Spooky Month - Corrupted Stars AU

✰Chapter 1✰

"RIIIING!!"

 Screamed the dismissal bell. Pump power walked out of his classroom and waited for Skid to leave his. Students came filing out of the classroom then a boy with shoulder length hair abruptly yelled "Aye!" Pump yelled the same. They both laughed and began walking to the bus exit. "Soooo, how was your spooky class?" Pump asked. Skid smiled, "It was really good, when I answered a question correctly my teacher gave me candy cans!" Pump laughs, "Really? I wish my teacher was that nice." He sighs. Skid nods his head, "If you want I can give you some of the leftover candy I have." Pump's face lit up, "Really?" Skid laughs, "Of course!" "Hey, is it okay if I come over to your house today?" Pump asks. Skid nods as he brushes one of his antennas out of his face. They soon found themselves bumping into someone in a major hallway slowdown, "Hey!" Skid said angrily. "Oh, it's you two.." A slightly taller kid with blue hair said turning around to face them. "Did you hear? Those bullies with hats have gone missing." Pump tilted his head, "I don't think so, they're prolly just messing with you." he then said. The teen with blue hair huffed, "I doubt it, the teachers found strange costumes around the school and drawings of this weird monster..? Some rumors are going around about them being in this cult and the leader wears all this jewelry and whatnot.." He said. Skid raised a brow, "jewelry?" he said and snickered a little bit. He wanted to mention something about his dad but the comment never escaped his lips. Pump glanced over to see the slowdown was clearing up, "Hey, uh could you walk now?" Pump then looks back to the older kid. "Oh, uh, yeah." He says he turns around and walks out of view. Skid sighs in confusion as they walk out the bus door and start the journey towards Skid's house. "Hey, you good?" Pump says and waves a hand a bit in front of Skid's face, "Yeah? Why wouldn't I be?" Skid says and switches his gaze towards Pump. "Well, you were being really quiet so I thought something was up." He says scratching the back of his head, Skid smiles slightly. "Well don't worry. I'll be fine!" Skid says before lightly patting Pump's poofy hair which makes the slightly shorter of the two screw his eyes shut in some kind of anxiety. Skid laughs as they begin walking again, not even aware that they had come to a halt. Once they got to Skid's house Lila greeted them with a warm smile, "Hey son! How was school?" Skid smiles, "It was good, mom!" Lila giggles. "Well that's good to hear, if you two are hungry there are some graham crackers on the table and some orange juice in the fridge." She says. Skid and Pump smile, "Thanks mom." Skid says hugging her. "No problem, but if you two would excuse me, I have some organizing to do in the attic." She sighs happily setting Skid down on his feet, she proceeds to roll up her sleeves before waving and walking up to the roof. Pump looks at Skid, who was smiling. "Let's watch something!" Skid says abruptly which makes Pump jump slightly. Pump grabs the graham crackers and makes his way to the living room as Skid starts pouring some orange juice into two cups. Pump sets the pack down on the coffee table before walking back into the kitchen to help Skid who was already done with glass. "Skid, I can pour my own cup." Pump says tapping Skid on the shoulder, Skid smiles. "No no, it's fine, I'm almost done with yours anyway." Skid says then handing Pump a three quarters of the way filled glass. "Thanks!" Pump grins, Skid slowly steps down from the stool he was standing on and grabs his glass. He follows Pump into the living room before plopping down on the couch. "What do you wanna watch?" Skid asks, grabbing the remote and pressing the on/off button. "I'm not sure.." Pump says after a second of thinking, he turns his head to face the TV playing an uncanny plushie commercial which sent a chill down his spine. "How about 'Happy Fellas' ?" Pump manages to stutter out. Skid nods before pressing the channel guide button and searching for a channel on where it's airing. He eventually finds it, surprisingly it was both of their favorite episodes. The one where Happy Fella and Sad Guy go out and have fun, Skid and Pump get fully into watching it and start chowing down on their crackers and when they were done they took huge gulps of their orange juice. Skid and Pump exhaled deeply before opening their eyes to keep watching. Unaware of even being tired, they both fell asleep after only an hour or two of watching their show. Lila came down happy with her work to see both of them passed out. She chuckles a little before draping a blanket over both of them and beginning to fix dinner.