Child • Jøshler

chapter twenty øne

"How the hell did it come so fast?!"

"Stop yelling, Andy" Patrick almost begged, exhaling in a kind of angry or annoyed way. Pete gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and that seemed to be enough to calm him down. Oh, he loves Pete so much.

"Is your band coming to the Halloween?" Brendon directed the question to Patrick, slapping the back of Andy's head.

Patrick sighed, trying to straighten his costume "We thought about playing for the dance, but we didn't even try playing with Tyler-"

"Wait, rewind a little" Andy rose his hand, gaining everybody's attention; most importantly to him, Patrick's "Tyler is a member of Fall Out Boys?"

"Fell Out Kids" Patrick corrected with a shake of his head "And, yes. I asked him to play bass for us and he said yes"

Pete chuckled walking over to behind Patrick "I play bass too, you know?"

Patrick blinked in disbelief, turning to his left to eyes Pete "Are you kidding me?"

Dallon and Andy started to laugh loudly, Andy speaking for the laughs "After all these years, just now you find out Pete's a bassist!"

Patrick gulped angrily, staring a death stare at Andy. The laughs fell silent as dead and the group proceeded to work on their costumes.

"Andy, c'mon" Brendon dropped the robe he was going to wear "Tell us what you'll go as"

Andy just shook his head, making everyone groan.

There was a knock on the door and Patrick spoke up "Mom? That you?"

"Yes, dear" Mrs Stump spoke in a hoarse voice; she was very sick but Patrick never talked about her so no one know what was in fact wrong with her "There's two pretty boys here, shall I let them in?"

Andy rolled his eyes "Well, it was about time"

"Yes, Mom! Thank you!"

Josh and Tyler entered the room; Josh seemed to be out of breath "I'm so sorry we're late, we were-"

"What exactly were you doing?" Pete came so close to Josh their noses were almost touching. He rose an eyebrow, hands folded tightly on his chest. The boys in the back laughed.

Josh narrows his eyes "I forgot my mask so we went to get that"

"Tyler, what are you going as?" Dallon asked curiously, touching Tyler's white uniform.

"Erm, some kind of scientist" Tyler looked down at his costume, holding up a red gas mask. It was a large white jumpsuit, completely simple "I guess"

"Cool" Dallon commented.

Josh pulled on his green alien mask, lookng at everybody in the room through the black net over his eyes.

"That's ridiculous" Brendon laughed.

Josh shrugged. His costume was very tight and very green. The only place that wasn't green was the part where his underwear would be and that was black. If it weren't for the muscles and the lack of boobs, he'd look like a girl in a weird alien costume.

"Now, Tyler" Brendon began with a heavy sigh "I don't want to scare you, so it would be for the best if you'd look away"

Tyler gulped. The only person that probably knows about the fact Tyler actually saw what Brendon's other side looks like was Pete. Tyler only ever looked at demon Brendon through squinted eyes. And that scared him a fair much.

"That's o-okay" Tyler said shakily "I can handle it"

"If you say so"

Brendon took his shirt off, closing his eyes. His brows furrowed in concentration. Everybody watched in silence. Andy and Pete were smiling happily, as if they loved watching this and were excited to watch again. Dallon looked kind of worried, bitting his bottom lip. Patrick turned his head away, but even Tyler could see he was peeking. Josh took off his mask and watched just as interested as Pete and Andy.

Firstly, Brendon's hands started to change to the color Tyler well remembered. Then came his stomach and he bent over with a somewhat painful groan as his back changed in color too. What looked like bones started poking out from his back. Tyler stumbled backwards, not even knowing why. It was just some intimidation Brendon radiated with.

When Brendon stood up straight again, showing his teeth as he panted. His face was almost completely transformed; Tyler remember his horns being bigger. Tyler won't lie though, Brendon's eyes were gorgeous.

Before Tyler knew it, Brendon's body was in a completely matching color everywhere. His horns grew out rather fast. The wings took the longest. But they were soon big and visible as well. Brendon gave Tyler a toothy grin when the whole process ended.

"Alright!" Pete rose his hand for a high five and Brendon accepted it with a soft laugh.

Brendon shook his wings to stretch them out; probably because he didn't use them in a long time. Patrick cleared his throat when Brendon made the motion and Brendon looked up.

"Remember" Patrick rose a finger and talked slowly for emphasis "Keep your wings still throughout the night"

Brendon groaned "I know"

Tyler's eyes widened in surprise. He was honestly expecting Brendon's demon voice to be deep, raspy and scary. But demon Brendon sounded just like normal Brendon.

"B- Brendon?" Dallon called, getting attention only from Brendon; thank God "Could you help me with this?"

Dallon decided to go as a teacher of some sort. He wore his glasses, his father's boring suit and an ugly blue tie. He did something awful to his hair and his look was done.

Of course he could zip his trousers. Why do you think he's asking for Brendon's help on that matter?

Brendon nodded and walked over, careful not to let his wings knock something over.

Tyler coughed into his fist, letting his body get filled up with confidence. He blinked one last time, repeating the words in his head before walking over to Patrick.

"I have an idea, mind if we talk alone?"