Chapter 8, Demons within
“Hi… who are you?” I spoke up, making the person jump. She turned around, she had blue and pink hair, bunched up into pigtails. Her eyes were a shade of pastel green, and… she was a demon. She looked into my eyes, cowering down, almost in fear. “H-h-h-hi, I-I’m Cotton, umm… y-your new r-r-roomie”. She sounded scared. “Hey, hey, I’m not that scary… right?” / “No, I-I’m just a bit s-s-s-scared, th-this is all new t-to me”. I looked down at her and smiled, her face was pale, her cheeks were red as cherries. She looked down, hiding her face in shame.
I walked around the mansion, it’s around one o’clock and it’s at this time where it’s quite noisy. Especially today, with all the new people here, everywhere you go, every corner you turn, every step you take… there’s always a person. The only place at the mansion that’s usually empty is the roof, although I did once accidentally walk in on Kat and Masky… I thought I was going to end up falling off in surprise. I idn’t realise that they’re, you know, in a relationship. I walked out the front door, and climbed up to the roof. It was covered in snow and… blood. “How original… blood and snow, wow… so scary,” I said, looking around to try and find who left this. I had no luck, but I did hear footsteps climbing up. I went down to the front, hiding from whoever it was. I wanted to scare them.
“Faith, I know you’re up here, no need to hide”. I heard Jeff’s voice call out, this was going to be lots of fun. I crawled up so I could see him, he was standing up, I crept up as slowly as possible. Then…. “SUP FUCKER!” I jumped up to him, shouting as loud as I could. I ended up jumping on top of him. We both fell over, my tail was shaking so fast I thought it would fly away. “There you are, don’t scare me like that kiddo”. I looked up, trying to meet his gaze. “I’m not a kid anymore… I’m only two months younger than Kat,” I say, playfully punching his shoulder. We sat there for a while, being around Jeff makes me feel… safe. Even if he is a psychotic killer. He wrapped his hand around mine, one thing followed another. The next thing you know, we were kissing.
I’m very screwed… one of the new girls has a mega huge crush on Jeff. That exact girl may or may not have gone to the roof and seen me and him… kissing. “Umm…what the fuck…are you doing…with MY MAN!” She screamed, me and Jeff just looked at her as if she were insane. “Listen kiddo, I’m not yours, I’m my own man”, he said, hugging me tight. I buried my face into his hoodie, trying to hide my embarrassment. I was able to escape his grip and run down to the edge of the roof. I climbed down, and walked through the woods. I tried to clear my mind, but I couldn’t help but feel someone following me. I spun around, the girl was running towards me, pocket knife in hand, ready for the kill. She swung for me, but was clumsy and lost her footing when I dodged. “Actually try to kill me, your style is all sloppy” / “As if you know anything!” I pulled one of my hands out of my pocket and grabbed her wrist with the knife.
She started crying, tears came rolling down her cheeks. “I just wanna be noticed, no one ever cared about me back home!” I put her hand down by her side and let go. “Kid… you’re not the only one with a crap life, we all have something wrong with us, but that’s just what makes us, well… us”, I looked down at her, she was looking up at me, her eyes were almost as wide as dinner plates. Her short, black hair blowing in the wind. She dropped her knife, and ran past me, back to the real world. I followed her. “Don’t worry about it, if they aren’t fit to be one of us, they run back home and their memories here will be wiped from their minds”, I turned around, Jane was leaning against a tree, her eyes looked endless with her mask on. I shivered, I’d left my jumper at home, but I was also scared. How did Jane know all this? Probably because she’d been here longer than me, but still… kind of freaky, right? “Come on, lets go back home”. Home… HOME! She thinks the Slender mansion is HOME! She may have been here longer than me but how could anyone see this house of horrors as a home!?
I followed her, looking down all the way. I started thinking of running away for real, but… would my memories be erased? I’d want them to be, but at the same time… it would be fun to rat them out. I’d miss a few people ‘cough cough’ Jeff ‘cough cough cough’ but I want to be free again. Should I? Could I? Would I?