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Only I can decide

Ray Monds mind is running faster than normal, even with her HDMI. She's thinking about Chatterbox in the ICU. All of the notes she left him. How scared she was, that she didn't get the chance to talk to him before he was unresponsive. "I can't do that to him. I have to tell him what is happening. 
*Dialing Chatterbox*
Chatterbox doesn't answer.
*Dialing Chatterbox*
Chatterbox doesn't answer.
*Dialing chatterbox*
Chatterbox doesn't answer. 
"UGH FUCK! Answer the phone chatty, "Be safe, call if you need anything." She repeats Chatty's prior sentence in the phone call right before she went to do something he didn't know about. "How the fuck am I supposed to call you when you don't FUCKING ANSWER THE PHONE!!! AAAAAAHH" She screams.  she's awake and really awake. This is not a slumbered dream land that she's in, and Chatterbox isn't answering his phone. "Oh God, what if Bonbon went crazy and really did go after Chatty! He said he wouldn't but why the fuck wouldn't he. He himself has said before, Never trust a clown" Ray trying not to panic picks up her phone one more time! 
*Dialing Chatterbox*
"Heeeyy Cups!" 
"Chatty, Chatty, Chatty, Chatty, where are you at?? Are you okay!?"
"I'm fiiinee Cups, I had a headache and took a nap for a little bit, What's up?!?" 
"I need to talk to you Chatty, where are you at right now?" 
"I'm at the Fun House. Are you coming back here?" 
Silence on the other end from "his cups" is more than concerning. There's no other thought going through his mind other than fear!
Cups?

"Yes, I'm on my way!" 

"Are you alright, Cups? Who do I need to Yuckin' kill." 
"Um, you may actually need to kill a couple of people." 

"I'll explain when I get there!" 
"Alright, Cups, I'll be here. Don't drive too fast. It's gonna be okay! We'll make it okay, I promise!" 

"Okay, Chatty see you soon."
Chatterbox is beside himself, "

Ray Monds mind keeps going back to Date, and Majesty, and how much that pissed her off. "He knew that it got under my skin, but I think I handled it pretty well. Right? He didn't know that I was flustered, I stayed calm, right?" She tries to sooth herself in the fact she made a mistake by not telling Chatty. "We just talked about being more open and honest with one another I should have fucking told him. I am a horrible person. I don't know what made me not tell him. He's not controlling he would have never forced himself into the situation. He would have only wanted to know that I'm safe. I just hope he doesn't hate me, I did lie to him. I just wanted to do this on my own. He'll understand that right?" Ray Mond continues to try to rationalize all the way to pulling up to the dirt road to the fun house. She pulls up near the stairs, Jumps out of the car. And simply stands there.

"I can't go in there, I just can't. He's going to hate me forever. I did one of the things I said I would never do. I did one of the things that is out of my character. Maybe I really am who Bonbon says. Maybe I'm just like him. I'm going to end up alone,  away from my clown family wanting to kill people. I just HATE THIS!!" 
Ray Monds screaming brought Chatterbox out onto the porch of the fun house.

"Cups, Cups, What the yuck is going on here! Why are you yelling and scaring the yuck out of me??"

"Cause I'm scared to come in the house!?" 
"What? Why are you scared for Cups?" 
"Cause I lied to you Chatty?" 
"You WHATTT?" "What about Cups?"
"Cups, Come inside Cups, Lets talk about it! It's okay, Cups!" 

"It's not okay Chatty, I've never lied to you before Chatty. I"m ashamed of myself, and angry that I did it but now I need to tell you what happened, and I'm just trying to figure out what everything means, and I'm just sorry that I lied, and I kept touching my scars, and thinking about how you were so open and honest, and trusting of me, and now you can't trust me anymore, And I just don't know what to do!"

"Cups, Cups Cups Cups, Hi Cups, YUCKING LOOK AT ME! "

Ray Mond raises her eyes to meet Chatty's, He sees how dark her eyes have turned, "Only I can decide whether I chose to yucking trust you!" Chatty picks her up and carries her trembling self into the Fun House. 
"Where do you want to talk about this Cups? In my room?"
"Yes Chatty, Lets go to our room."
Chatterbox's heart skipped a beat just then, but he can't entertain that thought at the moment, something is wrong with "His Cups" and he has to find out what it is. He sits her down on the bed, sitting beside her. He wraps the weighted blanket around her shoulders to calm her anxiety. "Now that we are definitely eye to eye. Did you hear me Cups, Only I decide whether to trust you or not! Do you hear me?! Only me no one else, You can't decide for me, Kirk, Sooty, Ursula, Only me! No you can decide anything when it comes to you cups. You can't decide, if I worry, If I love you, If I need you. You have no choice in that Cups. The only thing you have control over is if you want to have the same feelings back. Only you are in control if you trust me, worry for me love me need me. That's in your control. and I'm telling you right yucking now. I chose to have you be a part of my life for a long yucking time, Cups. I don't want you to ever be afraid to walk into this house and tell me anything. Do you understand! I want us to be open and honest always, I want you to trust me with this because I Love you Cups! 

Ray Mond didn't expect any of this to come from anything that had transpired earlier that day. She looked up at Chatty her eyes meeting his and turning that soft color that he's used too, "I um. I like you alllott Chatty, I'm I uh, I'm not sure. That I'm there just yet!"
"That's okay cups, I'll be here when you are. BUT I need to know that your yuckin safe, because of that reason. So please Cups, Tell me what happened. 
"So, I had a meeting with Bonbon, I didn't tell you. I didn't tell anyone. I just went."
Chatterbox, stays silent allowing cups to talk uninterrupted, a side from an occasional acknowledging  reply. 

Ray Mond proceeds to tell Chatty everything that transpired from the meeting with Bonbon. even him saying it was a date, and her reaction to him calling her "Hiccups" and "Majesty" 

The question that Ray Mond was so afraid of escapes Chatty's lips, almost as if its in slow motion. "Why did you tell me you were doing something different, I am avoiding the word lie, for a reason. I feel that you didn't yucking lie on purpose Cups. I know you.:

Ray Mond looks down at the ground. "I didn't tell you because, I knew you would worry, and I wanted to do this, myself just me. I didn't want to involve you and the clowns. I didn't want you to end up in ICU again. I couldn't handle that on my jumbled brain at the moment. " 

Chatterbox sighs "But Cups..." Ray Mond continues before he can finish speaking "I didn't even think about him hurting me, I didn't think about you being able to save me.  I did send Max my ping though. Just in case something happened. "

"He did tell me not to tell the clowns or anyone about it, but why should I fucking trust him. After He stabbed me twice."
"That's Yuckin' right, you shouldn't!"

Chatterbox sighs, "So lets say you play this game of cat and mouse huh? What happens next."

"He said "Maybe he'd see me for our second date soon!" So what  I'm thinking is, I ask him to that second date. Stab him. And then ocean dump him. Then it's over,  like over over." 

"So, how do you want to handle this Cups? You sure you don't need my help?

"If I kill Bonbon and BBMC finds out then yeah I might need your help, But not until then."

"I won't get involved. Cup's the only thing I ask, is that you text me your location so I have at least a chance to get to you."
He said some weird things tho Chatty!"      

"What do you mean he said weird yuckin' things?" 
"He said that he knows me. He knows me more than you do!" "He said I just have that look in my eye, he thinks that I enjoy, Killing people." 
"Don't worry about it Cups, He doesn't know what he's yucking talking about!" 
"I mean I only kill people that deserve it right?" 
"That's yucking right!" 

"Okay, Chatty." 

"But, Cups, You have to promise that you don't meet with him unless you send me your location. So I have a hope of getting to you, If something happens, okay?"
"I mean I wouldn't mind you coming, but I need to be the one to finish this! I want to sink my blade into his neck. and watch his blood, disperse into the water!" 
"Yuck, okay then Cups! I want to watch you do that!" 

"Uh, about earlier Cups. You know the things I said, did i uh, cross a line?" 
"Hmmm, I don't think so Chatty, and only I can decide that!"