I was snuggling with Lock in my room. His lean muscular chest was so warm! I just loved doing this and the contract was the greatest thing ever. I felt his slow heartbeat and blushed when he pulled me closer. I closed my eyes and thought about my feelings and how every night was heaven to me. And when I opened my eyes, he was gone.
"Lock?" I said and sat up on the bed. Nothing made a sound which made me a little scared. I ran to the door and opened it. OMG, I tried to close the door once more but to no avail and then I was pushed outside of the door.
"No" I yelled and everything was so bright. I squinted my eyes to shield them from the brightness and when I opened them, I was in a bright white room. There was only a wooden table and chair. I didn't know why but I hurried to sit on that chair.
I rested my elbows on the wooden table and placed my head on my palms. I can't believe my head; Lock wasn't with me nor was Barrel.
"Child" I heard a female voice said. I stood up and looked around for the person but failed then sat back down.
"Child" I heard again, this time I chose to ignore it. I thought of ways to get out of here with the use of magic. And then it hit me, I could cast a transportation spell I stood up and prepared myself for my spell.
"Transport" I yelled and nothing happened. It became apparent to me that I can't use my magic here. Suddenly, I heard a soft laugh from nowhere.
"Child, you cannot use magic in such a place like this" I heard it again and looked to see a woman. She was roughly 5'4. She had blond hair and grey irises. The woman looked just like me but had straight blond hair and tanned skin; her eyes were also different. She had a human feel to her. The blond woman wore a white attire; white bandana, white spaghetti strapped dress, and white heeled shoes.
"Who-Who are you?" I stuttered. I backed away and knocked over the wooden chair.
"We have no time for introductions. I am here to warn you" The woman said and came closer.
"Warn me about what?"
"You had made a contract, yes?"
"Yeah"
"With a devil"
"How did you know?"
"Please, do not use the power you shall gain from that devil"
"What do you mean?"
"One time is already too much. Use it anymore then, they shall come for you and use you"
"Who are 'they'?"
"Promise me. You won't use that power"
"Explain to me first!" I yelled. She doesn't even answer my questions. She looked so sad and disheartened.
"Please" She said more like whisper and she started to disappear in a yellow and white light that started from her toes.
"Wait!" I yelled and she has now completely disappeared. I blinked a few times, realizing that I was alone again. And when I blinked *close my eyes then opened them* again, I was sitting up on my bed. I was alone again and the eerie silenced filled the atmosphere.
"Lock" I franticly yelled again and again. I heard a flush, hurried footsteps, and then the door opened.
"Shock, what's wrong?" Lock said as he pulled up his boxer shorts. He sat next to me and put his arms around me.
"Where were you?" I asked scared. I clinged onto him and he rocked me a little.
"Shush. It's okay" He said again and again. When I finally calmed down, he pulled me into a tight embrace.
"It's okay" He said and we kissed. I was in heaven and we looked each other in the eyes.
"Are you okay?" He asked and I nodded. He laid me down, kissed my forehead, and cuddled with me until I fell asleep.
-The next day-
"Morning, beautiful" Lock said looking at me. I blushed against his chest, how did he know I was awake?
"Morning" I mumbled on his chest. We looked each other in the eye and kissed. We were in each other's arms for a long time.
"We better get ready and wake up Barrel" I said and sat up.
"Yup" Lock said and went downstairs while carrying me.
"Okay, so who'll shower first?" I asked and Lock smirked. He held me tighter and started heading for the bathroom.
"How about we shower at the same time?" Lock said more than asked smirking. I blushed and tried to be put down.
"Lock" I whined and he chuckled. He placed me down near the bathroom door and kissed my cheek.
"I'll cook breakfast while you shower first" He said and started to head to the kitchen. I was surprised by his ever-so-cool-yet-sweet attitude.
I fidgeted for a bit but when I heard Lock yell. "If you don't shower now, I'll have to force you" He said which again made me blush and I hurriedly entered the bathroom.
The water pattered onto my body. After 15 minutes of showering, I went out of the bathroom wrapped in a lilac towel. I past the kitchen and heard Lock whistle at me. I rolled my eyes and continued to the staircase. I went into my room and dressed in my underwear. It was Friday the 13th which gave us liberty to dress freely. I wore a purple strapless dress that went down 3 inches above my knee, a dark violet vest that had light accents, a lilac knee high socks, a dark violet boots that went up half to my calves, and my new over-the-top violet witch hat.
I went down the stairs and smelled something delicious. I looked for Lock and found him at the dinner table placing food on it. He cooked pancakes, PANCAKES!
"Lock, are you sure you're the one who cooked?" I asked and he just smirked.
"I'll go wake up Barrel while you shower" I added and grabbed some to use for Barrel's wake-up call. I ran up the stairs and went to Barrel's room.
I slammed the door open and saw Barrel sound asleep. Man, he didn't wake up when the door slammed open but this pancake will, WEIRD. I waved the pancake in midair. I saw his nose twitch indicating he can smell the food. Like the last time, he woke up beaming and, before I knew it, he was already chewing on the pancake that I was STILL HOLDING!
"Barrel, compose yourself and I'll let the pancake go" I said and he stood straight up immediately. I sighed and threw the food into the air when Barrel opened his mouth and caught them.
Once he was finished I looked at him. "There's more at the table if you want but don't take too long. And take a shower after you eat" I said and went down the long hallway. I saw Lock walking towards his room, a red towel wrapped around his waist.
He smirked immediately when he saw me when I looked at him. "Like what you see?" He said and I groaned and rolled my eyes at his arrogance. Here at the upper floor, we had a long wide hallway and eight rooms; four at each side. We got two rooms each which left two rooms vacant. We had one room for a bedroom while the other was for anything we pleased. My rooms were on the left side at the end of the hallway. Barrel's rooms were on both sides opposite to each other and were near the staircase. Lock's rooms were on the right side and opposite of mine. Our rooms were individually decorated so no one can make the excuse of 'they got confused on whose room is whose'. As I pass him, He gave me a quick peck on the cheek and I smirked.
"Get dressed" I said and I heard his door open and then I was given a grunt as an answer. I went down the stairs and was about to eat pancakes when Barrel came down. He quickly got some pancakes to go and entered the bathroom. I ate about a quarter of one pancake when Lock came down. He was dressed in a red shirt over a magenta sweater, red jeans that let out his tail, maroon pointed shoes, and dark red fingerless gloves. He looked like a gothic rock n' roll hard rocker but instead of black; he wore red, and instead of Mohawks or any rocker or Goth hairstyle; he slicked his hair and had 'horns' on each side.
"Now I like what I see" I stated and then smirked. He looked at me as he sat down at the table.
"And what do you see?' He asked in a cool tone. He put some pancakes on his plate and started to eat.
"I see a fully clothed hunk-" I said abut he immediately interrupted me.
"So you think I'm just a hunk?" he asked now intrigued.
"I thought about saying 'god-like gorgeous devil' but that'll make your head even bigger, and I was going to say 'fully clothed hunk that can cook and if anyone at school knew, he would be teased and viewed as a nerd'" I said and he coughed at his food. I was clearly blackmailing him and I enjoyed seeing him like this. I ate my share of pancakes when Barrel zoomed out of the bathroom, into his room, and then back to the dinner hall. He was now clad in a black skeleton shirt and jeans, white skeletal gloves, and black rubber shoes.
"Morning" he said to us now fully awake. He sat down opposite to Lock and ate his share of pancakes. When we were finished we looked at the clock near the door.
"It's still early" Barrel said and looked at us.
"The early trick-or-treater gets the most candies" I said and Lock wrapped his arms around my shoulder and then leaned on me.
"And the late trick-or-treater gets to do the most tricks" Lock said and kissed my cheek in front of Barrel!
"What the hell! What do you think you're doing?" I mentally asked him and he answered too.
"Letting the world know" He mentally answered.
"Are you two together?" Barrel asked in discomfort upon seeing us in this position. I felt Lock smirk on my cheek and he pulled away.
"Yeah" Lock answered and I became red as his hair.
"We better get going" I finally got the guts to say. I was blushing like crazy but then Barrel beamed at us.
"About time you two got together" Barrel said and we went to our bathtub and then went to school. I was a bit in awe about Barrel's reaction and Lock's sudden announcement. I just thought that we were like that because of the contract but it seems like he felt the same way that I did. While on the way, Barrel whistled a happy tune. I was still a bit embarrassed by everything and when we got to the school, I stayed in the tub for awhile.
"What's wrong Shock?" Barrel asked and I looked at him like he was a stranger.
"Shock?" Lock asked and then I blacked out for a moment.
-While Shock had a black out-
"Shock?" Lock asked his newly announced girlfriend. She was looking at them with dead grey eyes. Suddenly, all the surrounding things started to float, the gates shook, and the sky was getting darker. Shock started to grin.
"Who's doing this?" Barrel asked and looked around. He himself suddenly began to float which made him grab the edge of the tub that wasn't floating at all.
"Shock!" Lock said alarmed and grabbed her shoulders. He said her name again and again as he shook her shoulders. She suddenly shed tears of blood while her grin got larger.
"Shock!" Lock yelled in concern and hugged her tight. She shuddered under his chest and gasped. All the floating things were back in their places, the gate stopped shaking, and the sky went back to normal.
-Back to Shock-
I felt Lock hugging me tight. I was in heaven again. I regain my consciousness and Lock was hugging me while Barrel stood there wide eyed. Barrel was holding on the edge of the bathtub, and then I heard things drop which made me gasp. Lock held me closer and I felt a little suffocated.
"Um, Lock?" I said and he let go and stared at me. I saw the student council running into the front yard and then to where we were.
"What happened?" Gray (the president) asked panting.
"What happened?" I repeated and looked around; nothing was out of the ordinary in the area.
"Some students reported floating objects, gates shaking, and irregular sky activity in the area" Bianca (the vice president) said as she changed from her bat form to her human form.
"Really? It doesn't seem so" I said after I inspected the area around us. I looked towards my cohorts who looked dumbfounded.
"Right guys?" I said and I even smiled sweetly for kicks. The vampire vice president turned to look at me in anger.
"Only magic could've done such things in a large scale" She announced and approached me.
"Do you mean?" Juniper (the monster creature secretary) yelled.
"Yes" Daisy (the vampire treasurer) said as Bianca came closer and closer to me.
CRACK
I widen my eyes and felt pain. I heard Lock and Barrel yell. I touched my right cheek and it hurts. I saw Barrel tackle Juniper who got out another whip. Gray held Bianca's hands so that she won't hurt me again. She just whipped me! F*cking whipped me!
"Why?" I asked angrily. I walked out of the tub and walked a little closer to Bianca and Juniper.
CRACK
I was whipped at the left cheek. Juniper and Bianca couldn't have done that because they were restrained. I turned to look at Daisy who was a few feet away from me. She held a whip and had a wide grin on her face. I felt my blood boil; I was raging with anger by now. And then-
"Why would you do that?" I yelled and my spot suddenly glowed. I lost my field of vision by now. Daisy, Bianca, and Juniper suddenly floated. They shouted in pain.
"Shock, stop!" Barrel yelled at me but I couldn't or wouldn't stop. I felt a presence behind me.
"That's right" I heard a female voice behind me but no one was there. Anyone who tried to get close was blown away; but Lock, Barrel, and Gray kept trying. "Let your emotions take control" The voice said. "Use it. Abyss Intake" The voice whispered to me. I broadcasted the voice to Lock and when I opened my mouth to say it, he succeeded in getting close to me.
"Ab-" That was all I could say when Lock reached me and kissed me. He stared me in the eyes. We were in the spot that glowed so bright.
"Shock. Calm down" He whispered to me and then I did. My blood stopped boiling and my anger subdued. The spot stopped glowing and the girls were dropped on the ground with a loud THUD. He hugged me tight and I smiled. I was in heaven again.
"Are they together?" Gray whispered to Barrel who happily nodded.
"As a member of Spooky High student council, I entreat you" Bianca said as she stood up in pain and aftershock.
"Shock- you are on the red list" Daisy said.
"Your high school life will now be living hell" Juniper yelled.
"And I as the PRESIDENT of Spooky High student council, terminate Bianca Collin's, Daisy Lace's, and Juniper Thing's officer positions on the grounds of abuse of power" Gray announced. The three girls wide eyed at what he said.
"Are you sure about that, Gray? I mean; it's the middle of the school year" The werewolf (the student council sergeant at arms) asked.
"I am very sure about it Taylor. You three had been abusing your positions from the start. But this draws the longest and deepest line. It is strike three already" Gray said.
"Alrighty then. Before we get caught up in the middle of this, we'll be going" Barrel said and signaled the two of us to go inside too. Lock carried me bridal style and ran inside; Barrel in the lead.
"Lock" I whined at being carried like this but in the inside; I loved it. He held me closer and snuggled me while running. We entered the classroom and pretty much did the same thing as last time except we had different lessons.
At lunch time, all the students whispered to each other when we came in the cafeteria. Only Gene, Kathleen, Harry, and Ophelia the gorgon sat at our table. And it was pretty quite. I felt a lot of mean glares from girls whenever Lock hugged, kissed, snuggled, or even came close to me.
After lunch was Technology. At our (Lock, Barrel, mine's) table, I saw a dark red piece of paper with an unknown writing on it and turned to Lock who was sitting next to Barrel.
"Um. Is this yours?" I asked and he took the paper but mouthed 'no'. He read it and became angry then used his new power and burnt the paper. I just drowned out the lesson. Next was gym class.
"Alright, students. The game is evasion. Don't get hit by the stone hard ball and you're still in the game. Get hit with the stone hard ball and you're out. I'll divide you into two teams" The gym teacher, Ryan Monticarlo shouted. He divided all the high school students into two and luckily my cohorts and I were on the same team. We were provided really hard balls and the game started. It was really fun. You get to hit people and then dodge their throws. A good fighting system; hit and don't get hit.
After a good twenty minutes, our team was decreased from 46 to 8. Lock (Sophomore), Barrel (Sophomore), Taylor (Junior), Harry (Junior), Gene (Junior), Ophelia (Senior), Gray (Senior), and I (Sophomore) were the ones left. Meanwhile, our opponents were down from 47 to 11. Bianca (Senior), Daisy (Junior), Juniper (Freshman), Kimi (Freshman), Kathleen (Sophomore), Nina (Junior), Jenni (Sophomore), Laurence the ghoul (Senior), Ronald the swamp monster (Freshman), Blake the vampire (Sophomore), and John the dragon (Senior) were the opposing team.
Taylor was hit by Laurence's throw but we countered when Gray threw and hit Kimi, Nina, Laurence, and John. Ophelia threw to hit Bianca but hit Daisy instead. Bianca threw and hit Ophelia. Barrel threw and hit Juniper, Jenni, and Ronald. Harry threw but was hit with the ball thrown by Bianca. Now it was 5 versus 3. Bianca threw a ball at me but I accidentally tripped on Lock's tail and the ball hit Gene instead. Barrel and Lock threw balls which hit Kathleen on both sides of her face.
"Ouch" They both yelled. The game heated up and when it became three on three; Barrel got hit on the buttocks, I looked at Lock and mentally devised a plan. I threw the ball up and Bianca stared at it predicting where it would land; meanwhile, Lock threw his ball and hit the distracted Bianca on the stomach. 3 versus 1. I heard Barrel cheer. Gray and Blake were really good. But we were better. I foresaw Blake's ball hitting Gray's face and countered it with my ball. Blake's ball bounced to the wall and was going to hit me when Lock threw his ball to counter it. It was heading towards Gray who ducked and it bounced on the wall again. While that was happening, Blake threw another ball at Gray and it hit his earlier ball. It eventually hit Gray.
The crowd was holding on the edges of the bleachers. The team that would win will get an additional 90 in their exams and can have the exclusive student council privileges.
"Lock, remember Oogie's training?" I mentally asked him as we were dodging every ball that was being thrown to us.
"Yeah." He answered mentally as he threw a ball that was dodged.
"O-period-X-to the-Z. (O.X-Z)" I suggested and got a grunt for an answer. I ducked then threw the ball to the left while he did to the right. Blake dodged both balls but we quickly threw again; I threw the ball upwards while he did downward. He again dodged it but Lock speedily threw the ball straight towards Blake. The four earlier balls that missed kept bouncing and hit the last ball Lock threw. This sent them in disarray. The balls bounced (The five balls went north, northeast, northwest, east, west,) and I quickly threw the ball backwards to the wall which bounced back at me. Lock and I ducked as the six balls headed towards the one point which was Blake's position! He got hit with six balls in different places and directions. Our team cheered and mobbed us. Lock held me close to him and Barrel directed the mobbing students.
Blake; who was a classmate of ours, came up to us first in a bat form then transformed into human. He had healed from the stone hard balls that had hit him.
"Congratulations" Blake said in a charming way offering a hand. The other girls swooned while I hid my blush. Lock held me tighter but still let me shake his hand.
"That was a good game" I said sweetly smiling. After gym, was the time for club activities. Lock, Barrel, and I joined the Drama Club while creating a club of our own. Drama Club didn't challenge us at all since there was no play to do; just reading scripts, describing characters, etc. Our newly formed club was 'Half-dead'. We do nothing at all, but we offer our services to the general public. Usually we just eat, talk, or do homework; it was a rarity to receive requests.
After school, we went home, ate dinner, and did our homework. Barrel went to bed first and then Lock and I went to his room. When we entered it, I was annoyed. My eyes started to twitch.
"Clean it" I ordered and in a flash, it was clean and sparkly. I sat on his bed and closed my eyes. He started to get dress while I magically changed my clothes into sleepwear just like him. When I opened my eyes, he was centimeters away from my face and staring at me.
"Do I have something on my face?" I asked and then he smirked. He kissed me and laid me on his bed. He was on top of me. He started to lower his kisses but I stopped him.
"Next time, okay?" I said and positioned myself to sleep. He followed on and hugged me.
"So you're giving me permission to do 'it'" He said smirking. I blushed and turned towards him.
"I'm not giving you permission" I said and buried my face into his lean muscular chest.
"You're saying that I'm allowed to do 'it'" He said.
"I'm not saying that" I said against his chest.
"Then you're implying it" He stated and I was tired already. I didn't answer and simply snuggled him.
"Okay. I'm allowed" He announced and snuggled me too. We both fell asleep holding each other. "I love you" I said to him mentally and he replied "I love you too" before falling asleep.