the fate that I have been given

Chapter 3

It's been weeks since the last time I saw masky. I stayed inside most of the time because I was afraid of almost being killed again.

I was laying in bed, fast asleep. It was about 2:00am.

I heard my window slide open in my sleep then I heard footsteps.

I woke up and sat up quickly and looked around. I then saw a dark figure in the corner of my room.

I screamed loudly and went to my door trying to get my door open.

God dammit! When was my grandmother going to fix the door knob! The figure came closer and I did the only thing I could.

I punched them across the face.. hard.

I heard a faint groan

"M-Maryanne.. Please-please calm down! It's only m-me!"

I turned on the light quickly then saw masky on the ground, holding his face.

"Masky!"

I exclaimed as I helped him to his feet

"Are you alright?! let me see where I punched you!"

I took off his mask and saw a large blue bruise on his cheek.

I looked down and pouted

"You must hate me now.."

Masky shook his head wildly

"What!! n-no! I could never hate you! Th-this Is my fault anyways.."

I looked up at him a bit confused

"How?"

"Well.."

He replied

"I entered your house quite a few times without permission and looked over you.. I should have told you I'm-

My eyes widened

"YOU WERE WATCHING ME SLEEP!?"

I said angrily and he backed away

"I'm sorry Maryanne! hate me if you must but I was just watching over you! Jeff was planning to come back out and kill you and I didn't want that to happen so I've even protecting you for the last few weeks!"

I sighed feeling bad for yelling

"Masky.."

I said under my breath and wrapped my arms around him an hugged him tightly

"Thank you. I don't know what would happen to me if I didn't have you."

I looked up at him and saw him blush a bit

"I'd-I'd do anything for you Maryanne."

I smiled then looked down

"Masky... can I tell you something?"

He looked at me concerned

"Of course you can."

He said with a comforting smile

I walked over to my bed and he sat next to me

"I just moved in here a few months ago well because.. Well whenever I was around my parents or friends I would hurt them. Like, one time me and my friend were walking around, we came upon broken glass and she was trying to step over it and I told her to watch out and she fell in it and got a whole bunch of stitches. It's like I jinxed her or something. and that wasn't the only time that happened.."

I said with a sigh

"I think I may be a jinx."

He chuckled

"Nonsense.. they're just coincidences."

"But the result of me being that way is my parents got in a lot of fights with me and my friendships ended. And I ended up getting depressed and I.."

I slowly rolled up my sleeves and scars appeared on them.

"Oh dear.."

He said in return while looking at them closely. He then grabbed my wrist and my eyes widened

"Masky what are you-!"

Before I knew it, he was kissing my scars. I blushed a little and he looked up at me and rubbed my cheek gently

"Don't do this to yourself anymore.. please..."

I looked up into his eyes

"Alright, I'll stop... for you.."

I said with a smile.

He kissed my forehead

"Good."

We were silent for a minute then masky spoke up

"About the question about me being a killer..."

"What about it?"

I said a bit confused

"Well.. at times I have these 'episodes' and I end up killing people.."

My eyes widened

"Oh... Well I don't think of you any differently."

He smiled in relief.

"Just don't try killing me when you have an 'episode' again, okay?"

He chuckled and nodded. he then laid his head on my shoulder and yawned.

I looked over at him and saw he was struggling to keep his eyes open

"Tired?"

I said laughing and he nodded

"I was up for the past few weeks at night protecting you, I barely got any sleep."

I looked at him with care and kissed his forehead

"You can sleep here for the night, if you like."

But as I was saying that, he had fallen asleep quietly with his head on my shoulder.

I chuckled lightly and laid him down flat on my bed and laid down on the edge and put the blanket over us. I then fell asleep once again after a little bit.