No Mask Required

Pinky Promise

Chatterbox is silent.
A tear falls down his mask, his gloved hand reaches up and quickly wipes it away
The only words he can mustard are, "Okay then."

He turns around and walks back into the other room.
Sitting down in front of the fireplace,which is now burning dim.
"Uh, Gonna go get some more wood for the fire outside, I'll be right back."

Ray, still sitting at the table, is reliving all the times that someone walked away.
"This is going to be like every other time." She thought. "I can't fucking do this."
Her damaged heart is so torn, she has such strong feelings for Chatty,
but for her own sake, she wants to run! She thinks,
"I'll rip my own heart out before has to do it later"

She hears the door open and close, Chatterbox is back with the wood.
"Its just me" She hears him say. just so she knows she's safe.
Safe, that's a powerful word for her. He is the first person to teach her what that word ment.
What that feeling is.

Ray Mond stands up walking to the door where she can see the glow of the fire place, she leans up agains the door way.
Her arms crossed she leans her head over and watches chatterbox stoking the fire.
"He's Mine" She repeats inside her head. "Until he's not, because he's dead!" Her mind dooms.
She closes her eyes to try to sweep away all the demons in her head.

Chatterbox turns around, he jumps at the sight of Ray Mond standing in the doorway.
He doesn't dare speak a word. Her eyes are closed "She's thinking" He says to himself.
"She's so beautiful, for the love of yuck, please don't let me lose you cups"
Chatterbox thinks back to the darkest night of his life, the night that he thought he would never love again.
As he held the lifeless body of the one who was his light of his life. "Until she wasn't, because she was dead"

Chatterbox sits back down in front of the fireplace.
He turns around and Ray Mond is no longer there.

"Ray?"
Ray stands up from the stairs, and walked to the door, her face is red and soaked with tears.
"I'm here." Ray says sounds so defeated.
"Uh, um okay. I was just checking. I thought maybe you, um, had snuck out on me without saying goodbye."

Ray drops to her knees, sobbing uncontrolably words flow from her mouth like water down Mnt. Chiliad.
"Chatterbox I can't do this. I can't fucking do this. I'm promised myself I won't "Fall" For any one again. I want to, I reeaaally want to, I want us to be together always.
I've truely NEVER felt like this for anyone before, and it almost scares the life out of me so before I lose my life, when my heart breaks into pieces again,
I'm going to walk away."

He hasn't heard his full name in months.

Chatterbox's heart is on the floor now.
"Ray, slow down! okay? Come in here, Let's sit down and talk about this?"
Chatty pleaded "Please, Cups......Please."
Raymond sighed "Fine, Chatty lets talk."
Chatterbox thinks about an hour ago, when "His Cups" was so happy to see everything he had done for her.
Now to see tears falling from her beatiful eyes is something that he hoped would never be his fault, but it is is fault, and he feared it would continue to be his fault.

Ray Mond walked in front of the fireplace, and sat down in a chair.
Chatterbox was already broken. and it was just one more knife to the back that she didn't come sit next to him.
"Cups, what is happening??" Chatter boxes voice is as soft and steady nothing like Ray Mond has ever heard.

"What do you mean Chatty?" Rays voice is sore and raspy from crying.
"Why were you crying from those beautiful eyes of yours, saying that you're going to walk away from this, from us? Please Ray tell me you're not yucking serious"
Ray Mond immediately looks up from the floor to meet chatty's gaze.
"You've never said that to me before." Ray's breath almost completely taken away.
"Said what?" Chatterbox looks endearingly at "His Cups" "That my eyes are beautiful."
Ray Mond shyly repeats the comment Chatterbox had made.
"I'm sorry cups, I've thought it plenty of times." "Really? Ray Mond asked, her cheeks turning more red with every passing word.
"You really think my eyes are beautiful" 
"Not just your eyes cups, You are beautiful."

Chatterbox's hands begin to shake as she's slowly begining to break down his walls.
"Cups, I've admired your beauty since the first time I saw you, I'm sorry I've never told you before."
Ray Mond is crying even harder now tears again dripping off her chin.
"Come here cups, please" Ray Mond slowly snakes into the floor.
Scooting almost like a scolded child in trouble with their mom.
Chatterbox's shaking subsides now that she's near him.
"Now isn't that better cups?....Over here where it's nice and warm" "mmhmm" Ray responds shaking her head.

"Why are you walking away, Cups. Are you really that terrified of me? Of us? Of this?"

Ray Mond looks into chatty's eyes, she sees anquish that is so deep they both might drown.
"Chatty....I...I...I, am Terrified"
"Of what Ray? What has happend Cups, why are you suddenly so terrified of what we've got going on here"

Ray Mond looks down at the ground, it's to hard to look into those sad eyes!
Chatterbox becoming even more unsettled can hardly control his emotions "Keep it together Chatterbox" He kept repeating to himself.
"I'm not terrified of being with you, I'm terrified of living life without you....Chatty" He felt relieved to hear his name spoken from her lips, "Her Chatty" He hoped  
"I'm scared to not have this everynight! I'm terrified not to wake up with you every mornining, I'm scared to wake up one day and you be gone!"
She sniffle "Just like, Just like  I did the othernight when I woke up with nightmares and you weren't here!"
Ray Mond trying to speak coherently through the crying is paused by chatty. as he reaches up with both of his hands and grabs her face like she had done to his.
Her heart almost stopped.
He's never touched her face before. Chatty wiped her tears from under her eyes and off her chin.
"I'm sorry, Cups, it's so hard for me to see you cry, Its is breaking my heart into little tiny peaces,"
Chatterbox sigh'd "and since it's illegal to lie, by the way you're talking, I'm not sure that I will have you to put them back together."

"I don't even know what I'm saying." Ray Mond sighed
"What you're saying cups is that you don't want to yucking be with me. That's what you're saying!"
"I thought we already talked about this the other night? We both decided we wouldn't leave, we wouldn't run?"

"Um, we di, we did." Ray Mond agrees timidly.
"Didn't you also Pinky Promise me, before you ran you'd um, you'd um you'd come and talk.... talk to me? His voice cracks, and tears begin to pour down Chatterbox's face
"Yes, Chatty.....I..I did Pinky Promise"
"Pinky promises are sacred, Cups"

"I don't want to pressure you, Cups....I just want to make sure I'm understanding this yucking mess."
"Okay?"
"Okay, Chatty...."

"Are you telling me....that you're going to walk away..."

"Are you going to break your promise....?"