Brotherly love.Creature Feature fan fic.

Chapter 13

For the past three days I have been terribly sick and Curtis has been taking care of me, really nice of him to do so. Yesterday I stopped throwing up, instead I am stuck with a bad cough and a sore throat. The cough is rough, every time I cough my chest hurts. I wake up in Curtis's bed, I look around and see that Curtis isn't in the room, I feel fine so I decide to see if I can find him, so I get out of bed and walk out into the hall. I walk downstairs and notice the basement door is open and the lights are on, so I go down. I walk all the way downstairs and I scream at what I see, Curtis has hung himself, he is hanging from the rafters. I run over and pick the chair up and put it underneath Curtis, but it is too late, he is dead, I fall to the floor and cry. When I wake up I see Curtis is no longer in the room with me, I instantly start to cry and I start screaming "CURTIS! CURTIS! CURTIS!" and I can barely hear his footsteps coming up the stairs. Curtis runs into the room and holds me tightly saying "Calm down, calm down, I'm right here, tell me whats wrong" I stop screaming and instead I cry and cling tightly to Curtis, I was so scared the nightmare had come true. "Calm down Erik, I'm right here and everything is okay, tell me whats wrong" Curtis says, "I had a n-nightmare, you h-hung yourself and w-when I t-tried to h-help it was to late, y-you were already g-gone" I sob, Curtis hugs me tightly and says "It's okay, nothing like that will ever happen, I will always be here for you and I will never leave you, I promise", I continue to cry, I can't stop and I don't know why, maybe because I love Curtis so much that the thought of losing him is to much to handle.

Curtis hugs me tightly and rubs small soothing circles on my back in an attempt to calm me down, it is starting to work. After about 5 minutes of heavy crying I am reduced to sniffles, my tears have soaked the chest of Curtis's shirt, I pick my head up and say "S-Sorry", "For what?" Curtis asks not letting go of me, "For soaking your shirt" I reply, "Don't worry about it, I am more worried about you than some shirt" Curtis says. "You okay?" Curtis asks me and wipes the tears from my eyes, I know I am not okay but I just nod to let him know that I am, "Good, are you hungry?" Curtis asks, for once out of the many days I have been sick I am actually hungry, so I nod, "Okay, lets go downstairs" Curtis says standing up, I stand up as well, ever since yesterday I have been able to stand and walk on my own without any help, my strength has come back. I walk downstairs with Curtis and to the kitchen, I sit down on the counter just so I can reach the top shelf in one of the cabinets and grab some cereal, vanilla chex. "I don't think it would be good for you to have milk since you are just getting over being sick" Curtis says, I just sigh and put the cereal back, one thing I really want is cereal. "Would you like pancakes?" Curtis asks me, I just nod, "Okay" Curtis says and gets the box of pancake mix. In a good few minutes pancakes are done, I start to eat but Curtis doesn't "Aren't you going to eat?" I ask, "I already did about an hour ago" Curtis replies, I just say "Okay" and continue to eat. Once I am done I put my plate in the sink and start to wash it, while I am washing my plate I decide to wash the other dishes in the sink, in about 2 minutes I am done, there wasn't many dishes. As I turn around Curtis is standing behind me, I jump and smack him in the arm. "That wasn't nice" Curtis says in a childish tone, "Neither was you scaring me" I reply, "Ya, but it was fun though" Curtis says, then he holds the bottle of cold medicine in front of me saying "Just take it one more time and you should be good. I just want to make sure you really get over being sick".

I just look at the medicine and say "No, I am fine, I am not... Fine I'll take the medicine", I was going to refuse but I'm really not in the mood to be spanked. Curtis pours some medicine into a spoon and holds it in front of me saying "Good boy, you decided not to fight", I quickly take the medicine and make a face of disgust, I swear that does not taste like cherry like it is supposed to. "Okay, since you are feeling better would you like to go for a drive?" Curtis asks, I just nod, I nice drive should be relaxing, "Okay, get dressed and I will be waiting down here for you" Curtis says, I just nod and half run half walk out of the room and up the stairs. Once I am dressed I walk downstairs where Curtis is waiting, I realize he is wearing a different shirt. "Ready to go" Curtis asks holding the car keys, I nod. Once Curtis and I reach the car Curtis looks at me and says in a very stern tone "I am warning you right now, if you roll out of the car while it is still moving again I will spank you with my belt. Do you understand?", I just nod and get in the car.

The drive is really relaxing, no music, no talking, just watching everything pass by. Soon Curtis starts to talk about creepy games, I listen with interest. Curtis is talking about some game called the "Bath Game". The game sounds really scary and I want to play it, so I say "I'm gonna play it", "Like hell you are" Curtis says, "Besides, I thought we could play the Midnight Game", "What is that game about?" I ask. "Well, it is an ancient pagan ritual to summon a beast or something to punish rule breakers, I just read about it two days ago and I read it once. If you want to play you are going to need a piece of paper, a pen or pencil, a needle or pin, a container of salt, a large candle, a box of matches or lighter and a house with a wooden front door." Curtis says, "Tell me more" I say, Curtis explains all the steps, I listen with interest, "So... Are we gonna play this game?" I ask, "Now that I think about it a bit more I think we wont do it, it has a chance of possession and death and I don't want anything bad happening to you" Curtis says, then I say "I will just sneak out and play it", "You better not" Curtis says, "Don't worry, I was joking" I reply. For the rest of the ride Curtis talks about other games, he got to a game called Kokkuri-san. Kokkuri-san is a game from japan, it is like an ouija board except it is totally safe, and it is paper, not a board, Curtis says when we get home we can play Kokkuri.

Curtis drives for another hour before he stops to fill the car with gas and go home. Once home Curtis goes to get the material to make the Kokkuri board. Curtis and I soon find ourselves sitting on the living room floor with our index fingers on a quarter as we chant "Kokkuri-san, Kokkuri-san, if you're here, please move this coin", we say it about 5 times before the coin moves to yes and then starts to slide around the paper, "Are you doing this?" I ask, "I thought you were doing this... Ask it a question" Curtis responds. I think about what to ask it before I say "Does anyone love me?", the coin moves and spells out Curtis's name, "I already knew that" I say, Curtis chuckles and says " I honestly cant think of anything to ask it", "Me neither" I say, "Shall we end the game?" Curtis asks, "Sure" I reply, "Kokkuri-san, Kokkuri-san, please return home" Curtis and I both chant, the coin moves to yes and then to the red torii. "Okay, now we have to rip up or burn the paper and spend the coin by the end of tomorrow" Curtis says, I nod and start to rip up the paper. Once done I am tired so I decide to take a nap, Curtis nods and says "I'll be in my room writing", then we both head upstairs and head to our rooms. I lay down on my bed and realize I cant sleep, I lay there for about 2 hours before I fall asleep, I hate being an insomniac.