Friends Til' The End

6

I woke up to Chucky poking me in the shoulder saying "wake the fuck up, or you'll be late."

"Okay, I'm up," I said, and Chucky stopped poking me. I gave out a yawn as I stretched. "What time is it?" I asked.

"6:00," Chucky said nonchalantly. I jumped up and got out of the bed, I grabbed some clothes, my brush and toothbrush from my suitcase, before heading to the bathroom. Luckily no one was in there, so I went in and closed the door. I quickly exchanged my comfy pjs for a purple shirt with the words killer on the front, with black jeans, I then brushed my hair and then my teeth to help get rid of the morning breath. Once I was done I went back to my room. He chuckled, "nice shirt," he said. I rolled my eyes, grabbed my school bag, then picked him up and went to the kitchen.

Alice was still here so she gave me a brown lunch bag. The other five kids were already in the front of the house with their boots on, Alice and I put our boots on, while Jayden, Brandon, and Harley left the house as soon as they saw Alice as their school is right across the road as they got to the high school while me, Kyra, and Bree go to the middle school. Bree is in sixth grade, Kyra seventh, and I'm eighth. As the oldest me and Chucky sat upfront. I buckled up with Chucky in my lap, holding him close so my arms acted as a form of a seatbelt.

When we pulled up into the school the three of us got out. I grabbed my bag and went to my first period since I didn't wear a coat as it was warm. Lexy was in the class so when she saw me she came over and sat next to me. "Hey Lexy," I said being polite, trying not to seem like a threat.

"Hi Maya, how was the rest of your night?" Lexy asked.

"Not good, my father is dead and my mother is in the hospital," I said.

"What? Why?" Lexy asked, confused.

"The four-car pile-up. My parents were in it," I said. "I'm at a foster home until my mother gets released from the hospital." The bell rang but the teacher still wasn't here which I found a little strange, but I shrugged it off and continued talking with Lexy.

"Do they know what caused the accident?" Lexy asked and glanced at Chucky.

I let out a growl, "Chucky is my friend. There are two reasons, number one he wouldn't do that to me and number two he's a doll" I said.

"By the way you defend him it sure sounds like he's alive" Lexy stated.

"Hi, I like to be hugged," Chucky said, so I picked him up off the floor and gave him a hug. "Calm the fuck down or you'll blow it. I want you to say, 'I'm sorry about that, I've never had many friends, so with Chucky as a friend I feel the need to defend my friend'" Chucky whispered. I lowered him but kept him on my lap.

"I'm sorry about that, Lexy. It's just that I've never really had many friends growing up, so with Chucky since he is my friend I sometimes feel the need to defend him even if he is a doll" I said.

Then the new principal came in. "Hello class with the car accident last night Mr. Barnes is in the hospital so today's class is a free period" he said, then he left us on our own.

"It's okay Maya, I understand that. But I'm sure you can also understand why I'm so wary about your good guy doll" Lexy explained, and I nodded. I'm lucky enough to have an agreement with Chucky, not everyone is that lucky.

"I do understand, most people who come in contact with Chucky aren't lucky," I said but I felt a tap on my arm from Chucky warning me to not continue with that.

"Devon, Jake, and I have decided that you and Chucky can join us in trying to kill the live Chucky doll. We can talk more at lunch since Junior isn't here today" Lexy said.

"Okay, how about we meet in the library as almost no one will be in there and we can talk with very little risk of anyone eavesdropping" I suggested.

"That sounds good, I'll let them know in our third period biology class," Lexy said. The bell rang signalling the end of class, so I grabbed my bag and stood up.

"I'll see you at lunch," I said as I started to walk away. I made my way to my second period history. Which nothing interesting happened in the third and fourth periods as well.

When lunch came around I went to the library and waited outside for the three of them to show up. "Hey guys" I said when they reached me.

"Hey Maya," Jake said. I went inside with the three of them following me and Chucky. We got to a back table in the library that was pretty secluded so there is little chance of someone overhearing us.

I placed Chucky next to me in a seat as the table had six seats, Devon, Lexy, and Jake sat opposite of me and Chucky. "I'm sorry to hear about your parents," Devon said.

"It's okay I still have my mother, it would be a shame if she died," I said, directing the message to Chucky not to touch her. "I'm hoping to visit her soon," I said, "that is if they allow me to."

"So how should we get rid of Chucky," Lexy asked.

"Why did you give Chucky to Lexy, Jake? It'll help come up with a plan if I can get the full story" I asked.

"Okay, I'll start from the beginning. I got Chucky at a yard sale where I was going to add him to a sculpture that I was working on but his head wouldn't come off so I grabbed a pocket knife and before I could cut it off my father came home and ended up activating his voice control. That night I searched up good guy dolls online and saw that they were being sold for hundreds of dollars. The next day I brought Chucky with me to school. Lexy at that time was a huge bully. She ended up posting a donation page as a way to taunt me. Later that day I got a phone call from someone named Andy Barclay wanting to buy the doll. He warned me to be careful of the doll and to check for batteries so when I looked and saw that there were no batteries, like any sane person I threw him in the trash. The next day was the talent show. Anyways after I got home from the talent show my father and I got into a fight which made Chucky believe that he deserved to die. He ended up electrocuting him. I ended up moving to Junior's house as he's my cousin. Chucky convinced me to try and kill Lexy stating that some people just deserve to die. He told me some things about his past. I obviously failed to kill Lexy. After the Halloween party where Lexy dressed up as my dead father, it kinda pushed me to find a way to kill her. When she came to apologise she said that her little sister wanted Chucky. After talking to Chucky about it I gave him to her so he could kill Lexy. After that, I ended up turning my back on him and his psychotic ways" Jake explained. I could feel Chucky's anger become more than I've ever felt it before. I reached over to him and tapped him on the shoulder. "If you don't mind, can we check to make sure that he's just a doll?" Jake asked. I felt a tap on my leg as Chucky's arm was resting against my leg as a way to communicate.

"Sure," I said and picked him off the chair and gently laid him flat on the table. I opened the velcro that was holding his shirt together and then opened the battery compartment. In the compartment, there were two C-batteries, "Happy?" I asked as I closed the compartment and did up his shirt. They took a sigh of relief knowing that Chucky had batteries and wasn't talking by himself.

"Very," Lexy said, as I put Chucky back in his seat.

"Okay now that we are 80% sure that Chucky is a doll, how do we get rid of Chucky?" Devon asked.

"We could try to bait him to a secure location" I suggested. "Could we call the other Chucky something else so it's not confusing?" I asked as it was weird talking about destroying Chucky when Chucky is sitting right next to me, even though I do know he's alive it'll be a way to distinguish between the two.

"Um, sure, we can call him Lakeshore," Jake said. I smiled, grateful that they were willing to change his name. "But I think that's a great idea, we'll just need to find somewhere we can lure him to."

Then the bell rang so I stood up, grabbed Chucky and said "I'll see you guys later" and left the library. I made my way to art class. Once I sat down with Chucky in the seat next to me, the teacher had us draw a picture not looking at the paper, we had to draw a still life of three candles.

I finished the drawing and looked down and as expected it was all over the place. With 10 minutes left to class, I flipped the page and did some little doodles until the bell rang. Once it did I packed up, grabbed Chucky and left to head to the gym.