I Remember You... (COMPLETE)

Chapter Five

Toby finally showed up. "Hey, Slendy asked what I was doing with the tools and I answered that I was building something. He was suspicious until I said that I was helping you." He said as he dropped the heavy black tool bag on the ground.

I scoffed. "Of course he would say yes to me. I'm one of the only good kids that know how to stay in line. Plus, I make sure that you're behaving too! As long as we're quiet and out of the way, nobody needs to know what we're getting into." I chuckle. My smile was soft but it still pulled at the stitches on my face. One of the downsides of my powers being related to my doll-like figure is that my stitches tend to pull and it's very uncomfortable.

I'm not going to be too prideful and say that I'm Slendy's most well-behaved proxy, but it tends to look like that pretty often. Not going to lie, Toby and I tend to joke around all the time. We wouldn't necessarily "break" the rules, just bend them a few degrees.

Just like the time when Jeff was bullying me so Toby and I made him homemade hot cocoa. Little did the killer know, we put hot sauce in it and his reaction was priceless. Or Lynnie and I were having a prank competition so me and my bestie shaved up a vanilla-scented bath bomb and mixed the powder with a small jar of sugar so when Ben went to make Kool-Aid, he got a very bubbly surprise.

The kind of pranks we pulled were harmless and actually funny. The pranks that Jeff and Ben pulled were hella not okay. Knowing that I have a severe allergy to cherries, Ben switched out my shower gel with concentrated cherry syrup. I had hives for days and it was atrocious.

"What all do we have to do to make our-" Toby stopped for a second to twitch, "Our dream a reality?" He asked.

"Since you took FOREVER to get here, I managed to set everything so our flow of motion didn't have to stop anytime soon. I say with a smile.

Toby nodded and we quickly made our progress grow. It wasn't long before we had the base of the treehouse up. Toby was in the tree, nailing up boards while I was passing up boards and the occasional box of nails.

Our treehouse was completed before sundown. We sat together and I had a piece of paper and a pencil in hand to make a checklist of all the things we would need to bring up here.

A checkerboard and checkersA few notebooksPencils and markers

I shivered slightly before opening the shudders and saw that the sun was almost down. I closed the shudders and added blankets and beanbag chairs to the list.

"Is that everything on the list, Patches?" Toby smiled and twitched again.

I pulled my hair down from my bun and shook my head, causing my long hair to fly everywhere and then slowly settle. "Yeah. I think we should get back to the Manor. Slendy's probably going to give us hell for not showing up for supper." I look down at the floor and sigh. "Plus, Jeff has probably spread rumors about what we're doing up here thanks to that picture from MASKY," I growled his name.

"Hey, no, no, no. He's not worth getting angry over. It doesn't matter what was being said about us. We know the truth and I'll beat Jeff up if it'll make you feel better?" Toby asked hopefully. He was wearing his mouth guard but I knew he was smiling underneath it.

"You don't have to go that far, but it's nice to have someone on my side. If anything, I'll just tell Izzy that her man is acting up again. We all know she's got Jeff on a leash." I said and we both chuckled. "C'mon. Let's go steal some pizza." I said as I climbed out down the latter.

Once Toby made it down we froze and made eye contact. It seems that great minds truly do think alike because we shouted "RACE YA!!" in unison before booking it to the Man