I'll Always Love You

Hotel Metlen

Billy and Jay had finished setting up the cameras and they were getting ready to start investigating. There were already loud noises going on so Zak knew they were gonna get good evidence.

"Now the only other person that's been up here very briefly earlier today was Jay, cause he had to get the camera in here. Which is rolling right now," Zak said directly to Aaron's camera so the audience would know. "This is so awesome right now. I can't wait to get on to this floor," Zak stated as he put on his mask.

"I'm actually really nervous," said Aaron. He heard all the stories the people told them. He didn't know what the entities would do to them. That was always the risk though.

"Yeah. Key?" Zak said to Aaron. He pulled the key out of his vest and handed it to Zak. Before opening the door, Zak knocked four times before slowly opening the door.

"Hello spirits," Zak said as they walked onto the third floor where no one went. "Stop dude," he turned around to look at Aaron.

"What? Stop what dude? I didn't do anything," Aaron asked confused.

"Were you like grabbing on to my arm?"

"No. I was just over here filming you," Aaron told him.

"I just felt a hand on my arm like this." He put his hand on Aaron's forearm.

"Yeah. I didn't touch you," he told Zak.

"I though it was like you trying to get me out of the way," Zak said back.

"No I had both hands on the camera."

"Yeah. I got you," Billy told them so they know he had the shot of Aaron.

They kept investigating and got footsteps coming from the roof. They asked questions through the oculus and got responses. They even got a figure on the thermal camera.

"I feel like somethings around me," Billy said.

"Stand still" Zak looked through the thermal camera to look at Billy. Then the Oculus went off.

"Malevolent!" Zak shouted. "It just said malevolent."

"There's bad energy too. I feel it up here," Billy stated.

"If you're malevolent that means you know some personal stuff about us. Can you tell us our names or do you know how old we are?" Zak asked.

"Forty," the device said.

"Forty!" Zak repeated. "It just said forty! Oh my god! Aaron is forty. Your the only one who's forty."

"Closet," the device said.

"Closet?" Billy said more like a question. Zak looked at the device then looked around.

"It wants us to go to a closet," Zak started walking down the hall while both men followed.

"Affair," Zak looked down at the device to make sure what it said.

"Affair. Didn't one of the guests back then catch their husband having an affair?" Zak asked.

"Yeah. I think so," Billy said.

"We got to find that closet," They followed Zak, but Aaron felt like there was more going on here.

"Nick," Zak froze in the doorway and looked down at the device.

"Did it just say...?" Billy didn't want to say the name again considering how Zak was looking at the word.

Aaron moved closer to film the name on the device. "Yeah. It did."

Zak swallowed down the lump in his throat and blinked back the tears. He shook his head, denying the word. "Let's look for the closet."

"No. That's not what they're talking about Zak," Aaron said as Zak kept looking into rooms. Billy stood there filming everything.

"Then what are they talking about Aaron!" Zak yelled.

"You told them to get personal so they did! They said closet cause you're still in the closet from the fans. You and Nick were having an affair.  They did what you asked them to do"

Back at nerve center, Jay was watching everything. "He's right," Jay said out loud so the camera in the room can hear. "He said to get personal. They hit his soft spot"

"They can be talking about a different Nick." It hurt Zak to say his name. It always did.

"Zak." They looked at the Oculus that was still in Zak's hand.

"See. They're talking about your Nick," Aaron said.

"He's not mine. You know that." He shoved the device in Aaron's hand and stormed out of the hall. He went back to nerve center and sat down in the corner. He kept his head down as he started silently crying.

"You okay, man?" Jay asked.

"This is fucking bullshit." Zak wiped his eyes as he looked at his friend. "I want to go home."

"We got to finish filming, dude. You have to go back in there."

"No." Zak shook his head cause that's the last place he wanted to go. He felt like his nightmares were coming true.

The door opened and Aaron and Billy walked in. Billy sat down next to Jay and Aaron just stood by the door.

"You didn't have to leave us up there man" Aaron said.

"Yeah I did since you were attacking me."

"Me?" Aaron was shocked by his statement.

"Yeah you! You can't just fucking do that Aaron!" Zak yelled.

"Well you should just talk to Nick!" Zak looked at Aaron pissed off. "You're acting like a child! You knew him since you were 27! You guys have been through everything! So just fucking call him!"

"What's the point! He told me-"

"It doesn't matter what he said!"

"It means everything! He stabbed, not just me, but you guys as well in the back! Stop standing up for him!" Zak yelled

"He misses you!" Jay shouted causing them to all look at him.

"Wait what?" Aaron was now confused.

"I talked to him the other day since Aaron was telling us about how bad you were. I just asked how he was doing and he said he and the girls were doing good. He didn't ask how me or Aaron or Billy were. Right away he asked how's Zak. He misses you but he knows you're pissed at him"

Zak put his head down and the guys just watched him. They were waiting for him to say something, anything really. Aaron didn't know Jay talked to Nick at all so he was pretty shocked by what he said. Billy was honestly trying not to piss off Zak.

"Can we stop talking about it, please?" Zach asked.

"Yeah. We should get back upstairs. We don't have much time till sunrise" Billy said. They went back to work but Zak was on full alert from attacks from the entities and his co-workers. He didn't have to talk to Nick at all and he won't. He didn't care if he was being stubborn. He didn't want to be in any more pain. He wanted to go home.