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Chapter #2 The party

Finally her mother pulled to the house. It seemed awfully quiet for a party and awfully quiet for Jake's house. She could feel that something was wrong but there was no going back now. She looked at her mother before getting out of the car. Her face wasn't as composed as it usually was. She could tell it too after all this wasn't the first time they had been to Jake's house enough to know that that was not normal although they both pretended not to notice.

“Well have a good time Kate,” her mother said with a wight face, never breaking eye contact with the house.

“I will” says kate even though deep down inside there was a voice whispering to her DON'T KNOCK, DON'T KNOCK

Her heart is pounding as she walks up the two steps to the door. Her breathing heaves and her steps become slow but no matter how slow she goes her feet don't stop she keeps walking. And walking … and walking till there it was the door. She could still see the bits of pumpkin from last year's halloween prank. Her mind races thinking of anything she might have done to upset Jake in the past few days. As she did so she summoned all of her strength to lift her hand to knock her hand shaking with fear of what was in store for her for she now knew the mental game that was one of his cruel jokes. She knocked the door swung open wide and there stood Jake with a smile, a warm smile paired with warm loving eyes. She now let out a breath she didn't realize she was even holding. She knew Jake better than anyone and she could tell she was now safe. She turned around and gave her mom a thumbs up. Her mom sighed with relief, smiled and then drove off.

“Why so quiet” asked kate now more curious than nervous

“I just had you get here early, I knew your mother would freak out if she saw it was a party,” Jake responded, sitting down on the couch and motioning for Kate to take a seat.

“How did you know I didn't tell her it was a party?”

“Oh come on kate give me some credit youd think id know my girlfriend”

“Ok fair point”

“So do you want a drink real quick before conner comes rushing in loud as last year's Christmas band or…?

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. came a knock at the door.

“Too late.” jake sighed as he got up and walked toward the door

“You know where the drinks are right?” Jake asked Kate. Kate nodded.

“Good” said jake opening the door and letting in letting in a tall longer haired and (compared to the walking skeleton that was jake) large man with arms full of boxes of junk that was connor, connor was jake's best friend in the hole world but he was kind of loud but that's what made him good at parties he was the life of them and knew exactly what to do. Mainly because he was constantly going to the most popular parties in highschool. He had even helped to plan this one which was part of the reason he was dragging so much stuff behind him the other reason was because jake said he would only let him help if he either, got to pull as many pranks as he wanted or, do a seance so he could scare everybody half to death. Of course Connor couldn't have Jake ruining his party with all of his pranks so he agreed to the seance and brought all of the stuff he could find on the subject. Conner set the boxes down on the floor

“What's this?” Jake questioned picking up a small clear bottle of liquid.

“Holy water…” connor winced as he said this

Jake burst out laughing a genuine and mockingly and just as he was stopping he spotted the cross pulled it out and started laughing all over again 

“you know that seances aren't real right, and even if they where why would any of this stuff help”

“Hey you know you can never be careful with this kind of stuff” 

“Yeah, yeah just take it upstairs and stuff it under a pillow. I don't want anybody thinking you're a pansy. I'll take up the ouija board and that stuff even though it's just as fake.”

Jake picked up the box with seance supplies as Connor rushed up the stairs.

“hun if you want you can take that box over there and start spicing the place up”

  “Ok” said Kate, digging through the box.

Connor really had thought of everything he had brought: lights, his own punch, cups, and bowl, twister, head band, a movie player and a projector,  some sound equipment, CDs,and all sorts of other things. She got started setting up and was just finishing up when Jake came down in some type of fake demon suit.

“What do you think” jake mumbled from underneath the demonic mask

“Looks good, but what kinda of prank are you planning to pull with that” kate said raising an eyebrow

“Where planning on setting of a smoke bomb in the middle of the ritual then dropping me down in the middle of it and scare everyone half to death”

“Oh jeez jake”

“What it's just having a little fun”

“Yeah until someone has an aneurysm”

Jake just laughed while Kate gave him a sarcastic grin.jake then replied

“Ok I get your point but trust me i have everything under control everything is going to be just fine, trust me.”

“Ok i'm trusting you don't mess it up.”

“When have you known me to mess up”

Kate sighed knowing he was getting cocky again. Jake then interrupts this thought by complimenting her with a…

“You really gave this place a makeover didn't you”

“You should thank Connor. He was the one that thought of all this stuff. I was just the one that set it all up.”

And just as Jake was about to say something the doorbell rang and Jake ran up stairs yelling for Connor to answer the door meanwhile Kate calmly walked over to let the new guests into the house. The party had officially begun  

The party was going pretty well. Kate didn't know very many people there but the people she did know she enjoyed talking to and she even got to catch up with a few friends that she hadn't seen in a long time, but she was starting to miss jake. Yes she could go up and see him anytime she wanted, but the fear of what was going to happen was utterly paralyzing and she couldn't quite bring herself to go up there and see the horrors that were lurking upstairs. Even though no one had come out screaming yet she was sure they would. After all, when Jake does a prank he truly goes all out.

“Is that you kate?” a familiar voice said from behind her she turned around to see a face that gave her a kind of deja vu

“Umm hi?” she replied in a confused voice

“You don't remember me do you” said the mysterious person

“No sorry” kate said in an ashamed voice, never before had she not remembered a person

“Well good our first encounter wasn't exactly a good one to be reminded of, anyway im samantha” said this new girl stitching out her hand in expectancy of a hand shake

“Well good to meet you, again.” Kate said grabbing her hand “where did we meet before any way.”

“The hospital” samantha replied shily

“Ooooh” kate said in recognition “your the girl that shared a room with me when I broke my arm”

“Yeah that’s me” as she said this she looked down at the ground in embarrassment

“Wow you really healed up nicely no offense”

“None taken, how did you break your arm anyway?”

“Well you see I was playing a game of basketball with one of my friends and…” as she said this, she was brutally interrupted by the first of the expected screams along with a crash followed by more screams. Everyone jumped, even Kate and the whole room came to a standstill. The music cut out and everyone stopped talking all at once. All eyes were facing the upstairs bedroom. A sudden rush of people came flying down the stairs running out of the house screaming, all except for Conner and Jake. Everyone waited patiently hoping that they would come down. The house was deadly silent. So much so, that you could hear a pin drop and all felt their heart beat in their chest as they hoped to see the two. Then came a low rumble from the stairs and the whole party crowded around the stairwell. Staring up into the darkness, a huge mass of fur came bolting down the stairs lunging at the closest person. They fell down, a bloody claw mark scrapping its way across their chest. The whole crowd ran screaming and crying. Bodies climbed over one another. Kate ran. Not daring to look behind at the beast, in her haste tripped over her own feet. Her head landed on the ground with a sudden thud the whole world blurred together in a swirl and misty haze as a ringing entered her ears she couldn't tell which way was up or which way was down much less where the door was all she could see was the mass of people running. Figuring this is where the exit might be she tried standing up in hopes of escaping with the others her knees were wobbly and weak and she could hardly stay upright but she needed to in order to have any chance of escaping she walked forward. with each step it felt like a weight was added onto her. She knew she would only be able to get so far before she collapsed, then as if in sudden recognition of this thought she fell in a heap on the floor. The remaining people had now escaped all that was left in the room was broken furniture, her and the beast. She would have to regain her senses before she could attempt to escape. She pushed herself onto her back staring at the ceiling, willing it into a clear picture trying to focus her mind. In  a flash the beast was on top of her; it had some type of wolf-like appearance to it yet its face was far to deformed in order to be one. This new image was much sharper in her adrenalin pumped state from this huge mass pressing it paws? No hands, or something in between either way the weight was enough to create a sense of danger. Even as she stared into its face she could see something was not right, that it was no wolf but some other type of creature from the beastly large snarl to its large pointed ears, but most of all was its strangely human-like eyes that seemed to recognise her. She recognised them and was surprised to see humanity and a fear in its eyes. Then in a flash as quick as it was on her it was off and out the door and down the street cries could be heard as people witnessed the beast. 

“What just happened” kate whispered to herself “what was that thing”

Jake himself was wondering that same question. All was going well with the prank. The light was dark and the room was filled with smoke from the smoke machine so that no one could see him as he was stuck to the ceiling with some belts and a pulley system. Luckily no one could see him otherwise the whole thing would be ruined. They had a large pentagram on the floor and several candles laid down with an old book in the middle they got from an old pawn shop. The book they reasoned used to belong to a halloween store and was the reason for the spell-like form of the words on the page and the pentagram on the front. However this was not the case you see this book belongs to a wicken colt which meant that it used to be used to summon “demons” the very thing that they were pretending to do. As people filed into the room they looked around in wonder at the room as conner greeted them taking every bit in for they also did not believe in such things as ghosts and demons. Conner directed them in a circle around the pentagram then sat himself in front of the book and took a deep breath. They had practiced this over a hundred times beforehand and they were now ready. He began reciting from the book.

Homai, Entae, Lentoo, Lantae, Oncramore.

Treenorm, Herartam, Ental, Rencartam, Entae.

Amores, Noctar, Dreedlam.

Westroe, Ental, Lentoo, Contrak, Oncramore, Melmor, Entae.

Amores, Noctar, Ubleh, Bristam, Ilkolm, Slokong.

Oncramore, Ubleh, Rencartam.

Gasta, Oncramore, Dreedlam.

At the sound of the last word the pentagram began to glow and all looked stunned at the middle. “Oh cool conner must have placed some LED lights” thought Jake, and conner thought the same thing. At that glow they kicked on the fans and the smoke began to swirl towards the middle. It was show time. Conner reached into his pocket and flicked the switch to the pulley system holding Jake to the ceiling slowly lowering him down into the middle. Jake curled into a ball trying to make himself as invisible as possible to the crowd. Then he reached the bottom there it was so smokey he could hardly see himself then he turned on the LEDs on the suit allowing himself to start to be seen then they kicked off the fans to let the smoke disperse so all the room could see his suit.

“Mwahahahaha im free” Jake laughed through a voice synthesizer which was then blasted through the surround sound system they had hooked up earlier. Jake loomed in the circle looking from person to person studying them intensely as if their entire species was new to him.

“Careful don't break the circle or he’ll escape and then we’ll all be doomed”

At this Jake clawed at one of them but was careful not to cross the line and spoil the illusion that he was a real demon.

“Now it is time to send him back” conner said

Westroe, Ental.

Oncramore, Frazk, Framore, Entae, Rencartam.

Noctar, Oncramore, Westroe.

Treenorm, Homai, Ilkolm, Slokong.

Slokong, Amores, Contrak, Rencartam, Ilkolm, Frask, Ilkolm, Contrak, Ental.

At the end of this verse Jake's stomach began to turn. He felt an extreme ake and a cramp started to swell up inside him, his head started to hurt, his heart pumped faster and he became hot. Everyone stared at him in wonder and conner started to enjoy the theatrics until jake looked up at him with desperation in his eyes conners smile faded as he saw jake mouth his name. A sudden surge of unbearable pain went through his body as his arms back and other muscles contracted and went off in uncontrollable spasms preventing him from ever screaming. All he could do was stare at the ceiling in hopes that this soon would be over. As he stared upward he knew that something was inside him and it felt as if it was tearing him apart from the inside out. tears rolled down his eyes as his vision blurred and the thought entered his eyes 

“This is it, this is how I die” then the room faded to darkness as he felt his skin start to rip apart. Then he slowly woke up with a type of yellowness to his vision and he was staring straight into the eyes of Kate. Then he felt the thing coming back trying to take control of him once more he knew he had to get away he didn't know what he might do to her with it in control. He ran. He ran faster than he had ever ran in all of his life. It didn't matter where to, he just knew he had to get as far away as he could. He ran down the street not daring to look back, people screamed as he went past but he didn't blame them after all he was not himself he was instead something else and that something else was taking control again as Jake felt himself gently fall away. The next time he would wake he would once more be human but he would be in the middle of Sutro forest asking himself “what just happened.”

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Chapter #1 Katy kat

Uuuuuaaagh. 20 minutes till spring break and everyone was itching to get  out of school and go home. And I mean everyone. Including Kate. Kate was a very bright talented young woman. She had dark wavy long hair.she was about 15 years old and unlike other pretty girls wasn't very popular. Not that she wanted to be very popular; in fact she liked being unpopular; she could be herself, and she was very happy with herself. But that isn't to say she was unlikeable. Oh no, to be unpopular is not to be disliked, in fact she was liked by a lot of people. Especially the boys that laid eyes on her. However for some mysterious reason no boys would dare to date her. Actually, come to think of it, it wasn't misterios at all. You see, in high school there is a set of unspoken rules. Well actually only one rule, never treat a freshman as an equal! Now this may sound cruel. In actuality it was more of a traditional tease that everyone played on the newbies. Not very many freshmen even were bothered by this supposed inequality. This did prevent any older boys from asking her out. As for the rest of the freshmen they were simply scared of Jake. 

15 minutes remaining. Jake was Kate's current boyfriend. Now there was no reason to be scared of Jake, unless you got on his bad side. Even if you saw Jake mad you wouldn't be afraid of him. Unless you knew him. Jake was a skinny 17 year old with pale skin. And the only senior willing to break the unspoken rule. However he wasn't always kind and could smile a smile that would make the devil himself shiver. No one knew exactly what happened when Jake got mad. They only knew that one kid got him mad and after word he had bad luck for a week. It wasn't normal bad luck, it was the kind that would literally make you go psycho if you weren't mentally strong, and you knew it was Jake because after every event Jake was always there smiling his devil's grin. 

10 minutes left.However it has been years since then, Kate hasn't even moved to Middleton yet and now Jake was only pulling harmless pranks. But he also had Kate to keep him in cheek, truth be told she quite liked his mischievous side, as long as it stayed mischievous and nothing else. She also liked him because he was the only one willing to break the unspoken rules and stand up despite what society might think of him. This is what kate truly admired in him the good man that wanted to do what was right no matter what

5 minutes left. The clock seemed to be ticking slower and slower by the minute, drowning out the already long and boring class. It was only 4 more minutes, how long could it possibly take for 4 minutes to pass. This class was going to last ours at this point. Every student was nearing closer to the edge of their seats, a few were even packing their bags and throwing them over their shoulders. After all this was a memorable spring break. It was the longest spring break in 10 years and just so happened to be the same spring break that the fair and the new water park down decided to open for business. 2 minutes 30 seconds many started to count and mouth the time no longer able to keep the anticipation locked up inside some were even standing in a sprinting position ready to go. 30 seconds left even though the teacher had stopped her lecture to stare at the clock. It looks like Ms Witmer had plans for this break. 20 seconds remaining, and students seemed to be staring hard enough at the clock that it was ticking slower breaking under the pressure. 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… this was it, it was finally here 5…...… 4…...… 3…...… 2…...… 1……… Kate crossed her fingers and closed her eyes hoping this wasn't a dream and waited for the bell to ring. After all, what teenage girl wouldn't be excited with their parents out of town and her long romantic date set up with her loving boyfriend hopefully not too loving though if you know what i mean. But the bell never rang instead there was screaming. Lots of screaming. I mean Kate knew people were excited but that was not what she had expected when she finally opened her eyes and looked up, she realized why. The clock was ticking backwards; it was now two minutes until the bell would ring. it went on only till five minutes but still plenty of time for people to get pissed, really pissed. There was lots of profanity. Students started walking out and one even started to flip desks over. When the bell finally rang 10 minutes later there was hardly anyone left in the school. Kate made her way to her locker grabbing the rest of her stuff before taking the bus ride home.

“Hey katy kat” a familiar voice said from behind the locker door

Kate jumped and clutched her heart “jeez jake dont do that to me” she said gasping for air.

“Aww come on I was just having a little fun” Jake said pulling a pouty face.

“ you had plenty of fun messing with those clocks back there.”  Kate said angrily, closing her locker and walking down the hall to the exit where her mother usually picked her up.

“Oh you noticed that huh”

“Yea me and the entire school. Even Ms Witmer was mad about it.” 

“Oh i wish i was there to see the look on her face”

*sigh “jake one of these days these “party pranks” of yours are going to get you into some serious trouble”

“Party pranks.” Jakes face began to glow red “it toke over a week to pull that little party prank just so you know” 

Kate grinned widely, the term “party prank” was a derogatory term that Kate used whenever Jake pulled a prank she didn't like. It meant that his prank was a prank that he did just to show off. This little term kate also kept Jake from pranking everyone and only the people that truly deserved it, This was often school bullies. It also gave jake a challenge since he had to truly get into his enemies head and know how they act as to make sure they tripped his trap

*sigh, Jake knew kate was right but he also knew that she also did it to get underneath his skin sometimes. This was her way of saying don't push it because I know you, just as well as you know the people you prank and the only reason you know that was from our research. You see, Jake's pranks weren't just a trap. They were a social experiment he had to get inside his enemies head it was the ultimate game of cat and mouse one that could go on for weeks one that made you paranoid and always watching your back and just as you think the game is over just as you think your safe something, yes that's right something not just bad luck, makes you trip and fall down an entire flight of stairs. They walked out the doors.

“Fine,but speaking of parties…” Jake led on “I'm throwing a little party of my own and was wondering if you wanted to come.”

Parties were a dangerous subject with Jake. They were usually his way of getting back at everyone at one but he was inviting her this time so it was probably fine.

“ alright, I'll be there” kate said with a wide grin on her face 

HONK HONK. the car behind her screamed 

“ that must be my mom” she said brushing back her hair 

“Call me when you get home”

“Will do”

As she walked back to the car she could practically feel the smile burning on his face. She hopped in the backseat. Unlike most kids her age she actually preferred the back seat. There was something different about it, something most people see. As she climbed in she could hear the radio’s quiet voice in the old car of hers after all it was almost an antique it being some 40 years old now. It was her moms first car and seeing as she could cork from home (aside from the periodic business meeting) and only had one kid she didn't see any reason to buy another however the car was quite noisy. But Kate managed, often she didn't even notice the noise. She just stared out the window looking from tree to tree looking at and loving each and every part of the small bits of nature that was around them. She did this often even as a kid in fact she used to just ask and ask to go on rides in the car and her mom would of course let her sometimes they would drive for hours on end and if she could drive forever she would. Just to avoid everything else

“So how was your day at school sweety. ” her mom said in her loving voice

“Oh it was fine she said just kids flipping desks and all that. ” kate said in an equally condescending voice

“What!?” her mother said 

“Yeah we were um… held in for a half hour and some kids got pretty mad about it”

“I can see that, remind me not to put you in summer school”

“Haha ok mom.”

“Speaking of witch how are your grades”

“Mom”

“What can a mom not worry about grades”

“Mom I’ve had all A’s since the second grade I dont think you have to worry about grades”

“Hey what do i know things could have changed since you've started dating that cute boy” her mother stated teasingly

“MOM!”

“What, you obviously thought he was cute right?”

“Yeah,” Kate said softly, a slight smile growing on her face.

“There I rest my case.” her mother said with a wide grin on her face

“Speaking of jake…” Kate said, her smile growing, “he's having a small little get-together this weekend and I was wondering if I could go…?”

“Sure” her mother said in an surprisingly calm tone

“Really” Kate said with shaking enthusiasm.

“Of course, I trust you enough not to do anything besides there will be other people… right kate.”

“Right, of course”

“Good,” Kate's mother said, pulling into their driveway”then there shouldn't be any problems.”

There home wasn't the nicest although it definitely wasn't the home disaster that a lot of people in a home like that had no it was sort of like that charming little cottage out of a fairy tail it was even looked like it was in the middle of the woods when in reality it was more like a little overgrown backyard. Still they all loved it very much but that's not to say they didn't keep a tight ship, her mother did not allow anything to be out of place or unkept witch and for the most part Kate agreed with her on it, she kept her room clean and her books organized. Her favorite book right now was a scary story called took. However before she could get to this she had to do her math project. She sighed and sat down at her table. She had a lot of work to do before…

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