Jack said turning on the light.
He saw his phone vibrating on the table as the alarm sounded.
"What the?" Jack asked as he picked his phone up.
"What did that stupid thing do now?" Sally asked irritated.
"Looks like an alarm," Jack said confused.
"Why'd you set an alarm this early?" Sally asked.
"I didn't even know it had an alarm," Jack said as he turned it off.
Jack put the phone back on the table and went back to bed.
"I must've set it by accident," Jack thought to himself.
At 5:08, the alarm went off again. Sally slammed her pillow on the floor.
"Jack, get that thing out of here!" Sally shouted.
Jack did as Sally requested. He put the phone in the desk dwar in the living room.
He returned to the room to see Sally not making eye-contact with him.
"What's wrong?" Jack asked.
"Jack, I think it was a mistake to buy a phone," Sally said.
"Maybe," Jack said. "It has its disadvantages, but also its good points."
"If it wakes me again I'm going to toss it out the window," Sally threatened.
"Go ahead, I have no objections," Jack said attempting to sleep again.
As he lie in his bed, Jack wondered why the alarms went off. He never set those alarms and no one else could've tampered with it since he had it on his person all day. Even if he did set them unintentionally, there should not be more than one. He suddenly remembered losing his phone in the street yesterday. Jack tried to remember: he was talking to the Mayor, the Mayor was freaking out, and Oogie's boys returned the phone to him. That's when it occurred to him. That was the only explanation that made sense.
Jack woke up at 7:30 to get ready for another day of Halloween preparations. After he got dressed and fixed up to go out in public, he went to pick up his cell phone. At 8:23 another alarm went off.
"How many did they set?" he asked himself.
Jack stood outside his house and saw the dead flower Sally was fond of. He picked one of them and went back inside. Jack tiptoed back into the bedroom and placed the flower down on Sally's pillow.
When Sally woke she smiled at the flower her husband left for her as an apology gift.
At 9:13 another alarm went off. Jack became a little irritated as he met up with the mayor.
"Hey, Jack," the Mayor exclaimed.
"Hey, can I ask you a favor," Jack said.
The Mayor's nervous head spinned around in fear of what Jack would ask.
"Could you check to see if anymore alarms are set?" Jack asked.
The Mayor's head turned back to the happy one as he did as Jack wanted.
"No more," the Mayor said. "You sure had some set at weird times."
"I didn't," Jack groaned. "But I think I know who did."
"That's nice," the Mayor said looking at the Halloween plans. "Now onto the work."
Jack complied to the Mayor's request, but the only thing on his mind was to find out if it were the children who set the alarms.
"By the way," the Mayor said. "I called you around nine last night."
"Oh," Jack said as he pretended he didn't know. "I think the battery was out."
"Oh," the Mayor said. "No problem. I'll show you how to charge it while it's still on so you never miss another call."
Jack grumbled to himself. There was no way for him to win that battle.