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The night was cloud free, but windy. Even though the hour was late most of the residences were up preparing for Halloween. It was only two days away.
Selen was waiting for Jack outside his castles gates. The wind raffling her hair. Even though Selen was a proud residence of Halloween Town, she didn't get Halloween. She didn't like scaring people, for no good reason anyway.
She will never admit it to Jack though. He was Halloween. He loved the Holiday, the preparation of, the doing it, anything Halloweeny actually.
There was a reason why Selen called loving something through and through, jacking.
Suddenly the gates creaked open, Selen turned expecting Jack, but no one was there.
"Jack?" Selen called. No one answered. Figuring it was nothing, she turned around again. Next she heard leaves rustling, not even bothering to look Selen kept telling herself.
'It was the wind, just the wind.' Feeling alarmed, Selen tried to calm herself.
'I lived in Halloween town for gods sake! Why am i panicking?? What was that noise?'
"Jack?" Selen called softly. "You there?"
The next thing she felt was someone grabbing her ankle and saying "Boo" ever so softly.
Screaming Selen jumped up and on to the gate, putting her arms straight for balance.
"JACK!" She roared. And it indeed was Jack for he was rolling on the ground laughing his skull off.
Growling Selen hoped off the gate and landed with great aim right over Jacks chest.
Jack stopped laughing the moment Selen landed.
"Hi Selen, fancy meeting you here." He said with a small grin.
If looks could kill, Jack would have been died as dust.
"Jack, did you just grab my ankle?" Selen asked, keeping her voice low and deadly.
"Umm you see, the things is, i was..." Seeing that Selen was glaring harder Jack crumbled under her stare. Yes."
An evil smile escaped Selen's lips.
"Thanks for admitting it. Now I'm going to steal your head."
"Wait. WHAT?"
Selen quickly reached down and yanked Jack's head right off his shoulders.
"Selen put my head back!" Jack's head yelled.
"No." Selen said simply and tucked the head under her arm and started to jog off into the forest.
"HELP!! HEADNAPPER!" Jack shouted as best as he could with his head bouncing up and down.
"Dont listen to him! He has gone temporarily delusional!" Selen shouted back to no one as she continued running.
As they entered the woods Jack suggested.
"Selen i suggest you to duck about now."
"Why- OOOF " Selen fell as Jack's body tackled her to the ground. Spitting out dead leaves, Selen tried to get up but found that Jack, head, body and all, was sitting on her.
"I wonder where Selen went?" Jack said mockingly with a bony finger to his would-be lips.
"Don't we have to be somewhere?" Selen reminded Jack. "You can sit on me another time."
"Deal" Jack stood up and help Selen up. Together they walked to spiral hill .
Xxxxxx
'Where is that boy?' Fearnouse wondered. 'I told Jack to be here. Properly off with that girl...
Can't understand what he sees in her. He doesn't want something from her, he doesn't want to use her. He simply wants her company...'
Fearnouse didn't under stand friends, he sees if you spend time with someone you either want something form them or want to use them. Not just for good company.
'If it was my way, he would never even met her. It was the mayor’s fault he had watched over the boy while I worked.
But of course he had to take him to the graveyard.
Even though there was some high society children there, no of all the people he can have company with it had to be a filthy, crazy, common as dirt vampire.
Almost shuddering Fearnouse stomped off to find the Mayor. He wanted to yell at someone.
Halloween was in the next two days. Soon they will be round the humans. Fearnouse snarled.
He hated the humans, they were vermin to him, he liked Halloween only because each year he could kill off a few more of them.
Xxxxxxxx
'There goes Jack jacking away.' Selen thought happily. 'It was so easy to make him happy. Jack and Selen were sitting on spiral hill talking.
"Then they add just a blob of Black Cat's Whiskers to make it extra creepy." Jack explained happily how the Witches brew that “Special Scared” on Halloween. "And that's all there is to it." Jack finished.
“That’s something to add to my list of things I know about Halloween” Selen said with a grin.
“Hey what are you going to do I just love Halloween.” Jack said shrugging.
“Speaking of Halloween” Selen began.
“We just were” Jack interrupted with a smirk.
“Hey you want your present of not?” Selen said with her hands on her hips.
“Present?” Jack asked with a puzzled expression on his face.
“It is our 10 year anniversary, it has been ten years since you saved me from those trolls.”
“More like I saved them, you looked like you were about to rip their heads off.” Jack chuckled recalled the memory of the feisty little girl.
“Anyway, you said present?” Jack asked edging closer to Selen.
Selen took out a narrow box made of spider’s silk and gave it to Jack.
With care Jack carefully undid the bow and was starting on the box when Selen snatched it back.
Muttering “If you cant do it fast enough then don’t do it at all.” Tearing a big hole in the silk, she gave it back to Jack.
Smirking at her Jack took the present and opened it. Revelling a black bat-bowtie.
“Just a little some to remember me by” Selen said happily.
“I love it thank you!” Jack said grinning ear to ear. Then his face fell. “But I didn’t get you anything…”
Seeing her friends sadness Selen quickly put a hand on his shoulder,
“Jack you gave me things far better then a bowtie since we met. You were the only person who wanted to spend time with me when I was young, no one wanted to come near me, afraid that I would sUcK tHEir bLOOd or something. You stood beside me when others ran. You managed to put up with me all these years. That Jack is far better present then a bowtie”
“Selen when I see this bowtie I will always think of you.
Stylish, close to my hart, so to speak” Jack looked warmly at the bow-tie. “And slightly batty” Jack added making small circles at the side of his head.
And as Selen tackled Jack, their friendship increased.
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