And So It Begins {NO LONGER A THING}

6.

Before i start.. i just wanna say thanks if you stuck this long... my updates are so slow.... i feel so bad.... well, hopefully when this story get popular, if it does, then it gets faster with updates.... sorry.... ill get to the story now.

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The night of my first official kill, Slender got splendor to decorate the dining hall so we could celebrate. Everyone came into the dining hall to celebrate with me. I'm so proud of myself. I'm sitting next to Jeff and EJ. EJ has an empty plate in front of him.

"Hey! Someone pass me the KIDNEYS!!!!!!!" he yells.

"GET 'EM YOURSELF!!!!" someone at the other end of the table yells back. I think it was Toby.

"MAYBE I WILL!" EJ sits down with his arms crossed.

Jeff stands up and pulls me up with him. "Alright everyone," he starts, everyone stops messing around, "I just wanted to let LJ know that I'm suuuper proud of him, and i couldn't have made a kill more beautiful than that." Jeff starts clapping in my direction and and soon enough, Sally and Splendor are clapping, then everyone else joins in. I hear some whistling and shouting. I feel myself blush, I've never had anyone clap for me other than..... I feel a sudden sadness fall upon me.

I swing my head down low, and sit down. I can't be hear anymore. "Guys.... I need some fresh air. I'm gonna go outside." I stand back up and walk out of the dining hall. i can still hear their cheering and goofing as I walk down the long hall. They're so unknowing... No one knows how much this still hurts me.... After all, it's only been a few days.

I walk outside and into the dark woods. all i have now is the faint glowing moonlight, shining through the trees. I can't help but let a few tears fall from my face. I look down at the fallen leaves, dead and broken. the dirt and twigs poking from beneath the leaves, are a dark brown color and the trees are all big and full of falling leaves. The tears kept falling and I looked around. I thought i heard something in the bushes. I look behind me and see nothing. I turn around.

I was looking at the ground when I turned around so when I looked up I was surprised by what I saw. Jeff was sitting on a tree stump examining his knife like nothing was happening. "Why'd you ditch the party? It's for you ya know."

"I know... Its just...." I sigh, "I don't wanna talk about it...."

"Dude.... I understand what you're going through.... Its hard..."

"You don't understand!" I snap "he was my best friend! And I killed him! How could you ever understand?!"

"Because I killed my whole family!!!" He snaps louder than me.

I stop abruptly, he killed his whole family... I didn't know this... "I-I...."

Jeff calmed down, "its alright... You didn't know..." He sighs, "let's go back... They're gonna miss ya." He smiles and starts walking back.

Jeff... the one guy that I thought had this all together... was just like me... He killed all he ever knew. He murdered his mother, his father, any siblings too, I had none of that... I had only Isaac. Isaac, the guy who said he would never forget me, the guy who was there, the guy who ditched me for new toys... toys that everyone else could see. He abandoned me, but Jeff's family probably loved him, cared about him, never forgot, he had it all. a sudden anger mixed with sadness hit me hard. I imagined Isaac's mother, the one who hated me even though she didn't even know who I was, the one who punished Isaac for things that I did. I deserve none of this treatment I'm getting.

"You coming or not?" Jeff says, interrupting my thoughts.

"Jeff... How... How was it? What was it like," I ask, tears streaming down my face, I really must know, "to have a family?"

Jeff looks at me with a questioning look, as if not sure what to say, or even like he doesn't quite know the answer himself. "I guess I underestimated it while I had it... I shouldn't have took advantage of what I had, I should have told them I loved them more often..."

I look at the ground. I should have said something to comfort him but all I do is consider what he just said. "Jeff... do you think I ever had a family?"

"Yeah, I do... Isaac, he was your family. I get that he's gone now... but now you have us. We're your family now." He smiles at me, "your family is waiting." With a that said, we go back to the dinner.