The Killer's Girl (Watty Awards 2013)

Chapter 23- Meeting Karen

Jeff's P.O.V.

I glared at BEN. "So? Quit being a pussy and get in the damn water!" I snapped. Iris smacked me, hard. "He's sensitive! Be gentle. How would you feel if I told you to hold a lit match in front of your face?" I shut up.

We all sat in silence until I ran forward and pushed BEN into the water as hard as I could, chuckling a bit. "Swim, bitch!" I turned around to see Iris looking at me in horror. "You bastard!" She ran unto the water, trying to save BEN, who was thrashing and crying.

She pulled him out to the other side of the river, where she laid him down. I stepped into the water and began to swim towards the other side. It wasn't too deep, so I don't know what BEN was so upset about. He could be such a big whiner sometimes!

When I got to the other side, Iris was glaring at me. "Iris... Don't be pissed... Please..." She slapped me across the face, hard. "He's my friend, Jeff. You really freaked him out! Now... He's just curled up in a ball, crying. I turned my head to see BEN in the fetal position, weeping. "Iris... It was a joke..." She froze where she was. "What if someday, one of our kids are afraid of water and you throw them in. Then, they drown. Will it be a joke then?"

We walked towards the house. BEN was still very shaken as we walked towards the house. Iris wouldn't speak to me, and BEN was too startled to talk to either of us. Man, had I fucked up. I may have just cost myself the only thing that mattered in my life.

When we got to the house, I knocked on the door. "Hold on a minute, lemme finish this." I heard a scream from inside, and the door opened. A young woman with shoulder length black hair, a pale completion, a small nose and green eyes opened the door. "What is it?" she asked with a deep, somewhat threatening voice. "Well... We need a place to rest... We're desperate... Please...?" Iris begged. The woman stared st us for a while before letting out a deep sigh. She stepped aside and we walked in.

"Hello. I'm Karen." She shook Iris's hand. "I'm Iris. This is my friend, BEN, and my lover, Jeff." Karen smiled and nodded. "Nice to meet you." Karen saw BEN. "What's wrong with him?" she asked. "I pushed him into the river surrounding your house. He can't swim, so he got freaked out." Karen gave me a look. "You, sir, must be a class A douche bag to do that." Iris stood in front of me. "Hey, leave him alone. I already gave him an earful for it."

We all sat down. "Would you three like a shower? I have a shower, each of you can use it." We all nodded. I gave Iris a lustful look. "What? ... Are you thinking about what I think you are?" I nodded with a grin on my face. "... Fine. We'll shower together, but nothing goes in anything, you understand?" I sighed and nodded. "I get it." I took her hand. "We'll be showering together." I explained to Karen. She nodded and pointed it out.

I pulled Iris into the bathroom, ripping her shirt off and then her bra. "Jeff...Remember, we aren't doing anything... Okay?" I nodded, smiling. "Alright... Proceed." I kissed her neck softly a few times before I pulled off the rest of her clothes. She helped me get out of my clothes and we slipped into the shower. Hot water began to wash away the sweat and dirt from our bodies. Iris laid her head on my chest. "I still can't believe you have a six pack." she said, her voice somewhat muffled. "It's called being a boxer. I train a lot... I've been training for a good six years, now." She nodded and brushed her hand through my hair.

I pressed my lips against hers and began to suck on her lips. She nibbled my lower lip a bit and I asked permission to let my tongue go into her mouth. Iris granted permission and soon, we were in a heated make-out session. Iris was clearly the one leading it, as she pressed me against the wall of the shower and rubbed her hand across my dick. "I... Hope... You... Know... How much... Self restraint... I'm using right now... Right?" I asked her in between kissing. "And... I... Hope... You... Know... That... I'm tempted to... Bang you... Right now... Bang you... So hard..." she whispered back. I traced her scar with my finger. "Good... We should do that... After our shower..."

When we stepped out, Iris put her clothes on and I put on mine. "Well, we should be getting to bed... Let's talk to Karen." Iris nodded and we walked out. Karen was talking to BEN on the couch. "Hey, I was just talking to your friend here. He told me about the thing with that Liu kid." BEN stood up. "I'm taking a shower, now." He walked off quietly. "He seems so sweet!" she laughed. "He is, trust me." Iris said, smiling.

"So... Explain to me what you're doing here. I'm kinda curious." Iris looked at me and I smiled. "I'll explain. So, Iris, BEN, and I are all from a community of other creepypastas. Everything was pretty normal until a girl named Pinkamena and her boyfriend, Laughing Jack moved in. Everything went to shit from that point on." She gestured for me to continue. "Oh... We were kicked out when Iris decapitated Pinkamena. We left for a while, and when we came back, Slender Man-" Karen gasped when I said Slender Man, then went silent. "Uh... Karen... You okay?" I asked. She slowly nodded. "I... I'll be fine. Just continue." I looked at Iris and she shrugged. "So, it turns out, he was in love with Pinkamena. When he found her, he resurrected her and she told him that we'd killed her. Well, we did, but the bitch left out quite a few details, like the fact that she attacked us. Slender Man told us that we were a harm to the group and his new fiance, Pinkamena. I suppose she agreed to marry him or something, but any way, he banished us here. BEN came with us because he's a great friend and didn't want to let us go alone. So... That's how we ended up here."

Karen quickly stood up. "I... I need a minute..." She ran off into one of the rooms. "I'll go check on her. It's probably some girl thing." Iris sighed, standing up. I watched as see entered the room. I jumped up and put my ear to the door after she closed it to listen in on the conversation. "Hey... Karen... Are you okay?" Iris asked. "I... I'll be fine." Karen sniffed and began to cry hard "I'm not the greatest at comforting people, but what's wrong?" Iris asked. "I... I should tell that long haired boyfriend of yours, too. BEN should also know." I ran back to the couch and sat down. Karen was wiping her eyes with a tissue. "Are you okay?" I asked. "I'm fine."

When BEN came out, Karen gestured for him to sit down. He nodded and did so. "Okay... You have all told me who you are... Guess I should introduce myself a little more. My full name is Karen Moon. I met Slender Man when I was fifteen, Right now, I'm twenty one. I'm an immortal, and I am one of the few people who is capable of entering and exiting the underworld, and I'm a Pagan. One more thing... I'm in love with Slender Man." All of us stared at her in wonder. "Would you please explain?" BEN asked.

"When I was fifteen, I was lost in his forest. I didn't know where to go, and I was pretty sure that I was a goner. Then, he appeared in front of me. I screamed and began to run away, but while I was running, I twisted my ankle. When he was right over my head, I prepared for death. All he did was pick me up gently and comfort me. When I was with him... I felt strangely happy. He asked me if I would come back again, because he thought I was interesting. I hadn't said a word, but apparently, he'd read my mind and learned my past. So that's what I did. I visited him every day. Slowly, I began to fall in love with him. I knew that he was beginning to feel the same. My life slowly became... Perfect. It became happier than ever. I came from a household with two parents who were always working and no siblings, so it was pretty lonely."

Her eyes began to fill with tears and she put her face in her hand. "But then... I did something stupid." We all looked at her. "What?" Iris asked. "I... I got a boyfriend." We all stared at her. "I began to meet with Slender Man less and less. It made me sad, but a part of me was convinced that this other guy, Henry, was my love... One day, I took him into the woods and he kissed me in the center of the woods, while standing on the log that Slender Man and I would sit on when we talked. Slender Man saw us... And he killed my boyfriend. I was furious at first, angry that Slender Man had killed the guy I loved. So, I screamed awful things at him, saying that I hated him and hoped he'd die. But then I saw what was in his hand which he had been hiding behind his back. A gun. Who brings a gun on a date in the forest? Henry, my boyfriend, was planning on killing me. Slender Man saved me after all I'd done to him. I looked up to see that he was nowhere to be seen. Slender Man was gone... Now, I know, he went to that group of yours... And he's getting married."

Iris put her hand on Karen's shoulder. "Karen... We need to leave. You said you can help us, right?" she asked. "Yeah, I can help you. On one condition, though. I come with you to win Slender Man back. Deal?" She turned to me and stuck her hand out. "... Deal." I shook her hand.