strangers -Finney Blake

11

Chap 11, Out
NORTH DENVER, 1978

I STAND UP from my spot on the mattress and start to walk around the room me and Finney are trapped in. He was practicing some move I guess Robin taught him and I watched. After a few minutes of watching him he walk over to the telephone box. He gets his rocket ship pen and uses the pointy part to cut the phone wire.

I raise my eyebrow at him since I didn't know what he was doing. He looks at me than walks over to the hole we made. I follow him over to it. He sits on the edge and grabs a bunch of dirt, I watch him do so.

"Hey Lilly" Finney said as he looks over his shoulder at me than back in front of him

"yeah Finney?" I asked as I continue to watch him

" Is it true what Robin said?" Finney turns his hole attention to me as he starts to stand up. I scrunch my eyebrows. I had no idea what he was talking about

"what did he say?" I asked with my face still filled with confusion

"that you like me." He tried to make eye contact with me but I just looked at the wall to the left of me. I felt heat rising to my face. I mentally cursed Robin, who is probably laughing his ass off right now.

"I mean yeah-h" I could see Finney turn pink from the corner of my eye.

"Lilly" Finney said before pulling my face to face him with his finger. I make eye contact with him. Are face were super close. So close I could feel his breath on my face. I could feel my face heat up even more. "I like you to"

I smile as I hear those words come out his mouth. My crush actually likes me back. Something actually good has happened

"o-oh" I smiled and continued to look in his eyes practically getting lost in them. I was in shock. He slowly started leaning in and I couldn't help but lean in as well. What the hell is happening. We were centimeters away from each other about to kiss when the basement lights turn on. We pull away from each other and make are way to the farthest wall.

My heart starts to race even faster but not for a good reason. Uh oh. The basement door started to open and expected to see The Grabber in the door way but no it was a 30 year old looking man

"No Fucking way." The man said as he took another step down the stairs "I knew that he was hiding something from me down here, but holy mary, mother of god"

"please help" me and Finney said at the same time.

"Can you call my dad? Call my sister?" Finney's says quickly

"oh, listen don't worry, he's not here. He had to go into work. Uh im Max, man. Stay calm. No wonder why he was freaking out this morning. Hey do you want to know the story about how I found you-" The dude keep rambling

"no,no,no,no" I said taking a step toward him before Finney pulled me back

"don't worry about it. We can talk about this-" The man got cut off by a axe slicing his head. Me and Finney slightly scream and jump farther back. The man takes a few steps toward us, before falling to the ground, blood spilling everywhere.

I watch the body fall and I suddenly feel like im gonna puke. I put one of my hand on my mouth and the other on my stomach. The grabber stared at us with blood splattered all over his face. The Grabber looked down at- who I think is his brother.

"Look what you made me do. You guys made me kill my brother." The Grabber said taking a step towards the body.

"no. It wasn't us. We.." Finney couldn't finish his sentence out of disgust