||Hello Neighbour: A Better Timeline||

||Chapter 72: Thursday Plan||

Crowface paced between the trees, trying to gather his thoats as they've been making small movements towards their great plan, for Halloween.
But Crowface knew these people weren't stupid.
"What if we pushed back. . ."
"Excuse me?"
Crowface turned to a cult member,"Uh, well; They're all expecting something to go wrong on Halloween, what if we just. . . Push back our plans to throw them off?", The Cult Member seemed to consider it,"Yeah, that could be a possibility. . . Give us more time.", the Cult Member left Crowface.
. . .
Crowface didn't know why he was wanting to delay or, why he was hesitating now?
He's killed adults, children and kidnapped; He's done worse, so why now? Why is he having a problem now??

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"What do you think?"
The Cult Member reported Crowface's idea to another Cult Member.
"Well. . . Depends on it fairs tomorrow on it's trip to the school."
Crowface has been acting out of it's regular behaviour; More distracted and hesitation towards missions or the plan.
. . .

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"It will be nice to be back in the house, though it has been fun living your family Nicky."
Mya peaked out of Nicky's bed,"Yeah; Your bed is so comfy and warm, I'm surprised your subconscious self would wanna get up out of it.", Aaron shrugged,"Well to be fair, I sleep walk, and that's mostly due to stress.", Mya nods,"Fair.", Nicky nods,"And, for Halloween? Does the school do decorations and dress up?", Aaron nods,"Yes, definitely! They do!", Mya giggled,"We're gonna have so much fun on Halloween!", Nicky nods, he couldn't help feel a little nervous as he's never attended a school event of Halloween.
But it should be fun with his friends, and it wouldn't just be him and his family this year.

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Wilson knelt down, poking the animal with a shovel,"So Animal Control and you can't find anything?", Otto shook his head, Leslie hanging back as they inspected a dead squirrel that had gone hostile.
"Nope; We sent some of the captured or dead animals down to labs, but either after a few days they seem to go back to normal with their eyes, or we kill them and redness disappears from their eyes.", Otto scratched his neck,"It's weird, I dunno if they'll find anything but I also don't know if it's just wild animals or if it could also be, house pets-", "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!", Leslie cried out, firing his gun and Otto jumped, Wilson stumbling back as gunshots blared.
But Leslie shot. . . At nothing.
Nothing was there.

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Keith sighed,"So yeah, that's what happened. . .", Gerda nods, she was the first person to call as Leslie's family didn't live here anymore and she was pretty close to him.
"When I asked Otto and Wilson, they think he might be. . . Seeing things? I asked if they could think of what he saw or anything, but all Wilson would say is it was probably just the time of year making him more of a nervous wreck.", he pointed to Gerda,"That mean anything to you?", Gerda shook his hand a bit,"A little, bad things always happen in Raven Brooks, and Leslie is on some medications and, I dunno if his drinking as made it worse.", Keith nods,"Well, best to take him home for a while. . . Let him rest.", Gerda nods, walking to Leslie as he was trying to gather his thoughts.

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. . .
"You still think about him?"
Gerda nods.
"Hard not too. . . Now what's happening with you?"
Leslie threw his glasses away and slumped on the sofa.
"I dunno, Gerda. . . Since the month started, things have been getting worse; I've been seeing him all over the place, in the school he stared at me and today he was in the woods, I panicked and I heard him. . .", Leslie buried his face in his hands.
Gerda rested her hand on his shoulder,"Take a deep breath. . . Maybe it's best to get new and stronger medication, get plenty of rest and water and lay off the drinks, that would be making it worse.", Leslie nods, but he could still hear the ringing in his ears.
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!"