My Grandma is a Psycho Chap 1

But it had all been real.  Grandma had brought Apple back to bed in the dead of night when she saw him fainted on the sidewalk.  The next day, Apple went over to his friend's house.  He told Jack Marmalade, his best friend, about his grandma's threat and the terrible nightmare he had had.  "Well, I've heard that nightmares are about your fears and it seems your afraid of your grandma, so…" Jack said casually.

"Nuh-uh!" Apple huffed and slapped his hands against his thighs.  "Why would I be afraid of that old hag!?" he yelled meanly.

"I dunno.  You're the one that told me about her threatening you.  Maybe you took it too literally," Jack said.

"Pfft!  Did not…" Apple argued and got up to leave.

"Apple~," Jack cooed and grabbed Apple's arm.

He turned around his friend and kissed him.

Apple blushed.  "Wh-what!?  Why!?"  Apple struggled for words to say.

Jack sighed and let go of Apple's arm.  "Too soon?" he asked, raising his eyebrow in a questioning manner.

Apple raised a questioning manner, slowly nodding his head.  "Okay then," Jack sighed.

Jack's mom called for lunch.  "Wanna join us for lunch?" Jack asked Apple.  Apple's stomach growled, but he shook his head and went back to his own house.  His parents had died a few months ago and since then he had moved to Grandma's house, made friends with Jack, and actually understood math now for the first time thanks to his new helpful teacher.

Grandma was at her work, so Apple grabbed a peach and made a sandwich.  He washed it down with some milk.  "Ah~" Apple stretched and took a nap on the couch with the TV on.

He woke up a few hours later, the TV was off and he could hear Jack and Grandma yelling at each other in the dining room that connected to the living room.  Jack saw Apple get up and he ran over to him.  "Are you okay Apple?  She didn't hurt you did she!?"  Jack shook Apple's shoulders.

"Y-Yeah.  I-I mean I'm fine.  She didn't do anything…" Apple reassured his best friend.

"Good," Jack sighed.  "I should've told you she's a psycho, but she's got everyone into secrecy and I couldn't tell," Jack said hurriedly.

"Now, Now Jack~.  You don't want me to make any Marmalade Pie do you~?" she asked in her high-pitched granny voice.

"Stay away from my family you- You hag!" Jack yelled at Grandma and opened the back door in the living room that led to the open back yard.

He grabbed Apple's arm and ran with him into the back yard.  The area of town they live in is a swampy forest surrounded with many stumps from the long ago loggers.  Jack had to help Apple jump the stumps.  "But what if I fall in the swamp?" Apple yelled on the high wind that was starting.

"I won't let you fall!  Please, jump!  Before she comes!" Jack yelled back.

Apple closed his eyes and jumped onto the wide stump that Jack was standing on.  It had once held the boughs of a great tree that had been the center of all the forest's resources.  Apple sighed as he opened his eyes, but Jack got scared as Grandma's crazy rambling and yelling got closer.  "We've got to go," Jack whispered in a rush.

Apple nodded and the two ran off farther into the forest, too far for Grandma to go.

-CHAPTER 1 END-