Sorry for not updating for a few days! There's a heat wave here so I just crashed at home and had no energy so I didn't get out to the library. But I'm back today! Yay! I'll try to keep posting chapters as often as I can.

The next day at school it somehow got out that Roxy and Calliope were dating. Most people didn't care (though there were a few heart-broken guys and one girl). But a group of populars, specifically the ones in Karkat's homeroom, started teasing and bullying Calliope. Then Roxy punched them all. And she and Calliope both got detention. Had Gamzee been there as well, he would have punched them too and also gotten detention. Instead he found them later and punched them all and got detention then.

"Well, thothe girlth definitely detherved it." Sollux commented.

"But now you two have detention." Calliope said. "I'm sorry, if I'd just ignored them…"

"We both would have done that anyway." Roxy said. "Don't worry, I'm not upset." She patted Calliope's head and smiled. Gamzee nodded and grinned. Calliope smiled.

"Thanks you two."

When Karkat got home Porrim handed him a ticket to the amusement park. He didn't bother asking her how she got it and she didn't tell him.

After Karkat did his homework he tried to phone Sollux. But for some reason he didn't answer. Maybe he was asleep, or his phone battery died. Karkat just shrugged and went on his computer. He'd try calling Sollux again later.

Sollux climbed up into the old crumbling tree-fort. Inside, the two ghosts were waiting for him. They cheered when they saw him and ran up and hugged him.

"You came back to play with us!" the little girl cried. Sollux grinned and nodded.

"Not too long though. I have to go back home in an hour."

"That's fine!" the little boy said.

"But why couldn't we play with you and your friend yesterday?"

"Yeah, and you told him we weren't there!"

"He wouldn't be able to thee you guyth. And he findth dead people kinda creepy."

"We're not creepy!"

"Yeah!"

"I know. Tho, what are we gonna play?"

"Hide and seek! We'll hide!" Sollux nodded and covered his eyes.

"One…two…three…" he heard the two ghosts laugh and run off. He smiled as he kept counting. "Eighteen…nineteen…twenty! Ready or not, here I come!" Sollux took his hands down and looked around him. He looked under the branch sticking through the tree-fort, but he knew they weren't there. He would look where he knew they weren't because it made them enjoy the game even more.

"Hee-hee! He can't find us!" the little boy whispered. Sollux grinned and slowly walked by where he was hiding. Then he jumped at him.

"Boo!" he yelled. The little boy shrieked and laughed. "I found you!"

"But now you've gotta find my sister!" Sollux grinned and nodded.

He spent a whole hour playing hide and seek many times with the two ghosts. They were very sweet and were fun to play with. Sollux really enjoyed playing with them because it made him feel like a kid again. He hadn't felt like that since he'd moved out here. When he played with Aradia, he felt like a kid. Probably because they'd known each other since they were kids. Sollux smiled when he thought of her. He still missed her a lot.

"Okay you two, I have to go home now." Sollux said. The two ghosts whined and complained.

"Play a little longer!"

"Yeah! Just a bit more!"

"Don't worry, I'll be back tomorrow."

"THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" they screeched. Sollux backed away but the little boy flew in front of the ladder down, blocking him.

"We want you to play with us forever!" the little girl said.

"And never leave us!" Sollux sighed.

"I can't. And if you're going to be like thith I won't come back."

"No! We won't let you leave!" Their teeth grew into sharp fangs and their nails grew into claws. They hissed and circled Sollux, beginning to chant. Sollux knew what they were doing, he'd seen it before with Aradia. He pulled the charm she'd given him out from under his shirt and held it up. He turned it in his hand and the two ghosts screamed and clutched their chests.

"Let me leave." Sollux said.

"NEVER!" they howled. Sollux sighed and turned the charm around. They screamed and collapsed to the floor. "Stop!" they screamed. "It hurts! Please!" Sollux bit his lip and shook his head. They screamed and erupted into dark red flames. The flames burned only them and soon they disappeared.

Sollux sighed and tucked the charm back under his shirt. He climbed down from the tree-fort and walked back home. His dad was there to greet him when he got back with supper.

"Anything interesting happen?" he asked. Sollux smiled and shook his head.

"Nope. It wath pretty boring."