New Acquaintances

"Please don't be mad at me," Austin pled to Zak.

Zak said, "Fine. I won't be mad at you for being a creepy stalker."

"Good. Good," Austin began. But then what Zak said caught up to Austin. "Wait. Hey!"

Dan asked, "Wait, why did you say 'hey'?"

Then Austin answered, "Zak called me a creepy stalker."

"That's because you ARE a creepy stalker," Zak muttered.

No one heard Zak.

"But it's true! You are a creepy stalker," said Greg.

"Yeah, you intrude on our conversations," added Ethan.

Jackson, Dan, Fred, Wayne, Ochard, and Bethany nodded in agreement.

Fred looked behind to see if there was any squirrels in the trees; but instead he saw something else.

Fred questioned, "Hey, what's that shadowy figure thing in the forest?"

The gang looked to where Fred was looking.

"I dunno," said Wayne.

Ochard put in, "We should go closer and check it out."

The group did as Ochard suggested.

As they were walking, Jackson and Bethany's hands were intertwined.

Dan saw this and growled. He said something under his breath that no one could understand. Perhaps it was, "Hands off my Jacky." But truly, no one knew.

Also as they were walking, Fred starting singing a tune,"Somebody once told me, jeffs off my jefferoni! Ocean jeff take me by the jeff and drown me in the jefferoni. Just a small town jeff livin' in a lonely jeff. His last name was Fischer."

A voice from nowhere in particular rang out. "That is a pretty good tune."

"Who said that?" Dan asked and yelled at the same time.

"I did," the voice said, walking out of the forest. He had black hair, dark skin, and mysterious eyes.

"Who are you?" Ethan inquired.

The boy spoke up, "My name is Kalen. Kalen Loft."