Photography - A Spooky Month x Reader.

PROLOGUE PT 3: Photo Frames.

"Uhhhh.. hey!"

Radford exclaimed, quickly letting his head face the box yet again. Bending bis arm back, he slowly reached into the wide but delicate space.

Y/N's eyes trailed over his slim hand as it fumbled around briefly in the shadows—before finally shooting back. Held in his hand right then was a photo frame.

"Why don't we—take out some of your photos? We can even look over them if you want!"

"..look over them?" I repeated. "Radford, why would I wanna do that? We're supposed to be unpacking."

"C'mon—it wouldn't hurt!" He giggled, "We can just look over them real quick and get back to unpacking some of the other stuff!"

Radford blinked, letting the photo he had in his hands drift closer to his chest. He arched a brow, laughing, "Heh—why do you have a photo of a bunch of trees?"

"A bunch of trees?" I repeated.

Though upon letting my eyes scan over the photo, I quickly realized what he was talking about. Dark wood stretched so high up you couldn't even see the puffs of green that must have been on it. A field of soft green grass right below it.

I blinked a few times, feeling my lips give a slight curl of a frown. "Oh. Uh.. I—I dunno. I just sort of.. wanted to take a picture of them."

Radford, with an oblivious smile still on the side of his face, lowered his hand to the wooden ground. The photo frame didn't land harshly, but it landed with a slightly loud thud that made me flinch. I heard the metal of its frame clank against the floor.

My heart began to quicken slightly within my chest, and I spoke softly. "..Ra—Radford."

Within a few seconds, his hands appeared to now be holding another photo frame. This time, it was a photo of—

"What's this one for?"

"..uh.. nothing. It's, uh.."

..It was a small frame of a bright blue void with puffs of white hung from above, with the faint silhouette of a bird flying overhead. The sun that shone from the corner of the photo made a shadow be cast by the creature—but whatever it was appeared to be small, and it's feathers were a bright red color.

Looking at the photo, I.. I wasn't sure why, but my heart began to beat a little more. "Can—can you just.. give it to me?"

"Uh.. yeah! Just gimme a sec. These look kinda sick." Said Radford quickly. Rapid as a bullet, his hand lowered to the floor again, placing the photo frame on top of the other one he had practically slammed onto the ground.

At the sound of it clanking against the other photo frame, I flinched again. A more puzzled look began to appear on my face. Why was he so interested in these photos anyway? I didn't even know he had an interest in this kind of thing. If.. if he had any at all.

Radford laughed to himself—fumbling a little with another photo frame, before lifting it up into his hands.

This time, the photo was of.. a black void. With specks of white scattered all across it. It was a sight I'd.. grown used to. Well, of course I had. I was a human being. And there was a day and night cycle.

The more my eyes lingered over the photo, I felt something weirdly.. heavy begin to dwell within my chest, and I wasn't exactly sure why.

I felt a lump in my throat, and I swallowed.

Radford only looked over it for a few moments, not really bothering to say anything this time. For right then as he looked, his eyes flickered over to the box again, and this time he just sort of.. stared.