||Hello Neighbour: A Better Timeline||

||Chapter 73: School's Cancelled||

"So, School's Cancelled?"
His mom nods, taking sure her pen was working, she had her bag and was looking put together for the meeting.
"Yes, Staff Meeting Day; I'll be working late, but you're dad will be home by 6, you'll be fine on your own for a few hours? Saul would have been here, but he went out shopping.", Nicky nods, then lit up,"Can I go play with Aaron and Mya?", Luanna nods,"Of course.", Nicky nods, so once bidding his mom goodbye, he grabbed the house keys, locked the door and walked across the street.

"Trinity?"
Trinity was walking down the street with her school bag, Nicky walked over to her,"School's out today and tomorrow, possibly. . . Why do you have your bag?", Trinity turned to him, Nicky noted immediately she looked tried,"Uhm, I'm just going to pick up something at school and besides, Ivan is there for a meeting since the whole. . . Buzz Saw Incident.", Trinity turned away, Nicky frowned,"Have you been okay since the whole, being chased by Crowface, is there anything I can do to help?", Trinity didn't look at him, Aaron, Lucy and Mya were one thing, this Crowface was a sensitive topic with them considering what happened and Nicky. . . She wanted, they all wanted to protect him from them.
"Uhm, don't worry about it Nicky: I'll just ask mom and dad for something, I'll see you around."
And Trinity was off, leaving Nicky behind and concerned for her.

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"Yeah, I get what you mean Nicky."
Lucy had came over, Mya parked her wheelchair nearby while she got comfortable on the sofa,"The others are off doing stuff and not telling us.", Mya sighed, Aaron was leaned against the wall, they all felt left in the dark by the others.
"I just. . . Feel like there's something about Crowface we're not getting, I know he was in the book I got my mom, and I've read it; Creature in the town, people worship it and that turned into a cult. . . But why wouldn't they tell us or let us in on it?", Lucy, Mya and Aaron made a slight face, they still hadn't told Nicky all that went down years ago.
Though it's for the best, but would they have to tell him?
Lucy sighed,"Sometimes. . . People lie or, hide stuff to protect people.", Aaron nods,"Yeah, like Dad did the same thing, but it only took a toll on him and destroyed him, but he's definitely been doing better.", Nicky nods, guess he couldn't argue as adults hide stuff for a reason.
"I'm sure they'll let us in on it soon."

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"So, I'm going down to the school to meet with Ivan, have a look around to find anything; What are you guys up to?"
Delory showed his camera to Otto's house.
"I'm gonna find out more about the Dog that got hit, Otto dropped that Collar fast so maybe he might have some information."
Maritza and Enzo were behind a bush on their feed.
"We're keeping an eye on Quentin, after all that's happened and fact he fled the scene not long after Crowface was hit by the shelf, we could get something out of him."
Trinity nods.

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Enzo and Maritza watched Quentin fiddle with his camera.
"Why don't we just ask him?"
"Dude; Did you not hear Mya and Trinity, apparently he looked so tired and, not to mention he fled the scene despite the fact his brother was there; He definitely knows something about Crowface."
Maritza frowned, the question just is what and where was his sister??
"Wait, look."
To their surprise, Leslie walked up to the town hall, holding some blueprints and seemed to have a stumble in his step.
Quentin noticed the blueprints immediately, he got to following Leslie.
Enzo peaked out,"Should we follow?", Maritza hummed,"Let's just get closer to the door and hope we hear something.", so Maritza and Enzo crept towards the Town Hall.
"Are we sure about this? I mean, spying on the Mayor?"
"Well considering the last Mayor we had, I feel like this is valid."
"But also, this is Delory's dad-"
"Shh."
Maritza crouched by the door, slowly leaned to peak and saw Quentin hiding, and Leslie with the Mayor, slowly she pulled out her phone to record them, she might pick up any audio but she would have a video.

Leslie exhausted, handed the blueprints to Leonard.
"Here they are."
Leonard took them smiling, Leslie sighed as he looked at the machine that was playing jazz music.
"Let me say this now, it wasn't easy getting those out of the evidence locker so, just know; I can lose my job over those.", Leonard nods, Leslie frowned,"Why do you need them anyway?", Leonard checked the blueprints, making sure they were right and they were,"Perfect; This is a big chance Leslie, with Halloween coming and the fair returning we could- QUENTIN?!", Leslie spun to see Quentin running out of town hall with a camera.
"FREEZE! QUENTIN STOP!"
Leslie bolted after him, Leonard seemed frozen before he turned up the music to try and calm himself.
Maritza and Enzo watched ad Leslie chased Quentin.
"Quick! After them!"
Enzo and Maritza took after Leslie and Quentin.

Chasing them wasn't easy, Leslie and Quentin were actually really, really fast!
"Maybe we could find a short cut and find a way to cut them off or catch up-?!"
"ENZO!!"
Maritza yanked her brother back, in his attempt to run across the street for a shortcut he nearly was hit by a van!
They both on the ground, out of breath amd Enzo shaken up from nearly being hit by a truck.
Maritza grabbed him,"You nearly got Final Destinationed! You moron, don't do that again!", Enzo nods, patting his sister on the head as she hugged him.
"Get out of my head! Get out of my head!! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!"
Maritza and Enzo turned toward the shouting, looks like Leslie lost Quentin but was now running while shouting that.
. . .
"What?"
"No idea, come on. . . Let's get out of here."

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Ivan left the room, sighing heavily after that long talk.
He paused at one room, peaking inside to see Mr Murtaugh doing his experiments.
Ivan shook his head, walking past, could Mr Murtaugh be one of them? Mean, sure he could be strict, a crouch and creepy but; What reason would he have to work for them??
Ivan paused mid thought, slowly backing up as he realised the lights were not only broken down the hall. . . But Crowface stood in the dark, blocking his way to the exit.