Chapter 3: Epic Wub Time I

You ever had that weird feeling where you know you're being either watched or followed? Well, I sorta have that feeling now.

I lift my headphones off my ears and put them around my neck. I look around. There's a dark alley to my left and an open field to my right. I look down the alley, but it's too dark to make anything out. I look over the field and see a black figure standing in the trees.

I look back to the road for a minute then back. The figure is gone. That's pretty fuckin' creepy.

I continue walking. A few minutes later I hear the sound of a foot hit the grass and I whirl around faster than you could blink.

The black figure comes right up to me and throws a punch. It whizzes by my face. I blink in surprise. I reply with a knee to the gut. The figure grunts and doubles over. I kick my assailant in the side of the head and they go flying. I pull my hands out of my pockets.

The figure gets up and spits out a wad of blood on the pavement. It comes at me again. I hear a slight shink and dart to the left as a longish combat knife jabs into the space where my shoulder had been a second ago.

The figure stands up and looks at me. I see a hockey mask of all things. Pfft. So typical. I smile. The figure, I assume it's a guy, sprints at me, slashing with the combat knife. I drop to the ground, windmill kicking his legs out from beneath him. He crashes to the ground. I stand and walk over to him. I lean down to pull the mask off, but he pulls a little black sphere from his pocket and throws it at the ground.

Smoke flows from the spot where the ball hit. It was a smoke-bomb. Well hell, I didn't know they sold those in our area. Anyway, the guy had completely disappeared from his spot. Huh, so cliche. I shrug, unharmed, and continue my walk to Bruce's place. I get to the door and knock.

The door flies open and there is Bruce's mom, Mary DeCastor. I smile.

"Hey Mrs. DC. How're you?"

"I'm absolutely wonderful thank you. Bruce is upstairs with Maddy. Make sure they aren't doing anything too scandalous." I chuckle.

"Sure thing. Have a nice trip with Mr. T." I nod to him and he nods back. Mrs. DC smiles and pulls Bruce's step-dad, Carter Teno by the arm out the door and to their shiny black Rolls Royce. I close the door behind me and creep up the stairs to Bruce's room.

I hear some muffled sounds coming from behind his door. I smirk and creep back downstairs. I run out the back door and around into the yard below Bruce's bedroom window.

I climb the drainage pipe that runs down the wall to the sewers. I peek over the sill and see Bruce and Maddy tangled in each other's arms, making out. I chuckle and snap a picture with my phone.

Hey, those of you who've seen your best friends doing this, you know you took a picture. Shut up, and enjoy the action.

I quietly push the window open far enough that I can slip in. I land softly on my feet with experienced ease (we used to do this every night in middle school when our moms wouldn't let us sleep over at each other's houses).

While Maddy and Bruce roll around on the floor, I pull a Pepsi out of Bruce's mini fridge. I slip off my trench coat and hang it over the back of Bruce's office chair. I may have forgot to mention that I normally go out shirtless. Nobody really cares when I do. In fact, Bruce and Maddy expect it almost every time they see me.

Anyway, I kick back in the chair and watch them for a while. A few minutes pass when they start to strip. I smile and shake my head.

"Now, now children. Nothing too scandalous see?" They both sit bolt upright. The looks on their faces is too much. I burst into laughter and fall out of the chair.

"John! How the hell long have you been sitting there?" Bruce looks at me in disbelief. I try to talk but can't speak over my hysterical laughter. I sit up, stifling my laugh, and then see the look on Maddy's face and just lose it.

I laugh so hard it hurts. Bruce eventually jumps on me and we start wrestling. He puts me in a headlock and I let him keep me there until I stop laughing.

"Hello." I smirk. Bruce rolls his eyes.

*Sigh* "Hey John. What the hell were you doing?"

"Just watching' the action, though I can tell you two were definitely enjoying it." I smile and Bruce grinds his fist into my hair. I just chuckle and rub my skull.

"S'pose I deserved that one. Anyway, hey Maddy." I wave at her. She just looks away, blushing. I stifle another burst of laughter and Bruce makes a 'You laugh, I smash your skull in' face. So, having the common sense not to piss him off while his girlfriend's here, I suppress it.

"So….The schedule for tonight involves some movies, music, and food if I'm correct?" Bruce and Maddy look at me dumbfounded.

"You break into my room through my window, steal one of my Pepsi's, screw up my moment with my girlfriend, now you expect me to give you food?"

"Yep." I say matter-of-factly. Bruce smiles and shakes his head.

"You're one crazy bastard I hope you know. I ordered pizza 'bout 20 minutes ago. It'll be here in 10. As for the movies, I have Grown Ups 2, Kick Ass 2, and Bad Grandpa. Music will be compliments of yourself, Mom and Carter said we can have a party in the basement with maybe a max of 30 people over."

"They want the place absolutely spotless when they get back from their trip. And along the lines of music, first off we have you. Second, we called a friend of mine from middle school. She's apparently a great DJ. So, we thought you two could have a battle." Maddy informs me.

I stop drinking my Pepsi immediately. Then a huge grin spreads across my face.

"Hell yeah." Bruce and I bump fists. We turn to Maddy who just smiles and shakes her head. She looks at me weird when I start to blush and look away.

"What?" Bruce looks at me too.

"Erm….You might wanna put your shirt back on…." She looks down. She looks up and punches me in the forehead. Crossing her arms over her chest, she grabs her clothes and runs to the bathroom.

"Weeeeeeell. That was fun." I scratch the back of my head. I hear a muffled 'SHUT UP' from down the hall. I look at Bruce and we snicker. We get up and go downstairs.

"So other than Maddy's friend, who'd ya call over?" Bruce pulls out his phone. He read through a list of people.

"...and finally, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rarity, Twilight, AJ, Dashie, Celestia, Luna, and Tavi." I walk over to the fridge, nodding.

I open the door and scan through the contents. I grab a bag of fresh avocado, tomatoes, some lettuce, a few strips of roast beef, an olive or two, and some ranch dressing and mayo. I walk over to the pantry and pull out a loaf of bread.

Maddy comes downstairs as I take a bite of my monstrosity of a sandwich. She looks at the smushy pile of mush in disgust.

"Why do guys like to eat that stuff? It's drips everywhere and it's bigger than your head." I just wink and say "I could ask the same about why girls love chocolate so much." She shakes her head and sits down at the table next to me.

"Anyway, what's on it?" I gulp down a bite and take a sip of my Pepsi.

"Avocado, tomatoes, a few olives, some roast beef, ranch, and mayo on whole wheat. You want a bite?" I offer her the small portion that is left. She shrugs and takes it. She chews a bite thoughtfully before she lights up and exclaims, "Dif if derifus!" She swallows.

"Man this is delicious. Where'd you learn this combo?" I swallow the last bit of the sandwich whole and wipe my hands on a paper towel.

"Nowhere, just saw the stuff in the fridge and thought it might be good together. Guess I was right." I shrug. She nods and goes over to Bruce who's sitting on the living room sectional, flipping through channels.

"Well shit. Never anything good on TV."

"Preach." I quip.

"Well, there's always Reality TV." Maddy suggests. Bruce and I groan.

"What? What's wrong with reality TV shows? They're entertaining and educational." Again, we groan.

"But Madds, they're just about a bunch of stupid celebrities causing havoc and dealing with baby drama. There's nothing remotely educational about it aside from when not to have sex with your boyfriend or girlfriend." Maddy makes an indignant noise and plants herself on the couch beside Bruce.

I pop Black Ops 2 into Bruce's Xbox and throw him a controller. We play some zombies on Origins. By the time the pizza get's here and people start arriving, we're on round 72. So far we each have the max amount of points we can get.

Bruce accidentally get's downed at Generator 2 so I go try to revive him. Unfortunately I get caught in a huge hoard near the tank in the church. We both went down and lost everything. Sucks 'cause we had all the staffs upgraded as well as an RPD and a Raygun MK II each, Pack-a-Punched. Anyway, back to the party.