After meeting with Jack, he offered to invite us to his house for tea. So Doc and I accepted and we walked with the Skellington family to the Skellington home. When I first saw the house, it was beyond amazing. It was the tallest house I have ever seen. It was almost like a tower. As we entered the house, I was even more impressed by the way it looked on the inside instead of the outside. It was bigger and had a red carpet that leads to many different rooms, different corridors or maybe different sections of the house. Even if I lived here, it might take me at least a week to figure out this maze. I was both impressed and and excited about this place. I don't know why but...I get the sensation that...I once lived in a place like this but...for some reason...I hated it. I can't remember excactly why as it left me confused with wonder
. But...I live here...in Halloween Town now...meaning this is my new home...and I love it here than living there.
"Here we are!" said the Pumpkin King, opening a door that lead to a dining room. It had a long table, about the same length of an anaconda except longer. It had 30 chairs, as I counted, and there were 3 candles with 3 arms on each one.
As I watched, Jack suddenly clicked his bony fingers and all 3 candles produced fire and light. As I stood there in awe, Doc grabbed me by the sleeves and pulled me to him so I could hear what he had to say.
"Amazed, aren't you?" he said, giving me a smile.
"Yes I am. How did he do that?"
"That is one mystery I do not know. But, I am very happy that Jack is our rightful king. It's much better to have Jack as our king rather then...
him..."
I keep hearing
him one too many times and still have no clue of who the guy is. I know people around here are a fraid of him and all, but seriously. Ever since I came to this place people kept asking or tellling me about
him and I don't even know the guy for heaven's sake. I wanted to ask Doc who
he was, but I felt like now wouldn't be the right time. As Jack sat to the table with his wife, Sally, Doc and I sat on the other end. Crystal sat next to me smiling and I felt my heart skipped a beat. How can a beautiful girl, or ragdoll, sit next to an abomination of a boy. If I had a face it would be blushing right now. Jack clicked his fingers again and a meal was prepared in a spark of fire. It was indeed food that could kill a man from first taste. It was a plate of a skeleton fish, next to it on the right side was a glass of something that looks foul but has the smell of wine. On the right was a bowl of soup that smelled really...revolting...
"Mmmm..." said Doc, sniffing his soup, "My favorite, Worms Warts Soup. Delicously devine. You haven't put any Deadly Nightshade in here, have you Sally?"
"Oh don't be sill Doctor," said Sally with a friendly smile.
I remember the stories Doc told me about Sally putting Deadly Nightshade in his soup and running off at the dead of night to see Jack. I found that kinda funny because when something is deadly, it would make a person fall into eternal slumber. But Doc had and hour of slumber instead of eternity.
"So Demonia," said Jack with a smile, "Where are you from, or don't you remember?"
"I don't remember excactly but I did live in the human world. But somehow I died and I don't remember how and Doc found me in the graveyard passed out and he took me in when I had nowhere to go. I'm very grateful, too."
"Well you should be," said Sally, "Doc is sometimes tuned into his work but he is indeed ready to help out a friend in need."
I looked at Doc who smiled at me and I smiled back at him. I then looked at Crystal who was smiling at me and again my heart missed a beat. But how can my heart beat...when I have no internal organs. Especially since I'm a skeleton. I finished my food early to get away from the table and not arouse suspicion. "Will you all excuse me?" I said as calmly as I could. They all nodded and I started down the hallway and to a balcony. I unbuttoned my shirt to find nothing, but a living, beating heart. I never felt or seen this when I awoke in Doc's lab. When I awoke in the lab there was no heartbeat and no heart. I was confused. This never happened until just now. Did it have something to do with Crystal? I was indeed confused. I met her once and already I developed feelings for her. What is this?
"Is everything alright?" said a mysterious voice. I turned and saw Crystal walking in on the balcony. I turned to the direction of the moon and I became more nervous with each step she took towards me.
"I'm...fine..." I said, my voice choked.
She knew something was wrong and said, "Are you afraid of me?"
"No. Not at all. Should I be?"
"No. You shouldn't"
She gave me another smile and suddenly we developed our first conversation. I told her how I felt about her and she felt the same way about me when she first saw me. I was like...wow...
Then we talked about...well everything. Favorite books, music, everything. It was like we were on a first date. I told some bad jokes but she found them funny. Whenever she laughed, my world brighten for she was like a beautiful angel with a beautiful smile.
"Demonia!" Doc screamed from the other side, "It's time to leave. We have a busy day tommorrow."
I looked to Crystal smiling. "It was nice meeting you Crystal."
"It was nice meeting you too Demonia," she said smiling.
I extended my hand to shake, but instead she gave me a kiss on my cheek (well cheek bone). With one last smile she and I walked down the corridor and we went in different directions.
"Did you have a good time?" said Doc.
"I guess."
"What were you and Crystal talking about anyway?"
I smiled and said, "Love."
