The End Has Begun (A Ticci Toby Romance)

Chapter 3 - Sally

When I woke up, I was in a unlit, dark grey room. I sat up, holding my head. I felt like I had an anvil dropped on my head. The light suddenly flicked on and there was a young girl, maybe 8 or 9, standing there with a teddy bear. She giggled.

"Oh, you're awake. Toby will be happy. I'm Sally. Nice to meet you finally Lilia." I looked at her, very confused.

"How do you know my name?" She giggled, and sat on the bed beside me.

"Toby talks about you all the time. I think he's....." She leans closer and just as she was about to finish, the door swung open and Toby came in.

"SALLY!! Leave her alone." Toby grabbed my wrist and dragged me out of the room and down the hall. "Lilia... Slendy wants to talk to you. Listen to him, and only speak when spoken to, ok?"

"Why?" I asked, curious about everything that was going on. I stopped in the hall and asked, "What is going on, Toby? Tell me or I'm not moving." Toby sighed, and looked like he was fighting with himself on whether to tell me something.

"Please Lilia. I...I n...need this t...to go w...well." He stuttered, "I....I'm j...just d...doing t...this to protect you. Please do as I ask." He was pleading with me. Being as cute as he was, was bad enough, but add the stuttering, that is a whole new level of cute.

I smiled and said, "Ok. But, promise me you will answer any question I have." He nodded and continued dragging me. We stopped at the end of the hall, and Toby turned me to face him.

"R...remember w...w...what I t...t...told you o...ok?" I nodded and he hugged me tightly, which confused me even more. Suddenly, Toby pulled away, opened the door, shoved me inside and to the floor, he then shut the door behind me. As I got up, I was face to face, well more like face to knee, with a 20 foot tall, featureless and well-dressed man, whose skin was too pale to be human.