Heartless (slender mansion)

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Jade's POV:

I start walking quietly through the mansion with my heart pounding in my throat. I try to search for Jeff's room, since I'm his roommate now, or whatever. An uneasy feeling overcomes me as no one is out of their rooms and everything is dark.

After a couple of minutes of wandering around I notice there are no open doors, and I wouldn't dare to knock on any of them. I can't believe how unbothered I can be in a house full of psychopathic strangers, but the truth is I truly don't care if I live or not. I wouldn't have anything or anyone to fight for, everyone and everything that I had left. The only person I have left is Lea, which is why I'm so focused on not losing her.

I think I'm losing my mind. Would a person who's losing their mind realise it? Would a person who's not losing their mind feel like they are? Am I truly losing my mind?

I hit a dead end in the hallway as my soul feels empty and my life feels wasted. I realise there's no point in searching for the bedroom, so I just head to the closest bathroom and go in. I turn on the lights, but they're barely working. The light bulbs are close to dying. I sit on the cold floor as I notice a pack of cigarettes and a lighter next to it. I hesitatingly pick them up and light up a cigarette. I don't know who's they are; but no one would notice that one cigarette is missing, right? It's almost full.

I open up the window as I admire the beautiful trees slightly lit up by the dim lights outside of the house and the breathtaking moon. It's a full moon tonight. I love the moon. And the stars, which even though they're barely viisble tonight, are still shining.

The slight wind makes my hair move around and makes me feel a little more alive. Maybe this is where I belong. With a bunch of people who, even though they don't understand eachother, all share one thing. Their fucked mental state. I wonder who I could've been if I never faded into the grey, before all my energy and motivation left my soul; maybe I could've been extremely smart and been a straight A student, or maybe I had a secret talent that I never got to discover.

I finish my cigarette and throw it in the toilet. Before I can flush, I hear the bathroom door open and i shoot my head to my left to see Jane about to come in. My heart drops in my stomach, I don't know why. I panic; "Uh, I'm peeing." I say. She stares at me for five seconds and I stare at her back, then she comes in. I rise my eyebrows and we lock eyes for a few seconds again. "Are you lost" she says.

"Yeah, where's Jeff's bedroom?"

"First, are you okay?"

I make a confused face. "Yeah. Are...you?"

"You don't seem okay."

"Just show me where his bedroom is please." I answer.

She leads me to the other side of the hallway and points to the door. "Good night."

"Good night..." I say quietly. I don't want to sleep. I don't know who I can trust in this hellhole and I don't know what they would do if i did something wrong.

I enter the room to hear jeff snoring like a pig and sleeping like a baby, so i try to quietly close the door behind me but he wakes up. "Why are you still up?"

"I got lost."

"Oh. Sleep." He says with an unbothered sleepy voice. I notice his room has two beds so I walk to the back of the room and get in bed. "You smell." He says.

"Wow. Rude."

"No, you smell like smoke, Jade." Shit.

"Well, I don't smoke, maybe it's you."

"No, it's you who smells."

"No it's not, I felt it when I entered your room." I lie.

"Whatever." He says, and falls back asleep. Ha, I lied and still won.