I fell in love.

"Be a rebel and stay here at the school."

"Is that your way of saying, 'stay with me at the school. I'm lonely and I need company'?"

"How come? That’s not a very positive thing to say. Thanksgiving’s the best. Well, the food is."

"Thanksgiving is fair enough. I just don't know what to think of the people anymore, you know?"

"…Do we have to?"

"Nah. You can if you want, but they won't force you to if you don't want to. Like me. I'm staying."

"Why? You don’t like your family or something?"

"They're tolerable. Their being likable is a debate though."

“Judging by the sudden appearance of Christmas commercials and decorations in the stores, I’d go with a solid yes.”

"I know right? They all just appeared out of nowhere. I'm glad that you agree with me though."

"I believe there’s one more holiday in between now and Christmas. Kinda jumping the gun, don’t you think?"

"Right, Thanksgiving. I have no idea how that managed to leave my mind. Huh."

"Don’t you think it’s a bit early? Halloween was like, yesterday."

"I went into Walmart. They already had their decorations up and everything. Feel like telling that to all the shops in town?"

"Of course not, usually by this point they have already walked away. Pretty girls like you are out of my league but that doesn’t stop me from complimenting."

She smiled, flattered by the compliment. "Hm, I think that there are prettier girls that are more obviously out of your league than I, but nice try anyway."

“Well, I’m prepared to be sufficiently spooked. But the question is, is the staff prepared to do the spooking?”

"The staff at this school? Hopefully, but I'm still kind of half-buzzed from last night."

She probably wasn't going to be much help, but pushing away from the counter she had been leaning on, Sally walked over to the other girl. "I can try?"

"Oh, fuck."

"The worst kind. Something mandatory or pleasure reading? I never really was much of a reader either way."

"Pleasure reading. Found it in a book store and thought it would be good. Turns out it wasn't as great as it could have been. I don't think I'm going to return it though, it might a bit too late for that."

What did I do?

"Nothin' yet kiddo. Want to go on an adventure?"

"Why would you ever say that, anyway? That’s just stupid," she snorted lightly. "But, sure. Amy’s fine. 

"It was just a hypothetical." She answered, digging her hand into her pocket to search for her down keys. "Amy's a nice name, anyway."