It was finally the end of the college day. Merton went to go get ready for his date with Colette while Tommy met up with Lori. He changed out of his red and black shirt into his plain black one.


At around 4:30pm he was ready so he set off to meet her. When he arrived at the library she was already waiting there outside the doors. Tonight she looked extra pretty not that she didn’t look beautiful every other day. She wore a black t-shirt and red skirt with black boots and tights with a skull design. Her makeup matched her outfit. On her eye lids she wore red eye shadow and on her lips were black lipstick.


"Hey," she called, smiling and then hugged him when he was in front of her.


"Hi," he replied.


"So what do you want to do?" She asked, Merton when she stepped back and stopped hugging him.


"I’m not sure," he answered.


"Well you said you need to go early so we can’t really drive down to Pleasentville. My roommate Helena told me that there’s this really nice diner close to campus," Colette suggested.


"I think I know where you mean."


"Shall we go then?" She wondered.


"Sure," he replied and the set off out of campus.


Just a little after five they arrived outside the diner. It was very small and it looked like it could only fit a few amount of customers in at a time. The full capacity was nothing like a larger size diner but at least it was still spacious that night. There was only four people inside. Six plus the waitress and the cook. Merton opened the wooden door and let Colette enter first before going in himself.


Once inside they sat down at a table and then picked up the menus. Merton read through the list of meals but there was too much choice and everything seemed appetizing to him because he was hungry. He’d have to pick one though. What about the chicken burger and fries? But yet maybe a jacket potato or steak? While both him and Colette were deciding the waitress came other to take their orders.


"Hello, may I take your orders please?" The woman asked. She was very young, possibly a student at the college. Her hair was firey red and was tied back in a neat bun and she had a blue apron tied around her waist.


"Hi, yes can I have a cheese burger please?" Colette asked as she closed the menu and put it back in it’s holder.


The waitress took opened her small note pad which she was carrying along with a pen. "One cheese burger," she mumbled to herself as she wrote it down. Then she looked up to Merton.


"And what is your order, sir?" She asked.


"Erm..." He still needed to decide. "Could I have the steak please?"


She wrote it down. "Will that be all? Do you want anything to drink?"


"Yes two cola’s please," Merton replied.


"You do like cola right?" He asked Colette.


"Yeah," she replied.


"Okay," the waitress said and then walked away.


"Erm... Colette?" Merton said quitely. He needed to find out if she really did want to be his girlfriend. She looked at him.


"Yeah?" She asked.


"I. Erm... Really like you. I’ve never had a good relationship with a girl in the past and well I’m really happy I met you. You like things I like and you a kind and so beautiful. You seem to be interested in everything I say and never get bored of me. I feel like I can be completely honest to you about anything? Do you feel the same?" He asked her, chickening out of asking her his question directly.


"Of course. I’ve never met a boy like you before. I really like you too," she said.


"Do you feel like you can be honest to me about things?"


"What type of things?" She wondered.


"You know important things, like if you wasn’t happy about something or you didn’t feel up to something or things that your boyfriend should know."


"Of course I do. What is this all about?" She asked.


"Oh, it’s nothing," he replied.


"Are you doubting that I don’t like you as much as I say?" She wondered.


"No. Yeah," he said awkwardly.


"Merton listen too me carefully please. I really, really like you. I love spending time with you. I’ve never met anyone like you before and I’m super glad that I met you," she said.


"So you really do want to be my girlfriend?" He wondered.


"Yes of course I do," she answered.


The food arrived not long after their chat. The waitress brought over the food one by one. "Enjoy your meals," she said before going back behind the till area.


They began to eat.


Back at the college campus Lori was telling Tommy what she had discovered while him and Merton were attending lessons.


"So you found anything?" Tommy asked Lori.


"I found this really suspicious room. No one seems to know what it is used for. Some of the professors that I asked said that it was an old classroom that isn’t in use anymore but some students said that they are pretty sure that they have have seen people coming out of it. Others have said that it is haunted. I also tried opening it but it was locked," she explained.


"So you think that it’s the Diluculums hideout?" Tommy wondered.


"If it is, they keep it locked through the day. The only chance we may have of entering is when the sun goes down," she answered.


"Merton should be back before it gets too dark. When he does get back we can try and get inside," Tommy said.


"Let’s just hope we can."


All they could do now was wait until Merton got back. So they decided to put on some music until then.