Billy (AYAOTD.1)

Billy

Background

Billy is a high school student.

During the events of Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 2 Episode 5 The Tale of the Dream Machine played by Joel Gordon

In Literature class, Billy is sleeping in class as Mrs. Dodds reads to the class while eating a donut. As class ends, she tells the students that their assignment is to write a short story. As Sean and Jennifer are leaving class Sean accidentally runs into Jennifer and then they bonk heads when they lean down to pick up their fallen books. Billy makes fun of Sean and later at Sean's new house, Sean tells Billy that he thinks Jennifer likes him. Billy says Sean's house looks like a disaster and Sean tells him that his parents have spent a lot of money on repairing the house. As Billy is walking up the stairs towards Sean's room, his foot breaks through one of the steps. Sean and Billy discover a room hidden under the stairs with writing implements, photographs and a news article detailing the disappearance of a mystery author. Billy reads a news article from 1932 about author James Ellington who was a mystery novelist. They find a typewriter case and Billy continues to read the news article which mentions that James Ellington disappeared one year and then was found dead the year after.

The next day after class, Sean says something to Jennifer, and she jumps and drops her books. She tells Sean that she had a nightmare the night before and describes her dream to him. Later Sean tells Billy that Jennifer's dream is exactly the same as the story he wrote. Billy falls asleep in Sean's bed while reading a comic book and Sean starts typing his story for class called Trapped. In the story, Billy sneaks into a crumbling graveyard during the night to search for the grave of Blind Paul. He finds the grave of Blind Paul, but as he is looking at the headstone, he hears a noise. As he is looking for what made the noise he runs into Blacked Robed Figure and falls backwards into an open grave with an open casket. As Billy falls into the casket, the casket lid closes, and the Blacked Robed Figure starts to throw dirt into the grave. Sean finishes typing and Billy wakes up from a nightmare screaming for someone to let him out.

Billy tells Sean about his dream and Sean shows him the story he typed. Billy says the typewriter must have some sort of power and Sean thinks it may be some sort of dream machine. Billy becomes excited and says they can use it to terrorize their fellow classmates and then goes home. At school, Literature class ends and Mrs. Dodds tells the class to turn in their papers. Sean, Billy and Jennifer go to Sean's house and Billy takes Sean's Halloween Dance story and starts to read it aloud. Billy realizes Sean and Jennifer are missing from the room. He stops reading the story and Sean and Jennifer appear back into the room. Sean figures out that by reading the story it forces people into the story if they are awake. Sean, Billy and Jennifer run to the school and Sean and the others discover that his story is not on Mrs. Dodds' desk. The typewriter starts to glow as Mrs. Dodds reads the story and Billy disappears and appears in the cemetery. Just like in the story, Billy sees the Blacked Robed Figure and falls into the open grave. The typewriter stops glowing and Billy reappears back inside the classroom. Sean welcomes Billy back and Mrs. Dodds finds them in her classroom and asks them if she can help them with something.