The Promised Neverland

The Unexpected Surprise

It's been a few months almost a year, I've gotten to know my siblings and Mother more. Ace has locked himself in his room for the past few months, and mother is getting worried, so here I am, walking to Aces room, with his food. "I can smell you, Sam. What do you have?" Ace says clearly already at the door. "I-I-I have your f-food, Ace..." I say not knowing what to do. Ace opens the door just a bit and he takes a look at the food then he looks at me. "Hmm..... Fine." He says, then he opens the door and I see him shirtless, and I feel my face starting to heat up. "So uhh... are you gonna just stair or are you going to give me my food, Sam?" Ace says after what felt like forever. "A-Ah, sorry.." I say handing him his food and turning away to go back down stairs. "You're not going to stay?" Ace asks, sounding sad that I'm leaving. "H-Huh?" I say turning back around looking at Ace. "I'm sorry that I'm not... around the people down stairs anymore...." Ace says looking at the food. "Wh-why are you s-sorry..? You n-need your sp-space sometimes.... R-right?" I ask. "W-well.. Yeah...but, I know mother is kinda getting worried every time she approaches my door and asks if I'm ok and other stuff..." Ace says. I could tell that Ace is trying to restrain himself from lunging at me. "You n-need blood... d-don't you?" I ask. Ace nods, and I sigh. "H-How much d-do you need?" I ask, feeling that someone is behind me. "Well, Ace.. I'm glad to see that you are out of your room... kind of.." Norman says and Ace drops his food, eyes changing color. "Wh-why is he l-looking at me l-like that?" Norman asks, clearly scared. "B.....Blood..." Ace mumbles, but not loud enough for Norman to hear. "Wh-what did he s-say..?" Norman asks, I could hear the fear rising in his voice. "..m-maybe you should go N-Norman.. It's not safe to be near him right n-now.." I said pushing Norman away a little. "O-ok..." Norman says, going into the boys' part of the bedrooms. I looked at Ace and I could tell that he was in pain. "A-Ace... p-please.. Go back i-into your room.. I'll-" I start but then Ace takes off towards the boys' bedroom and I hear screams not too long after words and I rush into the boys' bedroom and what I saw, I don't think I could explain it. Let's just say it was.. Bloody. I.. well just ran to my room trying to control myself from biting one of the boys or.. Maybe all of them.. So i just locked myself in my room to control myself which isn't easy.. And with that much blood.. I just went kinda insane.. The smell just taunted me.. It was just hard and painful like normal. It really depends on how much blood though. I could hear mother rushing up the stairs and running into the boys' bedroom to control Ace. "GET HIM OFF OF ME MOTHER!!! PLEASE!!!!" I heard one of the younger ones yell out in pain. "ACE!!!" Mother yelled. "O-okay you n-need to s-stay in control S-Samuel.. Y-your stronger. th-than this.. J-just keep breathing.." I thought to myself. I could hear mother struggling to get Ace back into his room, but once I heard the door shut, I knew that Ace was in his room. Mother knocked on my door. "Sam? Are you ok? Norman told me that you ran into your room after you had seen what happened..." Mother says. "I-im f-fine Mother.." I lied. I didn't want her to worry about another child with controlling issues. "I-im fine M-Mother.. You should g-go take care of the boy or boys who g-got hurt.." I said trying to get Mother to stop worrying about me. "Alright dear.. But please come to me when needed.." Mother said and then walked off. I could hear Ace walking around in his room. I kept taking deep breaths and in a few minutes, I was calmed down. "I wonder why Ace hid his hunger from everyone.. He's not one to hide things from me.. Well.. I mean, this is Ace I'm talking about.. So... yeah, he probably has trust issues..." I thought to myself. Tap. Tap. Tap. I think Ace is tapping on the wall with something. Then I heard something that sounded like beeping...... Morse Code! Ace was using Morse Code to talk to me while he's locked in his room!! But I don't think he knows what he's saying. I went over to the wall and I listened. "Sam...... I blood soon?" I think to myself. "No, no that's not it... Sam, I need blood soon!" I thought to myself and I tapped in reply: 'Okay, I'll get it to you soon, I'll open the door and hand it to you.'. Silence. I think he understood, so I went over to my bedside table and I grabbed a blood bag and I headed over to Ace's door and I opened it and I handed him the blood bag. "Thanks Sam." Ace says, turning away from me and I nodded and shut the door then I headed back to my room.