Words can't express how lucky I feel. I'm a very lucky writer to have such great friends who, even though not horror fans, read over this fic and did what fixes they caught. This is a fast write guys, I can't express that enough, because I focused on the gift exchange first. But I REALLY wanted to post a new horror fic for Halloween guys! Like, really!

I know most aren't into this stuff but I promise, it's pretty tame. There are no graphic details in the descriptions. Do people die? Yes but no one you know so have no fear!

With Halloween approaching, I wanted to find something to write about and low and behold I found Bunny Man. This is a real Urban Legend guys, people believed a man in a full-on bunny suit went around killing people. But as the fic explains, it is all myth. So no, I'm not making lite of any actual deaths here. How could I pass up an Urban Legend about a man who skinned rabbits and ran around with bunny ears and a hatchet? I meant for this to be a dark comedy but it just didn't happen that way. Oh well, maybe next time? I had a scene planned last year when I first decided to write this where the girls were trying to get Serena to run with them and says, "He's a guy in Bunny ears, how bad can he be?" and then cuts a guy (probably Seiya) in half.

So here, after a year of thinking it over and then waiting for the next Halloween, here is Bunny Man! Brought to you by my loving and reading friends: DarkenedHrt101, SailorMoon101, and iamcharlotte88. A lot is going on for each of these lovelies so thank you again for your time and care. Really and truly!

Chapter One

"The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination."

― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

It didn't matter what time of year it was, I would eat a chocolate milkshake in the snow. So the crisp autumn air deterred me little, sipping as I walked from the Dairy Monster back to school. Bright colored leaves hung above me and crunched under my feet as I traipsed, enjoying my solitude as it meant not sharing my treat.

Most of the houses on the row were decorated for Halloween, but it was cute stuff like jack-o-lanterns and white sheets for ghosts. Not that I minded, I'm not into spooky or scary stuff. There was one house that I found myself running past every year but this time, I forced myself to go slow, never knowing who was inside watching at the moment. This house was the last on the street and always went all out for Halloween. It belonged to the Dickersons', Seiya Dickerson was in my class. Their yard was filled with skeletons, bloody bags full of 'bodies', 'headstones', and everything to fill your nightmares with year after year since Mrs. Dickerson left town with a lawyer from the next town over. But I refused to let it get me this time. I was an adult now and wouldn't let childish pranks scare me anymore. Which was why I forced myself to walk even as a creature jumped out of a grave while I passed.

The houses and their lots here were small, the cute and classic homes almost on top of each other so I didn't have to slow myself for long. Larger homes were on the outskirts of town, like my home, feeling like we lived in the middle of nowhere, no-Ville. It was why most of us wanted to get out of there, graduate and go off to college far far away. Fairfax County had little to offer by means of entertainment so most of us got into quite a bit of trouble on the weekends. With Halloween this weekend, it was sure to be a mess of trouble.

Which was what was promised, given the looks my friends were giving me at the end of the long school day.

"Your dad is out of town this weekend, right? A meeting in DC?"

Mina and Raye were eyeing me because they already knew the answer and had planned it all out. So I sighed, "why don't the two of you stop playing innocent and just tell me what you have planned already?"

"They're throwing a party," Lita responded, leaning on the locker next to mine and looking glib.

Amy shook her head, "is that really wise guys? The last time anyone threw a party the house was trashed and three girls ended up pregnant."

"That was last year's seniors, a bunch of losers going nowhere so they had nothing to lose," Raye said with a click of her tongue.

"Yeah, we'll keep it small. Just a few people."

Which meant Mina had invited all their boyfriends and half the senior class. "Fine, but I'm inviting some people too."

"Oh?" Mina leaned in, her eyebrows lifting up and down, "are we finally going to meet your mystery man?"

Lita pushed off the lockers defensively. "Bunny doesn't have a mystery of any kind, she tells us everything."

"Yes, you will meet him if you're all nice!"

"We are always nice!" Amy quietly shouted, offended.

I wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her into my side to walk. "You are. Lita is. But Raye?"

"Hey!" The pyro shouted.

"And Mina tends to disappear…"

"With good reason!" Mina stated, flipping a long gold lock off her shoulder.

"...So the opportunity to introduce has yet to come up and that's not really my fault."

Raye wrapped her arms around me, mine still wrapped around Amy so the three of us walked while holding each other. "I can just imagine the guy. Good looking to a fault, sweet, nerdy, shy, and one foot out the door from this place!"

"Something like that, yes."

Lita and Mina at the head of our trope stopped short and the three of us skidded to a stop. "Hello, Ladies!"

Up on my toes, I wiggled my way to glance over Mina's shoulder as there was no way I could look over the tall Lita's. But I didn't need to, I'd recognize Seiya's -or anyone else from our class's- voice. "What's up, Scourge?"

I cringed but the others giggled, save for Amy, at Mina's favorite nickname for guys like Seiya. Scourge of the Earth but Scourge for short, it was what she liked to call those who used their free time for bad things. Like robbing the PTA's concessions stand or poking holes in the condoms they used. Raye always referred to them as 'life ruiners' because their lives were going nowhere so they liked to destroy others. Misery loving company sort of thing. I struggled to believe most of it. Even guys like Seiya weren't so cruel as to purposely knock a girl up, wreck her college plans, all while claiming no responsibility because they wore a condom. It was hard to believe even with the glint in his eyes.

He chuckled darkly at Mina's jab but kept going. "What's up is this weekend! We are all going to Colchester Overpass to summon Bunny Man. You five need to come. We may need sacrifices."

"Pass!"

Lita brushed past, the others following and Seiya locked his eyes on me. "Right. Wouldn't want Bunny wetting her panties huh?"

"Shut up, Seiya!" Raye shouted, pulling me along.

"I get it, I do. Little, innocent girl like her in your 'protection'? She'd probably pass out and hit her head. The hospital waiting room is no fun on a Saturday night, is it? Or would you guys just leave her there? I would."

His eyes danced up and down me, making my stomach turn. "We aren't going because it's stupid and we have other plans now back off!"

Lita was getting in Seiya's face, the two at eye level. A second or two passed and Seiya held up his hands to back way. "Well if you guys change your mind, we are all meeting there right after sunset…"

"Fuck off, Seiya."

Mina threw in a middle finger at the guy before grabbing my now empty arm and pulling me along. Amy was long gone, standing next to Lita's car, waiting. The five of us climbed in without another word until we hit the farms. Nothing but rows of corn and tobacco as far as the eyes could see.

"You guys don't have to stand up for me, you know. I can fight my own battles."

With me in the middle, all eyes turned to me, Lita glancing at me in her rearview mirror. Mina on one side and Raye on the other, I was sandwiched between my comfort, my friends always there for me even when I didn't need them to be. "We know that, Bunny. But...this time of year you're at your most vulnerable. As anyone would be in your situation."

"My situation? My mother was murdered and tomorrow marks the five year anniversary. But even my dad doesn't see it as big a deal as you guys do. There is no situation, I'm fine really!"

Their eyes found me again, one by one, and I saw the disbelief in all of them. It was a hard sell. I was sure I wouldn't believe myself either. But the truth was, I was over it. Over being the victim. So I had to be fine.

"I don't want to talk about it. Can we discuss something else? Anything else?"

"Alright," Lita began, "how about we discuss the crazy hard-on Seiya Dickerson has for the five of us? Especially, Bunny? What is that dude's problem?"

"He's a loser that's what's wrong with him. A Scourge." Mina chanted.

I glanced sideways at her. "I wish you wouldn't call people that."

"What? It's true! Even his own mother couldn't stand it here in this town so she 'peaced out' at first chance!"

"That is hardly his fault, Mina," Amy argued.

"She's right," Raye leaned over me to glance at Mina, "it's his dad's fault. I heard the guy had an affair and that's why mommy left!"

"Raye!" "That's terrible." "We shouldn't talk about such things." "I knew it!"

A wash of voices, we all looked at Mina and her outburst. "Oh come on, no mother just leaves their kid behind like that without good reason!"

"And being cheated on is good reason?!" I nearly shouted.

Mina shrugged, "Guess it depends on how much and with who. Maybe he slept with a LOT of people? The housewives of this town are all bored out of their minds. I'd have an affair or two too."

I giggled, "Tutu."

Raye patted my knee like the child I was acting like and sneered over at Mina. "Yeah, we all know you'd have an affair! The shocking part would be you in a relationship long enough to have it!"

"Who said I would be the one having the affair? I'd be the one helping the poor, sexually dissatisfied husbands get some release!"

"Gross," Lita said, shaking her head.

Mina sat up, grabbing the back of the driver's seat dangerously. "That's only if I had to stay in this town and as of right now, my ticket is bought and paid for. NYC, here I come!"

"I have to say, I'm surprised we are the only Seniors graduating early…"

Amy sounded sad like it was somehow her fault we were all off to better lives asap. "That's because we are the only ones really getting out of here. Everyone else is just dreaming about it while not doing a thing about it."

It was true, we were all getting out of this town. It was set in stone. Our final high school classes were wrapping up and checks for our first semesters at our chosen colleges had been sent. Mina was off to NYU, Raye was going to Columbia University, Amy Princeton, and Lita was off to Penn State. While I was going to Georgetown. Each school worked for each of us in their own way, mine was good because dad would be able to visit often what with all his trips to DC. But that was just one reason for going there. Our choices still had us splitting apart and going far and wide from each other, which made me sad even if it was good for all of us.

But it also meant we had little to lose when it came to our last few months still in town.

"Let's go to that bridge tonight."

"What?!" They all yelled at me.

"Yeah! We should go! It's one of the last chances we have together with everyone. And it would make people like Seiya Dickerson eat their words about me being a coward."

"Who cares what they think?!" Lita threw out.

"Please, Lita, you can say something like that because no one talks crap about you! They're all too scared to!"

"They should be scared to talk about you too, cause I'll beat the shit out of them if I ever catch them!"

I shook my head, giggling a little at Lita's overprotectiveness showing. "And they know that too. They would never say anything to your faces. Save for Seiya. But I know everyone still talks about me, the little girl scared of her own shadow."

"Yeah because your mother was…" Mina stopped, turning and looking anywhere but at me.

I released an exasperated sigh. Seems I still couldn't escape it, even years later. "My mother was cut into pieces and scattered around town. I know, you know, the whole town knows. So if anything, everyone should be just as freaked out like me because they never figured out who did it. There's a murder amongst us and no one but me seems to be bothered by that?"

"We're all bothered, Bunny." Amy cooed, trying to calm me from the front seat.

"Guess I'm the only one thinking she is next on the list then…"

The car got silent, eyes dancing around. A secret I hadn't told many, the girls the select few along with my boyfriend were the only ones I had ever told my biggest fear. It was the one that kept me up at night. That the person that killed my mother is not only still out there, but waiting to kill me next.

Next chapter up asap. Posting this in rapid-fire as it's betaed!