Spooksville Season 2
Episode 3 Dream a little Nightmare part 1
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters or anything to do with Spooksville. Or the movies mentioned in this chapter.
Ann P.O.V.
Two weeks have passed since the Harpy attack. Things seem to go back to normal at school. For the first few days I can still tell that killing those Harpies had taken a toll on Sally. I don't think Adam really notices, sometimes he gets this look on his face when Sally is a little down. It is like he is questioning if Sally is OK or not and he just decides that if Sally wasn't she would say something. Watch on the other hand I think that he does know something is up and might even know what is wrong. But, he doesn't really know how to help her. He is a smart kid, but when it comes to what classifies as normal human interaction he is still learning. Granted I am not much help either, Sally and me are still building our friendship and I don't know where the boundaries are yet. So I just put my hand on her shoulder and give her a sympathetic look.
But hopefully after tonight we will all be closer. Because, Sally had the brilliant idea of a movie night for the gang. So after school we are going to meet up at Adam's house and watch some of our favorite movies. For four people who save the town and the world on an almost weekly basis this is something wonderfully normal. I close my locker and head to Shadowmere to get some of my favorite movies.
When I get to Shadowmere I head directly to my room to collect my three favorite movies. They are The Day After Tomorrow, Much Ado About Nothing (by Joss Whedon), and The Internship. (AN: These are three of my favorite movies. If you haven't watched you should.) I was hoping to slip out before anyone noticed me, but as my luck would have it Moorpark showed up at my door.
"Mistress Madeline would like to see you in her chambers."
"OK I will be there in a second." With that he walks out of the room. I wonder what Madeline wants to see me for this time. In the last two weeks I have only seen her twice. Both times she was trying to pump me for information on what Sally, Adam, and Watch were up to. And then when I told her nothing let me leave, hopefully it will be like that this time.
"Ann, dear, are the children up to anything this week?"
"No, nothing."
"You look like you are in a hurry to leave."
"Yes, we are having a movie night. A sort of bonding experience for the team."
"That seems like a brilliant plan. Build up there trust through a bonding exercise of there own making. Brilliant, Ann you are being quite the little spy."
"Yes now I must be going. I don't want them to questioning why I am late." And with that I leave Shadowmere in a hurry. But, not before I notice an evil smile on Madeline's face. That smile makes me shiver like a cold wind had come out of nowhere.
By the time I get to Adam's house it is almost 4 o'clock. I ring the doorbell and in a less than a minute Adam's dad answers the door.
"Hello, Ann." He gives me a cold look as he lets me in his house. I can't blame him; I lied to him for a long time about his wife and put him and Adam in danger.
"Hello, Mr. Freeman. Thank you for letting me come over."
"Adam says we can trust you. But understand this I will be keeping a close eye on you."
"Completely understandable Mr. Freeman. But, I promise you I will never hurt them or betray them. They are the closest thing I have to family and I will protect them with everything I have."
"I want to trust you, Ann, but after everything it is going to have to be earned."
"I will earn your trust back Mr. Freeman."
"OK well, Sally is in the Kitchen fixing the popcorn and Adam is helping Watch set up the projector in the backyard."
"Thank you Mr. Freeman." I say as I head into the kitchen to see a disaster area. Popcorn is everywhere. I can't help but smile. Not only is popcorn everywhere in the kitchen, but there is popcorn all in Sally's hair as well.
"Hahahaha!"
"Shut up, Ann!" Sally says without even looking at me. In fact she turns her head down a little and I swear I think I can see her blushing. But that only last a second before she turns her head up with a challenging look on her face. "You could help me fix the last of this popcorn!"
"How much more popcorn do we need? There is only four of us and if we fix to much then most of it is going to go stale before we can eat it." I start walking toward her looking at the kitchen table, which has six buckets full of popcorn.
"Damn it you have a point. I guess I got a little overzealous with making the popcorn."
"You think?" As I say that I slowly start picking the popcorn out of Sally's hair. Sally visibly freezes as I do this. "Sally you OK?"
"Yeah, I'm fine Ann." She starts to frantically brush the popcorn out of her hair. "Lets take the popcorn out to the backyard. We set the couch from the living room outside so we would have something comfortable to sit on."
"That is brilliant!"
"It was Watch's idea. He didn't want to sit on the ground all night." Before I can say anything I hear the boys arguing.
"We should watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose."
"No Adam I think we should watch Sherlock Homes." It figures that Watch would like Sherlock Homes and he is right it is a good movie. And so is The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
"As excellent as both of those movies are. I brought some movies too." That seems to snap them out of their argument. They turn their heads to face me.
"Hey, Ann." Adam says. "What movies did you bring?"
"Adding more movies to the equation isn't going to solve the problem only adds to the problem."
"Watch is right so instead of picking movies why don't we draw lots to see who gets go first."
"That is brilliant Sally. Does anyone have a hat and some paper?"
"I do. In the house, I will be right back." And Adam rushes off into his house to get the hat and the paper. He returns a minute later with a cowboy hat and four strips of paper in it. "OK I got the hat so who is going to pick?"
"I say Sally does since she fixed all the popcorn."
"OK so Sally will you do the honors?" Adam asks Sally with a smile on his face. Which makes me feel uneasy and I don't know why. So I shake the feeling off and ignore it.
"OK drum roll please." None of us do anything. "Thanks guys you all are so helpful." Sally has a smirk on her face as she says this. As she reaches her hand in the hat to draw the name I can see the tip of her tongue poking out of the corner of her mouth. That combined with the look of determination is really cute. "And Ann gets to chose the first movie. And then it is Adam, Watch, and then me. Of course I pick myself last!"
"Too bad Sally, but yay I get to go first. And we are watching The Day After Tomorrow!"
"That is a good movie."
"Thank you Watch." With that we put the movie in and take our seats on the couch. Adam on the right, then Sally, Me, and Watch on the other end. As the movie starts we each take a bucket of popcorn and relax.
"That was a really good movie Ann." Sally says while yawning I look around and we are all yawning and looking tired. Which is weird it is only about 7:45ish we shouldn't be tired. But, considering Adam is up next I don't think we will be tired long. "Thank you Sally I am surprised you a have never seen the movie. By the way what movie did you bring anyway?"
"I brought Pitch Perfect."
"I love that movie."
"Isn't that a girl movie?"
"No! Adam it is an excellent movie that doesn't fall into a gender stereotype!"
"OK my bad! Can't wait to see it!" He has a look of fear on his face as he says that. It puts a smile on my face. He hurries to put in The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
As the movie starts we take our places again.
About thirty minutes into the movie Adam and Watch are already asleep and Sally is about out too. Even I am feeling tired. Adam is leaning on Sally and Sally is leaning on me. Watch is also leaning on me. As I start to drift of I find myself leaning on to Sally and as I do that Sally snuggles up to me. Before I know what I am doing I lean down and kiss her on the forehead. And then I drift off to sleep. That is the last thing I remember before the nightmare starts….
Ok I hope y'all liked this chapter. I know that nothing really exciting this chapter, but I promise you the fun start in part two. I love all the movies listed in this chapter and it will be a couple of days before I update. Because, I am going to watch all these movies again. And for those who didn't catch the reference with the title of this episode it is a play on the song Dream a Little Dream of Me.