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Edit: So here is Anna and her mother Grace, I used the art breeder because I can't draw :P
Grace Sweetheart

Anna Sweetheart
Warning: 1• You are reading as Main Character - Anna, her action, her personality and her point of view is not like you. If you don’t like it just don’t read it.2• This story is including a mature content3• Do not copy my story!4• English is not my first language.Thanks for reading!“Anna Sweetheart” Yeah that’s my name. I’m 17 years old and live in a small town with my family, at least half of it is mine.My dad was divorced when I seven years old and remarried when I was seven. He was everything to me until “her” step in and take my dad away...About my mom huh ..? I just know that she’s a beautiful woman and I don’t even remember her face that well because we don't spend much time together but I know that my mother loves me very much. She doesn't depend on my father's money, she works very hard so scandalous people doesn't get to her. But she passed away in a car accident after they're divorced. My dad doesn’t talk about her much. Every time I asked him, the answer is the same:” She is a beautiful woman, and she loves you. Now don't disturb me, I got work to do.” Until now I can understand why she said she love me but she doesn’t want to live with us...She has her own reasons.Present Time :I was in a deep and long sleep until I heard my step-mother's uglies voice. I was dreaming about my family, my mom, my dad, and me. We’re happy. I was happy.“ Anna! Get down here or not ?! You gonna late for school again and I not gonna taking any bullshit reason of you again !”‘Skanks’ I thought and tired of leaving my bed. Slowly picking up my clothes and walking to the bathroom.“Oh holy cow, I look like shit”My mouth speaking as I take a look of myself in a mirror: dirty hair, yellow teeth, smelly breath, .. ugh! Gonna fix that fast...After cleaning myself up, I walking downstairs. Diane aka step-mother is waiting to “have a word” with me.“Finally, miss little brat take long enough to come and go to school! I don't get what your old man sees in you to send you to school for."She spoke as her finger pointing at me. I roll my eyes, it was only 6:30 in the morning and she said it as if I was late for school.“Yay! At least I was coming, don’t have to be a snake to me”"What did you just say, bitch ?" She storms in my face with her anger and raises her hand to slap me.* SMACK *"Bitch, I don't remarry your old man for this !"'Way to go this perfect morning' I thought to myself and glared at her as I hold my cheek."Fuck you! Can't believed my dad was so blind to marry a slut like you."As I grab my bag and skip breakfast, I decided to walk to school. I don't live far away from the high school it's just ten minutes away. I put on my headphones and started listening to some music. As you can see, me and my stepmother isn't on good term. She treated me like shit and it got worse after my father passed away. I know for sure that she just wanted to get rid of me, but why hasn't she done that (?) or maybe she already has a plan in mind and it includes me in it. Deep in my thoughts, I was startled by a quick patting my shoulder."Hey! What are you thinking ?"Turning my back and see, it's John who is my step-brother. He smiled at me."Did my mother give you a hard time again ?""It's obvious"I take off my headphones and roll my eyes with him. He scratches his head and laughs it off"I still not understand why she is acting like that. Maybe is because after our father pass-""HEY DUDE! SHUT THE FUCK UP!"I give him a death stare. I hate it when he talks about my dad. "Don't talk about my dad, ok ?""Oh.. ok"He looks down to the ground and walking by my side. I know that he tried to cheer me up since Dad pass away and I always treat him like shit. An awkward silence keeps goin' on till he and I finally on highschool. Stepping on the grass, John silent and walk to his locker. I think how the way I treated him and he treat me back and suddenly I speak up: "Hey John, see you after class. I'll make it up to you.."Yeah and he smiles, again. Waving his hand and walk to his friend. I open my locker take some books out of it and think about what to do with my life. A few footsteps walk to me, slap into my locker, and giggles."Bitch! Why you so early? And what's up with your cheek?"It's David and Charlie, #BFF. Charlie showed her phone to me and giggles. I look at her confuse. "Hurry! Read the text !" Charlie - Hey I miss u boo :'(. 07:28 Mr. Ives - Me too babe but I'm busy right now. 07:30 Charlie - But I miss you :( Pick me up after school? 07:34 Mr. Ives - Ok baby <3. 07:35 "That's our new teacher isn't it ?!" I sigh and put my hand on my forehead. Charlie always does crazy stuff like hooking up with the teacher. "Are you serious, Charlie? If you got caught it won't be pretty you know ?""Screw the rule! He worth it !" Charlie waved his hand and did not seem to notice my warning. I look at David, he seems no comment with her. Crazy girl..."I'll wait till I say 'I told you so' with you miss'." And I roll my eyes. As I finish my sentence the bell rang. David was with me because we had the same class and charlie went to the toilet."Cya in lunch !" She wavesI nod slightly and walk to class. We're arrived in our class with a couple of minutes to spare and all of your classmates in their books, our teacher already in class. She notices me and glares."Miss.Sweetheart you late, again ?!""Jezz just late few minutes it's no big deal...It's not even time for class yet." I mumbledShe spanks her ruler hard into the table and points it at me."You dare to argue with me? Don't think you're good at studying, you can have a bad attitude. Detention after school!"I stood there speechless while the mean girls sat and laughed and pointed at me. Ugh...I mean, today is the first day of my last year and it was bad like this? Don't know what's worse yet? I frowned at the teacher's with attitude and went to my seat. Blonde hair girl, Brittany - who has mocked me extremely loudly with her friends. "After the summer you still late like that huh Anna? Nice cheek btw.""So what? Mind your business.""Oops...The nerdy girl is pissed. Beside that was friends do, just friends ask each other. It will make your face have wrinkles if you angry like that. Wait...It does not matter how you care how much wrinkles you have on your face? You just stay at your home and reading some creepy dark shit anyway!"She giggle. I feel uncomfortable but decided to be a bigger person, silent, and let her do her thing...Then the two classes passed quickly, so quickly that I can feel like I been getting older like 10 years. Grab my book, phone, and I walk out of class.
LUNCHTIME :
The cafeteria is full of students sitting at the table and talking, I looked around to find David and Charlie and I see David waved at me. I have a tray of food and move to him.'Why is there only David sitting here?' I think."Hey, where is Charlie ?" I bite the fruit and ask him. David expressed frustration and answered:"The hell should I know ?""Whoa! Hey, I'm just asking, why you mad at me ?"His attitude makes me curious, it's just a question."Sorry... My girlfriends just broke up with me. And Charlie is going with her lover boy."David tiredly stirred the can of water, he does not even touch his food. Poor golden boy..."Hey. I didn't know .." I patted his shoulder"It's not your fault. Sorry for getting mad at you ..""It's ok, you got me. How about going out tonight? My treat !" I cheered him up.He nodding slightly and begin to eat his lunch. I look at him, smile. I have a crush on him since 8 grade when he moved to the house opposite my house. That when we first met and he's my first crush.Charlie and I have a "girl code" that: Do not love best friend-ex yeah since she is dating with him and I never seem to have a chance.So the time flies by and we end school. I stayed in school because of detention...After two hours long...I walk out of school and see John is waiting for me outside.”Hey, you know the ‘popular girls’ didn’t like you walking with me so why still wait for me huh ?””I couldn’t wait to taste you again..”He leans to my shoulder and whispered to my ears. I frowned at him, "That's just a one-time thing."I roll eyes and turn cold, I don’t have feelings for him neither need a fuck buddy right now. We only 'accident' kissed before I even know that he is my step-bro  We did not know that we would become stepbrothers? Who would blame us? But thank God we didn't fuck or it would be so awkward...”Fine..” He mumble and grab by my hand suddenly. I took my hand back. Why? Because I don’t want the “incest” tag in my name by the mean bitch created...We’re walking peacefully till we see a bunch of shady people in our street and John stops walking.”Maybe we should go another road..”"What? Wh-" Before I finish it, he pulls me into another road near the pine forest. The road is empty, it seems no one passes by here and John is acting very weird."Hey I don't like this road, why don't we go the road just then?"He is sweating, try to avoid eye contact with me."Bullies are standing in that way, we shouldn't bother them. Um... I mean should not stick to trouble, yeah ?""Fuck them? Since when do you care ?!"I frowned and felt cold as I crossed the edge of the forest, I don't like this feeling at all. Feel like someone is watching me in the woods. John silent and walking faster. Wonder did he make some trouble with those bullies. Anyway, that is not my business.The feeling of the cold spine is getting stronger. Surely someone is watching me, I can feel it. We nearly reaching our home, according to the response I ran fast to my house leaving John behind. Slowly I raised my head and looked out the window at what was watching me. It seems like a human, wearing a brown jacket. As soon I took a picture of that person, there is no sign of him or her standing there anymore...

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I breathe a sigh of relief when that person is gone. John followed me, he finally came home. Close the door near me he asked: "Are you okay? Why suddenly run a circuit home like a ghost chasing you? ".I looked at the window again to see if the person had left and as I thought the person has disappeared. John confusingly looked at me, he looked in the direction that I was looking at the forest."you alright ?" he asks”Huh? Ah! Ye-yeah 'm fine. Just zoned out a bit haha..””Okay...? Then I'll go play soccer with my friends for a while, you stay at home trying not to get her to yell at you okay?""No promises" I shrugged and smiledKissing my forehead, John went into his room to change his clothes and ran outside. I went upstairs and entered my room and closed the room without making a sound to let my stepmother not know that I was home. I changed and jumped onto the bed.' here is no place as good as in my room' Since my father died I no longer communicate much. The person I talk to the most is John, but he is not a worthy person to open my heart. I don't even know what my reason for living is ..Holding my face down on my pillow, something suddenly pressed against my chest. My mother's necklace. A memorial for me to remember her. Why did she leave me? I have been wondering for years. My father tried his best to show me love but maybe it wasn't enough. My mother's lack of love felt my soul was empty, day after day I just repeated my schedule. : wake up, go to school, go home. My life is so boring, I wish someone killed me to see how many people weeping for my loss. Thinking about it, I fell into a deep sleep when I didn't know it. I just knew that when I woke up in the sky it was darkening. I was awakened by my stepmother's call.
"Anna come down here and eat damn your dinner! I won't call for the second time." 
"I heard you! No need to scream like that!" I answered and rolled my eyes.I took off the necklace and hung it on the edge of the mirror then go downstairs. The atmosphere of dinner is as heavy as ever, no one talks to each other so John decides to break the silence and talk to his mother. Ask her how her day is and then ask my story, part I don't care much just answer the question and finish my meal. I put dishes and sinks and went upstairs, tonight I don't have to wash dishes. On the way up the stairs, I suddenly realized my room was bright. 'I turned off the light before going down?'.Suddenly, when I walked closer to my room, I heard noises in my room. Slowly I went up and tiptoed each toes without making a sound, I opened my door and what I saw was my necklace lying on the ground.' Probably the wind or my cat dropped it on the ground' I thought and went to the room to pick it up."Why did you fall down here?" I muttered.As I bent down to pick it up, I saw the leg of someone standing behind me. I was about to turn to grumble with John what he came here for because I wasn't interested and suddenly the man grabbed me and covered my mouth. I felt a sharp and sharp object near my neck like a knife. A husky voice whispered into my ear: "Don't do anything stupid, this knife will perfectly cut your neck in a nice way."He slowly closed the door and only me and him in the room, I trembled, chilling out my spine."Listen up bitch! where did you get this necklace ?" His voice was whispering but his voice was extremely commanding. His hand held tight so I couldn't move."This necklace, where did you get it? Answer me now!""I-I-..." - I stammered, mumble every sweat is dripping down, in my head praying I would be fine.’ David will come over to my house anytime, soon I will get out of here ..’"Answer me now! Don't fucking waste any time! You don't want your throat to be cut open don you?” Saying that, he pressed the knife closer to my neck. He didn't joke about the intention to kill me."It is my mother's necklace, she has given it to me since I was young ... I-I ..." I mumble.After hearing my answer he seemed to loosen his hand from my body. His mouth muttered: ‘It can't be .. Why ??’ Then suddenly he removed the knife. Put the knife out of my neck and whip around me to face him. His face was pale white, black and long hair hung down and covered almost half of the face. His mouth ... a scary smile on his face like someone ripped it in half. The eyes have no eyelids to reveal the white eyes staring at my face. His face is very stressful. The hoodie was bloody and sticky, the smell of blood rushed into my nose, it was disgusting. Then I lowered my face in fear.."You lied to me!" He screamed and my face, Don't know tears or sweat from his face flushed."W-what?"I was stunned, could see the blood vessels floating on his forehead
"TELL ME WHERE DID YOU GET THIS NECKLACE FROM? DON'T FUCKING LIE TO ME, I'M LOSING MY PATIENCE !"
He banged hard on the wall, causing me startled, the other hand still holding the knife as if to stab me. Looking at his face, I find something very frightening ... It makes you feel a shiver in your bones."LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU !" said, he squeezed my face tightly and directed my face to look at him, his face is very angry. The other hand raised the knife to attempt to stab me.Maybe I'll die here ..Negative thoughts keep appeared in my mind. Fear, my tears welled up every tear runs down the cheekbones. I trembled looked at his face one last time and closed my eyes wait to die...But... the atmosphere was silent, he hasn't killed me yet? I opened my eyes slowly, my eyes blurred because of tears and I looked at him. Something has stopped him? His mouth muttered something, speechless. His face was no longer tense; instead, he showed a painful sadness."G-Grace ?" He muttered with a surprised face  "No no .. this can't happen, You are dead already!"'What the hell is he talking about? Why did he know my mother's name?'*KNOCK KNOCK*Suddenly there was a knock on my door."Anna, are you in there? What's wrong? I heard strange action causing a loud noise in your room" It was John, when I was about to open my mouth to speak, that man covered my mouth. Holding the knife near my neck, signaling not to allow me to say anything.*KNOCK KNOCK*; The knocking of the door keep sounding

"Hey answer me! Are you in the room ??"

The atmosphere in my room is still quiet. My life is now very fragile... if I speak up then maybe he will kill me right away but if I don't say anything, John will go away and my percentage survived is very small.

"I'm going in !"

Then the door burst open, John rushed in and looked at me. But he, the murderer who has to get out of the house, was very quick by the window. I cried and broke down. John looked at me, my hair was messy, my clothes were messy, my face was red because I had been squeezed earlier.

He rushed to help me."What happened ?"

I couldn't help but cry. I don't know if my tears of happiness have escaped death or tears due to fear surround me. John looked out of my window that had opened wide as if he understood something and hurriedly helped me up.

"Let's go to my room, will we talk later?"

John's voice reassured me. I nodded and stood up and followed him into his room...

Locking the window and taking something to block, he checked the window lock for the second time to make sure. Look at me worriedly.

"Take a break," he said, "I'll lock your room and you can sleep in my room, I'll take the couch."His distorted smile tried to reassure me then he left the room for the lock. I lay me down on the wall with anxious thoughts, I still hold tight my mother's necklace.

' Who is he? Will he come back to kill me and why the hell did he know my mother's name?'
I could hear police cars from afar outside, the sounds of cars approaching and stopping in front of my house. With the bell ringing, I got up in a panic and went downstairs to open the door. In front of me was a policewoman and a male police officer talking to each other, they stopped the conversation when they saw me opening the door. The female police officer raised her legs to look around the house when she saw my panicked face and wet eyes.
"Hello, I am Officer Scarlet, we are on our way to capture a man and he is depicted with long black hair, pale skin, wearing a white hoodie, black pants, and a pair of sneaker..."
"And there's a monstrous smile like someone cutting his face outright?" The woman stopped and looked at me "..any chance you see him? Wait.. I didn't mention that, miss.."
At that moment, John went out and took the lock in his hand. His face seemed to have heard everything I and they said.
"We saw him .. but he ran away. I saved her in time with my baseball bat. But without a chance to knock him down, he ran away by the window."He added, "My sister is very frightened right now, please don't ask any more questions not to shock her mentality."
The police officer heard and wrote down what we said in a notebook. The man was about to ask more but the woman stopped him.
"Thanks for the information. Please lock the door carefully and take precautions." 
"Okay, we will remember that," John said then gently close the door and I just froze there until John helped me up to his room.
He checked the locks in the room twice and left the room. I was still lying there stunned in shock...

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Waking up in a terrible headache even though I was lying on a soft bed tired sitting up John did not lie next to me, he took pillows and blankets to lie on the ground last night.' Yesterday's story .. did it really happen? The man broke into my room ...the police...' My whole body ached, my wrists were bruising. So it happened last night. It's real. I was thinking then John suddenly woke up."Do you wake up early? Sleep well?"I didn't answer just nodding lightly."It's good. If you feel unwell then you can stay home, I'll tell mom and give you a day off." Another nod, John looked at me worriedly but then he didn't say anything to bother me anymore.   "U-um..I should go to school, stay well!" John said, awkward then quietly walked out of the room and closed the door.I lay down again to rest, downstairs I could hear my stepmother grumbling about it was just the second day that I was off. I had no strength but I could not lie on the bed and starve to death, so I decided to get up and go down to breakfast even though she would grumble at me all day. Trembling, I stepped down from the bed walking step by step. The mind is heavy with thoughts.After breakfast, I returned to my room where John had locked the window. I opened my phone and checked my Facebook then I found an article that caught my eye. I clicked on it and the subject line was "There was a murder in street X, the whole family was killed but it seems the killer" spared "or missed a 4-month-old baby".Street X..street X ... it's right near my house! My nose is not wrong when I smell the fishy smell around my room yesterday... Could it be him kill that family? Thinking for a while I continued to pull down and read."Currently the police have not identified the identity of the killer. Everyone should check your home lock to prevent intruders, prevent loss of wealth or affect your life."I was thinking deeply, when an incoming call startled me and almost dropped my phone. It's David calling, don't know what's going on.”Yeah?”"Sorry, I was busy yesterday so I couldn't get to your house""It's okay", I said with a sigh and think David didn't show up and if John didn't come into my room yesterday, maybe the next day my death would be put in the newspaper.David seemed hesitant. "Is it true that you are not angry with me? You are angry with me aren't you? So you just quit school today, right?" He said in a phone, he chuckled
"Don't be too proud of yourself. I just stay because I'm not feeling well." I also giggled
"So what do princess want to eat after school?" David's voice was sarcastic but lovely. It seemed like all the heavy thoughts in my head dissipated when I heard David's voice."A pizza would be nice""You've got yourself a pizza. So that's a deal then I'll visit you with Charlie! See you after school." Then the bell rang and David hung up. I suddenly felt extremely disappointed when David mentioned Charlie's name. Always Charlie is never me. I, Charlie and David have known each other since childhood. Charlie knew that I liked David but maybe I was a bit slow to be in love so Charlie and David had a date first. Even though they were separated now, David always wanted to return to her. Anyway, it can't be helped, because I decided to stay behind. And then the day kept going, I didn't want to stay in the room, so I decided to wear a jacket and go out to find fresh air. In the afternoon, it was near, outdoors was like a bright red and everyone was walking back and forth on the street. How peaceful it was. I walked close to a park and quietly sat on a nearby chair.Then suddenly I saw an adult talking to a girl in a pink dress, she looks uncomfortable the face was extremely frightened. Then suddenly, there was another woman talking to the man near little girl. I think they are her parents but everything makes me doubt the strange behavior of the woman. She pulled her hand so hard that the little girl skirt was deflected to one shoulder and her bear fell to the ground. She cried out, shaking her hand away from the woman. The man who saw it grabbed her other hand. I quickly stood up and ran to her. Seeing me running, she seemed to be able to catch the lifebuoy because she screamed but the people didn't seem to notice her because they thought it was just their parents teaching their child."S-Sister please help me..I-I didn't know them, they kept saying they were my parents .." Sobbing with the tears she said"This is not your business, go away" Still speaking with that calm voice, she tried not to catch everyone's attention."Let her go now!" I resolutely and firmly grasped her hand and the girl clasped my hand firmly and refused to let go of my hand.When they heard my loud voice, the people on the road seemed to pay attention to them. That made the other man standstill and the woman sweated. Some people approached me to find out what was going on. Luckily, a policewoman was passing by."Hey, what's going on here?" She asked."No problem, ma'am, we are only going to bring our daughter home, we don't want any trouble right, darling?" With a distorted smile she looked at the policewoman in hopes of escaping this, at the same time signaled to the man to do what she said.The policewoman turned to look at me and glanced at the little girl and finally looked at the girl's dress and bear on the ground. The expression looked suspicious at the couple, the man finally spoke up."Yes... That's right .. we just want to bring our daughter home ... suddenly this girl comes running and grabs my daughter's hand. We don't know her at all." They turned me into a bad guy, fuck...Perhaps the police did not believe them, I thought and made eye contact with the little girl.Not believe the words of the man, the policewoman asked to sit down and ask her."Do you know these people? No need to be afraid, I'm here and no one will harm you ok? As long as you answer me honestly everything will be resolved faster, you ok with that ?" - She turned to look at me and nodded to the police."I only know her, the other two are going to take me away." Saying that, she pointed directly at the faces of the other two. Surprisingly surprised them, the woman grinned."What are you talking about? I'm your mother, don't talk ridiculous to the police. You don't want her to misunderstands me won't you?" She placed her hand and squeezed little girl shoulder."Miss, I'm talking to her, please keep quiet." It seems that the police have observed the strange behavior of the woman, she said."I need you to tell me the truth."The little shook her head at the policewoman "No, I don't know those adults, and this is my sister"; and she pointed at me, it surprised me."Alright, please take your sister home. Two people, you gonna come with me and have some explaining to do."Then the police took them away, leaving only me and the little girl. She looked at me affectionately. "Thank you for helping me," she said."Oh yeah, it's nothing. Where's your house so I can take you home?" I asked her but then she shook her head and refused."You really are like her, Anna....""What did you just say ?" "No, I didn't say anything ... Anyway, thank you for helping me. I'm going home now! See you again, Anna .." Saying that, she waved and went away to the back of the park. It was weird. I didn't tell her my name so why did she know..?

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A week later ...
I went to school like normal days, everything went back to normal and no longer had strange things since the day I met that little girl. John and I are in good terms but we didn't talk much, at least that is what I wanted. I don't want us to be too close, I'm afraid John will have feelings for me. The new thing is that I have a new part-time job with an incredibly high salary but the thing is, it's a bit far from my house. That made me and John talk less and it didn't make him think that I was avoiding him.
After school : 
Charlie and David were in the car waiting for me at the gate, they often give me a lift to work since I don't have one and I don't want to bother John. I walked into the car in the back seat, Charlie was texting someone and smiling and David watched me step by step until I settled my seat.
" Hey David, can you drive me home quickly and bring Anna to work later? I'm in a hurry." She took her eyes off her phone and turned to speak to David. David nodded slightly and turned the car right.

We went for a while to Charlie's house, she hurried out of the car but did not forget one of David's cheeks and said goodbye to us. Does she need to do that? I rolled my eyes in annoyance but didn't say anything, I kept silent until David drove me to where I worked then quickly I left his car, didn't say goodbye. David is not my boyfriend and I know I don't have such a right to be angry but I can't help myself with my feelings for David.

I went into the back door for staff, changed my uniform, and went to the store, changed the shift for the previous staff.

"Hey, girl! Finally, you're here so I can end my shift !" The Asian girl working with me named Jasmine tired face suddenly brightened up when she saw me.

"Sorry for being late," I said but she waved her hand and smiled and told me

"At least you came so there's no problem. Anyway, I'm going home now! Bye!" She reached for her bag and said goodbye to me. I guess there's only me in the store.
Few hours later:  Closing time
Soon, its time to close the shop, I went around checking the store, all the bill and sending money back to the owner. The owner received the money and left at the same time, I stayed to clean up and when I was about to close the store bell rang, a guest dressed discreetly entered, I hurriedly stood up and asked.

"Welcome to Belle's store, how can I help you?" With a big smile on my mouth but the stranger stood in front of me didn't say anything. I could hear a gasp behind the mask and the gaze stared at me behind the sunglasses. The atmosphere is as thick as you can cut it with a knife. He stood staring at me for a moment and went deep into the stalls.

'What's wrong with him?' I think.

A moment later the strange guest appeared in front of me, put in front of me a kitchen knife and threw money on the table to pay for the knife. That is so rude.

"Let me give you the bill.." I quickly entered the code of the knife, got his money, and gave him the bill.

I reached out my hand and handed the person the bill. Suddenly he took my hand and pulled him back to him, the force was too strong for me to react and it almost made me fall.

"What are you doing ?! Let me go!" I tried to regain my balance, shouted, and take my hand away from him.

"As I thought ... You have it." He chuckled and pointed at my wrist and suddenly I felt a burning pain then he released my hand and left the store.

After he left, I sat down and hugged my wrist in pain. I look down at my wrist to see what hurts me but nothing but a sign on my hand is a circle with an "X" drawn through it. Has it just appeared on my wrist? I tried to scratch it out of my hand but it was not useful, it was like a tattoo. What the hell just happened?

*CAR HORN*

David's car horn startled me, I quickly closed the front door and went to the staff door and meet up with him.

"What took you so long ?" he asks
"Ah, I'm busy cleaning the store." For some reason, I decided not to tell David about the stranger and the mark on my wrist."Okay ??" he answered and waited for me to put on my seat belt and then start the car.We have nothing to say to each other so on the way there is only a sound coming from the radio. I was sleepy and rubbed my eyes when David suddenly took his voice and was about to say something."Anna, can I talk to you? I-I mean I can talk to you anytime but this is important a-and I want to say it so..." David's voice is a little nervous, now he seems to be blushing unlike David I know, he faltered and was embarrassed to say anything."Alright, you big dork. So what do you want to talk about ?" I feel so funny looking at David like that.He parked near a sidewalk and took off his seat belt and turned to look at me and it's making me nervous ...He moves closer to me, my heart is beating faster when he face to face to me, I can feel his breath under my neck. My face is burning up when I saw his eyes staring at my lips. Is he making a move on me? He stares into my eyes and smiles. I am sure what will happen next. I looked back, breathless and longing for that kiss. He leans toward me then all I know is that suddenly we were kissing, my mind blanked out and the world was a whirlwind...I used to kiss other boys but with David it was different...It was a gentle kiss: no tongue, no groping, no gasping, no moaning, no frantic twisting of the head with lips crushing..just soft and slowly"I really like you.." He whispered under his breath but that sweet kiss was interrupted by the sound of my phone call.
* PHONE RINGS *
I tried to ignore the noise of the phone but couldn't, someone called me as if my phone about to explode. I had to break that kiss in regret even though I wanted more...I bit my lower lip and looked for the phone in my bag, my stepmom is calling me. Damn it! I got angry but tried not to show to let David see."What is it, Diane? ", I raised my voice in anger."Where the hell are you !? Do you know what time it is? ""Huh? Where did this come from? Since when did you care about me? " I ask with a sarcastic surprise voice."That is none of your business, going home right now or you won't be having dinner !" Diane said and turned off the phone. 'Way to go the good night', I thought and put the phone away."Sorry, duty call ." "No no it's fine, I understand.." he still blushed and answer me."Let's me get you home, you seem tired. Plus its will rain soon""Yeah.."And David drove me home, we didn't say anything to each other, but by just looking at each other's eyes and thinking about the last kiss was enough...About half an hour later we stopped in front of my house, David got up and got out of the car and opened the door for me. We talked for a minute or two then David kissed me on the cheek, hesitatingly scratching his head, David said"G-good night, Anna .."" Night, David. See you tomorrow.." Then I waved goodbye to him and waited until the shadow of his car fades away after dark. I quietly entered the house, humping a happy song.As I entered the house, I softly closed the door, not letting Diane wake up because if she woke up in the middle of her sleep she would grumble till the morning and I wouldn't get any sleep like at all. I turned on the light in the kitchen and opened the refrigerator but it was empty. I became furious and bit my lower lip in the hope of finding something in the kitchen cupboards but in the end, there was nothing to eat." Damn it! It's in the middle of the night! Who wants to sell fucking food now?" Frowning, I slammed the refrigerator door and I poured a cup of water to drink to forget the hunger. Maybe tomorrow I'll eat.Tired as I walked up the stairs to my room, as soon as my head touched the pillow, my eyes seemed to be heavy and I fell asleep immediately. But before I could sleep, I was awakened by the knock on my door. The knock on the door was very small, but it kept going so hard that I couldn't sleep, so I stood up and opened the door but there is no one out there. I went back to bed, a moment later the sound knocking on the door knock again. I opened the door, but there was still no one." It's NOT FUNNY at all, John! " I shouted out in anger and closed the door to my room and went back to bed, but that knock was not John.. I realized this when I saw a person sitting on my bed..."Long time no see, Princess." He said.

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My heartfelt like jumping out when I saw a figure sitting on my bed. What the hell? I nervously took a step toward my bed. Is he him again? No, it's not ... this voice is a different person...As I got closer to the bed, I could see his face through the light of the moon outside the window. He has a strange white mask with black eyes and lips... I realize that I've seen this mask before. He got up from his bed and approached me, the tall, thin figure wearing an orange hoodie with black pair pants and sneakers. I stepped back until my back touched the wall of the room. He walked very spontaneously, without any haste. The moon shone back against him, his shadow seemed to cover my whole body. At that moment I felt so small in my room. My door and I were only inches apart if I were fast I could...I looked at the doorknob, yes I can do it. I moved quickly and reached for the doorknob and twisted it, the light of the corridor crept slowly through the crack of the door but it didn't open long and big enough, the man hastily stopped me from opening the door with his hand. I turned to look at him in fear, why did a weird thing happen to me ... what did I do?"Hush .. why are you doing that? " My eyes widened at him and my feet trembled in fear. I could see his dark brown eyes behind the mask looking at me with sad, confused eyes and his breath smelled of alcohol. I stammered, my breathing become heavy when I saw the crowbar being held in his other hand. My window was pulled out by that crowbar. I bit my lip so hard as if I could taste the blood as he ran his finger across my face. What the fuck is he talking about? "Why won't you say anything? Are you mad at me? I'm sorry..."He whispered under the mask, his eyes still watching me. I...I don't know what the heck he talking about and I'm afraid of him. I don't know who he is. He was a lunatic rushed into my room and said sweet words and waited for me to answer them then he apologized to me. How the hell can I answer? One word wrong, the crowbar will hit my head when I didn't expect it. Suddenly the dark clouds came and hid the moonlight and started to rain. It started to rain harder, the sound of thunder and lightning louder. If I screamed, nobody even heard me. I swallowed nervously, trying to answer..."I-I.." "Maybe you can't remember the first time we met, right? Interesting memories. Here." He interrupted me and removed his mask from his face, "It's me, you remembered?" I looked at him, an ordinary man, quite handsome with brown hair but something very strange..oddly strange. It gives me goosebumps and makes the hair on the neck stand up when I look at him. The unstable appears in his eyes. I shook my head slightly, I didn't recognize who he was or I didn't know he mistook me for someone else and I couldn't pretend to be the one he got wrong. He was dumbfounded in despair, "But..but you have a necklace..and..and you have a symbol. I know it's you."He isn't the same as he was at first, or rather he was in a panic attack. He said and pulled my hand to see the scar. He was looking at the symbol that I just had today when the stranger touched my wrist. He looked at my wrist and turned to look at me as if waiting for me to remember something. But the wait was silent in vain because I really didn't understand anything." You stole it, didn't you?" He raised an angry voice, the other hand raised the crowbar as if to beat me. I shouldn't explain to the person who was going to kill me, what the hell am I thinking? I feared, my tears rolling down my cheeks, the thunderstruck loudly in the sky, making the scene become more and more horror. He put on the mask again, that's when I knew the bad signal. He raised the crowbar ready to smash me, his other hand pulling my face to see me better, tears streamed down my cheeks I bit my lips and waited for a miracle to happen but there is no such thing as a miracle."N-no please.." I sobbed and muttered when he was looking at me through that blank mask. He suddenly hesitated and drop the crowbar."Stop joking around ..STOP MESSING WITH MY HEAD! You're dead! " He groaned and hit himself on the head and then collapsed to the ground. This was my chance, I looked out the door and grabbed the handle to open the door. When I was about to leave the room, I heard his cry. The cry was small but I can hear and feel how he was in pain. My mind is empty, should I help him? No! The fuck am I thinking? He was just about to kill me...if I went back into the room and this was probably the stupidest decision I would regret."You're fucking dead.." he muttered repeatedly "Who am I kidding? Of course, you're fucking dead !" He grabbed me by the shoulder and yanked me back into the room. He presses me on the floor and he was angry and screamed. My stupid mistake of hesitating and now I have to exchange it with my life. He squeezed my face forcefully, "You're just the same face, you're not her."He looked at me with disgusting eyes holding up the crowbar and knocking down, I screamed and closed my eyes tightly but nothing happened. Who stopped him?"S-Stop it Masky, Y-you're not in r-right mind." I opened my eyes, another man wore a striped mask cover his mouth and a pair of goggles with bright yellow lenses gripped the man's hand tightly. The man named Masky swung his hands away from the man in a patterned sweater with greyish-brown striped sleeves."Fuck off Toby!" He raised a warning voice but the other man still refused. He turned and jumped into the other man and punched him in the face. Toby fell to the floor when he received a punch in the face and Masky turned to look at me and reached for the crowbar but then Toby regained his balance and rushed to grab him."D-Don't fu-fucking touch her !" The man called Toby screamed and drag the other person away from me. The two of them rolled around and punched each other on the floor. They punched each other to the point that blood spattered the floor of my bedroom. I froze, my feet stiffened and I couldn't move. I could only watch the two men fighting without saying a word. A moment later Toby regained his advantage and he climbed on top of him and punched hard in the face. After Masky fainted, he releases him and lay down to breathe. My face was filled with terror. He splashed blood from his hand and walked over to me. He squats down and talks to me: "T-There there, I got you." He patted my shoulder to calm me down."As l-long as I'm here, no one c-can hurt you.S-So don't you worry o-ok ?" He told me in a calm and reassuring voice but I still couldn't be completely recovered, he just literally punched the man till him fainting. I nodded slightly to answer. Suddenly, he raised my sleeve and touched my shoulder, startling I back up away from him. His face was also surprised when I did, as if he had done this before."S-Sorry, d-did he hurt you s-somewhere?" Toby asked me with a worried voice. I shook my head, thankfully thanks to him I wasn't hurt. He let out a breath and plopped down on the ground with me precisely he is laying on the ground and panting hard."H-He is st-strong, lucky he is d-drunk or I probably wouldn't able to f-fight him." He pulled the striped mask down to his chin and smiled as if he was familiar with it. I took a deep breath, then crawled to Toby. "Why did you save me?" I asked. He looked at my face and didn't know how to answer."Just-just ..Y-you are v-very much like an old f-friend of mine. That's all." He smiled at me, the other side of his mouth is deteriorated, exposing his teeth and gums. I don't know what happened to him but besides the incident earlier, I feel that he was quite friendly."Well..thank you." I smiled warmly, and he smiled again. It was raining heavily but the tense atmosphere in the room was no longer there."But really, are you okay? You seem like you in bad shape.""Y-You're welcome. I'm o-okay. But w-we have another problem." His hand gently patted my shoulder to comfort. He said and pointed to the unconscious man on the ground ."H-He won't be out for m-much longer, so can you help me?"He asked me innocently, I nodded even though I didn't understand what he meant to bring him anywhere else. He sat up and went to Masky and then lifted his legs, waiting for me to carry his hand. We carried Masky heavily, rather, I carried him heavily and Toby lifted Masky so lightly like nothing. Sometimes he walked too fast, I had to whisper so he could go slower. After a bit of struggling, we finally managed to lift him downstairs without making a sound. I opened the back door to avoid the front because there were neighbors who could see and they would talk shit with my stepmother again."T-That's fine, I'll have my friend c-carry him back. T-Thanks!" I carried him out into the yard when Toby stopped and said, In the distance, another man was wearing an orange hoodie covering his face and waving to Toby. He jumped over the wooden fence of my yard and helped Toby. I stood there until they had a black car parked near the road and they put Masky in the backseat and drove off toward the forest. I still see the figure of Toby waving at me at the back of the car. I put the key under the lily pot and locked the back door when I went in then went up to my bedroom when suddenly a medicine bottle rolled towards me. I picked it up and read it "Ibuprofen..hmmm". I muttered. Suddenly I remembered something, I suddenly took out my phone and looked at the pictures on my phone. It was him, the one who broke into my house today was the same person that I had photographed last week. What the hell is it? How long has he been following me for ??I sat down on the bed and thought anxiously. Should I call the police? But then out of nowhere I suddenly coughed and felt like I was sick. Perhaps asleep will make me feel better after what happened today. Crazy stuff..

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- The next morning -The next morning when I woke up, feeling very tired, John seemed to have gone ahead to practice. I brush my teeth, get dressed, brush my hair, and go downstairs for breakfast. Diane was sitting at the table, sipping her morning coffee and chatting with her friends. She was laughing then suddenly changed her face when she saw me. Diane said "Talk later, sisters, I got to talk to the brat of my husband. Yes, I didn't get rid of her, yet."Then she hung up, placed the phone on the table, and looked at me with disgusted eyes. I took the bread and put it into the toaster, looking for the butter in the fridge I made myself a simple breakfast that I could take away so I wouldn't have to sit and watch Diane. She didn't like to see me wandering around her face anyway."So where's the money?" She put her feet on the table and asked me with an attitude."What money?" I turned to look at her, what the hell's going on here?"Don't be so fucking surprised? You know what money I talked about." She put down the coffee cup on the table, smirked at me, and held out her hand to wait for me to give the money."The money that I have to pay to feed you ass. Do you think what you ate came from the fucking air?"Is she kidding me? Ever since my father died of cancer two years ago, what day has she raised me? I felt like I was burning inside like I'm a time bomb waited to explode. I wanted to slap that ugly woman in the face...But I held back, if I did that I wouldn't have anywhere to stay even though this was my father's house."Hm? Your money or was it my father's money? Now you're asking me for my money? Yeah, in your fucking dream." I smirked and looked away. I could see that Diane was very angry and that made me excited."Without your father's will, you're long gone, bitch. Keep that clever mouth and one day you'll get punched in the mouth." She said sarcasm to me. I didn't understand why my father could marry such a woman. What the hell did he see in her? "Tch...Put the bread down. You will have nothing unless you give me the money. Lucky you have me let you stay here for free.""Trust me, I'll get out of your hair soon," I answered then throwing a piece of bread to the ground, I rushed out of the kitchen and out of the house. My father cut off the contact with my grandparents and about my mother, I knew nothing about her. As if she was a very mysterious person.I walked to school tired and irritable. I didn't ask for anything at all, why did I have to live like this? I'm always over-thinking and I'm tired of trying to be normal. Sometimes I even wish that I was dead. I blamed my mother for why she had to divorce my father and long gone cause me to live in such a miserable situation. Now I am no different from the watchdog for the house for Diane. I felt a bit sorry for myself, but then I couldn't blame my mother either. I myself could not do that because maybe she had her own reason, her own misery like me. I stopped at school and walked across the school football field to see John and David playing football. My eyes couldn't leave David, he was so handsome despite his sweat."Hey, girl! What are you looking at?" Charlie suddenly walked from behind and patted me on the shoulder, startling me. I couldn't tell her that I was looking at David, Charlie would be mad at me."Nothing, just looking at the boys playing soccer." I shook my head in denial but Charlie didn't buy it. She made a mischievous smile and put her arm on my shoulder. "Does any eye candy catch your attention?"Eager for me to answer, but I just brushed my shoulders off."No, I didn't notice anyone and nobody noticed me. Let's just go to class.""You're so boring." She rolled her eyes and pouted her lips. "See you later! I need to go talk to my girls for the upcoming match."Charlie waved goodbye to me while we were in the locker. Of course, she was always like that. Charlie was the famous girl in the school and she was in the cheerleader. I wish I could be in her shoes someday, get interested, have lots of friends, and party nights. A stupid dream, right? But I just want to be normal like everyone else, is this really hard to ask?"Pause the match!" The sound of John shouting from afar, he stopped the match and ran to me a bright smile on his face.In his hand, he held a sandwich and a bottle of water and hurriedly stuffed it into my hand."I waited forever to see you, did you sleep well? This is your favorite sandwich right ?" he asks. I looked at the sandwich lying in my hand,right.. this is my favorite. I nodded to thank him. Perhaps John is not so bad compared to his mother. I smile, at least John is with me in this life, a very good brother...I went to my locker and what caught my eye was the words painted on the top of the locker. 'SLUT' is the line that was written on it. Who did this? 'Damn, paint is hard to remove.' i thought. I opened my locker and took out a book to prepare for class when suddenly I saw a piece of paper in my locker. It was an old piece of paper because of the yellow smudges on it and it crumpled. 'Follows ' is what is scribbled on it with a drawing of a man in a suit standing next to a pine tree and it extremely doodles as a child's drawing. Someone prank me or what? I crumpled up the paper and threw it back into the locker to get my books and go to class. A bunch of mean girls standing there follow David and John like flies just to give them water. A bunch of dumb girls desperately need attention. I rolled my eyes ignoring them and walked past them when suddenly someone tripped me and I fall to the ground and drop the entire book on the floor. Everyone laughed when they saw that and the biggest laughter is the girls who play with Charlie. This joke was going too far and it wasn't funny at all. I crawled up and picked up my book. David helped me and John turned around and hissed angrily: "Who did that?" The girls still laughing and shrugged in denial, they stood so crowded that John didn't know who did it.”Oh sorry! Are you okay, Anna? I didn’t mean to trip you over..” It's Brittany standing beside John now laughing and have a shitty grin on her face. I bet is that bitch is doing it on purpose."Why did you do that?" John turned to glare at her, Brittany's smile disappeared."Come on John, she didn't mean to, right? Everyone knows that you're a good brother, John. But you can’t blame her for what happened, it just an accident." A sarcastic girl voice said, I turned around and watched Heather put an arm around John's right arm. She looked naive to that question, but I knew she wanted to mock me. Her right hand wrapped around John's right and he didn't say anything.No wonder, John is always a pleaser, always trying to please others."I'm fine I'm fine.." I gently removed David's hand. It took more than that to put me down, fucking bitches...I brushed off the dush in my clothes and went to the school toilet to fix my hair. Damn it, I have a bruise on my cheek from the last just now. Fortunately, my glasses didn't break or I didn't know how I could see things anymore. Placing my glasses on the sink, I splashed water on my face to clear my nerves. Suddenly there was a "click", someone went to the ladies' room, the sound of high heels clanking on each walk. I turned and looked, even though I didn't have glasses on, I could still recognize who the people in front of me were. It's the mean girl just now."Nice glasses." The girl talking to me was Heather."I think it would be better if I broke it."After saying that, she threw my glasses on the ground and stepped on it hard enough to make my glasses shatter to pieces before I could stop her. The girls standing behind her giggled when they saw my glasses were broken. Heather stopped laughing, her hands squeezed my face and gazed at me. “Listen up slut, stop acting as a poor, pitiful little sister to ask attention from John. It makes me sick.” She said in disgust.I smiled wryly in response, "I guess you desperately need attention from John so now you come at me, don’t you? Are you afraid I stole your toy? Pathetic..” After listening to what I’m saying, her expression became even angrier. She did not expect that I would talk back to her."Take this as a warning from me, stay away from John, fucking whore," she smirks“Girls,  let’s knock some sense into her brain.”  The two girls behind Heather now rushed up to grab me by the collar and pushed me to the floor. They started slapping me. They charge at me like hungry tigers. I struggled and covered my face with my hand. But the other girl snatched me up and pulled my hand up tightly so I couldn't move. These slaps are faster and harder. They are so strong that I just feel numb in my cheeks. My tears welled up, I could taste the salty taste of tears. “Hit her harder! Let that bitch know some damn way around here.”Heather said with a sarcastic voice and disdainful eyes staring at me. That bitch looks like she's enjoying it. She approached me with those high heels, Kicking hard on my stomach made me writhe. I couldn't cry out. I gasped under the gaze filled with hatred and hatred. I feel like I'm going to die. I felt my headlight up and my vision was no longer clear. My ears were ringing and I could not hear what they were saying. The last thing I could feel was the sharp pain in my stomach and the cold toilet floor...

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-The same day-

Tim's POV :

Waking up with terrible headaches and numbness on my body with my eyes as if they were purple because of the pain. What the hell happened to me? Opening my eyes and looking around, my vision seemed to be blurred maybe because I drank too much yesterday. But why the hell am I in my room? Obviously I haven't gone home yet. Ugh my head! I held my head and tried to sit upon the old bed, leaned myself on it, and tried to remember what happened yesterday but this headache didn't help at all. I touched my coat pocket, where's my medicine? Panicking, I quickly took off my jacket and searched through all the pockets but there was no sign of my bottle pills. I lamented in an extremely uncomfortable attitude. Maybe I'll go ask Brian if he still has any pills. Picking up my mask, I tiredly opened the room door and went down to the mansion's main hall. The main room in the hall was empty, maybe they were in the dining room. I entered as I expected everyone was sitting in the dining room, right now it is 07:00 am. Brian and Toby waved me to sit with them. Slender was carrying out breakfast with Jane and Clockwork helping him...Perhaps I am used to this, living among people is a serial killer and so am I.I had a long talk with Slender and I understood some parts of why he did it, and he did a good job when it come to convince me to live this double life. Different from me, Brian is easier to persuade...Guess I have to deal with it, I'm too tired to fight back. Plus I prefer keeping my memory than lost one.

"I've never seen you this late, Tim." He said as he putting the food on the table. I shrugged, "A bit tired." As if he cared about me.As if he had cared about me.

"You should lower your drinking level, it's not good for your health. Also stop fighting in the streets."His smooth white face wrinkled upon seeing my attitude. It's best not to piss him off.

"Alright, I got it," I answered and sat down. So it turned out that I went to drink yesterday, explaining why I had such a terrible headache ...

"Nice eyes." Jeff smiled sarcastically.

"You too, Jeff." He said and faced Jeff, who muttered uncomfortably.

"I know, you talk too much."

"What's that attitude?"

"Oh god shut up, you're so loud." He mumbled, glaring at Slender. This boy was so stubborn, he'd rather talk back and let Slender get angry in the fucking morning.

" You better drop that, I. won't. say. it. again."

"Fuck. off." After saying that, he stood up and pushed the dining table chair then walk away. Jeff always so bitchy, nothing special.

"Got any more pill, Brian?" I whispered into his ear. He said nothing, shook his head in denial. Great, I have to go out to buy more. I glance around the dining table, Toby seems unusually quiet. Often he would mess with me and ask me stupid questions but he didn't do that today. What's up with him?

"Breakfast is very delicious, isn't it, Toby?" With my chin on my hand, I poked the egg on my plate with a fork.

"H-Huh? Y-Yeah, I-It w-was d-delicious.O-opp..I-I s-so clumsy.." Toby startled and dropped the plate to the ground, he was acting strange as if I caught him doing something suspicious. I can tell by the tic and him avoid eye contact with me. Something doesn't add up here. We continue our breakfast, the other creeps talk about how they killed yesterday and other things. The room was normal as normal people but except that here we talked about murder. This headache is killing me, I'm not in the mood to eat breakfast at all.

I decided to get up and leave the table. Going upstairs and into my room, I lay down on the bed, maybe I'll sleep for a while longer.
* THUD *
Suddenly, something fell behind me, and I unintentionally turned around to see a picture of Grace and me, lying on the ground. What the heck is that? My window is closed, there's no wind. Even if there's wind, how can it drop itself, I mean the photo frame is heavy. I hurriedly sat up and picked it up. Lucky, it didn't break. I lay down on the bed while holding my hand around the picture frame, holding it up to look at Grace, she's as beautiful as ever.
“Why did you have to leave us..leave me so soon...?”I whispered to myself. Even though she passed away long ago, her image, the pure smile and the way she treated other creeps without any judgment, was still clearly in my mind. She knows all about us, who we are, our past, she's sympathetic to everyone. Living with a bunch of serial killers ain’t easy so does keeping deep secrets. It was really a difficult thing but she still chose us. To have such a sympathetic and understanding person like that, we don't deserve it.
*Knock *knock*

"Can I come in ?" It was Brian's voice outside the door, waiting for me to answer.

"Yeah, come in." Brian enters the room and closes the door, holding a glass of water with his other hand in his pocket. He pulled out a bottle of painkiller and put it on the table for me."I thought you were out of medicine?"

"There's a new bottle under the bed, I forgot. Where was your yesterday?"

"I don't know, maybe it fell off while I was at the bar." I opened the vial and took out two pills and drank with water. He looked at me, and he was silent for a while then said: "What's up with you lately?"

He seemed to be worried about me but actually seemed to want to probe something from me. I shrugged, I know I drank too much lately but I don't remember why the slightest memory is related to Grace."Missing Grace huh?" He pointed to the photo frame lying on the bed. I awkwardly flipped the photo frame behind me to hide it. I didn't want him to think that I was still lingering on her.

"No need to hide anything, I know you still have feelings for her. I miss her too, we all miss her. But you need to move on. Slender doesn't let us talk about her anymore because he is afraid of affecting the wor-.."

"He was always like that" I interrupted his words and hissed. We all know Grace died in a car accident but the culprit was never found so does her body, I also searched for the information of the damn car that crashed into Grace but it was a stolen vehicle. And the motherfucker that caused the accident, he's like disappeared into the air, there was no trace of him, not even a fucking name. The case is closed and people haven't talked about it. It has been nine damn years, we haven't mentioned Grace anymore, but I know they still mourn her death till now. She passed away on October 31, on the day of Halloween, when she came to visit us together in the mansion and bought some gifts for us. We fought in that night, she drove home ... I don't think that is the last time I and she meet until the next day. Her body was found in the crashed car was discovered by a passerby.

"Don't torment yourself anymore, you know it's not your fault.."He mumbled. He was right, it was not my fault but I still considered it my fault. The reason why she died was because of me...If only I hadn't argued with her and Jeff ... maybe she was still alive. It explains why I'm having drinking habits, I've never sobered in nine years. Because when I sober, that pain came endlessly. The pain that I really miss her, I really need her...That mixed feelings in my rotten mind and heart are like tearing me down...I love her.. a word I've never had the chance to say to her...Now it's too late...It was all my fault.

"Brian...i missed her," I whispered under my breath, biting my lip to keep my tears from falling. I am a weak man. Brian sat down on the bed next to me, his hand patting my shoulder to comfort me, but it only made me broke down faster. .I lowered my head to look at the picture frame in my hand, stroking her image gentle with my hand, soon my eyes were in tears, every tear falling down on the frame. I couldn't forget her...

"I know man.. I know..." He stroked my back gently but I could not stop these tears.

The memories of Grace keeping me alive and also make me suffering myself. Wiping away the tears, I held up her picture. He was right I had to move on. I knew it couldn't be but I had to try. I couldn't live like this forever...Perhaps the first thing to forget about Grace is to burn this picture. I quickly opened the drawer of the table and took out the lighter. I'll burn it. I can do it.I.HAVE.TO.

*Chk! Chk! Chk!*
" OH COME ON! Now I have the courage to burn it and I can't use a lighter! DAMN. IT. !" Angry, I threw the lighter, the lighter bounced up and lay on the ground.I'm such a useless mess, there's only one thing and I can't do it. I stood up angrily holding the photo frame and was about to throw it out the window, Hoodie spoke to stop me."Stop it, Tim! You're not in the right mind." His hand held my hand, prevented me from throwing it away. He knew I would regret that decision and would spend several hours walking around the forest just to find it again. But there was something wrong here. Rather, something very familiar had just happened. I recalled a little something about yesterday...I held my head, closed my eyes, and focused on remembering. The sentence just now... The line that Hoodie just said was the one that Toby told me yesterday ..I was drunk, Toby pulled me back and we...and I blackout right after that. There's something not added up here...I still feel something is missing that I haven't remembered yet...I looked back at the photo frame, it gradually flow back to me...It is ... It is Grace! I saw her! And I was going to kill her? No, no, I didn't do that right? Right? It wasn't Grace...It wasn't Grace... TOBY! That bastard must know something ! I threw the photo frame on the bed and ran out of the room, screaming on the stairs."WHERE ARE YOU TOBY? WE NEED TO TALK !" I screamed in anger. "Did you guys see Toby?" The other creeps look at me like an idiot, but there is no sign of Toby being with them, they shook their heads. I rushed outside the mansion and shouted out towards the forest. "TOBY, I KNOW THAT YOU'RE OUT THERE! WE NEED TO TALK! AND I. MEAN. THAT. !" No answer, the whole forest was silent. Damn. it.! Where. the. fuck. is. he. ?

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Masky's POV:
Where's that bastard? He owes me lots of explanations! Clenching my teeth, I ran to look for Toby around the forest but there was no sign of him, around me there was only the rustling of leaves. Or maybe he is in the street? Yeah, definitely...
He thought he could escape from me by wandering around the street. He'll have a lot to explain tonight...

Toby’s Pov:

It was 8 a.m., just now during breakfast maybe Masky realized something was strange to me because I dodged him. But could he remember what he had yesterday? I anxiously asked myself.

I walked around on the deserted street, where it headed towards her home. I felt something very strange, and the feeling of anxiety kept bothering me. Yesterday it was true that I had met her for real, no, not her but someone very similar to her. I feel so happy, it's been a long time. This girl makes me feel very familiar like her. I felt bad about hitting Masky when he was drunk but I can’t help it, I can't let her get hurt. We can talk a little bit, even though it's short, I want to talk to her again, at least get to know her name.

I've been following her for a while now, it was a coincidence at the park while I was looking for Sally. I told Sally not to go into town but she didn't listen at all. I lost her and Slender would get angry and punish me so I frantically went to look for her and I saw her. At first I thought my eyes were fooling myself but no, she really looked like Grace with only hair color difference. She looked so tired as if she was sleep deprived. And she was holding Sally's hand when a couple pulled me in. I was about to step in if they harm her and Sally but then I saw her talking to a female police officer and explaining everything. It wouldn't be a good idea if the officer saw two axes on my hip pants so I stay back in that bush.

After watching them for a while, Sally finally saying goodbye to her and walked towards me. On the way back, I tried to learn information about her through Sally but she didn't even say a word. I was stupid to be so panicked at her house after the fight with Masky without even asking for her name.

- An hour later -

Just when I was about to return to the mansion, the sound of an ambulance passing and stopping at her house. What the hell is going on? Suddenly I realized that just now I had a really bad feeling. Please don't be her, please ...I hid behind a nearby wall, watching the back of the ambulance open, the hospital bed pulled out and I saw her lying on it along with the bruises around her hands and face. What happened? This is a shady part of town, if I find out whoever hurt her, I swear that these axes will be chopped to his head where it belongs. I want to meet her but it's too risky to do so, maybe I'll come back at night.

I left and went back to the mansion, seeing her injured really made me feel very angry and maybe I won't be able to keep my cool when I'm still there. Grasping the hatchet in my hand, I swung it hard at a nearby tree and left a deep cut. Suddenly there was a rustle of leaves behind me, I turn around but no one there. Pulling the hatchet out of the tree, I looked around the surroundings carefully. It was true that no one was here..it was probably just my imagination.

"Shouldn't take out your anger on nature you know ?" Suddenly there was a hand on my shoulder, it startled me and swung at the person standing behind me. But it seems that person dodged my slash.

"What was that for ?" He hissed at me, it was Masky.Wait..what? MASKY ??

"H-Hey...M-Masky....Sorry,y-you startled me."

"Am I? It's Tim not Masky" I felt like he raised an eyebrow under that white mask, "Normally you don't paranoids like this so tell me, what happened ?"
He clenched his fist as if preparing to hit me. The atmosphere in the forest gradually became extremely tense and there is a furious growl rumbles up from the back of his throat, I gulped and stepped back until my back against a nearby tree. The rustling of leaves makes the quiet space more and more creepy, Tim is not a calm person when he is angry. Perhaps he realized something odd already.
"No answer?"

"W-What are you ta-talking about?"

"You know what I'm talking about." He removed the mask from his face threw it to the ground and slowly approached me, revealing one side of the purple eye caused by my punch yesterday. He yanking my collar by one hand, clench the other hand into a fist and looking at me with anger radiating eyes.

"It hurt quite a bit when you punched me yesterday, but maybe it wasn't hard enough to make me forget. So tell me, who the hell is she ?"

"Wh-who? What are you ta-talking about?"
He smirked coldly and looked at my face as if he had sniffed out a lie."Did I fucking stutter Toby? ‘Cause I’m sure that I don’t.Stop beating around the fucking bush and tell me WHO IS SHE ?" I broke out in cold sweat and gulped, rolling my eyes behind me try to find a way to escape.
"Hey! Don't be silent like that? After you punch me like that, you owe me an explanation. ”

"I-I told, I don't know what yo-you're saying."
"You are challenging my patience, Toby ..." He tightened my collar, his face hardened.
"..."

"FUCKING SAY SOMETHING !" He screamed at me. His patience is running low. I take a deep breath. How do I convince him now?

"Alright alright ... B-but you have to remove my collar .." After hearing me say that, he loosened his hand from my collar.
"The thing is like this ... Y-You are very d-drunk last night and you sneaked into her house .." I started to tell some reliable details for him. I mean, in the meanwhile I will find my way to escape him .. "I have come across and f-followed you .."
"And then what? Just go straight to the fucking point, who is she? ”

"She is...."
*BANG*  
Suddenly there was a sound of gunshot nearby that startled me and Tim. He completely removed his hand from my shirt, a great opportunity for me to escape.
"What the fuck was that ?" He turned around and looked, it seemed that the gunfire was coming from the neighborhood ... By the time he didn't notice me, I immediately ran away.
“Damn it! Come back here son of a bitch !! ”

I didn't know who fired the gun but I had to thank that person very much. I wasn't ready to let Tim know about her, even though I didn't know who she was. ..I kept running fast and Tim chase after me quite fast. He knew this forest was like a hand so I had to cut his tail through a turn and hide where he doesn't know. I crawled into an empty tree nearby and lay silent for a while. When Tim finally caught up to me but don't see where I'm, his hand propped against the nearby tree and try to catch his breath.

"Damn it ... bastard ..." he whispered after gasping for breath."You can't hide from me Toby! Come out quickly before things get worse!" He screamed and looking around to see where I was hiding. The sound of the wind blowing, the sound of leaves rustling and the birds singing made it hard for Tim to direct my noise. The sound of his angry footsteps becoming stronger and stronger approached the tree where I lay. Right now, he's standing in front of me ... damn it. Please don't see me ... I held my breath and bent down and looked up at my head on the hole in the tree. His hands prepare to put into that hole. Fuck I'm dead ..Just when I was about to poke my head out when he caught me, I heard Brian's voice.

"Tim? What are you doing here?" Tim was silent, don't even bother answering but he at least pulled his hand out of the hole. Brian's footsteps approached Tim, "Are you okay?" he asks.

"I'm fine. What's wrong ?"

"Slender is looking for you."

"For what ?"

"The hell I know." Tim hesitated for a while. Not to be suspicious, Tim left right away at Brian's words, I heard his footsteps leave completely then I began to crawl out. Brian still stood and watched me brush away the dirt from my clothes. I smiled and looked back at him, how lucky I was.

"Thanks, Brian!"

"All that trouble, is it worth it Toby? That girl is not even Grace, just a similar face like her."

His face looked at me seriously, his question got me lowered my head to look at the ground. I raised my face to look at him, cracked a smile and said: "Of course."

He shook his head and sighed, "You know, I don't like lying to Tim at all. And you know he will be very pissed off when he finds out the truth." He pulled a gun from his hoodie pocket, so he fired that shot.

I hate to admit it but he's right ..How long will I keep her identity from him? How long can I stop him and Jeff from finding her? It's just a matter of time.

"I know, I know ... It's just a matter of time. But she will surely live in fear kn-knowing that a bunch of m-murderers watch her every day. So I m-mean. . . the later they know about her the better,r-right ?"

"I guess you have a point. But I only helped you this time."

"That's all I need. Th-thank you!" I had Hoodie to help me, so is Brian now, that's good! Now I have to convince a few more people to help me hide her. . . Perhaps the first person I should approach is Ben, if Jeff knows about her he will surely find Ben first. But to find Ben, I could only go to the mansion, but it was extremely risky because Tim was there. What the hell do I do now ?! . . .Oh right! Phone, I'll call Ben .. Hope he picks up.

* Dialing sound . . .*

No one picked up, please try again later.

Oh for fuck sake! Pick up the phone, Ben!!

* Dialing sound . . .*

" What's up ?"

"Oh thank god. Finally! It's Toby, can you help me with something ?"

"What? Just hurry up, I'm in the middle of games."

"B-But I can't talk on the phone right now !"

"Bro? You kiddin' me right? Didn't I just tell you that I'm in the middle of the games, just spill it out already."

"Is Jeff with you ?"

"Yeah why? Need to talk to him? Hey Jeff-"
" N-NO, please don't give y-you phone to him! Just listen, I-I got a serious problem that I can't talk on the phone either goin' home to talk to you.""Bro" he laughs, "What's so serious? You sound like you're being followed by the FBI? Wait. . are you ?""No? The fuck you t-talking about? B-But anyway it will get even worse than FBI if Tim caught me.."
"What about him? You're always clinging to his ass like you are obsessed with him. Now you tellin' me that you are afraid he will catch you? Are you high or something?"
As he said that, he giggled, how could I explain to him that this is a very serious thing and I needed him ...I sighed, putting my hand on my frowning eyebrows."Listen, q-quit joking around.. I'm serious, I re-really need your help...Can y-you meet me near the ce-cemetery?"
"What? Are you plan to get freaky with me there?"
"D-Damn it Ben.. I'll if you don't take this se-seriously ! S-see you at 12.And p-please don't tell Jeff."
"K"
That's good, I still have a few more hours before meeting Ben. Maybe I should get something to eat, I didn't eat much this morning because of avoiding Masky, and the chase with Tim made me so hungry...

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"Damn it, Ben! Focus on the fucking game! What the fuck are you doin' ?"Jeff groan and threw the controller on the floor and turned to look at Ben. He mumbled."Who the hell is calling you?".Ben hung up, his eyes glued to the screen, and answered."Telesales." "Telesales? You lying, since when did you laugh and joke around with telesales? You usually hang up before they even have fucking time to say anything." Jeff looked at Ben, he doubted Ben was hiding him from something. Jeff may be a crazy guy but he's not stupid. "Alright alright, that's my online girlfriend."Ben rolled his eyes jokingly."What? You? Have a girlfriend? Lemme see!" "Nah, fuck off. You'll scare her away with that bloody ass smile.""Fuck you! A ghosty e-boy like you? Have a girlfriend? Ha! Talking some bull shit with me, that ain't work."Ben shrugged and ignored whatever Jeff thought, he continued playing the game. Jeff sat closer to Ben, his no eyelids eyes staring at Ben's neck likes a burning laser. He sees something not right here but decides not to ask anymore. There's something very fishy about his online girlfriend... For someone like Jeff, he could hardly ignore it. He definitely decides to follow Ben to see who his online girlfriend is...
- Meanwhile at Anna's house -
The doctor continued tapping the pen on his patient file until he removed the note from her last name, that was when his face began to change... It seems that he is afraid of something."Will my sister be alright doctor?"John spoke, startling the doctor and almost dropping the pen to the ground. He was standing by the bed where Anna lay, talking to a doctor for more information about her situation. The doctor looked at John and replied, "She was hit hard in the stomach by something, but lucky she has no serious injury, just a few swollen bruises..""That's good then, as for hospital fees, my mother will be back soon.""No, there's no big deal about hospital fees, someone already paid for it." The doctor tried to pack up his things quickly to get out of the house. When John sent him off the house, before he leaves, he glanced around the house and whispered to John:"Be careful with her. She's full of trouble..." He whispered softly as if afraid of being overheard but still enough to hear. The doctor quietly got in the car and left but his words caused John to have a huge question mark inside his head. What the hell is going on? Things are becoming more and more strange. After he moved here with his mother, there were rumors about the Sweetheart family but it was not confirmed whether it was real or not..Rumors are just rumors after all, right? But it still made him extremely curious. John closed the door and went upstairs with his sister. He gently sat near the bed and looked at her closely then he turned around and looked around the room. Suddenly he felt a chill like the eyes of someone staring at him from the closet. He stood up and walked close to the walk-in closet. Suddenly he opened the door wide but there was no one, just clothes, but he still couldn't shake off that chills feeling from his back. John stood up and left the room, just as the doctor said, pretty much everything happened around his sister lately... He doesn't think it is a coincidence at all.Relaxed in his room, John was allowed to take a break today for his sister's incident. It was rare for a day off so he didn't bother to go to school anymore when everything was done. After a while, a phone call came in..."What is it, mom?""I don't know either. But she seems to be better.""Hospital fees? I don't know. The doctor said that someone took care of it, I thought it was you ?""You forgot? Wait what? Why so suddenly mom? It's okay. I will order some takes out.""Bye, mom."After the strange phone call just now made him even more suspicious that his mother was hiding something from him. If she paid for the hospital, why would she ask him about it? So in the end, who paid Anna the hospital fee? His mother never worked, but she always had money to hang out with her friends. And he didn't lack anything, so where did the money come from? Because he remembered that his mother had once quarreled with the person who sent Anna's father's will that he didn't leave her with any money. Before Anna's father died, he only saw him a few times in the hospital but those times he looked so weak, that he was like dying of cancer. After meeting him, he showed an unhappy attitude at all. His mother told him to go out and they quarreled in the room afterward. Perhaps that was his reason why he cut his mother from the will. Indeed, people who have money often despise others. Fortunately, the old man is dead, he doesn't like him at all. Contrary to that, he is quite fond of his daughter, Anna. If not because his mother married him, sooner or later Anna will become John's girl and then he will take revenge on David for making him lose the captain of the team. John could imagine the scene where he wrapped his arms around Anna's waist and kissed her in front of David. Oh, his expression will be so gold...But he can't do it right now. People will judge him and he will lose the school's popularity ... Perhaps there is another way. After all, Anna was just a piece of chess in his hand.And seems to have an idea in his mind, he hurried into Anna's room. Locked the door, he crept closer to the bed, quietly pulled down the curtain to cover the window. Anna is lying there, unconscious... She always rejected him, but right now there was only John and her in the locked room."Now you can't do anything against me anymore. You can't deny my touch this time. You are lying there motionless, even if you wake up and screams, no one will even hear you."  John approached Anna with that disgusting thought as he was smirking. He placed the phone next to the table and began video recording. Poor little Anna, she doesn't know what will happen to her next. He ran his hand over her, pulled up the shirt and that body with bruises on her skin didn't make him want to stop.'Keep going, let that fucker know what it is like to fail when he can't do anything to stop you doing with the girl he loves', The inner voice kept urging him to do that forbidden thing. Hand squeezing her breast, ''She is a virgin? Damn, this is my lucky day ', he thought wryly. It was David's fault that stopped him from sleeping with her from the beginning and now he was the same reason John had to do this."The last thing I wanted to do is take advantage of you, you're my sister, but I mean, it was David's call to declare war on me." He stroked her face and confided the secret. "That whore Charlie was on her knees in. front. of. me. but that shit didn't even fucking work when that bastard David only kept an eye on you...You seem very precious to him, so why not make David pay for what he did?"Flipping off her bra, he began to kiss on her stomach then up to her chest. His mouth is on her nipples and the hand groped down her pants. His other hand reached for the leather belt and took off his pants."You should be happy Anna when I was the one who took away your virginity." He whispered, "other than me, there is none fucker who deserves your virginity." He pulled down her pants, left a thin layer of underwear, and began to admire at the body of a 17-year-old girl who had not been touched by any boy. Stroking her thighs, he squinted his eyes over the phone to see if the video was recording and as expected it was recording his every action. 'Good, good', he thought. Although the body did not react at all, John raised his finger, which had been groping her pants for a while now. She was soaking wet and ready for him. "Until now, I don't even felt sorry anymore. You're fucking mine, bitch."
* The doorbell rings *

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The doorbell rang before John could go any further.
"Who the fuck is disturbing me ?" He hissed. Hurry up zipped his pants, run down the house quickly... John opened the door, he was about to shout but stopped when he saw Heather standing in front of his door."Hey, I see you haven't come to school yet, is everything alright?" Looking at him, Heather crossed her arms anxiously and asked. She was the last person he wanted to meet. If John missed this opportunity because of her, he thought there would be no more chance for him. He had to think of some way to lure her away."Yeah, I'm just a little tired ...""Is it because of the training for the upcoming match? Don't be so hard on yourself, John. Can I come in ?""N-" But before Johnathan could finish, Heather stepped inside and closed the door with her foot."You know what, John, you look quite tired... I bet you can use a massage." Seductively she speaks, her fingers ran in front of John's chest, her thighs against his leg as she moved closer to him. Heather was throwing herself at him, waiting to be taken. Johnathan looked annoyed but didn't reject her, at least that would be a way to get rid of this girl."Go straight up to my room and take off your clothes. I'll be up soon."He whispered into Heather's ear and kissed her cheek lightly. Listening obediently like a puppy, Heather went upstairs and up to John's room but there was something that made her suspicious. Johnathan seemed to want to get rid of her but accepted her into the house. He is afraid of something...Heather remembered that slut Anna had been sent home after she had been beaten up by her in a girls bathroom. What if she was awake and snitched her to John? No, it can't be, right? Jealously mixed with fear of being busted made Heather not go straight into John's room but turned her eyes to the next room. She was thinking about whether to sneak into the room. What if John caught her? But then unable to escape the curiosity, Heather takes off her heels and crept up her toe down to the door of the room at the end of the corridor. Touching the doorknob, here it is, this is the moment of truth to see if Anna snitch her or not.* Creak... ** Slam!!! *
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"What are you doing Heather? My room is over here ..."

From nowhere, John suddenly appeared from behind Heather slamming the door shut before she could see anything behind that door. John gasped, almost his plan was ruined.
"I'm just looking for a bathroom ...I didn't mean to wander around...""Oh. Okay, the bathroom on the left next to my room."Heather avoided John's gaze and was thinking of ways to keep him from doubting her. Then she took his hand and pulled him toward the bathroom.
"Let's do it in the shower..."
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* About 2 hours later ... *
" Don't stop fucking me, John ~ I'm cuming" Moans, dirty talks along with the sound of John dick's slamming into her pussy fill up the whole house. The sound of flowing water could not drown out the lust that echoed throughout the house. Her tits were against the bathroom wall, her body bounced with every each thrust." I'm going to cum,"  he said, breathing heavily." Cum inside me, baby~ "His whole body jerked as he cum inside, pulled his cock out watching his cum shot dripping out of her pussy. Heather turned her back, facing him, her arms wrapped around his neck, kissing him lovingly." Don't worry, I'm on birth control." The phone rang from Heather's pocket on the washing machine. She walked over and took the call, is her father."Yes, Daddy, I'll be home soon." After saying that, she hung up, put on her clothes and kissed John's cheek again, and whispered, "that sex was amazing. See you tomorrow, baby" then leave the house.After John had a shower, he went downstairs and locked all the doors. Sneaking up the stairs and checking on Anna, how lucky for him, she didn't wake up despite all the moaning Heather does. 'What a loud bitch.' John thought and come back into the room with Anna."Noisy bitch is gone. Now just you and me.." He jumped on the bed with her, face to face. Stroked her face, he smiles. "Well, aren't you the most beautiful sleeping stepsister, too bad I was the only one awake to enjoy this...Right, David?" Smiling earnestly, Johnathan turned to look at the phone that was now recording as if he was talking to David. Pull the phone closer, "Like what you see? " "You don't deserve this, just like being a captain, you fucking bastard." he records every corner of Anna's body, then move the phone down to the underwear that remains on her body."I'll send you the video, soon..." After saying that, he laughed then turn off the video to record another. Now things really start to heat up. Hungry kissing her, his hand dug into Anna's breast. John dropped down between her legs and instantly started to lick her pussy...His member was hardener than before. Taking the condom from his wallet and tossing the wallet aside, he tore off the condom and put it on..."It may hurt a little but I promise you will like it...Anna..."His penis is rubbing against her pussy entrance then slowly he pressing it in, forced her vagina to open. Grabbing her leg, wrapping it around his hips he thrust it deeper.  It takes several thrusts before he could getting hang of it. It was so tight and so wet, "Holy shit..that feels amazing." He's purr in satisfy.
* The doorbell rings *
'Anyone standing outside the house, have to wait, I will not pass this opportunity again.' He thought
* Glitched sound from Johnathan's phone... *
Suddenly John's phone made loud noises like it was something wrong. The camera stopped recording and the lights in the room suddenly flickering and the electronic clock went crazy like they were possessed. Then it was a wind that made John feel chills behind his back ...He turned to the window. The window is locked, why is there wind here?
* The doorbell rings again *

* Thud *
The sound of something falling from the closet. He was startled,' What the hell is going on?'  he thought, 'Go on, John, don't let things distract you ...maybe it was just a coincidence.' He took the phone, it had stopped recording then he realized besides him and Anna, there was someone else in the room. He could feel gazes staring behind him...
"Cheese, motherfucker." 
A voice came from behind him and then when John turns back, some random boy took a picture of him with a flash on. Before John could say anything or react, suddenly he got punched in the face, hard and he fell off the bed. John lay on the ground clutching his eyes in pain, the other tried to squint his eyes to see who had punched him."What the f-"
"Son of a b-bitch! You're f-fucking d-dead!"
John hasn't figured out who the puncher yet, other guy rushed forward, jumping onto John, and keep throwing more punches. 
"You shouldn't have done that. Humans like you are fucking disgusting "
Being hit by a surprise punch and constantly punching those punches, John couldn't fight back and he collapsed on the ground until he fainted. Only then Toby stop, his eyes are now filled with hatred, he reached for the army knife that he hid under his shirt on his hips and was about to kill the asshole lying beneath him.
"S-Say fucking goodbye, b-bitch ."

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TOBY's POV:

- 12:00, at the cemetery -
I sat on a nearby wooden chair chewing on a sandwich and looking around for Ben. Finally, from afar, I saw Ben's figure."What t-take you so long ?" I narrowed my eyes in annoyance at him.He sighed and nagged me, "God, you don't know how hard it is to cut Jeff off. He has been suspicious of me ever since you called. Takes a chill pills, would you?" I apologized to him, mouth munching on the bread, I'm the one who wants to ask him for help after all. Plopped down beside me, pulled out his phone, he asked: "So you need something?"I nodded, "I-I need to find in-information about a g-girl, can you ... h-hack her phone?" He quickly put down his phone and turned to look at me like what the hell."You dragged me out of the house, lied to my best friend just to find information about a girl ?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME ?" He frowns at me. I sigh, he doesn't understand the problem ..."Hey, listen, do you re-remember Grace's case? Y-You may not be-believe it but-""Grace's case has nothing to do with you are wasting my time you know ?""Man, j-just shut up and listen t-to me!" I clutched the sides of his shoulders, "I. FOUND. HER." "What do you mean when you say you found her? Who is she?""I found Grace.""What do you mean you found Grace? Grace died long ago. You've been drinking ?" Ben can't believe what his ears hear, even I can't believe what my eyes see but I can be sure it is Grace."N-N-No...?! I-I see it with my own e-eyes! She doesn't re-remember me o-or Masky though...And she dyed her hair a di-different color! M-Maybe she w-was...I know I s-sound cr-crazy but you go-gotta be-believe me! ""Nah...Sorry man, I don't believe you."Ben turned and walked away in disbelief, I know his expression also looked brighter when he heard the news about Grace, but that expression was hastily replaced by doubt."Even you d-don't believe in me ...sh-she'll die at either J-Jeff or Masky's hands th-then!" I know I sound crazy, but how can expecting him to believe me. We have been through all this stuff and he thought that I just brought it all back to nagging about it. I am really very serious, deadly serious. I have to get information about her before she finds out who I am..."You know, the mention of Grace makes me uncomfortable, Toby. I thought we were through this stage a long time ago?" Ben glared at me, he was very annoyed. Ben has a crush on Grace like Tim and Jeff but to him, she is like a soulmate and no one likes to mention they're an important person. She is close to them...She is close to everyone."I-I tell y-""It gets ridiculous, Toby. Stop...""N-NO! Y-YOU GOTTA L-LISTEN TO ME !""STOP! I SAY STOP NOW!" He snapped, his voice was more glitch than normal but I don't plan to stop, he must understand that the main problem is here. Without his help, the other girl's life would be in danger."What's wrong? A-Are you afraid she's still alive and l-looking at you like a f-fucking loser just staying home playing games after her accident ?" " SHUT UP!" Ben teleported over to me, pinning me to the ground with angry looking. He’s on top of me, and it looks like he’s about to hit me, I pushed all of his button after all.
NARRATOR's pov:
Ben angrily teleported over and pushed Toby to the ground, and in a moment he could feel an untapped rage that was boiling up from his stomach to the rest of his body. Toby was surprised to be pushed down, but he didn't resist and taunted Ben instead."P-Punch me, Ben! C-C'mon! You don't have the gut to do that simple thing?" Toby chuckle, he smirked and looked at Ben with pitiful eyes."In the end, you're still just a c-coward w-who can't tell her that you l-love her"Ben's face turned red when he heard a provocation from Toby, he clenched his hand tightly, biting his lip, raised his fist, and threw a punch. Ben's hand smacked him in the face while Toby squirming under Ben. Blood pooled out of his mouth as he takes the punch hard like a rock. Toby feel his head was so dizzy but duel to his numbness to the pain, he still had the strength to push Ben off. They struggled on a pile of leaves. When Toby managed to get up, he pulled Ben to his feet, almost tearing off his collar.Ben teleported once again, sit on top of Toby's shoulder his legs were wrapped tightly around Toby's neck, causing him to suffocate. Toby forcefully tried to remove Ben's leg with his hand but still couldn't remove it, Ben's hand was latched onto his hair. Moments later, Toby's face began to turn pale from lack of air, he began to lose his balance and staggered until he could not hold it any longer and he fell to the ground. Ben also fell with Toby, he pushed Toby's body away and got up and brushed his clothes, and picked up his hat."I told you not to talk about her. I fucking warned you. Don't you dare say that I was cruel!" He turned to where Toby was still lying on the leaves. Waiting for an answer that he was sorry for pushing all of his buttons but no, Toby just laying there.
...
"Hey !"
...
"Hey, Toby...!? Stop pretending!"
...
"Hey! Answer me! What the fuck...? " Ben took a careful step as he speak, did he just killed his best friend? It can't be ...right? If Toby faked his death, it would be the worst choice he could choose because his tics would expose him. But Toby's body was motionless. He didn't answer him."Toby!" Ben rushed towards Toby, his hands shaking as he touched him. "Don't you died on me! Oh god..." His body is cold. Blood tears ran down Ben's eyes, seeping down his and Toby's shirt. He hugged Toby tightly into his arms, stroked his messy brown hair, and hiccuped in tears."I'm sorry...please forgive me...You're right, I-I'm just a fucking coward and I couldn't even admit it myself!" Ben sat there, whimpering in tears, he bit his lip and hugged Toby's body tightly. Those are belated confessions from a loser. Maybe it was his fault that Grace died, if that day he didn't courage Jeff confessing his feelings to her then Jeff and Masky, Tim wouldn't have fought cause Grace to upset. He should have said to Jeff that he falls in love with her, it will stop him...somehow..."Maybe everything that happened was just a dream, maybe it wasn't real." But there was only of his sound and the sound of birds chirping in the forest make him feel lonelier. His face was down, his head on Toby's chest.
"Heh..."
A chuckle passed through Ben's ear startled him. "What the hell is that?" The moment he just looked down at Toby then suddenly a punch flying at his face knocked him on his back. Ben held his nose in shock as he watched Toby get up."D-Do you think that will k-knock me d-down? How l-long have you known m-me, Ben? You're such a bad fr-friend." Toby chuckled, seeming that Ben was following his plan. He watched Ben get up, ready to fight him because now he won't yield to him anymore. "What's wr-wrong? F-Fight me Ben! Come a-and knock some s-sense into me !"
"Cheap shot"
Ben smiled but his laugh didn't seem angry anymore, then he teleported over to Toby, not to fight him but hug him. He laughed as he hugged Toby, but tears keep falling down on Toby's shirt."Man, you really scare me. I thought you were dead."Toby froze as well, but after a while, he put his arm around and hugged his sobbing best friend elf. Although they are grown up, they still acting like a child, they fight, they cry and hug each other to make peace."S-So, will you help m-me out?""Yeah... But first, let's explain from the beginning."And then Toby explained to Ben from the start, from the time he accidentally met her on a mission finding Sally, how she caught the eye of him although only a glance, to all the times he stalked her without being noticed by everyone like Jeff and Tim especially Masky, and the first time meeting her including drunk Masky / Tim and they were fighting in her house...Impressions of the first meeting were pretty bad but surprisingly she is willing to help him out. To this morning he couldn't eat much this morning because he was busy avoiding Masky / Tim, but then Tim disguised himself as Masky and started to suspect him about her, then Hoodie opened fire to save him before he told him what he knew about her. She showed up today but was in an ambulance and she was covered with bruises... Sally knew about her too, but she refused to say anything.Ben sat there listening to every word Toby said, he was silent for a long time then asked.
"This is a mess."
"I-I k-know...""So what's her name?""That pr-problem is ..." He scratched his head look at Ben, "...I-I don't k-know.""WHAT? So how the hell I can help you find her information ?!""W..W-We can break into her place again...?""Are you dumb ?! Jeez! Do you know the police wandering around that place because of Jeff? If we break into her house we will get arrested for sure.""Maybe...Sh-She is awake now, so we can go to her house like a normal fr-friend come over friend p-place right ?""But we can't go like this people will notice.""D-Disguise?""Yeah, that will do but you have to leave your hatchet at home.""B-But that's my baby what if we get into tr-trouble ?""Nope, no but or anything, if you wanted my help then follow my plan? OK ?""F-Fine but Jeff and Tim roaming outside the house, where we gonna get some co-costume ?""That's no prob, leave it to me."Ben teleported away with Toby's hatchets, and a moment later returned with his clothes in hand. He tosses Toby a new pair of jeans and a dark hoodie."Give me your goggles.""Wha- Why ?""Just give it to me, and take that mask off you. Wear this."Ben gave him a mask to wear instead of his mouthguard. Toby handed Ben his hatchets, goggles, his mouthguard and change the clothes that Ben gave him. Toby feeling a bit odd that he is not wearing his clothes properly, it is uncomfortable for him. Ben returned a moment later, dressed in "normal" wearing sunglasses to hide bloody eyes of him with a cane for the blind. Toby laughed as he looked at Ben."Really? A-Are you faking b-blind?""Yeah, for your sake so shut the fuck up.""This is so g-gold. T-Too bad I can't get a p-picture of you r-right now.""I'm gonna kill you for real if you did. Now lead me to her house."Toby and Ben followed the straight path back to her house without ever encountering Tim, which made Toby a little nervous. 'Could it be that he gave up? No ... He's not that kind of person. He certainly won't give up but that is the last thing to worry about now. ' He thinks.About ten minutes later, Ben and he arrived at her house. Toby gulped nervously and rang the bell. It was weird for Toby's style, he would normally climb up the tree next to her window and swing into the room. Now he had to ring the bell and wait for her to open the door. What if she doesn't the one to open the door but is someone else? What will he have to say ?! Thought over another made him more and more nervous.'G-God, B-Ben, I'm s-s-so ne-nervous...' He whispered to Ben.'Calm down, Toby, you ticked more already. Let me do the talk.''Mhm...O-Ok-kay...'But it seems that about 3 minutes have passed, Toby rang the bell once more but it seems like no one has come to open the door nor any sound of somebody in the house.'Are you sure this is her house?''Y-Yeah. M-Maybe she i-isn't a-awake y-yet? C-Can you ch-check? I-I notice in her h-house have a co-computer.''I'll try'While Ben went to check if any device available, Toby seemed impatient, a sense of anxiety boiling in his gut. Toby reached for the door handle but the front door was locked then suddenly he remembered when the first time he met her, she had hidden the back door key in pot in her backyard.'I found a phone in use. Let-''No time, you go in f-first. I have a way in'Saying that Toby ran to the back, looking around to prevent anyone from seeing him jumping over the fence of the stranger's house. Toby figured out which plant pot she had hidden the back door key that he saw she put away while waving goodbye to her.'White flower ... White flower ...' He mumbled and finally stopped in front of the pot of lilies 'J-Jack pot!'Toby gently opened the door and entered the house. The house was quiet, the windows shut tight and the light if off. There was something very unusual.
* THUD *
Then he heard the sound of something falling upstairs.'Where the h-hell is Ben?' he whispered and tiptoe up stair. There was a small light at the end of the hallway in her room. He stepped forward, looking through the gaping door, a horrible scene caught his eye. Some bastard is lying on top of her and she was unconscious. Then came Ben's voice: "Cheese, motherfucker."  makes him turn around and get dazzled by the flash from his camera. Without any delay, Toby burst in and punched the bastard in the face.

"You shouldn't have done that. Humans like you are fucking disgusting "

"What the f-""Son of a b-bitch! You're f-fucking d-dead!"  Toby screamed.He was surprised and fell to the ground but Toby repeatedly punched him in the face causing him to fail to react and as a result, collapsed until he fainted. Only then Toby stop, his eyes are now filled with hatred, he reached for the army knife that he hid under his shirt on his hips and was about to kill the asshole lying beneath him.

"S-Say fucking goodbye, b-bitch ."

"Wait! Toby! STOP!"Ben screamed and jumped over to where Toby stopped him from doing stupid. Toby got pushed over and slammed him against the bed, the knife flew out of his hand and was under the bed."What the h-hell are you doing, Ben? This f-fucker has to die, look what he just did to h-her ?!""Stopping you from doing stupid. We don't know who the fuck is he."
"I-I DON'T CA-CARE !"

"CALM DOWN MAN! WE HERE NOT FOR THAT! DO YOU NEED ME TO PUNCH YOU ONE MORE TIME ?"

"THAT DIDN'T DO SH-SHIT ANYWAY! BUT F-Fine..."
Toby stood up, he gently pulled back her clothes and covered her up with a blanket."I'm s-sorry..." He took her hand. Ben stand up and then there he was, dumbfounded after looking at her.The girl laying on the bed looks exactly like Grace but with brown hair. How the hell this can happened? All of this is too overwhelming for him. Then he turned to look at the guy lying on the floor with no pant on, his dick is hanging around with blood on the tip of his cock. Like Toby, it was like a fire in Ben's gut, a fire of disgust, contempt, and envy...That bastard ..."Toby ... You get him out of her room. And don't kill him, that bastard is her brother..." Toby also froze when he heard Ben's words."W-What d-do y-y-you mean? B-brother ?""Yeah, I saw their pictures on his phone ...""That F-Fucking A-Assholes!""I'll go get Jane...This is a fucking mess..."

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Ben's POV:
After I finished talking with Toby, I hurriedly moved to home and looked for Jane. On the way home, I still couldn't get that picture out of my mind. When that guy, who that girl calls "brother", is the guy that raping his own fucking sister. Plus she looks exactly like Grace make my gut boiling in lava...Only she can bring back emotion for this crusty dead heart. Stopped in front of the mansion, Jane was sitting outside reading. The rustle of footsteps stepped on the leaves made her notice and lookup."Ben is going for a walk outside? Today definitely gonna rain." She laughed, Jane was not wearing a mask that revealed the ugly tangled flesh that Jeff had purposely inflicted on her. Usually, she doesn't show her face because of her skin, but today was a pretty good weather day. I approached her, I had to say what I just witnessed. Toby doesn't have much time there. I don't know if their neighbor has heard of the incident, but it's still better to be careful."What's wrong emo boy ?" Jane folded her book lightly, turned silently to look at me, and asked as if she knew something. I swallowed hard but my mouth couldn't make any sound. I glanced around, avoiding her tentative gaze. She didn't have bad intention, I'm the one trusted her and told him that I'll go call her over but ... How can I pronounce this? Hey Jane, I need your help because Toby found out there was a girl exactly like Grace and she just got raped? No...no. . . I can't. I met her gaze again, took a deep breath for courage, took as much air as I could into my chest."I really need your help, this is a bit hard to say but can I explain it to you along the way?" I moved my lips until the word came out. Looking at my serious expression, Jane hummed and agreed, I was never serious. . . not until now. After a while, we stopped and sneak into the backyard of her house, and I went up to the girl's room with her. On the way to her house, Jane seemed furious when she finished hearing the story. In her room, there was no sign of the other boy anywhere, not even Toby. Where did Toby go?"Toby ... Where are you?""I-I'm here..." Said Toby, who came out of his closet and walked over to us."What are you doing in her closet, Toby?""Hi-Hiding of course! Wh-what are you too d-doing? Why t-taking so long??" Toby replied irritably, it took me a while time to get here than planned, it will make the plans fail but I really need a bit of time to think about it."So...Where is that bastard?" I asked, and Toby pointed to the door at the back of the hall. "In the t-toilet. Don't wo-worry, I pu-punched him a f-few more. He won't wake u-up anytime so-soon."
Narrator's Pov:
Jane glanced at the other girl on the other bed, and the thinking line in her head just stopped. She moved closer to the bed to confirm with certainty, yes, her eyes weren't tricking her. It's Grace, she looks as young as she was when she first met Jane. But how can that be? Grace is dead, but her body was not found, and what's up with her hair? Could it be that she survived the accident and had someone at her head so she has to live under a different identity? It's possible since Grace has been arrest for investigate 'bout them. But there was no way she could still be so young, Jane reached out and gently stroked the cheek of the girl lying on the bed. This isn't her. Wasn't the person have her calling the truce with Jeff."Can you guys stay guard outside? Let me take care of her." Toby and Ben nodded in agreement, they went out and closed the door. Jane moved to the window and pulled the curtains, she walked over to the bed softly touch the blanket, and pulled it down which was worse than she thought. Jane wonder what this girl would think when she woke up, poor little girl her legs still shaking while she is unconscious. She covered her neatly with a blanket and went out to find the bathroom. Took off the current towel and took a bucket to fill it with water. She crumpled the towel and carried the bucket of water into the other girl's room."Do you need my help, Jane?" Ben asked."You can keep that Toby from killing that bastard while I take care of her. If that bastard. . ., damn, you will have a lot of things to clean up." Turning the doorknob, Jane looked at them with the corner of her eyes, her voice was cold as ice... Jane had stopped killing since she got married. She didn't want her hands to be stained with the blood of another person if it was not necessary.While Jane was helping her clean up, Ben sit on the floor, his hand still clutching the other man's phone. Toby stand next to him, his eyes looked down to Ben."You have so-something in your hand, Ben?""Just that fucker phone... I will take it.""You s-said we don't l-leave any tr-trace behind ?! W-What the hell y-you taking that bastard ph-phone for ?" He squinted at Ben."I will return it, soon." Ben put his hands on his knees and got up, "I need to get some work done ..."Then he went to the room next to the girl's room, "Do you mind, Toby? Help me open this door." Toby walked over and opened the door but the door wasn't budged, he took the momentum and kicked it hard and the door swung open. As Ben thought, that bastard's room."W-What are you d-doing?""S-Stopping that fucker from getting kill by any of you. Or me." After saying that, he deleted the video from the phone. Toby tilted his head to look into his room, Ben sat on the chair, his laptop in front of him. He turned on the computer, got the password. . . This didn't take him long to open it. He started checking the computer, opening folders one by one. Not a bit of a special thing. He looked at the phone under his hand, he reached for the charger, connection between the phone and the laptop. Just shitty trash stuff until he saw a folder locked in the bottom of the drive appear. He clicked on that folder, asked for the password again. . . But this time it seems a bit difficult to open, this folder is locked with an advanced security lock. The folder name isn't available. After a while, he finally saw the name of the hidden folder. "Anna"Why is this name so familiar? He thought to himself. . . The name he had looked over, and suddenly a memory flooded that night as he was watching TV in the living room with Jeff and a few others. Sally, she is lying on the carpet and drawing in a notebook.
# Ben's Flashback #
"What are you drawing Sally?" Ben took a sip of soft drink and lazily glanced at her with his red eyes. She took a brown pencil to paint on the character she just drew in her notebook, her feet swaying and mumbling a song, ignoring Ben's question. "Oh come on, you've never ignored me before. Is that character so important?""She is not a character, Ben. She is my friend!" She frowned when she saw his mocking expression. Ben crawled down from the sofa, rested his chin on the sofa, and looked at her, "Can I see it?" He reached his hand out to grab the notebook but then she snatched it back and closed the notebook tightly."No.""Aww, I'm sorry. I promise not to make fun of your painting anymore if you let me see it." He widened his puppy eyes at her, she looked at him and then back at the notebook in her arms. The little girl frowned and answered. "No means no, Ben. You're meanie elf that I ever met! Even Jeff is nicer than you. "Jeff looked at her then turned to look at Ben, a chuckle escape from his bloody mouth. "You hear it coming from the kid, Ben. I'm better than you." "Just shut up man," Ben turned to glare at Jeff, then begged the girl again "oh come on Sally, just a little sneak and peak ..." "No.""Just give it up man" Jeff signed with Ben's nagging voice disturb him from watching TV but the stubborn elf man didn't give up just yet."How about the description hmm? I'll be dying if you leave me out on this.""N-" She was about to refuse when Jeff interrupted. "Please Sally, just tell him what he needs to hear that will stop him from nagging with his voice around my ears..." She sighed and sat back away from Ben, opened her notebook, and began to describe the drawing."She has big round blue eyes like the early morning sky. Silky coffee brown hair that is neatly braided, wearing round glasses and looking a bit shy and distant but actually very warm person..."
Back to the reality:
"She has big round blue eyes like the early morning sky. Silky coffee brown hair that is neatly braided, wearing round glasses and looking a bit shy and distant but actually very warm person..."  Ben whispered as he clicked on it. A series of images appeared, full of pictures of the other girl. From the moment she learned, smiling, eating, even sleeping. It seems like these pictures were taken when she didn't notice it at all. Ben pulled down a series of photos, standing beside him was Toby watching with a surprised expression as he saw a photo of her taking a shower. There were also a bunch of files with the names of other girls and they were all like that. Toby quickly shut his laptop with his hand, "This ba-bastard ..." he muttered in disdain. Ben scratched his own head, what a terrible sick man ..."I-I'm gonna fu-fucking kill him!" Toby stormed out of the room, his face dark like a storm about to draw outside. Ben didn't bother to stop him either, he let him do whatever he wanted to do because Ben wanted Toby to give that bastard a painful death.Ben took a deep breath, he reopened the laptop and ignored a bunch of other pictures of her just looking for more information about her. Then suddenly a file "???" appear. Surprise after surprise, in which as a pinboard of information of cases. An image that caught his eye, a family photo. In that family picture there were three people, a man, a brown-haired girl and ... he couldn't believe his eyes, it was Grace, the blonde woman holding that girl's happy family photo in the arms of the strange man. Another thing was a red brush that circled Grace's face with an arrow indicating, "This fucking whore must die..."Isn't she single? But the ring on her hand can't prove that Ben was right. Grace has always been a mysterious person... Did she have a kid with that man and nobody knows shit about her? Ben felt something betrayed his trust, this gotta be a photoshop. She'd never hide anything from the creeps. And the other girl, Anna, maybe just by chance... she...can't be her's daughter. Besides the family picture, it got nothing else that proves Anna is Grace's daughter. Secret after secret is driving Ben mad..."BEN! Haven't I told you to watch over Toby? Don't let him disturb me." Jane's voice startled Ben and he shut the laptop down. Jane stood at the door and grabbed Toby's wrist, who is grumbling 'M-man, Ben agree with me to kill that mo-mother fucker, why d-do you have to stop me J-Jane?'She turned and glared at Toby, "I'm glad Ben called me here to stop you and him before doing any stupid things so Stop. It." She let go of Toby's hand and threw him into the room with Ben and left. Toby stepped back, his feet stumbling, almost fall. When he got his balance he began to turn in annoyance and said to Ben. "You sh-shouldn't have ca-called Jane here." He frowned, crossed his arms, and stomped his feet impatiently on the floor."No she's right ... Come here, I have something for you to see." Ben sighed and shook his head and turned on the computer again, and he started rolling the mouse down on his fingertips. He needs someone to share this, alone he probably won't be able to handle this and will put more stress on him. Toby walked over to Ben's side, lowering his head to look at the laptop at the same time Ben double-clicked the family photo. "Take a look.""What the h-hell is this, B-Ben?" He turned to look at Ben's face, frowning in confusion but then after a closer look he seemed to see what Ben was trying to show him."I-Is that G-Grace? Wh-Why ..?H-Ho.. wh-who is that man?" He gasped in surprise, he has never seen this image ... "Grace is ma-married?" This is way out of his imagination. Ben shrugged, his voice choked a little, "It seems like that ..." bitterly Ben said. Toby took a breath, maybe it's true that she's married but it doesn't change the fact that she treats them like a family. Everyone has a secret hidden in their hearts, so what about her? Not a problem to him but a bit overwhelming for Ben, somehow he feels like he has been betrayed by her, the woman he loved. She would have an explanation if she were alive ... Then everything will make sense."Have you guys done pried off his stuff yet? If so, please just go before anyone finds out about us here." Jane appeared in front of the door and said, hands on her hips, seeing Ben with a desperate expression and Toby, who was sitting on the other man's bed with a puzzled expression. "What's wrong ?" she asks them but none of them saying anything.It took a while for Ben to regain his mental stability, he quickly transferred all the data from the device to his own then they quickly moved downstairs not leaving a trait behind. Leaving this girl and that jerk made them all nervous, but they couldn't get rid of him just yet, it only made it harder to meet her with the police groping around the area. Just as they were about to leave the place, the sudden ringing of the doorbell rang and they just pause for a moment. Are they exposed?"Pizza delivery !" The pizza delivery's voice echoed from the front door. 'Just the deliveryman' ... They thought and crept out of the house but little do they know, it's not the pizza delivery guy at all.

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They returned to the mansion in an unhappy mood. Everyone seems to fall into a state of contemplation, especially Ben and Toby. They are still thinking about that picture inside that computer. Nothing has fallen into their place like it used to be... Toby rushed inside the mansion just to change his clothes and get some food and left immediately after. He was afraid he would run into Tim again and this time there was no Hoodie there to save him. While Ben was walking to his room, he was intently holding the phone in his hand and thinking whether to open it or not. Then Ben stopped in front of his door, took a deep breath, and pushed the door a little crack, but the thing that he worried about the most is Jeff isn't in the room. His doubt was right."The hell are you doing? Peaking in your own room? And what's up with all the dressing? Going on a date ?" Jeff came out of nowhere and patted Ben on the shoulder, who was sneaking in front of his own door. Jeff's sudden appearance startled Ben, if he had a heart it would have been jumping out of his chest already. Jeff stood there, taking a sip of beer, the other hand is holding twos bag full of beer and other junk foods. Ben turned around and laughed as if nothing had happened, distracting Jeff with jokes, "Just to make sure you didn't jack off in my room. Remember last time?""Man shut the fuck up." Jeff chuckled and pushing Ben's door and went in, not asking anything anymore. At least that's what Ben is thinking, no, hoping for. While Jeff was struggling to put down the cans of beer and find the pod to smoke, Ben hurriedly hid the phone in his hat and went inside as nothing happened. Ben slumped on the floor, his back against the bed. He opened a can of Jeff's beer and took a long, almost empty drink.“So what's the matter?” Ben put his beer can on the floor and turned to Jeff, “Did I ever need something happened for a beer?” He answered his best friend's question and then turned his face to laugh like nothing. "Yeah right ..." Ben muttered, perhaps he was thinking too much about how to shield his actions, but seeing Jeff like that was somewhat reassuring. They continued to drink beer and play games as nothing happened. One can, two cans, and soon a bag of beer Jeff brought back. They didn't talk to each other. Jeff enjoys the silence sometimes outside of his "work."But after a while, that peaceful silence disappeared. Jeff lit the marijuana and took a lot of smoke in his mouth. "So how's the date? You don't seem very happy...." Jeff thought about it for a while and then he burst into laughs."Lemme guess! That bitch didn't let you hit 'm I right ?""No" Ben shook his head and he opened the can of beer and drank it. "She didn't even show up.""Woah... One hella chick, she even stood you up. You even doll up for this chick..." Jeff laughed and drank more beer, he almost choked. Ben followed his lie, making up a few more sentences. But suddenly Jeff's smile changed, he put down the can of beer and sat closer to Ben with a half-joking statement: "You even lied to your best friend about her ... so tell me, Ben, why is she so special? ""What? Are you fucking high already ?" Ben tries to distract the conversation to something else, but Jeff is too smart for that shit. He won't let himself be led by Ben anymore."No...No no... You'd tell me, Ben... Am I talking shits or you are ?" Jeff drags his white face closer to Ben, staring with those non-eyelids eyes as if to tear his best friend to pieces. He pushed Ben lightly for him to answer but Ben's silence was more than enough for what Jeff was looking for. Ben's eyes can only be glued to the TV screen...he didn't dare to turn his eyes to look at Jeff, inside his head was now extremely chaotic because of the alcohol. Ben is now quite drunk and he can't straight face to lie about it...It all went along according to the plans that Jeff had outlined from the start ..."Why don't you look at me, buddy?" He snatched the remote from Ben's hand and grabbed Ben's collar, forcing him to face his face. "Tell me why you got that helpless lil' girl face and went back to the mansion to find Jane..." Jeff exhale, "I was wondering... what are you guys doing?""What the hell are you talking about? Now you're involved with my shits ?" He turned around, his eyes fixed on Jeff, and he started to argue back, the other handheld his hat tightly, intending to throw it under the bed. Jeff is too smart for him to do that. Instead of letting Ben argue anymore, Jeff pulled out the kitchen knife he had hidden in his pants earlier, held it up, and stabbed Ben... Ben was able to move away in the blink of an eye and dodge it but he was no longer standing straight with the fact that he was still shocked to see that his best friend tried to stab him. He stepped back when he saw Jeff pull out his knife and slowly walk towards him. "No no... I was just too concerned for my old friend's wife, y'know? You guys are too shady, whispering to each other ears like you were buddy and pal, and that gets me jealous." Jeff smiled and said with a rough in his voice. Ben seemed to realize that Jeff knew something ... He took a step back until his back touched the wall, when he realized his hand was empty, the hat was in Jeff's hand. "Looking for this?" Jeff's handheld the hat with Ben's cell phone in it. He reached in and took out the phone, rocked it in front of Ben, and said, "Aren't we best friends?""Of course ..." said Ben, but there was a suspicion in the tone of his voice. He is doubting this friendship after the incident. Now he doesn't know if he should trust his best friend anymore. "Since when did we start hiding secrets?" Jeff asked him, his voice slowly."I think there's some misunderstanding here ... Jeff calm dow-" "-Don't fucking tell me to calm down! Cause I'm damn SURE that you trying to hide your fucking phone from me. " Jeff seemed to scream as Ben uttered those words. "I know you went to her house.""Wh-What ?!"The music in the room drowned out the noisy conversation between the two men in the room. Ben was speechless as Jeff approached him, his face unable to calm down. Jeff whispered in his ear, "white house, has a backyard, and grows lilies, am I right?" Those words were like lightning across his ear. Has he just been caught in the act? "Why are you so quiet all of a sudden? Tell me, Ben. Did I say something wrong?" He smirked at Ben's silent expression, " Yeah...I guess what I said is correct. Fucking.Traitor."