The Creeps loved travel like snakes loved to slither. The trip to the Wedding while hiding under Billy’s family car was just the kind of mission they relished. The reasons were simple:
1. It was really dangerous.
2. The underneath of a car is dark and smelly and scary.
3. They could sometimes steal pieces of the car’s insides that would make the car “break down” later, which was mean and a lot of trouble for the “Humes,” as they called humans.
4. And all these things were bad, and bad to them was the purest kind of fun.
The Creeps had been spying on Billy and Ollie for days. They’d been listening at the windows or from flower beds. They’d made little tunnels into the walls of Billy’s house and could travel from room to room without being seen. They’d spied from electrical outlets or tiny cracks along the floorboards.
So they knew everything about this Wedding. But they had planned on stealing Ollie while Billy went to the Wedding, when Ollie would be alone in the house. They’d found a way into Billy’s room: an old mouse hole near his chest of drawers. That’s where they were waiting when at the last second Billy had changed the Parentals’ minds. But the Creeps, in fact, weren’t worried. They don’t ever miss a beat.