"Yeah." Eddy agreed, not having been swept up into the euphoria like the other kids. They were still talking among themselves. Some of them yelling out their approval of Shawn, others claiming that he should or would, in fact, become a star.

"Adults pretty much decide everything. It sucks. I don't like it. We don't have any control of anything. I mean I do. I sneak out at night. My Dad is cool. I think he knows that I do it, but he doesn't say anything to my Mom. I think maybe its because he knows that I know he smokes. He told my Mom...well, he didn't tell her, he swore to her, that he would quit smoking after my sister died of cancer. So, maybe its like a trade. Even though we never talk about it. About my sneaking."

"Yeah..." Shawn's life had been almost entirely decided by adults, except for one or two decisions he still regretted. "Sorry about your sister..."

Eddy didn't pay the gesture any mind. And for a while the kids talked until Erica broke in with a suggestion.

"Hey, want to do something fun?" She asked. The word fun sounded dangerous or at least daring the way she let it roll off of her mouth.

Ever the bellwether, Shawn subtly looks to both Eddy and Bobby to get an idea of their feelings on the matter before venturing a reply.

Bobby looked back at Shawn. That's when Shawn caught Bobby's glare. Yes he was interested and perhaps still nervous about being accepted. But there was something else.

OOC: Shawn Rolls Wits + Empathy

"Like what?" Eddy said, tossing the ball in the air and catching it behind his back, a neat little trick.

"Like playing....with magic" Erica said with dramatic effect.

Everyone knew that magic didn't exist. But just as kids knew that, it was also true that Shawn had found something different. Something that did exist.  Erica looked between Shawn, Bobby and Eddy. The group had broken away from the rest of the pack now, and stood alone, the kids having resumed their normal playground play after gawking at Shawn for a bit.

"I have a game. It's back at my house just five minutes away. It's called: Ouija"

OOC: 07:48, Today: Shawn Cramer rolled 2 successes using 3d10 with the World of Darkness nWoD system with a target of 8, rerolling 10s with rolls of 9,6,9. Wits + Empathy.

It wasn't the suggestion of the game that Bobby was thinking about. Shawn could tell. He wasn't even worried about how the kids thought of him anymore.

Bobby was clearly shaken by the idea of seeing Feddler. Shawn wondered privately whether or not the meddling imp would threaten to undue some of the progress he had made in making Bobby forget. It wasn't that Bobby would suddenly remember, but rather, that he would begin to investigate.

However, this thought process was cut short, as Eddy announced his opinion on playing Erica's game:

"That sounds like faggy, gay stuff." Eddy said. "It sounds gay." He repeated for emphasis.

That left Shawn and Bobby to weigh in.

"Ummmm..." Bobby wagered, looking at Shawn, somewhat distracted.

"What is it?" Shawn wasn't sure what to think yet - maybe Ouija was, in fact, really gay."

"It's a game where you have to turn off the lights. And there's a playing board. And everyone has to place their hands on it. Then, just like magic, it moves over the letters. But only after you ask for spirits to talk to you. They talk by spelling out the letters."

"A spelling game?" Eddy said with outright disapproval, the voice of a child that had just finished a year of school and was now being asked to do homework all over again.

"That's really gay." He offered, shaking his head to indicate that he wanted no part of anything involving work. Especially the kind of work that was related to the classroom.

"It's not a spelling game." Erica said defensively. "It's about ghosts and spirits. It's really fun. It's also scary. But its definitely not about school work. If we communicate with a spirit, then you don't even have to move the piece. The ghost moves it."

"I dunno." Eddy said, still not really convinced. "It's just...its sounds gay, you know? I mean, spelling and right after school. I mean, we already had 'how many' spelling tests this year? It just sounds really, really gay. You know?"

Shawn was trying to stay out of this argument; he had a natural aversion to taking sides (at least while the other side was around). But he was a little worried about what a Ouija game would entail. He'd had enough problems with the supernatural to just invite spirits into his life unless it was necessary. Besides, it might further pique Bobby's curiosity, and that was another probably he knew he was going to have to manage in the future.

"It's not gay!" Erica said, getting annoyed.

"Well, its sounds gay." Eddy refuted, still shaking his head.

"It's not gay! Stop saying that!"

"It's gay!" Eddy said, now without the annoyance in his voice and instead a slight crook of a smile forming on his face. He was enjoying the rise he was getting out Erica.

"No it's not. It isn't gay!" Erica said, starting to fume.

"It's not my fault that you're game is gay. I mean, it's just a gay game. That's all." Eddy responded, emphasizing the word gay each time.

"URggggh!" Erica said, stomping her foot into the earth and squashing a flower and with that she turned her back and stormed off.

Shawn looked on at Erica sympathetically, but made no further move to go after her or anything like that. He just turned to Eddy to see what he wanted to do next.

"Haha!" Eddy said in triumphant glee, a winning smile on his face. "I love getting a rise out of people. It's funny to see people get angry or upset. It's funny when people are all upset at something happening to them." He explained, really enjoying what had happened.

"Hey, wanna go 'people-watch'?" Eddy asked. Shawn had never heard of the term.