welcome home - ticcimask [ENG]

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Toby had stopped crying after a while. His eyes felt tired and dry. His cheeks felt crusty, from all the tears.
It may sound ridicolous, but he loved this moments. Right after crying, his body was to tired to tick.
Finally he could calm down. His heart has reached a normal pace, his body wasn't moving at all. Only his eyes were moving around, but he didn't really remembered what was going on in his room. He just moved his eyes. From left to right, up to down, all around- until he heared a knock.

He flinched and pushed himself away from the wall. Immediatly his body ticked.

"Fuck.."

He mumbled as he carefully crawled away, watching the door.
Again, there was a knock.

Then silence.
Until he heared someone put something in the lock. It sounded metallic and then the door was pushed open. 

Jane walked in. Casually she put her bobby pin back in her hair. She closed the door, she carried a plate. The beautiful female turned around, but didn't move. She scanned the situation with her eyes, her mouth slightly turned into a smile.

"So. I heared you've met Jeff."

Toby remembered BEN calling the crazy knife guy that name. He nodded.

Jane sighed.

"He's an asshole. But I also heared you punshed him. And that's why I respect you."

She smiled. Toby blushed, she really looked like a model. But right after her face turned blank.

"You'll have to learn a lot about this place. Yeah Jeff might be an asshole. But none of us are good. Not even you. The guy you saw was Slenderman. He's something like the leader of us. Don't be scared of him, he brought you a new home. So respect him. "

Again, Toby nodded. This was a bit much. Jane reminded him of somebody, it calmed him down. She seemed like he could trust her. He knew that she knos more than him. 

"I brought you food. You'll need to eat."

She put down the plate.

"You live on a floor with two guys named Masky and Hoodie. Don't open their doors or the other doors on this floor. The door to my room is downstairs, rigt next to Sallys. Hers is painted bright pink, you can't unsee it. I'll be there for you, if you need me. Bye"

She opened the door again.

"Tha-ank yo..u" 

Toby whispered as she left his room. He stood up and locked the door again. The plate was picked up by his hand. He sat down on his bed with it and started eating. 

It tasted disgusting. But Jane was right, ne needed it.

After that, Toby spend the whole day in his room.

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The brown haired boy had a problem: No matter how hard he tried he couldn't sleep.
He rolled around. He ticked. He opened it his eyes and closed them again. Then he strated rolling around again. He just couldn't sleep.
Toby felt exhausted, his day may seem boring, but the amount of information he had to proceed felt massive. It robbed his energy, but STILL, how could he not fall asleep??

He sighed and stood up. 
Toby walked to his bathroom and splashed some cold water in his face. He pet on the tap and let the cold water run over his forearms. 
He took a deep breath and let his hair fall into his face. After that, he decided to walk into the kitchen. Maybe some food would help.

He walked the now familiar way, not laughing. Toby was ticking even now and then, but he could keep it down. He was to exhausted to have an attac. 
Toby pushed his hair out of his face, he had his mask on. He saw light, was BEN there?

He walked through the door.

"Toby!"

Toby smiled under his mask, looking at the boy he knew.

"C'mon sit down buddy."

He walked forward.

"U-uhm actua-a-ally I wanted to.. to get s-some food!"

Toby fiddled with his fingers, looking at the door to the kitchen.

"Ohhh sure, can you get me an energy?"

Toby nodded. He went into the kitchen and came back with an energy drink for BEN and him and some waffles. 
He sat down next to him and opened his can. 

"Sorry because of Jeff."

"I-it's ..kay"

BEN ignored him and kept on talking.

"It's a thing we do. Y'know we-"

He stopped and concentrated on his game, killing a enemy.

"Fuck-"

"Yes!"

Toby listened and watched the screen carefully.

"Uh anyways, Jeff and I, we're like good buddys. But we also hate each other. Y'know..like, I would straight up punsh him in the face, till he's bleeding, but I would also give up my life for him."

"S-sure"

Toby didn't really understand, but as long as they seem to be happy with it, he would accept it.

"Still, It wasn't okay of him to punsh you. You're knew, it'S obviously that you don't know our thing."

"Mhm.."

The dark brown eyed boy took a sip of his drink, put on his hood and leaned back. 

BEN and he enjoyed the night together. They weren't talking much, but still, the both of them had fun, watching or playing games. 
Neither of them got sleep.

In the morning, Toby walked back to his room. He didn't meet anybody else, he ate in his room and in the evening he went back to the living room with BEN.

That's how the young adult spend his whole week. 
From day to day he meet the others. All of them were really nice to him. But Toby wouldn't lie, when he said that he was scared. Especially Jeff was somebody he feared. He didn't talk to him ever since, and he didn't want to.

Toby didn't get sleep the whole week, he felt exhausted, but it was the way he felt the savest.

He didn't see the tall man again.

He didn't see the masked man again.