Lincoln and the gang just got off from a live screening of Paranormal Activity at their school. It was a crowded school fair where the students and their peers watch from a large LED screen on the school's football field. It was a fundraiser event as it was claimed, which is a win-win for the gang.
After that, they stop by at Gus' Games-N-Grub to chill for the entire night with a vegetarian pizza, garlic bread sticks and orange soda.
Liam then shares his thoughts about the movie, "Man, that was not the scariest thing I've seen."
"Well, that's perhaps the best of the Paranormal Activity movies," Clyde remarks.
"Why? Seen something scarier than a girl possessed?" Zack asks.
"Trust me, dude. Where I come from, the townsfolk fear the fields, for they said that is where their ancestors bury innocent witches. And they told me that time may come where they will come to bury them alive," Liam shares with a frightening tone.
"Really, eyy?" Rusty brags, "Last summer, we went back to my dad's place at the Rockies. Beside his house was an ancestral house where there once lived a damsel who waited for her husband to return. But he didn't. Me and my cousins snuck to that house. And we saw the very sight of the veil of the damsel floating on air. But worst, she snuck behind us!"
The boys get shivers in their spine from hearing Rusty's story. Clyde remarks this himself, "Man, that sounds really creepy. Imagine if it's really her corpse that snuck behind you."
"It was," Rusty clarifies, which only makes it spine-tingling.
"Okay, now I can't sleep for the night," a frightened Clyde says.
With the discussion turning into a scare debate, Zack decides to share his own story, "Well guys, I bet you haven't heard about this series I saw."
"What?" the boys take interest.
"It was one of the few things that my parents had in their bookshelf. It was this mad scientist…or was it a doctor who invites people to take a vacation to his paradise resort. And there was mad stuff going on. Behind the scenes, the scientist was scheming to use tourists and turn them into animals. And boy, just transforming people into animals is already frightening."
Though the boys feel the horror from Zack's story, they cannot help but feel familiar of the story.
"Wait, was that The Island of Dr. Moreau you are talking about?" Clyde asks.
"I guess so," Zack answers inexactly.
"Why would your parents let you read a book like that?" Liam asks.
"It was a picture book," Zack clarifies to them, which only makes them shudder.
"Wait, Dr. Moreau has a picture book?" Rusty wonders, making the boys quiver more.
"I don't want to know, or even read it," Clyde says.
But Lincoln lightens up, "Well, at least we have Animorphs. It's a safer one."
"You've got a point there, buddy," Clyde acknowledges.
"How about you, Lincoln?" Rusty asks, "What's the scariest thing you've seen so far?"
"You mean scarier than the Thresher and…last trick-or-treating…" It suddenly occurred for Lincoln the recent time he went trick-or-treating with Clyde from the episode, "Tricked". "I'll just leave that for my year-ender special." He then recalls another recent scary occurrence, "I have a confession to you, guys. I watched It."
"Wait, what 'It'?" Rusty asks.
"You mean the movie?" Liam follows.
"Mhmm," Lincoln answers.
"The dancing clown It? Where the kids get haunted by their worst fears?" Clyde elaborates.
"That one," Lincoln confirms.
Rather than be baffled, the boys are amazed at this.
"Really? What's the scariest part?" Rusty asks out of sheer curiosity.
"Nahh, I don't wanna spoil anything," Lincoln brags. "Better see it for yourself."
"Wait, how were you able to see it?" Liam asks.
"That's for you to figure that out." (In reality, Lincoln redoes his scheme from the episode "The Price of Admission"; this time, he convinces his parents to let him watch My Little Pony: The Movie, only to sneak with his sisters on watching It. They helped.)
"But nothing will beat the book," Clyde remarks.
"You actually read the book?" Rusty asks.
"Yes, but I only stopped at page 32," Clyde clarifies.
"Why didn't you finish?" Liam asks.
"Well, I was gonna borrow it, but the librarian told me about what it really contains," Clyde tells, "She don't want me to know. And I guess I know what it has."
"What does it have?" Rusty asks.
"You don't want to know," Clyde implies. Not wanting to dwell too much on It, he takes his turn on telling a scary story, "Well, why don't we move on to my story? Well, it sounds like an urban legend, but it was a true account. There was this couple who are so in love with each other that everybody feels their romance. It was great for them, dates in the fair, on the harbor and under the sun. That is until the mother of the boy disapproves of his love with the girl. So, they broke up. The girl would not accept it. She loved the boy so much that she did everything she can to win the guy over. But none. She ended up depressed. One night came that the boy didn't see coming. The girl messaged the boy. He never read it until the next morning. But the message contains a picture of the girl sitting by the edge of a balcony. That is when the boy actually found out the next morning that the girl desperate for him ended up on the ground."
The boys shudder even more from Clyde's story.
"Man, I don't want to remember that on my sleep," Liam reacts.
"That's really frightening, when you think about it," Rusty adds, "A girl who really wants you just died thinking of you."
"Too off, dude. If I have a girlfriend like that, I would try not to break her heart that much," Zack comments.
"Me either," Liam agrees. "Like that lasted long."
"Yeah, if I had a girlfriend…" Lincoln softly implies.
"What are you talking about Lincoln? I thought you and Ronnie Anne are still a thing?" Rusty asks.
"Well, we're still friends. But come on, we're kids. We still have stuff we want to do," Lincoln explains, but goes on to confuse the boys, "I mean it's not that any moment I'll be falling…too much, or I mean falling for stupid stuff that couples do. I mean us being us, it was good. But I think it was good for us to be friends. There are green pastures out there. So, this might be a page-turner, like not sticking to page…"
And just by the pattern of his words, something clicks on Clyde. "Wait, what do you mean 'page-turner' and 'not sticking to page'?" he interrupts.
"What?!" Lincoln replies nervously. "I mean It was a page-turner. Yeah, I said it. Someone made a scary book and a scary movie. It made me not want to turn a page. Yeah!" It is obvious that Lincoln is hiding something from the boys.
"You never talked about It a while ago," Rusty implies.
"Just tell us Lincoln," Liam insists. "What's up with you and Ronnie Anne now?"
Ultimately, as he reaches the brink of his profuse sweat, Lincoln confesses, "Okay, Ronnie Anne and I are friends. Not a couple. Just friends. But as guilty as it may seem, I have another girl that I have a crush on. You may have guessed it."
"What? Who?" Zack asks.
"Was it Paige?" Clyde confronts him.
"I will just show the picture from my phone. But guys, please let's keep this between the five of us. I don't want Lori or any of my sisters to find out," Lincoln pleads.
"Why would your sisters mind?" Rusty asks.
"Because Lori's in a relationship with Ronnie Anne's brother, and his sisters support for Lincoln x Ronnie Anne," Clyde explains.
"Yep, that was a thing," Lincoln utters to the boys while facing the readers. He then opens his phone to show a picture of him and Paige during class. (Lincoln took a selfie, while Paige looked at his direction and waved at the phone.)
Upon seeing this, the boys of course hoot in amazement that Lincoln is able to score another girl.
"Woah buddy! When was this?" Clyde asks.
"Homeroom," Lincoln says. "Ms. Johnson assigned me to volunteer for the school's haunted house at the gym. Then, there she was."
"Way to score there, buddy!" Liam teases.
"Guys, we're not a thing," Lincoln insists, "She's…special. But please, not a word to anyone."
"Don't worry Lincoln. We won't," Clyde promises, and so as the rest.
But as history would say, secrets will surely spread like wildfire. Where this will go?