Mordecai looks away from the calender and at Pops who was drinking a juice box behind him, "Hello there." He says, Mordecai sighs and walks out of the kitchen and outside, before he could shut the door Pops catches it and grabs Mordecai's shoulder, "Are you new here?" "Pops..." Mordecai says in his still hoarse tone, "...its me...Mordecai." "You don't look the same in that dreadful outfit...it is quite humid out here, why not take the long sweater off?" Pops reaches for Mordecai's hood when the bluejay quickly ducks and moves away from him, "Don't touch me." He said while waving his head no, Pops was shocked at this sudden reaction, he pulls out a lollipop and throws it at him, "Catch!" Mordecai doesn't catch it, in fact he didn't even pull his arms out to do so...he just walks away, hearing Pops say something about telling Benson. He can tell him whatever the hell he wants, I don't care. Mordecai didn't care what people said or did to him, he was so depressed that he was ugly he didn't give a damn about anything.

The bluejay walked around town, people gave him a few glances before tripping or accidentally bumping into their children. He sighs and turns a corner, in an alley far of from the streets, he stops and sits on a trash can. Mordecai pulls the mirror out and said, "I wanna see Rigby." The mirror swirls into Rigby sitting alone in the coffee shop, talking with Margaret. "I-I don't know Margaret...he's..." "Maybe he just needs time to forgive." The red robin cut him off, Rigby swirls his coffee and states, "But when I tried to lighten up and show him that I'm alright, he still acts weird...and now he's wearing this jacket and..." "You shouldn't let him get you down...if he's a grump then don't worry, I'm sure he'll get over the situation." Margaret said while pouring Rigby another cup. Mordecai sighed, he knew they were talking about last night, about the way he acted and the way he is now. He stuffs the mirror back in his pocket and he starts heading off until a man wearing a beanie and torn up clothes approached him, "Hey mother fucker!...you wanna step out of my way?" Mordecai doesn't answer he just keeps his head down and moves, "Yeah that's right...move out of my way you prick." Right when Mordecai left he clearly caught a glimpse of the man pulling a bag and rolling it some paper. He's a crack head...stupid. Mordecai thought as he walked back to the park.

Benson waited impatiently for at least one of the two idiots to come back, fortunately Mordecai was the lucky bastard. "Mordecai where have you been!" Benson screamed, his gumballs turning red with rage. Mordecai ignores him and picks up a rake and leaves, Benson looked at him surprisingly, "Hey um...wha-what are doing?" Benson shouted confusingly, he's returning back to his original color. "Working." Mordecai said softly, Benson's eyes went wide and he grabs the rake away from him, "Your...working?" The bluejay nods, he yanks the rake back and walks to a pile of leafs. "He's...working...he's working!" Benson said with glee but stops shortly after that with a concerned look, "He's working?" "That's what I was saying! He is a different person!" Pops whispered to Benson. The gumball machine nods and says to get Skips.

Rigby was walking the streets again, wondering about the advice Margaret gave him, "Man...how will he ever forgive me?" Maybe he already does but he doesn't want to admit it. His conscience said. "Oh shut up...wait...maybe your right." I'm always right bro. "Damn right!" He goes on all fours and runs to the park, his feet and hands were throbbing from running on the rocky trail but it was worth it to get home. He stops dead in his tracks when he see's Mordecai sitting on the porch with Skips examining every part of his jacket, "Get away." Mordecai told the yeti, he didn't, he grabs his arm and starts pulling the sleeve up, Mordecai jumps away when the sleeve reached his wrist, "I said back off!" He yelled. Skips makes a concerned face and skips down the steps, Mordecai knew he would probably take him down but he didn't want anyone seeing him...so he ran. He ran around Skips and inside, he ran upstairs and slammed the door, locking it and putting a chair underneath the doorknob. Mordecai closes his blinds and Rigby's, he pokes his finger through one flap and pulls a little down, he see's Skips shaking his head no and Benson raising his arms around, Pops was crying and Rigby...was stunned. Rigby looks up at the window and the small crack in the blinds, it shuts and the raccoon looks down in shame. There's something wrong with him...but what?

Afternoon

Mordecai removes the mirror from under his pillow, for the past couple of hours in his room he was sleeping but now that it was the afternoon he was hungry but didn't feel like going downstairs yet. "Show me Benson." Benson appears in the mirror, he's playing goldfish with Pops in the living room, Pops smiles childishly and says, "Do you have any royalty to the king for he can forsake the queen?" "Go fish Pops." "Jolly good show! Now I can fish for the underwater sea card!" Benson sighs and throws his cards on the floor. Skips comes in and points to Benson for him to step outside. "Pfft, probably something about buying more weights. I wanna see..." Myra pops up and smirks, "Rigby? Your taking a lot of time seeing him." "He's my best friend we always check on each other." "Then why don't you let him check on you." Mordecai sighs, "I can't let Rigby see me the way I am right now...he'll run away screaming." "I highly doubt that, now about..." "I wanna see Rigby." "You didn't even..." "I WANT TO SEE RIGBY NOW!" Mordecai shouted, Myra rolls her eyes and obeys, "Fine whatever don't listen to me! Jerk." She swirls away and shows Rigby in the hallway, his back pressed against the door, he was sound asleep. "Awe." Mordecai said. Rigby's nose twitched a couple times from his snores but then he soon perks up when he hears a loud noise, Mordecai heard it too but ignored it, it was probably Benson yelling. Rigby looks around and shrugs, he gets up and stretches, he heads downstairs and comes back up with a sandwich, Mordecai licks his beak. God I'm so hungry. But Rigby doesn't eat it, he places the sandwich in front of the door, he knocks and runs away. Mordecai puts the mirror down and removes the chair, he peaks through the door and quickly grabs the sandwich. He plops on his bed and munches into it, enjoying every single bite, savoring the flavors that Rigby has put in it, he stops for a second and pulls out an onion in his mouth, "Ew." He flicks it and continues his meal.

Rigby sat on the steps, he sighs and smiles a bit, "I hope Mordecai liked my sandwich...it's the least I can do for him...and to butter him up to forgive me." He said quietly, he looks up the steps and back down to the front door. His tail moves a bit, he was bored, he couldn't play video games...not without Mordecai, he couldn't hang out...not without Mordecai either. He scrunches his tail, twists it, even twirls it with his fingers, he was so damn bored...anything he wants to do...wouldn't be fun without his best friend.

Mordecai licks his fingers clean and sighs, "Myra!" He said. She pops up with a comb and lipstick, "What!" She told him back, "I'm bored...what should I do?" "What am I? Your councilor? Go hang out with Rigby!" "But..." "Go...hang...out...with...Rigby!" "Fine!" Mordecai shoves the mirror in his pocket, pulls his hood over his head tightly and whips the door open to find Rigby standing there ready to knock, "Hey dude...um...I was wondering...if you wanna hang out now?" Mordecai doesn't respond, he just grabs Rigby's wrist and starts walking downstairs, "Is that a yes?" He says, Mordecai stops and pats Rigby's head before opening the door. Rigby smiles and walks with him, Mordecai started to pick up his speed, Rigby was literally being dragged! His feet weren't touching the floor at all! Mordecai stops in the middle of the bridge and sits on the bench, Rigby plops next to him and plays with his feet, he saw the sun setting behind the mountains. "So...um...there's this party tomorrow for Halloween and um...I was thinking if you wanted to...go with me." Mordecai straightens up, he didn't know what to say, I mean Margaret was sure as hell wasn't an option anymore so why not his best friend? Mordecai looks at Rigby, the raccoon couldn't tell if Mordecai was making an expression or not but he decides to place his paw on Mordecai's skinny leg. "Please? For your bro?" Now Mordecai was officially smiling, he nods and says, "Sure...why not dude." He didn't want to go but he didn't want his friend thinking he doesn't want him around either, so it's the best thing to do. "Sweet dude! Help me pick out an outfit!" Rigby grabs Mordecai's sleeve and they both stand up, Rigby starts running to the nearest store with Mordecai behind him, Rigby was so happy that his bro was finally hanging out with him. Now they can carry on their silly shenanigans. Mordecai however didn't care wether or not his friend was excited, he was just relieved that he doesn't have to stay quiet that much anymore.

Rigby stops at a shop called, "Costumes for silly idiots!" Perfect. Rigby thought, he goes inside and see's the walls were lined with fake blood, the floor was green and sticky and there were racks full of stupid costumes. Rigby goes to the first rack and asks him which he preferred, him dressed as Godzilla or dressed like a school girl, Mordecai moves Rigby aside and pulls out a maids oufit. He hands it to him and tells him to try it on, Rigby makes a weird face but he would do anything to make his friend happy. Mordecai waits outside the dressing station and taps his foot, waiting for his friend to come out, the door springs open and Rigby comes out with a feather duster in his left hand wearing a black lumped hat that has white on the outline and his dress looked the same except with a pocket in the front and his shoulders were puffed and he was wearing white gloves and stockings. Mordecai opened his beak to how pretty or how funny Rigby looked, Mordecai tells him its perfect, Rigby smiles, "What about your costume Mordecai?" "Don't worry...I already have one." He said smiling, Rigby shrugs and asks him if he could buy make-up too, "Sure whatever makes you even more girly!" Rigby didn't mind his friend calling him a girl anymore, he was too afraid they might get into a fight like the other day. Mordecai hears muffles in his pocket, "I'll be right back ok Rigby?" "Ok, I'll be waiting." Mordecai rushes into the men's bathroom and pulls the mirror out, "What do you want now Myra?" "I want to see what's going on with you two...are you hanging out with him like I said?" "Yes...but...for some reason I feel funny inside." "Like what kind of funny?" "Like...butterfly funny." "Oh gosh, well..." "Ssshh, someone's coming!" He shoves the mirror in his pocket and leans against the sink, a man with a blonde mustache says, "Hey mister its closing time, head out now or I'll help you." "I'm coming." He gets up and walks out of the bathroom and pulled out his wallet to pay for the things Rigby set on the counter. "I'm so glad we're hanging out again Mordecai...I really am." Mordecai makes a face and looks away from him. What the hell is wrong with him? Is he sick? Hmm. They step outside and it was already dark.

At the house

Mordecai walks up the steps to the house and unlocks the door, funny thing was...it was already unlocked. The door creaks open and everyone was sitting in the living room, "Go upstairs Rigby." Benson says, "Why? Can't I stay down..." "GO UPSTAIRS RIGBY!" Benson screamed, Rigby reacted and ran up the stairs with his bag and closed the door. "Have a seat dear man." Pops said, patting the seat next to him, Mordecai doesn't respond, he sits next to Pops and tucks his hands in his jacket once again. Skips grunts and says, "We have a problem." No answer. He talks to Rigby but not to others...not yet. "About you...are you emo?" Mordecai sits up and shakes his head no, why the fuck would they think I'm emo? Just for wearing a jacket? They are so stupid. "If you say your not, then let us check you." Skips said holding out his hand, Mordecai refused to let him check, they would freak out about his cursed lines, so he stands up and starts walking away, Benson grabs Mordecai's shoulder and pulled him back, "Just let us check!" He yelled, "Yeah let us check so we can go home, I got a new video of Girls gone wild and I want to watch it!" Muscle-Man said. Mordecai pulls Benson's arm away from his shoulder and pushed him away. "If you won't let us check then why do you wear that hood or that jacket? Your emo! That's why!" He screamed at him, he reaches both arms at Mordecai's hood, the bluejay see's this and grabs Benson's wrists, "Don't...you...dare." Mordecai grips his bosses wrists hard, "OW, OW, FUCK!" Benson starts kneeling on the floor because of the pain, "Mordecai let him go!" Skips said in his still serious tone, Mordecai picks Benson up and flings him across the room so he lands in Skips arms, he was surprisingly strong but he didn't know if he was stronger than Skips, does he dare? Yes...yes he does. Skips puts Benson down and skips over to Mordecai, "Let me help you." Mordecai ducks and kicks Skips in his back, he head bonks the wall, everyone gasps at this. Pops starts crying, "This evil demon of emo has taken his soul!" Benson grabs Mordecai's arms, the bluejay backs up so Benson can hit the wall. "AUGH!" He slides down, Muscle-Man jumps up and tries punching Mordecai but he moves out of the way and punches the green man's face and gut, Pops also tried to use his wrestling moves to take him down, Mordecai was on the ground for awhile until he sits up and forces Pops to fly to the couch. Skips has had enough, he grabs Mordecai's beak, Mordecai grabs Skips wrist hard, "Off...limits." He moves Skips hand down and uppercuts him, Skips was sent tumbling to the floor, everyone gasps again, Mordecai steps on him and ready's to punch him until, "Mordecai stop!" A voice said from the staircase, Mordecai turns around and see's Rigby crying and waving his hands up and down, "What are you doing bro?" Mordecai steps off of Skips and helps him up, "N-nothing...just..." He didn't say anything after that, he just ran upstairs and locked himself in the bathroom this time. Rigby goes downstairs and see's everyone frightened and injured, "What happened?" He asked, Skips spits out one of his teeth, "We think Mordecai's emo...but now I see this is something worse." Benson stands up with rage, "That's it! I don't want that stupid Mordecai in this house anymore! He can just..." "No Benson please!" Benson stops and eyes the raccoon, "Don't send Mordecai away...please just...at least let him stay here..." "No that's it!" "Benson..." Skips speaks up, he whispers something to Benson and then the gumball machine calms down. "Fine...fine Skips ok." Rigby had no idea what he just whispered to him but it must have been something bad if it involved Mordecai.

October 31st

Mordecai pretty much spent the night in the bathroom, he sits up and stretches, "Hello? Hello?" The mirror said, Mordecai sighed and pulled the mirror out, "Myra...its way too early for this crap." "I know, I know but I was overhearing what you were doing back there and I have to say, you are pretty damn strong dude." "Thanks?" Mordecai said, he stands up and pulls his hood down, he places his finger under his eye and around his face, "These will never go away." "Not unless you..." "Find true love...I know!" "Dammit! You and your crappy mood!" "Whatever! Its bad enough I pissed Benson off last night and made everyone see me as a bad guy who apparently is emo as they say and Rigby is probably scared as hell by the way I'm..." "Mordecai? You okay in there?" Rigby said through the door, "Yeah...just chilling." Okay that was stupid of me. "Ok, but I wanted to make sure your alright...I'll see you downstairs later." The footsteps were gone and Mordecai sighs. He bangs his fist against the sink and yells at Myra, "You see?" "What?" "There is something wrong with him!" "Like what? There's nothing wrong with him, your just seeing him in a different way...the way your suppose to see him." "Suppose to? What do you mean?" "You'll figure it out." Myra disappears and shows Mordecai's reflection, the still horrible ugly beast he had called Rigby but...now he's the beast. Mordecai face palms and pulls the hood over him and tightens it. He walks out of the bathroom and downstairs to meet Rigby on the couch, "Hey dude, it's about time you came out of there, come on." He pats his hand down next to him, Mordecai bites his beak, knowing what Myra had said to him earlier, figure out what? And what was that suppose to mean? Mordecai shrugs and sits next to Rigby, it was quiet for awhile until Rigby broke the silence, "Hey...can't wait to see your costume...can you give me a hint of what it looks like?" The bluejay sighs and answers, "Just imagine a never-ending spiral of dark horror that will never be swirled into the white or light of day again unless it has its way of popping into a vision of diversity." He said quickly. Rigby stayed quiet, then said, "Well, it sounds cool." Mordecai lays more in the couch and sighs again, he's been doing an awful lot of sighing these past three days but that is for his own thing to do.

"Want some cereal?" Rigby asked Mordecai, the bluejay didn't answer, he still couldn't believe he actually beat the crap out of everyone last night, he felt so horrible and bad...like a beast. Rigby shrugs and pulls Mordecai up, "Come on, lets go get some cereal." He walks Mordecai in the kitchen and sits him down. Mordecai slumps in his chair, he didn't feel like eating right now even though he was starving. Rigby comes with a blue bowl and a spoon, he grabs the milk and pours it in the bowl for him, Rigby sure is acting different...but I still can't figure out what Myra said! Damn bitch, she's crazy. The raccoon pours the cereal in the bowl and dips the spoon inside and pushes the bowl toward Mordecai, "There you go buddy, a good breakfast to start off a good day." He smiles, but Mordecai doesn't. Rigby was trying to stay confident about his friend even if he was terrified of him after what happened last night, he was too afraid to do anything that much with him but he does it anyway cause their bros and bros do everything together. "Am I suppose to do mommy for you? Here." Rigby grabs the spoon and hoists it in the air like an airplane, spilling a little of cereal as he does, "Vroom, vroom, screech! Open the gates for the flying car!" Mordecai doesn't, he crosses his arms and slumps even more in his chair, Rigby sighs and puts the spoon down, "Listen dude, I know your all depressed and stuff about god knows what but you need to get over it man, lets hang out like we used to! You know...dude time, baby ducks, the power remember?" Rigby smiles and hops on the table, "Come on man." He reaches towards Mordecai's hood, the bluejay falls off the chair and scoots away from his friend, hood still covered to which he's thankful instead of flipping out to show Rigby his true form. "Mordecai...*sigh* ok I won't touch your hood again but...can we at least have some fun before the party tonight?" Mordecai stands up and nods, Rigby squeals with glee and runs out the door, "Come on! We can go play in the fountain!" He is such a girl. Mordecai said while smirking.

Outside Rigby runs as fast as he can to the fountain and noticed that all the water was gone, "Where'd the water go?" Giggling was heard after that, he looks to the side and saw a huge white ball in the bushes, "What the hell?" Rigby walks over to it and pokes it...eventually having a huge blast of water splash on him, "HFG you dick!" HFG floats out and laughs with Muscle-Man, they clap and run away. "Ugh! Now I'm soaked!" Mordecai comes behind him finally and gives him the towel, "Thanks, well now that, that's out of the fun list...what do you wanna do?" He asked him, Mordecai starts walking with his hands in his pockets, he was extremely hot but he still needed to keep hidden. "Where you going?" "Gonna...see Margaret." Mordecai was feeling woozy but he had to keep going, Rigby sighs and walks along side. Once there a man came running out the door all sweaty and breathless, "What's going on in there?" Rigby asked, "Air...condition...broke...no..." The man faints and Rigby steps over him, opening the door for Mordecai, "After you." He chuckles at this, Mordecai shakes his head and walks inside, the coffee shop still looked the same except there were sweaty customers and sweaty employees handing out ice cream and mini fans. Margaret walked over to the two and smiled weakly, she was wearing a yellow tank top and a purple skirt but a name tag was pinned on her right breast. "Hey guys." She waved at them and then herself, "The usual?" Rigby looks up at Mordecai to see his expression, nothing. Mordecai however wasn't able to speak with so much heat overwhelming him he was breathless, Rigby sighs and says, "Two sundaes please." "R-right away." She walked away and Rigby walked over to their usual spot, Mordecai didn't follow, it was like he was stuck to the ground, his jacket was becoming soaked and he was sweating horribly. He felt like puking but ran out of the shop and to the nearest store with air conditioning before he could. He barged into a bathroom and locked the door, he unzipped his jacket and threw it across the room, he rubbed all over his feathers, trying to bring as much coolness as he can on himself, "Hey watch it!" A voice said through his jacket, Mordecai crawled over to his jacket and pulled the mirror out, "What the hell man! You just throw me all willy nilly you crazy bastard!" "Sorry, but I was so fucking hot!" "Pfft, I would be too but that doesn't mean you can throw the me around!" Mordecai rolls his eyes and see's he made a small crack on the top left corner of the mirror. "Oops." "You better be." "Alright, show me Margaret." Myra's gone and Margaret appears, she's sitting next to Rigby in the coffee shop, "I told you Margaret, he still doesn't forgive me." "Rigby...what did I say yesterday?" "Don't let him get me down..." "Don't let him get you down, see? Now listen, if he still isn't acting straight...I think it might be time to send him away." She hands him a card, "I don't know Margaret...I like him a lot and I don't want him being sent away." Mordecai's stomach starts fluttering, is he feeling something he should've felt a long time ago? Or is it the heat kicking in? Mordecai was so confused, he stuffs the mirror back in the jacket and he zips himself up again and tightens too, he walks out of the bathroom and saw a whole bunch of people waiting out there, "What the fuck took you so long?" One fat man said, "Using Porn in there mister?" Said another large man, "Maybe he was constipated." Said a very skinny man, Mordecai walks past them, as he does everyone looks behind him to really know what he was doing, but all they could see was the end of the jacket and his tail feathers.