Meanwhile across town Alvers had started to prepare calls to have Whipstaff torn down if his order for the bills were not met. After all, why keep such a giant eye-sore he hated since he was a child, if there was no money to be made from it...? Sure it'd leave Dr. Harvey and his daughter out of house and home but still, he couldn't care less. It was then that he would get a phone call from a familiar man that we all know, "Hello...?" Alvers voice unamused sounded over the phone.
"Hello, I heard that you were planning on bringing down Whipstaff Manor...? Is this true...?" A voice of a man from over the phone questioned curiously, and yet almost rudely to the man.
"What business is it of yours if I am or not...?" Alvers spoke angrily as his eyes narrowed at the phone.
"Let's put it this way, if you touch that manor it will be the last thing that you do. We need that house for something...important... There's a fortune to be made there...and I won't have you go spoiling it..!" The voice stormed over the phone.
"Well then... perhaps we can...make a deal...?" Alvers stated with a grin.
"A deal, Yes, perhaps we can...after all there's no price a man won't pay for this...! My name is Dibs. I have the owner of the house, the, REAL owner of the house. We need you to hold off...as long as you can from demolishing this house. We'll be sure to give you... 10 of what we find. I promise...that there is something in there... worth a fortune. Once we have what we want you can just, get rid of it." A chuckle could be heard from the other end.
"Well...I suppose I could go along with this. We'll have to meet somewhere to finalize this deal though.." The greedy mans voice trailed off.
"Tomorrow morning...at 10AM sharp at the eatery across the street from your work." With that Dibs ended the call. This left the greedy Alvers rather pleased and tapping his fingers together. He'd be sure to go over this deal with a fine toothed comb. There was no way that he'd be getting cheated out of this one. After all he wanted that house GONE, and putting it on hold...? Was not something he could just do for any little old thing. There were too many terrible memories of that place from when he was a kid and being chased by those ghosts. This deal had better not be waisting any of his precious time. After all for every house that was knocked down he did get a money for it as well as money for the next big thing that'd appear there in it's place. Aahhh, yes, marketing and retail and all of that sort, what a wonderful thing.
Back at Whipstaff Manor, Casper sighed as he floated through the wall. There was just something that he couldn't shake off even after the past few years. That were his feelings for Kat and just wondering about what could've been had things been more into his favor that night. His eyebrows furrowed upwards as he looked up at the ceiling of the manor and pondered to perhaps get some therapy from Dr. Harvey. "Nah..." He quietly mumbled to himself. After all, Dr. Harvey probably wouldn't understand. "I'm a ghost and she's a human. It'd probably be awkward to talk about my feelings for his daughter with him." The more and more he thought about it. The more and more he wished he were a human. Slowly the corner of his mouth lifted into a smile as his eyes widened. It was then that he remembered that there were TWO bottles down there! Sure, he didn't know what was in it... but there was one way to find out...! Without another thought the young specter traveled straight down through the floor. "THAT'S IT!"
Back at School when class let out both Melle and Kat walked next to each other and talked about what they had to do for each of their classes. "Oh I know...! I can NEVER remember that. I've never really been good at math or history. I just hope I'll be able to pass these classes. I don't want to have to stay at this school any longer than I have too..! " Melle complained and rolled her eyes.
"Hey, that's understandable. I can hardly tolerate any of these girls at this school. I can't wait to get out of this place and into a more mature field." Kat agreed whole heartedly.
It was then that Stinkie narrowed his eyes making a face. All of this stuff was just stupid..! This information wasn't getting him anywhere. Who cares if the girl was bad at Math, History and..etc..? Well time to lay on the charm, he'd have to get this information just how Stretch instructed him to. "Hey...! You said you're bad at History...? Hehe I'm great at it...! I know tons of things that've become history..! One being the milk in da fridge dis mornin'!" Stinkie laughed and elbowed Melle gently as he winked at her. Melle in turn laughed and shook her head. Kat just smirked and rolled her eyes. She looked him over from head to toe, this guy was the weirdest she'd ever met. "OH! Ya wasn't talkin' bout DAT kinda History..heheh..sorry den.." Quickly he apologized once Kat gave that look. After all no needing to alert her. "OH! I believe dat we haven' met yet, heheh, Da names Boomer DeCay! I'm new he'e.." Quickly he held out his hand to shake Kat's.
"I'm... Kat" She paused rather suspicious of this "Boomer" character, but she'd let it go for now. After all if it was a certain someone it'd be a lot easier to be aware and not let them know that you are aware. There'd only been one person that she knew with a stench like that. Smiling though she shook his hand and tried to act normal about it all.
"DOH, HE'E! Lemme carry dem books for ya...!" Sliding over beside Melle Stinkie wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Someone of yer level 'o cute shouldn' have ta strain ya arms. Heheh, who knows whatcha might wanna cuddle latuh..heh or...who.." lightly he peers down over his shades and winks. Staring at him when he did that Melle blushed deeply and tried not to squeal but really couldn't help it as he was rather charming and this was the first time anyone had really flirted with her.
"Ugh, Please.." Giving him an odd look Kat grumped and raised her eyebrows. "Don't you have a class to get to...?"
"Yeah, It's in dis direction..! It's Science...! I'm great at mixing chemicals.." He laughed and grinned to himself, well it was true in more ways than one. However, It wasn't something he really went around doing alot so he never really showed it or mentioned it with his brothers.
"Oh my god, no way!! That's my next class too..!" Excitedly Melle smiled at him and laughed. "It's..one of my better classes along with Art and Geology."
"Really now...? Haha, I'm not all dat great wit any of dem ta be truthful, 'cept maybe History. In da real sense..! If ya'd like I could help ya's along wit dat if ya need it sometoime?" Happily Stinkie offered, this was actually going rather well! That is until Ghastly showed up. His ectoplasm crawled as he felt her presence. By the feel of the vibes she was NONE too happy either. Apparently his brother failed in keeping her busy. The fast talker must've said something wrong, which was no surprise to him in all reality.
"Okay that is just too weird... It's my next class too." Curiously Kat stated as she continued to focus on just Stinkie, trying to figure out if it was really him or not. "Actually, I could help out too if you ever need it Melle. I mean, you know I've always got spare time for things like that." When Stinkie heard that he poked out his bottom lip over his bucked teeth and almost glared behind his glasses. This meant that she'd be in the way when he could get her alone for private chat.
"Oh Heheh, Thanks both of you..!! I'd really like it if we could do that sometime. I mean, I need all the help I can get with it. So the more the merrier right...? So Boomer, what's your next classes...?? Do you have a schedule..? I could just look at that while you're carrying my books." Her blue eyes looked him over she waited for his answer. This boy was odd, but it didn't stop him from being rather cute too.
"Oh uh, yeah... it's dere in my pocket! You'll have ta reach in an' grab it..! I promise I ain't got nothin' dat'll bite ya's..." Stinkie laughed and smirked soon after. There was no way she'd wanna reach in there for it, or so he thought anyway. Without another thought Melle reached her hand on in and pulled it out. In shock Stinkie widened his eyes at that his jaw almost dropped in surprise. Most girls wouldn't bother to reach their hand into a boys pants. This girl had some kinda guts.
"WHOA..!! I can't believe it, we have all of the same classes! That is so cool. I can't even...believe it.. That's crazy..!" Walking into the classroom Melle looked around and pointed. "That's my table over there. Wanna sit with us...? There's a spot left over."
"SURE! Boy...you're one sweet ghoul... er... Gal..! Eheh..Sorry sometimes my tongue slips." Blushing Stinkie shrugged and placed the books down on the table. " Tanks fuh da invite!"
That was it, Kat couldn't take it anymore. This was just way to fishy. "Melle can I uh, talk to you for a second..? 'Scuse us..!" Kat smiled lightly at Stinkie as she pulled Melle aside. "Don't tell me that you haven't noticed how weird all of this is...? He just moves here... he's in all of your classes...? He's hitting on you...? There's that horrible stench... and.. "ghoul?" " Folding her arms over her chest Kat gave Melle this unamused look as if she couldn't believe that she believed all of this.
"Oh you're over reacting.. If there was something going on Ghastly would tell me." Bitting her lip Melle looked over her shoulder. "A-and... I don't know, he doesn't seem bad. He's being nice to me. I... I'd really like to get to know this guy. I don't think that the Trio would pull such a stupid stunt.This is the first time I've ever had a guy like me."
"Just...just BE CAREFUL." Kat sighed heavily as she sat on her seat and of all things a loud FART noise ripped through the class. EVERYONE'S attention was brought to Kat. "A WHOOPEE CUSHION!? Who even USES these stupid things anymore?! AUGH..!" Those eyes narrowed towards Stinkie who actually looked like he was busy setting out his stuff. "I'm keeping my eyes on you.." Disgruntled about what just happened Kat placed out her items she needed for the class.
Stinkie in turn just smirked and felt pretty damned good about his prank.Though he let on like he didn't know anything. He watched closely though as Melle laughed her butt off at it with the others. Sure she apologized to Kat for laughing but, the point to him was the fact that she actually laughed at his joke. "She has... a beautiful laugh..." quietly he thought to himself. As he realized just what the heck he thought he slapped his forehead, "DOH! What da...?! hngh..."
"Are you alright...? Forget something...?" Melle Questioned as she placed out her items also prepping for the teacher to come in.
"Oh uh... Y-Yeah. Hmn, I uh... say... Do ya... think I could walk ya's home..? Guh. What am I talkin' 'bout.. I only just met ya's. I'm sorry. I probably sound rather creepy..." His voice trailed off he wasn't the best at this whole romance thing.
"Well... We'll see...!" Winking at him Melle stuck out her tongue and giggled.
At that moment the teacher walked into the classroom and pointed at the board. "Apparently, the school believes we should have a re-cap on Sex Ed. All of you are old enough by now or know enough, so I don't think these are necessary, but, bring them home and have your parents sign them and bring them back in. So for today we will finish up what we started last week and tomorrow we'll move onto Sex Ed."
Both Melle and Stinkie found themselves turning redder than a beat at that moment when the teacher talked about that. The reason Melle blushed was just due to the fact that she was so shy about these sorts of things. On Stinkie's end, it's just because other than what he learned through Stretch talking and accidentally flying in on couples, this would be the first time he's ever really 'learned' about it in over 100 years. "Dis is gonna be a LONG week..."