Chapter 6: Fun times should be forever.

It was now May. At the end of September the choir would be competing in the World Choir Olympics that to Percy's surprise was occurring in New York City. The choir had already submitted their mandatory entry CD and had made it to round two of the competition.

"Alright guys, I know we have grown closer this past term, but I still want everyone to be really close. For that reason I want you all to come up with an activity that we can all do together to bond. " Sir O said to the choir after their practice was over.

"Ooo! Laser tagging!" Conner screamed out.

"Yea, Laser tagging and then an amusement park!" added Travis.

"Yea! Laser tagging, amusement park, and go kart racing!" Conner shouted out eagerly.

"Yea! Laser tagging, amusement park, g-"

"No, no , and no," said Sir O to the brothers, "Something where I won't have to be chasing after you all day. After that last trip to Disney World I will never take you two anywhere where other people can get hurt."

"Oh yea. I remember that," Conner said laughing.

"How about we go camping," suggested Will.

"I don't want to be chasing after you all day in the woods," said Sir O shaking his head no.

"How about we go see the WWE live! Or create our own fight club!" chimed in Aaron.

"Definitely not," said Sir O.

"How about a sleep over, you can have it at my house. It's really big," said Christopher.

"Splendid idea! That way I don't have to go. Alright, I'll talk to your mother and we can all schedule a date," Sir O said going over to pat Chris on his head.

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Later in the month Percy was packing his back pack. Percy was hoping he would be picked up by Chris's mother before his own mother arrived home because of the message on their answering machine from his school's principle. A few weeks from finishing the 3rd grade at his elementary school and he blew it because he had to press a little red button that freed all the fish from the aquarium that his school visited.

He didn't want to see his mother's disappointed face, especially since she had been so proud of him lately because of the choir.

Percy heard footsteps outside of his bedroom door and recognized it as his mother. He winced as the answering machine turned on and his mother heard the message about his latest failure. Then he heard a honk from a car, looking outside from his window he saw Chris peering out from a car window waving at him.

Percy quickly threw his boxers in his book bag and zipped it shut. He walked tiptoed over to his door and opened it gently, hoping his mother wouldn't notice him.

"Percy, we need to talk," his mother said to him from the kitchen ruining his chances at escaping.

Percy dragged his feet over to where she was standing gazing at the floor, not wanting to see her disappointed face, "Mom, Chris and his mother are already here."

"Percy what happened at the aquarium? You were so close to finishing the year there," his mom asked him.

Percy didn't want to talk to his mom now, he just wanted to be alone, "I have to go mom, I'll talk to you later okay?" Percy quickly hugged his mom goodbye and ran out of the door and to where Chris was waiting, ignoring his mother shouts at him to stop.

"Hey Percy! You look terrible, are you okay?" Chris asked Percy as he stepped into the van.

"I'm great!"Percy said to him, giving him a fake smile.

"Hi Percy, I'm Christopher's mother. You can call me Ms. Rodriguez," Chris's mother looked at him from the driver's seat and smiled at him. She was very pretty, she had long curly brown hair and pretty hazel eyes.

"Hi, I'm Percy," Percy said suddenly feeling embarrassed.

"We have to pick up Aaron. Everyone else is going to meet us at my house," Chris said to Percy.

They drove for about six minutes arriving in a nicer area than Percy lived at a tall modern apartment. Outside was Aaron with a very buff, yet attractive woman next to them.

"Hey guys," Aaron said waving to them from the sidewalk.

The two mothers put his bag into the trunk of the van and then they set off to Chris's house which was located in the suburbs around where they had choir practice.

"Guess what I brought!" Aaron whispered excitedly to Percy and Chris in the back of the van. Aaron pulled out a bag filled with fireworks, smoke bombs, air rifles, and for whatever reason ninja stars. "I stole these from my mom's boyfriend! We can fight and stuff."

"Aaron what is wrong with you! If my mom catches us with this stuff she'll kill me and then she'll yell at you, but the point is I'm dead," Chris whispered loudly to Aaron.

"Why would you even need this stuff?" Percy asked toying with a ninja star.

Chris grabbed the star from Percy and took the bag from Aaron, "I'm hiding this in the car. None of you touch it, and don't tell anyone else about it. Understood?"

"But Chris!" Aaron pleaded eyeing his bag with doe eyes.

"No way, I'll get Will to sit on you if I catch you with any of this stuff," Chris said threateningly.

"Psh.. I can beat up Will. I'm not afraid of him," Aaron muttered to himself.

Chris stashed the bag in a compartment behind one of the chairs. The rest of the trip Aaron sat pouting in his seat while Percy and Chris played a few rounds of rock paper scissors.

When they arrived at Chris's house all the boys except Connor and Travis had arrived. Ms. Rodriguez let everyone into the house and told them to drop all of their items into the sitting room next to the entrance.

Their house was very nice. It was big and very modern. Chris had bragged before that his mother worked in the Twin Towers in New York on her own floor, she was the Director of her own company.

"I'm going to order a pizza and while you're waiting Chris is going to take you to the basement to play some video games. Behave boys," Ms. Rodriguez said sternly.

"Yes ma'am," everyone said, though Percy knew someone was going to do something. Especially after Connor and Travis came.

They hung out in the basement playing Grand Theft Auto on Chris's Playstation, snacking on BBQ potato chips and grape juice boxes that Castor and Pollux had brought over. After 30 minutes and few fights between Aaron and Will later, Chris's mother called for them to eat.

Everyone rushed upstairs to find Connor and Travis already eating pizza, they always snuck and managed to eat food, even Ms. Rodriguez hadn't seen them enter.

"Delicious pizza guys," Connor said with a mouth full of food.

"Scrumpscious!"chimed in Travis.

Everyone glared at them but dug in. After eating they sat around in the basement bored and trying to figure out what to do next.

"My mom says we can't go outside after dark," Chris said after someone suggested they play tag outside.

"Awww! Why are you such a baby," Aaron groaned.

"I'm not loser! My mom just worries a lot," Chris said glaring at him.

"My mom worries too but that just means you stand up to them and do what you want, that's what I do. Chicken?" Aaron teased as he started making chicken noises.

Chris grabbed Aaron and started stuffing his face into the carpet.

"How about we play hide and seek inside?" suggested Will as he broke up the still fighting Chris and Aaron.

"Yea! But we should play in the dark," Percy added.

Everyone agreed, and after a few minutes of Chris arguing with his mom to let them turn off all the lights they began. John, a boy a few years older than Percy, was "it" for the first round. After he began to count up to 40 everyone shot out in different directions.

Percy chose to hide behind the couch in the sitting room. Percy waited for what felt like an hour before his ADD set in and began getting impatient. Trying to change his position onto his stomach he accidentally made the couch make a loud screeching noise.

He heard someone giggle before, "GOTCHA!" John grabbed him by his shoulders. Percy let out a shriek and stood up. He couldn't see very well in the darkness but he made out Aaron, Chris, Castor, Pollux, and Will.

"It was too hard staying still," Castor said as the others nodded.

The seven of them set out as John tried to capture the remaining boys. After 10 minutes everyone had been found except Conner and Travis.

"I wonder where they are," John mused, "I looked everywhere right Chris?"
Chris nodded at him.

"I bet you a dollar that they left the house," Will said, "only way to find them is to go outside and get them."

Chris looked horrified, he truly respected and honored every rule his mother set and the idea of leaving the house made him deathly afraid.

"No way guys, I'll just tell my mom. If she finds out we left, I'm dead," Chris said frantically trying to get someone to agree with him.

"You are such a baby! We're going outside, right guys?" Aaron said. Everyone nodded at him, including Percy.

Chris tried to stop them as everyone left out the door quietly but finally gave up, "I'm staying inside guys. As soon as you find Conner and Trevor come back inside immediately!"

Percy and the rest of the boys set out down the softly illuminated block. Suddenly they heard a loud popping sound and then small fireworks shot into the air. In the midst of it all were Connor and Travis dancing around with airsoft guns in their hands.

"My bag!" shouted Aaron as he rushed over to the twins.

"How did you find this bag?" Percy asked Connor and Travis.

"Just did a little snooping," said Connor as he lit a smoke bomb,

"We like to observe our surroundings," Travis said grinning at the smoke that was now filling the street.

"Ninja fight!" Aaron screamed grabbing a ninja star.

Everyone joined in with Travis and Connor lighting a few more fireworks as Aaron threw his ninja stars around. Then suddenly the ground started to shake.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

The thumps got louder as it seemed whatever was making the ground shake was getting closer.

"Everyone go back inside!" Will shouted, his face dead serious. Conner, Travis, and Aaron ignored him as they continued setting off fireworks.
Will grabbed them as the thumping felt like an earthquake, "In the house, now!"

Everyone soon became nervous as the seriousness of the situation started to set in. They all raced to the house, greeted by a still freaked out Chris.

"Conner and Travis! You guys are dead meat. I said not to leave!" Chris said before taking in all of our scared faces, "Whoa, what's wrong?"

"I'm going back out there," Will said, his face without any humor.

"Wait! No, we agreed just to get Conner and Travis, my mo-"

"This is serious, I'm going out there," Will said interrupting Chris. As he made his way to the door Percy felt a sudden rush of adrenaline. Even though he was scared about what was out there, he still felt something tugging him forward.

"I'm going too," Percy suddenly said, breaking the tension in the air.

"Me too!" added Castor as Pollux nodded his head in agreement.

"Can't forget us!" shouted the Stoll brothers, high fiving each other.

"I'm never one to miss a fight," Aaron said grinning evilly.

"Stop!" Will shouted, breaking the sudden enthusiasm they now had, "I'm going alone. What's out there is here for me, stay inside or I swear I'll drown you all in the Hudson bay."

"But!-"

"No buts Aaron. I'm going alone," and with that said Will left them all standing there wondering what was going on.

"Well, he's not getting any smores," Chris said walking away from the door.

Everyone followed him into the kitchen where they then proceeded to make smores. All of them wondering what was going on outside. Percy really wanted to go out and help his friend, but Will seemed dead serious about none of them going out there.

After they finished eating they all went back to the basement and watched TV.

In the middle of Spongebob they heard steps on the stairs.

"Hey guys," said a battered and bruised Will standing on the stairs. Everyone got up, excited to see him.

"What happened, what was it?" Percy asked noticing a large gash on his cheek.

Will shrugged and walked over to couch, collapsing on it and closing his eyes, "Nothing really, just taking care of some business."

"Must be some serious business, you look like crap," said Conner.

"More like you just got your butt kicked," Aaron joked.

Will didn't laugh, he just kept his eyes closed.

"Maybe we should all go to sleep," Chris said noting the awkwardness in the room, "I'll get my mom to set up some sheets and covers."

No one found out what had happened to Will that night. They tried getting him to talk, but he stayed silent. After they told ghost stories they all decided to get some sleep.

Percy was having a hard time sleeping in the silent dark room, he could hear sniffles coming from where Will was sleeping.

AN:/ Longest chapter yet! But I had fun writing it, I hope you all like it.