||Hello Neighbour: A Better Timeline||

||Chapter 12: Museum Visit ||

"Raining again. . ."
Lucy sighed,"Yeah, guess we're stuck inside for lunch.", Nicky was holding some wires for Ivan as he needed to make some adjustments to a new invention.
"Oh! Nicky!"
Lucy spun and wheeled to him,"Yes?", "Here you go!", Lucy placed a pin in his free hand, looking at it, it was a beaker with green liquid and Bubbles with his name on it,"Oh yeah, it's a uh. . . Club thing.", Lucy nods,"Yeah, my dad made it, it's really nice isn't it.", Nicky nods, now he's got two pins, for this club and the science club.
Once Ivan took the wires from him, he picked up his school bag and clipped them to the front pocket of his bag.
It was like of nice.

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In the Banner, Jay and Miguel were on break and were catching up.
As Miguel was saying something, Norman was standing by the printer and one of the editors reached out to grab his shoulder, but then Ike seemed to sense it spun around and stopped them.
Ike shook his head at them, the editor then seemed to remember and lowered his arm,"Norman; Editor needs to talk to you.", Norman glanced behind him, Ike had lowered his leg and the editor had taken a step back,"Right, what's up?", "Sorry, it's about this article here. . .", and Ike went to get a coffee refill.
"What was that?"
Miguel nods,"Yeah, I forgot to mention this; No matter what, don't come up behind Norman at all or grab him from behind, he uh. . . Really doesn't like that.", Jay nods,"Did. . . Something happen the last time they did?", Miguel nods,"Well. . . Yes but it doesn't happen as often as do warn people to not do it.", Miguel had a very clear memory of Norman kicking a poor guy in the stomach for the first time, and it was right after he was released from hospital and that was the first sign of Norman's PSTD, so Ike and him concluded he should go to therapy and they got a pattern to not greet him or approach like that.
"It's a long story."
"I see, thanks for letting me know."

"Hey, Norman?"
"Yes?"
Ike pulled the mic away and put his headphones off,"Diana and Theodore want you to attend dinner; Up for it?", Norman put the book down, sighed and nods,"Yeah. . . Yeah, that sounds nice. . .", Ike smiled, fistbumped the air.
Norman rolled his eyes, he needed a break and a chat with The Petersons again.

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"Hey, what's that?"
Nicky noticed a big building that's fenced off, it looked like a factory but he wanted to be sure since it looked overgrown, decaying but it looked so interesting to him.
"Oh that's the old Golden Apple Factory."
"Golden. . . Apple? Like, Candy Apples?"
Mya nods,"Something like that, they were really tasty but got shut down for some unknown reasons and stopped selling them.", Nicky turned to the factory,"Never heard of Golden Apples, never had one.", Aaron was surprised,"Really?", Lucy pointed to The Mayor's Fence,"See the Apples? Golden Apples are a big part of Raven Brooks, one of the original founders used to make Apple shaped treats which started the Golden Apple Factory.", Mya jumped up and down,"We should show him the Museum!", Aaron checked his watch,"Uh. . . Yeah, we've got time.", so, Lucy, Aaron, Mya and Nicky walked to the Museum.
"Oh, usually we go in there to play hide and seek but sometimes Keith is there to watch the place."
"Ah. . "
Mya turned around, smiling,"It's fun.", Nicky's never had a reason to break in somewhere and hopefully, he never has to.

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"Woah."
"Yeah, looks like a really nice house; Probably was the original house of the founders, with it obviously being fixed and repaired, but yeah."

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Inside, many things were on display.
Like paintings, old books, sketches, diaries and old photographs.
What caught Nicky's eyes were two things;
Books and a painting.
A painting that looked so much like the statue he saw in the park.
But the painting was creepier; A tall person, sharp claws and a large gapping beak with a cloak hiding their entire body.
"Isn't this. . .?"
"Yeah, the statue."
Aaron stood next to Nicky, looking at it with indifference.
"There's many stories behind what exactly this is or who this was, but some say this was a creature that lived here before the founders came to build a town, it lived in the woods and apparently when a mine was built, the first Mayor took something that belonged it and it began to take things as a sort of. . . Revenge I guess, taking things and people, causing bad luck.", Mya joined them,"Another version is the first Mayor dressed up to scare the town so it would be under his family's thumb for generations, which lead to the last family member to be arrested, which was our old Mayor.", Lucy then pipped in,"Or it was a story made up to scare children.", Aaron shook his head,"Either way, we don't know the exact story behind this thing, but we do know it spawned a cult so it was kind of odd that our old Mayor picked this to be the face of the Theme Park.", "Because. . .", they turned around, a woman with red glasses with chains on them and a purple cardigan came over with books,"He and the other 2 were idiots and monsters.", Nicky was confused, though it seemed the other 3 nodded, guess they knew what she was talking about.
"Oh, uh; Sorry, Nicky, it's a long story: This is Camila, she's runs the school Library and Museum.", she smiled, adjusting her glasses to get a better look at him,"Hello dear, I guess these 3 are showing you the ropes around here.", Nicky looked at the books she was holding,"What are they about?", "Oh, it's about Crowface, that thing in the painting and the statue; It's what it's been called, but someone managed to write about it using old entries in a journal or two, and old photos.", Nicky glanced at old photos, and it was really hard to tell as they were blurry as heck but he could see a figure; Maybe they were scared or running?
"Can I have one for my mom? She likes ghost stories."
"Sure thing, Dear."
So Nicky got something for his mom.
"Now kids, if you ever need anything; You know where to find me."
Aaron nods, and she left them to handle a loud group of older kids.
"She's nice if you return books on time, don't make a ruckus in her library or Museum; Trust me."
Nicky nods, putting the book away.

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"Ah, stopped by the museum?"
"Yeah, it was really interesting, oh and I got this from the Librarian that runs the museum."
Nicky placed the book on the counter, Luanne picked it up,"It's a ghost story about the town, based on some old journals and pictures.", Jay hummed,"Sounds interesting, might stop by and check myself.", Luanne smiled, she loved a good ghost story.