Faded Scars

Cut Deeper

It had been a month since we got back to school. Everything was as normal as it was going to get. The Lane Sisters bullying Maya and the jocks bullying me, but we pulled through it. We figured once we're out of high school it won't really matter who's at the top.

Ever since we found Maya last year. She has been acting a little strange, but I just assumed that it was from traumatic events. I tried talking to her about, but she keeps changing the subject.

This week our science teacher assigned us a group project, so obviously Maya and I grouped up. Then the teacher told us we had to have three in our group, so we looked around the room, and saw a kid sitting in the back of the room. He was short, wore glasses, and had a hat on. We picked him to join us. "So, what's your name?" I asked. "It's Mason, but most people call me Mase" He said. We walked down the hall and talked about our project, and what we were going to do. We decided on doing it on a Volcano. So we exchanged numbers and went home.

Mase suggested we hang over the weekend, and we agreed. The idea of coming to my house was out of the picture, so we decided on going to Mase's house for the Volcano. We each got some items for the Volcano, and met at Mason's house.

Most the time there we just talked about school, but halfway in is where things got deep. "So did anyone hear about those kids getting found at an abandoned home in the middle of nowhere?"
Mase said

Maya and I exchanged a glance. "Yeah we-" I started to say then Maya cut me off. "I was one of them" She said. She raised her sleeves to reveal her scarred arms and wrists. "I haven't told anyone about this, but I think I can tell you guys."  She said. "Maya who did this to you?" I said. She looked at me "Not who, but what." She said. "It's the thing you keep seeing." She said.
I look at her in utter fear. I'm back in that room. The almost hunch-backed beast clawing at my body. "He would lock us up, and give us knives telling us to 'cut ourselves', and if we didn't he would do it himself." She finishes and tears are running down her cheeks. I hug her, and so does Mase.

She wipes her tears and makes us promise to never tell anyone. We promise and move on with the rest of our day.

That night I had a dream I was back in that room, but there was other people. They had no faces, they were all blurred out. I heard screams and cries. Then I heard laughter. A haunting deep laughter. Then I could only see my own body and the chair I was tied to. I took deep breaths and calmed down. It had happened so many times, that I was used to it, but then I saw Maya. Stabbing herself in the hands and arms. She was crying, and laughing. I saw a shadow behind her, It was smiling. It told her to cut deeper and he would fix the wounds, It said to her "I love the way you do it, my darling. Cut, cut, cut!" Then I woke up, and it was all over.