Fanon:The Month Before

The Month Before is a fan fiction written by AsherÉire. It follows the lives of Dustin Broke, Dirk Dreamer, Angela & Lilith Pleasant and Donnie & Marty Lothario before Richie Hutchworth moved to Pleasantview.

Chapter 1
Angela Pleasant bolted upright. Nightmares, yet again. And it was the same one, night after night. Ever since Lilith had dragged her to see some overly-hyped film in March, Angela had had the same nightmare for ages.

She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and realised it was the first day of the summer holidays.

Hm, Lilith. She was unique. One day she was the nicest person on the planet, the next day she would be the most argumentative Angela had ever met! Lilith was slightly troubled, yet no one really knew the answer as to why. Some people thought it was because Angela's successes had overshadowed her younger twin sister's.

Angela knew that wasn't true. It had something to do with a little school incident, some time two years ago. When Lilith was 13, or 14, Angela couldn't remember, Lilith had accidentally set the fire alarm off when her science experiment burst into flames. Lilith got suspended, and Angela knew she hadn't been the same since.

Chapter 2
Lilith's hand swept the alarm clock off of her bedside table onto the floor. That shut it up. Nothing got in the way of Lilith and her precious sleep!

Angela quickly entered Lilith's room after hearing the commotion from next door.

"Lilith... did you just break your alarm clock?" Angela asked quietly.

"Yeah, now go away." Lilith mumbled.

"But Lils... we have to head off. You promised Dirk that we'd all be there on time."

No response.

"Lilith?"

Lilith had had enough of her sister and sat up. "Angela," she yelled "just shut up and leave me alone!"

Angela bit her lip and blinked back the tears. Everyone knew Angela was very sensitive, and this had really hurt her feelings.

"Oh... OK..." she choked before leaving hastily.

Lilith fell back into her pillow. What a great start to the day. Four minutes and she had already hurt someone.