"There's been more reports of insanity between citizens in the past month what do you think about this Sam?" The reporter asked looking to the man sitting by her. He gave a concerned look and said.

"It's terrible, whatever's causing it must be some sort of plague. Do anyone have any idea about what's going on?" Sam asked to the reporter. She shook her head.

"No...not yet." She answered. "But the psychologists are working on it in the mental institutes and are hoping to find the cause."

"That's good to hear, now let's go and see how one of the psychologists are doing with the patient he's working on." Sam suggests.

"Good idea." She said as a video came up of a man holding a clip board appeared. "How's the patient doing William?"

"Not sure yet the patient doesn't seem to be doing good, he keeps repeating about somethings." William answered.

"What kinds of things?" Sam questioned.

"The faces, the smiles, the eye, that's all he said." William told to them. Someone then started to laugh in the background of Williams video causing him to look behind him. "Sorry it's my patient, I have to go." Then the chat with William ended. The two reporters look at each other and back at the camera a bit worried about the psychologist's patent.

"Well it seems we are about to go to a commercial break." Sam told to the camera. "So enjoy this weather announcement before the commercial."



Year and a month earlier

The tent to the show was lit with lights and inside was a crowd of people clapping and cheering for the show to start. The man named Happy in front of them bowed in the light that was shined on him toward the audience. He wore a big black hat with a smiley face pin attached with black and white clothing with white and black stripes from the sleeves to the shoulders and worn a half smile mask on the right side of his face. "Welcome everyone! I hope you enjoy our splendid show!" He yells to everyone making them cheer. He waited for the cheering to settle and said. "We need a volunteer to do this first act for us....any volunteers?!" Happy questioned to the crowd. It took a moment but one person raised their own hand silently making the stage light shine on him making everyone else look. Happy smiled as he noticed the volunteer. "Ah, so we do have a volunteer! Come on down!" He said in a cheerful voice making the man go down from his seat towards the man. Everyone cheered for him as he went causing the man to speed up his walk towards Happy from the confidence given from the crowd. When he got to Happy the man questioned him. "So who are you?" He questioned with a smile.

"It's Peter." Peter answered.

"Ah! Hello Peter and I am Happy, so are you excited about your act Peter?" Smiley questioned.

"I wouldn't be if I didn't volunteer." Peter said to Happy causing the audience to laugh including Happy.

"Well Peter, shall we prepare yourself for the act?" Happy said with a big smile.

"Prepare?" Peter questions. Suddenly the light went out causing everyone to gasp. Peter's son, Jeffery was also in shock of this. Everything was in complete darkness for almost 5 minutes. Then finally, lights flicked on again showing Peter but Happy was no where to be found. Peter stared ahead of him to the crowd emotionless and appeared to be holding a rope that was attached from the ceiling that also had been tied around his neck. Everyone in the crowd screamed by this and was screaming at Peter stop what he was doing but Peter seemed he couldn't hear their voices. Instead he slowly pulled causing his head to get pulled upward to the point he used both his arms to pull. His body slowly began to lift upward until there was a snap of bones....it was his own neck. Instead of dying he continued to pull slowly until his whole body was in the air by the neck. Peter was unresponsive to the pain and the more he pulled the more his bones in his neck snapped, until. Everyone in the room screamed at the sight. Peter's neck finally snapped and was separated from his own spine, that's when he stopped climbing and hanged there.....with a terrifying huge smile on his face that bleeds out from the corners of his lips. After that Happy disappeared entirely, along with Peter's corpse after everyone in the audience ran out in fear....except for one, Jeffery. Jeffery was there at the last minute before his fathers corpse disappeared, at first he was staring at the corpses in total denial, the next he gotten blinded by the amount of people in the way....but when he could see again, Peter vanished. Ever since then, Jeffery had developed a fear of smiley faces and every night when he would sleep; he would see Peter's dead smiling face hearing those cursed haunting words, "Shall we prepare yourself for the act?" Jeffery couldn't get the image out of his head....and at the same time....he...he couldn't stop and wonder....what happened to cause his father to become like that? What did Happy do or even....why did he? Jeffery wasn't even sure if it was Happy at the time done it but....he knew it was from him disappearing after the lights turned back on. He tried to ignore the thought but he couldn't bring himself to do so...it's like something stitched the thought permanently into his own mind. Back then Jeffery was twelve when the incident happened now he's thirteen. A whole year went by and he couldn't get the thought out of his head. He turned his body the other way in his bed trying to sleep....it took a while, but he finally relaxed and began to fall into slumber. Jeffery woken up again in his bed that night, but something felt....off. He gotten up from his bed and looked around, silence, he gotten curious about how it was so quiet and walked up from his bed and tried to find the light switch. Nothing, he was sure he was on the side where the light switch was normally at....but he couldn't find it at all. He tried guiding himself though the room to find it and still found nothing. Jeffery began to get freaked out by this. Then, he heard a silent sound of laughter near him. The laughter made Jeffery's heart beat faster, it sounded like children but more cold, sinister even. He didn't wanted to know what was the laughter was from but....he knew he was lost in his room already and he needed it to guide him, if the laughter was from other room that is. So he did so and followed the sound until he reached his door to the hallway. When he opened it the laughter became a lot more louder and clearer. Jeffery stopped a moment when the laughter stopped. What happened to the children? He wondered when he continued the way through the hallway. By the time he thought he was at the end of the hallway, a dim light turned on. Jeffery screamed in shock as he sawn children wearing broken old smiley faces across his hallway standing frozen. He quickly rushed through the hallway hoping to get away from them, it was just, those masks....he stopped and turned around realizing. Smiley masks...? No, no way this was his doing, could it? He thought about that as he stared at them in horror. As if the children could hear him they all slowly turned their smiley faces at him.  Jeffery couldn't remove his eyes from them....he....it was like Jeffery was forced in a frozen stance, staring into their faces. Suddenly Jeffery's head began to pound and ache causing his vision to blur slightly. The headache began to worsen to the point where he was on his knees and with one last look toward the hallway he sawn a figure with a huge smile on its face, that's when Jeffery blacked out.

Jeffery ran to his father when he saw him while he walked back from school...."beep.....beep.....beep......." Peter held his arms out towards him to give him a hug......."beep.....beep.....beep......." Jeffery suddenly stops in front of his father as he notice a figure behind him......"beep..........beep......." The figure and his father both gave a huge evil smile that stretched across their cheeks towards Jeffery......."beep....................beep........" Jeffery backed away....... "Beep..................."

"I'm your father Jeffery.....what happened to the love you had towards me?" Both the figure and his father said.......

"You....your not my father.......Happy killed him" Jeffery told him.

"Beep.....beep..........."

"Who's Happy Jeffery?" They both said.

"...Happy was the man who was running the show last year...when you died...." Jeffery said to them.

"Beep....beep....beep...."

"That's ridiculous Jeffery, I'm right here." They both said. Jeffery couldn't argue with that he had no idea what to do.

"But you were....hanged....." Jeffery tried to say without tearing up from the image. "Stop....go away......Happy....I know that's you! Get this image out of my head!!!" He screamed at the figure behind father.....

"Beep...beep...beep....beep..." They both were silent

"Get....out....of...my head....." Jeffery said to Happy. Happy shook his head and another throbbing headache came to Jeffery causing him to clench it.

"Beep beep beep beep"

"Doctor something's wrong......"

"Let me see....."

"The patient.......he's......" The headache began to slowly go away from Jeffery he looked at the figure again and asked.

"Why...are you doing this?" Jeffery asked. "What you did to my father...now me....why?" The figure's smile only grew more at the question and said.

"For enjoyment, Jeffery." Happy said with a smile. Jeffery couldn't comprehend what he just said.....for enjoyment!? What was wrong with him!? "Ah, nothing....nothing is wrong......I just....like to slowly drive my volunteers insane or even....control their own minds....make them do whatever I want....when I first sawn your father I couldn't help myself to have a little fun....that would also leave a little bonus because I knew you would be left broken if I took control and killed him...now....its your turn." Happy explained.

"W...what...are you....?" Jeffery questioned with anger and fear. Happy looked at him and the figure of Happy became more visible, he looked like how he did back in the show that his dad volunteered in. Happy put his hand to his smiley mask and took it off...what Jeffery seen was horrific. The other side of his mouth was twisted and stretched into a huge grin and his eye was dark gray with a red sharp pupil.

"I'm just a normal person....like you...." Happy said to Jeffery giving a huge evil smile.

"Get him.....to calm......"

 "Seems your time here is up...but that doesn't mean that this isn't the last time you'll see me...Jeffery." Happy told Jeffery before everything went dark. The next day Jeffery woken up was in the hospital bed, he held his head by the time he gotten up from the dream of Happy causing a huge headache. But...it was just a dream...right? He didn't knew what to think and so he decided to go to the bathroom to try and calm down and think about it. When he entered the bathroom and passed the mirror he froze, and looked back at the mirror again. He was staring wide eyed at the reflection, his reflection had his face but....it was.....terrifying....his mouth stretched into a grin on both sides of his face and his eyes....were just like Happy's right eye. The realization of what he was looking at made him shut his eyes tightly hoping the image goes away and when he reopened them, it wasn't there anymore but instead him wearing a smiley mask. He didn't tried closing his eyes again to get the image out of his view, Jeffery was to terrified at what else he'll see. Suddenly someone knocked on the door to the bathroom making him jump.

"Jeffery the doctor is here to see you." Someone said behind the door.

"A-Alright." Jeffery said still in shock as he went to the door and opened it. Something made him stop as he noticed the face, he forcibly slammed the door at the person he sawn and barricaded it with his body against the door frightened.

"Jeffery! What's wrong?!" The person behind it asked worried. Jeffery didn't answered his question instead he screamed.

"Your with him aren't you!" Jeffery screamed at the man. "Yo....your....face......that......smile......." Jeffery mumbled trying to keep his mind intact. Jeffery felt his sanity slip from the face. "Why......why are you.....smiling?......" He questioned. He hadn't gotten a reply from the doctor.

"Jeffery." The doctor said to him. From his voice he stopped himself from saying anything else and instead held his head from the headache he still was having and noticed it gotten worse. "I know your suffering from your condition but please....you must calm-"

"Calm down......?" Jeffery asked as he glance between the crack of the door seeing his face again. His mouth seemed torn apart in the sides creating a grotesque smile. "I.....I don't know what your talking about.....about calming down......from what I see right now....how can I ever calm down.........?" Jeffery questioned with a small crack in his voice. The person behind the door stopped talking completely and turned to the side as if he sees someone and says.

"He's losing it." The man said with worry in his voice.

"I....losing it.....?" Jeffery mumbles to himself. Then suddenly the door forcibly was opened and revealed two grotesque smiling doctors making Jeffery quickly back away screaming. They then grabbed on to Jeffery and was screaming.

"Jeffery stop!!!" One of them says. Jeffery didn't talked but instead kept thrashing and screaming to get out of their grip. Suddenly something cold and metal made contact with Jeffery's body making him go limp....his vision slowly darken and the last words he could hear was. "Take him to the mental institute......." Then everything went black.

Month later

Jeffery sat in the room strained and couldn't help himself but to smile. "Smile........the faces..........the eye....." He mumbled as he cracked a chuckle from the sound of his own voice and then burst out laughing uncontrollably. As he did he heard the psychologist walking to him but he didn't cared and kept laughing.

"Jeffery shhh...calm down..." He said as he approached Jeffery.

"The faces!!!" Jeffery screamed in humor dying of laughter.

"I know the faces....." The man said.

"William." Someone said as she walked in. William walked to the girl and shared information about Jeffery's condition. "So....I suppose he haven't recovered at all yet?" She said sadly looking at Jeffery smiling like a lunatic.

"No....whatever caused it really done something to him." William said.

"You sure Sam isn't right about it being a plague?" She asked.

"If a plague could only do this damage then who knows.....I really am not sure." William answered.

"God....and how many victims are there now....21? All of them are young to are around the ages of 11-30." She said.

"11-30?" William asked. This made William wonder why around that age. Jeffery looked up at them and said two word they never heard Jeffery said.

"He's back........." Jeffery said. They both looked at him shocked.

"Who...are you talking about?" William questioned. Jeffery looked directly to the door that the other psychologist walked in though. In the hallway....was Happy, standing there with a bloody smile and his smiley mask was gone....revealing his hidden features.

"He's back......!" Jeffery yelled. "He's back he's back he's back!!!" He repeated. They both stared at him wide eyed and slowly turned their heads towards the direction where he was looking at.....they saw nothing.

"He's back....just like he said.............." Jeffery said to himself chuckling staring at the place where he sees Happy.

"William...?" The girl asked looking at him wanting an answer.

"I...have no idea." William answered truthfully.

Happy approached Jeffery slowly holding a smiley face pin and sticked out the sharp point of it. As he approached Jeffery closer Jeffery scooted away from him unable to use his arms.

"What's going on....William?" The girl asked again.

"I told you..I have no idea."

"You.........hehehehe.......y-you tried to kill me before.....didn't you?" Jeffery said with the same lunatic smile. "You....won't.....kill me......." Jeffery said still giggling at the figure of Happy but Happy didn't respond...and his right eye began to glow. As soon as Jeffery noticed his vision began to blur quickly and slow. Jeffery soon lost movement of his body making the two psychologists worry.

"Jeffery......?" William asked. There was no respond but then he noticed a glimpse of blood from his four head and soon realized that his skin was getting ripped by some force. Happy was dragging the sharp point of his pin across Jeffery's four head in words. The psychologists were speechless watching the gruesome scene....until they noticed what it spelt out when it was done. 'Smile' There was soon a sound of choking and saw that around Jeffery's neck was.....rope markings. By the time they noticed it Jeffery's body collapsed to the ground.....he was dead. The two psychologists ran to the dead body trying to find a pulse, there was nothing. They both were silent...and when they were about to tell about the dead patient they started to hear breathing. Their eyes lit up when they realized he was alive but something from Jeffery's voice haunted them.

"Don't....you want to smile?" Jeffery said with a huge sadistic smile.