A Tough Life ~ Damon Fizzy / Johnnie Guilbert

Chapter 3

~~~Damon's POV~~~

I am so glad to be here. And I'm glad Ashley likes it here. I finally get everything I need to unpack, unpacked. I peek into Ashley's room to see how everything is going and I see her sitting on her bed asleep with a pencil in her hand and her song book open. I know I shouldn't do this but I do it anyway. I sneak into her room and look at her song book. She stirs when I grab the book but she doesn't wake up. I pull the book off the bed and look at it.

Do you ever feel so alone
That it seems like you're a ghost
In the vacant walls of your soul
Or just a voice
Pleading to be heard

(please don't take that is actually part of my own original song)

What does she mean by this?

Why does she feel alone?

"Damon? What are you doing?" I hear a soft voice say. I put the book back down on the bed as fast as I could and look around the room.

"I like what you've done with the place." I say nervously chuckling and scratching the back of my neck.

"oh, thanks." she smiles and sits up in bed.

"well, its about 8 pm so you want to watch a movie?" I ask to change the topic.

"sure. As long as I pick the movie." she smiles.

"The Nightmare Before Christmas it is." I say already knowing the answer.

"yay!" she cheers and goes to sit on the couch with a fuzzy blanket. I laugh and make some popcorn for myself since she doesn't like it. After I make it she pulls the movie up on netflix and I sit down and press play. She leans her head against my arm and watches the movie.

"Boys and girls of every age Wouldn't you like to see something strange?" she starts singing and I just laugh at her.

"Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair" she gets up off the couch and starts dancing around laughing and singing.

"This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Everybody scream, everybody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!

Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Halloween

In this town

Don't we love it now?
Everyone's waiting for the next surprise

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everybody scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween!
WHEE!!! Ha Ha Ha!" she finishes.

"you see? This is proof you have seen this too many times!" I say and pull her back down on the couch.

We watch the rest of the movie and halfway through we both fall asleep on each other.