BEHIND THESE DOORS

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Screech POV:

Woo-hoo, another day of killing humans! Fun.

I navigated the dark room, shifting from my entity form to human, my medium and shaggy black hair I had falling in front of my now light blue eyes. I found it better to get around that way, with feet beneath myself.

I found a wall, dragging my hand across it softly until I hit a closet. I couldn't see well in the dark, which is... ironic. I shifted the closet just enough so that I could wedge in behind, into the hallway that took me to our secret little clubhouse.

The hallway was just like the rest of the hotel, the same wallpaper, floors, ceiling— ya get it. They were just smaller than the other hallways is all, which I found oddly comforting. I didn't know why, I just felt it. It was how I was with a lot of things.

My hand found the wall, dragging along it as I walked— same thing I did in the dark room. I did it a lot, it was soothing, somehow.

I made it to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse full of these RATS, and stepped inside to see my bestie pookie bear— Eyes.

His short, fluffy purple hair hung by his neck, the bangs that covered his eyes littered with little hair clips we put eye charms on. It was a reference to his entity form, a little joke between us. His pale skin was almost paper white, and the faded little freckles on his face complimented it perfectly, as well as his slight acne. Most people think acne is gross, but on him, it was pretty.

Before I could mentally describe the rest of his body, he waved me over to the wall he was leaning on. I immediately made my way over, my energetic, bouncy steps getting me there fast.

"Hi, pooks!!" I spoke enthusiastically, fiddling with the rings on my fingers, ones I had got from humans we'd killed over the years.

He gave me a soft smile. "Hey, Happy Feet. Having a good day?"

"Yeah, kinda bored though— oh! Also, I killed a human on door 46, and they had this, and I thought you'd like it!" I reached into the pocket of my shorts, fiddling around in my pocket before pulling out a few quarters, ones that had pretty pictures on the back. "I know that you collect coins n' such."

He took them from my hand, looking over them. "This one's Hawaii, I don't have that one yet... Or Pennsylvania. Thanks, Screech." He put them in his pocket, his smile growing just a bit more.

"Anyways, wanna go do something?"

He tilted his head a little— I loved when he did that, I got to see his pretty amber eyes under his bangs. "Like what?"

I took a second to think, sliding my ring up and down my finger. "Hmm... dunno... any ideas?"

Eyes thought for a moment, his hand resting on his chin. "Oh! The other day, some humans had these matching bracelets on and a bunch of these really cool crystals beads, we could make friendship bracelets?"

"We already have a lot of those, though."

He shrugged. "Doesn't hurt to make more?"

"No, I guess. We could do that later, though. Right now I'm feeling something more... high energy!!"

"High energy? You're always high energy, I love it... we could go run around in Figure's library?"

I thought for a second, before remembering something. "Don't you lose your breath easily?... Asthma, you called it?"

He shrugged, speaking again. "Yeah, but I'll go slow if that's what you wanna do?"

Ok, now he was being difficult. I tried to hide my slight annoyance when I spoke. "Do you wanna do it?"

"Well, if you wanna do it, I wanna do it."

"Well, I don't want you to get hurt!"

"Well, it's fine, I'll do whatever!"

"You're so annoying..." I went back to thinking, starting to bite my finger. "What's something that isn't physically strenuous, but still gets the adrenaline pumping?"

"... Pranking." He got really excited, throwing out his arms towards me, his hands outstretched. "A prank! We could prank someone!"

I clapped my hands together, I loved that idea— I took his hands. "Let's prank someone!!" We did that thing where we jumped up and down.

We stopped jumping, but his hands still rested in mine. "Ok, now, what's the prank?" I spoke, my voice slightly high and excited.

"Halt's been a bitch, we could prank her?"

"Yeah, well, they'd run after us and break our arms."

"Matching wrist fractures."

"Mmm, you have a point there!" We went back to thinking, before I got an idea. "You know how Rush is just kinda... mean? Let's prank him for that."

Eyes nodded. "Yup. He's had it toooooo good for toooo long."

"We could throw water on him?"

"Too cliche..." Eyes thought for a moment. "Take his left shoe?"

"Too subtle. What if instead of just his shoe, we steal a whole bunch of shit? But like, shit that would be a minor inconvenience, like his pencils. Or his soap."

He grabbed my shoulder, giving it a little squeeze. "This is why I love you."

"Love you too, pooks. Let's go."

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(A/N: hope u liked the first chapter, just a lil look into my writing! Usually chapters will be twice as long as this, but it's approaching 1 AM, and I've got some shit going on tomorrow, so this is what you get :p HOPE YOU ENJOYED!! (pls keep reading this book will be epik))