Ethan's POV.

"Congrats on keeping your pants on." Sarah tells me after school. Charly smelled the air and growled a bit, but I shrugged.

"Yeah, about that... I have this ghost gym coach after me. He lives to humiliate nerds." I tell her.

"Oh no. Nerds being humiliated? In school? Oh, my goodness." Sarah says sarcastically.

"Didn't you hear me? This is a ghost- an evil spirit." I repeat.

"I hear, but it's a ghost. I can't punch, kick, or bite it." She says, irritatedly numbering it off on her fingers. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm busy."

"Oh, okay, well, I just thought-" I stop myself when I see where she's walking off to.

"That girl's way out of your league." Ed says from beside me, with a hat on this time. I look around for Charly but she's disappeared. Great, I have to deal with Ed on my own... "Now him on the other hand, that's more her speed."

"I can't believe it. What would anyone see in that guy?" I ask, then Kurt rips his shirt. "Besides that I mean."

"Kurt 'The Hurt' Lockner." Benny whistles after coming up to me with Rory. "Conway Collegiate's three-time city wrestling champ."

"See now that guy is a guy's guy." Ed says, gesturing to Kurt. "If I was coaching you, I'd turn you into him. Or at least into, uh, less of you."

"Nice Ed. Real nice." I hear Charly comment from behind us. I turn and see she's holding her arm protectively. I look at her worriedly but she only smiles.

"Forget it, okay? I can't help you." I give up and walk to Charly and help her home.

"Sorry, I left you to deal with Ed, alone. I just felt another presence near, and he wouldn't be very... Friendly around you and the other nerds." Charly says as she holds her arm to her.

"What happened?" I ask as I help her walk.

"Let's say we fought over territories." She shrugged. "It'll be healed by tonight, I'm sure of it." We walk inside and she heads to her room while I go to mine and search up Ed.

"So tell me something. What exactly is this inner tube, uh, web, uh, net?" Ed asks. "It's a bunch of tubes, right?"

"It's a global network of computers and data servers." I start. "It can take you anywhere in the world to find any information you want."

"Mmm. We had something like that back in my day. We called it 'shoes'. They'd take you places to speak to people face to face. But enough of this. You wanna win me a trophy or not?" He lectures. Then Benny, Charly and JJ come into my room.

"Hey, Benny, JJ. Any luck?" I ask the two magic casters.(ones a witch while the other is a dorky spell master)

"Oh yeah. Here, take this." Benny says, handing me a camera while him and JJ get ready. Charly comes and puts her uninsured arm on my shoulder. "We are gonna get the first ever ghost-splosion captured on camera."

"Where is he?" JJ asks, Charly looks at her arm in pain.

"Uh, he's right there." I point to where Ed is standing by my window and telescope.

"Galga deselphador... Zek recantor..." Benny and JJ start to say.

"Woah, cut it out, Sugar McVersey. I'm warning you." Ed warns Benny and JJ.

"... zoolin maphrak!" They finish and zap Ed with some lightning or something. Ed starts to growl.

"So you wanna play hardball, huh, boy?" Ed says, his hair smoking. He then used ghost powers to make the action figures on my shelf move off.

"No! Just stop!" I whine, scared he damaged them.

"That is so not cool, ghost dude!" Benny calls into the room.

"These are mint in-box!" I say, looking at Ed.

"I'm sorry, man. I really thought it would work. Maybe you should just give this psycho what he wants." Benny says. I start putting the boxes back.

"Haircut here makes a lot of sense." Ed adds.

"No. Forget it. It's not gonna happen." I say a bit angry and sad.

"Uh, bye, ghost guy. Nothing personal about the whole gala deselphador thing, right?" Benny asks, dragging JJ and Charly out of my room. Charly looks weaker than usual now. Benny closes the door behind him. "Be seeing you."

Charly's POV.

I hold my arm close to me during dinner while Ethan's family is too focused on him. JJ went over for dinner with Benny at his house with his grandma.

"So, honey, how was school?" My aunt asks Ethan.

"Uh, learning, books, you know. Lunch..." Ethan says struggling with Ed trying to force him not to eat some chicken.

"Here we go. Oh, oh, my bad." Ed says jokingly.

"This chicken's just... Too good to eat." Ethan says nervously.

"Just... Just relax. Relax. It's all... It's all part of puberty." My Uncle tells her, they obviously don't know my pain right now, so maybe I can escape right now?

"If you'll excuse me..." I say, standing up an walking away after they nodded.

"Don't even think about it! Let go!" I hear Ethan warn to Ed. I hear my aunt gasp. Ed must've made Ethan fling food at my uncle... Great. "Sorry..." After dinner I sat in Ethan's room while Ed blocked the door with his foot. Ethan struggled to get in. He eventually got in and fell to the floor. "Ah! Ugh..."

"Nice. If only your school had a face-plant team, you'd be a trophy magnet." Ed clapped. He then pointed at the computer. "By the way, your nerd box has been beeping for the last six minutes." They walk over to it and I leave the room to go sleep in mine.

Ethan's POV.

Charly leaves the room after a while.

"It's an email from Sarah. 'Are you free Saturday night? Keep it open.'" I read out loud. "What's that about?"

"What do you mean, what's that about? That's a date, boy!" Ed says, laughing at me. "Makes no sense to me either, but it says it right there in the inner tube web net."

"Date? Really?" I ask confused.

"Yep, that's a date. Just you and her. And me." He adds the last part.

"You stay away from Sarah!" I warn. "And... Quit bugging me! I've been teased by jocks since grade one, so I don't care how many wedgies or chicken legs you use. If you're such a famous coach, you should be able to tell when you're gonna lose."

"Lose? Me?" He asks in a creepy echoey voice. "Never. I play to win." He says scarily, his eyes turning red. He then goes back to normal and into a normal voice. "One of the winning techniques I utilise is that of visualisation. Let us visualise your future, shall we?" He then puts a hand on my shoulder and I get a vision. "It's ten years later, shortcake, and guess what? You're still living at home. How impressive is that? Let me tell you: not very. But, hey, at least you got a job. Check out your uniform." He snaps his fingers and a uniform appears in his hand.

"I work at McFingers?" I ask surprised after looking around.

"Hey, who else is gonna hire you after you got kicked out of college for filling your prof's convertible with doggy doo? Of course, you didn't do that. I did, but, heh, it really doesn't matter now, does it?" He chuckled and a man drops his keys on the table by the door.

"Make sure you clean the grease trap tomorrow, son." He calls up the stairs.

"Get off my back, old man!" An older me shouts from his room.

"Dad works at McFingers too?" I ask surprised.

"Yep. Ever since he got fired for insurgence fraud. I accidentally set your house on fire." Ed says, I look at him shocked.

"What?!" I yell.

"Yeah." Ed says looking at me for a second.

"Mom too?" I ask. Seeing mom roll a future Benny in on a wheel chair.

"Dinner's here. I got your favourite." Benny stops to cough. "Sausage fingers. And for desert... Iced cream fingers! Let's roll out!" Benny is pulled away by mom and start coughing then snoring.

"You put Benny in a wheelchair?!" I ask. "What about Charly and JJ?!"

"Me? No, no, he's the one who bought that turbo unicycle." He paused. "All I did was cut the breakline. And Charly got attacked by a rouge werewolf, went missing before Benny got hurt. JJ went looking for her and lost touch with you guys." He says I look shocked. "You seeing it now, ain't ya? Your gonna ruin your life, and theirs."

"No! I don't believe it. It's a lie!" I say angrily.

"Hey. We're... Off on a romantic wrestling tour of France. Could you ask Ethan to mansion-sit for us again?" Sarah asks, standing beside Kurt. She's in a tan dress while he's in a suit with no shirt under the coat.

"Yeah." Dad says.

"Make sure he waters my plants." Kurt says, throwing dad his keys. "Come on, baby. Let's go." We then come back to reality.

"Sarah... Marries Kurt?" I ask.

"An his abs." Ed says.

Timeskip.

Charly seemed to have gone missing while I wrestled Kurt.

Charley's POV.

I knew Ethan would be fine without me during his match with Kurt today, so I went in search for the rouge wolf I met the other day. I finally found him. He looked familiar.

Little did I know I'd go missing for a day or two...