No Mask Required

Just Breathe

Ray Mond wakes from her nap in an empty, fun house.
No fire warm in the fireplace, no boyfriend by her side.
Fear hits her stomach like a bomb, "Where's Chatty!" She thought.

She gets up from the floor where her and Chatty previously were just sitting together all cozy.
Ray immediately runs up the stairs to Chatty's room.
"Chatty, are you in here?" She pushes the door open to find only an empty bedroom.
Her heart begins to race,  "CHATTY! Where'd you go?!!" She picks up her phone and dials Chatty's number.
Her heart drops further into her stomach when he doesn't pick up. She continues to dial as she runs out of the fun house.
Chatty's car is sitting by the funhouse.
Ray Mond runs over just to double-check to make sure he isn't getting something out of the glove box.
"Please let that be it." She thought. She reached the car and still no Chatty.

Ray Mond is still continuing to dial Chatty with no answer each time.
Over and over again, she dials, becoming more frantic with each call. *200 Missed Calls*

Ray is desperately trying to make sense of all of this. "I don't understand what the fuck is going on here!!"
*Rays Phone Rings"
        SOOTY
"Sooty!?"
"Ray, Where are you?"
Ray Mond takes a deep breath, and spews to Sooty details of her night,
"I'm at the funhouse sooty, Chatty and I were talking in front of the fire place, we were kind of arguing, but not really, and then uh Chatty asked me if I would give him my heart, and I didn't know how to answer, because everyone always leaves. Then he was telling me how special I was, and that I deserved everything. Then he told me there was no pressure, his arm was around me and I was getting sleepy and he told me he would be here until I was ready to give him my heart. Then I fell asleep and I woke up, and he's not here....he's not here. He's NOT HERE!!! And I'm freaking out Sooty and I don't know what to do!"

Sooty didn't respond right away, and Ray knew something was wrong.
"Hiccups, are you sitting down?"
"No, Should I be? What the fuck has happened Sooty, where's Chatty?"
"Let me come to you, okay cups? I'm two minutes away."
"Sure, Sooty, See you soon! Hurry please!"
Ray pacing up and down the road to the fun house  ran into the house and back up the stairs to the balcony of Chatty's bedroom.
She runs her hand along the bed as she walked by. "Our bedroom" She said. "Where are you chatty, I need you!" she said as she walked out onto the balcony.

"Something has got to be wrong. He would never just leave me. He promised me he wouldn't leave me." Sooty pulls quickly by the funhouse.
She gets out of the vehicle and spots hiccups on the balcony. "Hey Hey Cups, you wanna come down here?  So you can be comfortable?"
"I'm not going to be comfortable until I know where Chatty is." "I understand Cups, but I really think you should come down here so you can sit okay?
I got you some food too cause I wasn't sure if you've eaten."

Ray Monds mind is racing as she walks out of  the bedroom. Touching Chatty's pillow, that she's laid her head on only once.
"I'll see you soon Chatty" She said as she closed the door.
Ray Mond slowly walks down the stairs, and into the room where she and Chatty were just a few hours before.
"Sooty what's happening!" Ray Mond demanded.
"Come sit cups, have something to drink."
"I don't want anything to drink Sooty! I WANT CHATTY!"
Ray Mond now begins to cry, she picks up her phone once more to dial his number. Ringing over and over but no answer.
"Cups, please sit. I have something to tell you."
Ray falls into the couch that her and her king had talked through the night.
"Just tell me Sooty, tell me now. I was to much for him expecting him to wait  was to much wasn't it? I'm to complicated?
Just tell me why he left! and what  I need to do to make it right! I'll do it!" Sooty begins to sniffle "This isn't an easy thing for me to tell you Hiccups, My heart is breaking for you, and all the clowns." "What IS IT SOOTY" Ray Mond screams.
"Hiccups, we're not sure of the details, not even sure why he left the house but Chatterbox was found on the side of the road and had injuries to the head.
More than likely inflicted by a wrench from what they are saying."
Ray Mond Gasp and stands up from the couch so excited!
"So he's in the ICU? Take me to him? He's going to be okay right? He's been hit in the head before. He'll be fine. Come on Sooty take me to the hospital so I can see him, Please!" 

Sooty is crying now, "I wish more than anything that I could take you too him, but Hiccups, Chatterbox's wounds were fatal."
Ray Mond's eyes turn dark as she  falls to the floor, gasping for air.
"Hiccups, I need you to slow your breathing for me okay? You're going to hyperventilate. I need you to breath for me please"
"I Can, I can, I CAN'T. It's not, It can't, I need him!
"I Can't. Do. This. Without Him.
Please tell me it's a joke, tell me you're kidding. Chatty!
PLEASE WALK OUT FROM WHERE EVER YOU"RE HIDING!!"
I...I..I..Can't Breathe. He. Was. My. Heart!

"Breathe Cups, Just Breathe for me okay! BREATHE CUUUPS!"

Ray Mond  opens her eyes, and gasp for breath, she see's Chatty with terror in his eyes! 
Her hearing finally catches up to what she's seeing..."Just take a breath for me, Please cups just BREATH!!

Ray Mond seeing chatty instantly gives her air... Chatty scoops cups into his harms and hugs her.
"Oh My God Cups, What  the Yuck happened. I laid you on the sofa, and went into the kitchen and came back and you were gasping for Yucking air!

Still struggling to breath, she's able to push out the word. "Nightmare"
"Sit up Cups, Breath" Chatterboz continues to repeat....
Ray Mond begins to breath at a more steady pace, she begins to cry.
"Cups, Cups, Cups, What's wrong Cups, Please don't cry. Please don't cry...I'm here Cups!"

"Chatty?" Ray Mond manages to say.
"Yes Cups, What do you need? I'll do anything to make it better Cups. Just tell me what  to yucking do!"
Chatterbox is desperately trying to console "His Cups."

"Keep My heart safe, okay? "....
"I promise you cups.....I will... Just keep breathing for me...."