The Monsters under her bed

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It was the Monday after winter break and Eddie was not very happy. The break had been fun with his cousins, his only friends and he didn't want to go back to having no friends. He was a loner and nobody liked him. Eddie was a total germaphobic wimp but in hard or lonely times he could be strong. not in the way of defeating a monster strong, but mentally strong.

after about an hour of waking up and falling back asleep again, Eddie got ready for school and rushed out the door. The walk to school had been pretty normal considering he didn't usually walk to school. the school bullies Troy and Billy had popped his bike wheels and they had to be fixed or replaced.  As he was walking on the sidewalk, he noticed that the lights in a closed shoe store had been flickering. This obviously never happened because it was abandoned, but he didn't seem to care, it didn't really matter with all that was going on in his life.

Just as Eddie walked into school, he was attacked. Not by some murderous Micheal Myers guy, but worse. Billy and Troy. Billy punched him in the face and he and Troy dragged Eddie into the bathroom and locked him in. nobody could help him now, except the janitor, so he banged and the door and pleaded for help. no one would come. Then he heard a key go into the lock. The kay turned and the door opened. He would have thanked the janitor for letting him out, but no one was there. The only sign he had to who let him out was a black piece of fabric left on the floor, so he picked it up.

As Eddie walked to his locker, he tried to find who had saved him. He wanted to find out and thank them. all of a sudden, he felt a bad pain in his head. he glanced up and saw that he had just been hit in the head with a locker door. That was when he met her.

"Shoot! I'm so sorry" The girl said, trying to make things better. She was probably new, he thought to himself. He had never seen her before.

"No, I'm sorry" Eddie replied, refusing to let her apologize for his stupidity.

"eh, not my problem if you're too weird to notice that I was the one who hit YOU." She said as she walked away, but Eddie stopped her by grabbing her arm.

"Hey, what's your name?" he asked her.

"Lovegood, Alex Lovegood," she said as Eddie let go of her arm and she left

She was Beautiful, at least HE thought she was. She had short blond hair with blue and black dyed ends. She was wearing black ray ban glasses, a backward Stranger Things hat, old ripped jeans, and an old, faded clash tee. She looked pretty dorky, but he thought she was cool. And her name, Alex Lovegood.