Chapter One: The Trip / The New Kid

Mickey Marygolld is the average teenager with no friends, weird behavior, social awkwardness, and nasty body stuff, but little did he know he was about to have one hell of a life changing event. It all started on August 14th when Mickey's mom woke him up at 8:00 during summer vacation

"Get up honey I have some big news" she said.

"Mom it's like 3 in the morning let me go back to bed"

"It's actually 8 and I have something important to tell you"

"What?" He said with an aggressive tone.

"I got offered a great job In this small town and I'm going to take it" she said.

"We're moving ?"

"Yes dear"

"Ugh!"

It took Mickey and his mom a week to pack and four days to move but as the road trip lagged on he began to realize this town is smaller and farther away than he thought.

"Mom, where the hell are we ?"

"Watch the language and nowhere we're just on the road"

"Nowhere is right" Mickey said under his breath hoping his mother wouldn't hear.

Their trip continued as they finally reached their second to last stop, a hotel not far from town, It looked like the average hotel/motel you see on road trip movies but this particular hotel was something more than average. The man at the front desk had long white hair, a crusty beard, and one useful eye. They checked in but not before hearing complaints from the man at the front desk who goes by Rusty.

"I hope you're just some passerby's and not stupid enough to be moving into town"

Mickey glanced at his mom as she was glancing too.

"Thank you" she said as she quickly moved her bags down the hallway.

"What a weirdo that guy is"

"He's not weird just probably senile or something honey"

"Yeah probably so"

They settled into their room quickly and Mickey decided to get a soda from the vending machine by the front desk, as he approached he saw all the lights but the lamp and vending machine display were off and he heard some static coming from the room behind the desk. Mickey quickly put his change into the machine and got his soda but then he turned around to see Rusty sneaking up on him.

"Don't let them get you to boy"

"Ok" Mickey said as turned and started to run down the hallway.

He busted through the door quickly to tell his mom what happened only to see her fast asleep, he took a sip of his soda and decided to follow his mother's footsteps and went to sleep. The next morning things went very smooth, with no sign of Rusty they quickly left and headed to their new home.

The town grew near as Mickey and his mother continued on their journey.

"That sign back there said it's just 25 miles" she said trying to lift her son's spirits.

"Yay now I can rejoice" he said with a sarcastic tone.

"Don't be a downer, this is really gonna be a great new start for us" she said.

"If you say so mom" he said with a sigh.

After what seemed like an eternity they finally reached the welcome sign that read "Welcome to Yami Town".

"Who names a town Yami ?" Mickey said.

"I read online it's Japanese for darkness and given the looks of it it's very fitting" she said.

It took no longer than 10 minutes to reach their new home and despite his hatred for the moving Mickey was surprised at how great the house looked exceeding all his expectations.

"This is really our house ?" He said.

"Yep, it was surprisingly cheap"

"Maybe it's a murder house haha" Mickey said jokingly.

"Don't even joke like that" his mother said in a serious tone.

After a few weeks of settling in Mickey realized that he only had a month left of summer vacation and hasn't really gotten to know the town yet, so Mickey set out to take in the fresh town. On the outskirts of town where all the locals live there wasn't anything but spread out houses, a little further into town was all the schools the elementary, middle, and high school where Mickey was gonna be attending in just a month. In the center of town was where all the shops and businesses including the jail were located, it didn't take long for Mickey to get to know the town, seeing as how small it is, but the locals were different all the older people, the ones who claimed to be parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, all worked in town but it seemed none of the teens were working and this left Mickey wondering if there even were any. As the day progressed Mickey met all the people who worked in the town's center all he had left were the teachers and other teens, he traveled then walked around the outskirts of the town but everything was pretty quite so he just decided to head back home. The last month of vacation came and went quickly but boringly and Mickey was ready to meet someone, no anyone, his age.

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