By Your Side? Always | ALWAYS #1

Chapter 9: Mr. Curiosity & The Cat.

I wake up on Toby's room and he's not there with me... WHERE THE FUCKS ARE YOU TOBIAS ERIN ROGERS????? I get up the bed and... why is it that every time I get to sleep with him I don't have pants? I don't know... but I'm just wearing a burgundy strap top, and some very little boy shorts and my messy bed hair and I feel my toes touch the cold wooden floor and I look up to the bathroom where I look at myself in the mirror, and I see myself with my slight dark circles and I see some bruises over my arms and I don't really care, as I get out of the bathroom and I cover my chest a bit with my hair and I also try to hide myself in it and I slightly smile and walk through his room looking at his belongings, eh.... Why does he have blades, and they're covered in dry blood... he does self-harm? Oh Toby... I slightly gasp and put the blades back where I found them and I see then an old family photo on his drawer with a blonde haired girl, Toby and who seems to be his mom and dad, the blonde girl is his sister then? Why is the photo crossed with black marker where his sister and his father is? Are they dead then?

-Curiosity killed the cat- someone says behind me and I gasp and turn

-W-What?!... Oh my god don't scare me like that! - I yell holding my chest- I thought you were Toby

-Mhm am I that creepy? - Puppeteer raises his eyebrow

-Hum... no, guess not- I nod and laugh to myself

-What are you doing, kinky? - He asks crooning

-Nothing, I have to go- I say and quickly run pass him smiling to my room where I see Annie and Casey still sleeping

I take a quick shower and I stay on my white underwear and I wrap myself in a towel and I put on an oversized knitted sweater and light denim jeans with some black leather slippers and I let my ginger hair dry naturally and I apply normal makeup I always put on, but then.... I hear a loud yell coming from the bedroom and I quickly trot to it and I see how Annie's gasping and breathing heavily and I get to the bed climbing with my legs and I run to hug her shoulders and lean my head on her shoulder as I rub her back feeling her heartbeat going as fast as a train and her breathing tries to regularize and she opens her eyes like plates gasping and a slight moan comes out from her lips and covers her face with one of her hands and turns to see Casey and grabs her chest in relief.

-Annie, relax, it was just a dream- I rub her back and I feel her breathing going back to normal

-Yeah... you're okay- Casey caress Annie

-I'm not worried about myself, the dream was about you.... Casey especially- she responds and I feel her heartbeat going back to normal

-Will you like to tell us what happened in your dream? - I ask looking at Annie's messy hair

-I... I just remember something, Casey... she...- Annie says but stops herself

-She what? Annie you can tell us- I say

-N-No he banned me to tell you- Annie shakes her head

-''He''? Who banned you to tell? - Casey asks

-I can't tell.... He told me that if I tell, we were going to die- Annie shakes her head covering her forehead

-Who told you not to tell, Annie? - Casey asks again

-I CAN'T TELL YOU! - Annie shouts

-Annie, what's going on? - I interrogate her

-STOP! STOP! He's coming, he comes and destroys all of us, takes away our happiness- She covers her ears with her palms

-He comes....- I say and look directly at Casey

-Zalgo- Casey answers

-Fuck...Annie tell us what happened in you dream- I insist