My Insanity

I'm getting more questions than answers

Toby's Pov

I turn around but the lot was empty. Dread pooled into my stomach. I reached into my back pocket to grab the pocket knife I carried. It was the only weapon I grabbed on the way out. I regret not grabbing my hatchets now. 

Glancing around I saw nothing out of the ordinary. Just a few carts and floating bags. But no Andrea. Or any monsters that could have mimicked her voice. Which on one hand I am glad for but on the other, I am terrified. 

Somehow, it grew colder. As I stood looking around, the cold became unbearable. Even with it being the dead of winter, this never happens so quickly unless it is sunset. And yet it was still sunny. 

But as I noticed the change something behind me became warmer. It was around my head like there was a campfire set on top of the van. Alarms were going off in my head. Telling me that I should just flee. But a soothing comfort took over, like a blanket, it wrapped around me, swaddling me in an eerie sense of serenity. 

I wanted to fight the urge to turn around but the voice was too strong. And as I turned around, I was met with a dangling limb. It swang like a little kid on a swing. Back, and forth, yet it never hit the back window of the van. The foot was bare which seemed insane to do in this freezing tundra. And the nails were so short like they were ripped off, one of the toes was bleeding and had no nail just flesh. But a thumping broke me out of the trance. I thought it to be my heart, then I realized it was a rhythm of long nails hitting the roof in a bored manner just to past time.  

My gaze slowly rose up to the body of a girl. She looked like a child from what I could tell. Her body was swallowed in a silky black cloak. It hid everything besides her dangling leg and head. Her hair acted just like the cloak, leaving only a few things to see. The wavy sea of brown parted at her widow's peak to form bangs and they hid most of her face. Leaving only the sliver of her forehead, her nose, and lips visible. Her lips parted in a way to look unamused. Like I was wasting her time.

I found my voice eventually, it was like the mocha skinned girl was stealing my thoughts and breath with her presence alone.  And of course, I had to ask, "W-who are y-you?"

"I don't recall." She said in a soft-spoken manner. 

"S-seriously, can y-you tell me y-your name?"

"...."

"H-hey-y, can y-you at least answer me?"

"Why should I dignify something I already answered?"

She got me there. But I just wanted to know why she was here. And as if she heard my thoughts whisper to her, she almost whispered, "You are looking for a ruby haired girl named Andrea right?"

"Y-yes do y-you know where she is?" I almost could not hold back my excitement. Someone knew where Andrea was meaning she still could be alive. 

"No, but I did view her running and screaming in the forest for you. If you are in fact you are Toby?"

"I am. And how do not y-you not know where she went?' I was frustrated at this point. This girl was getting me nowhere.

"She rushed off before I could ask if I could help her. I am not familiar with the forest enough so I got lost in my search for her after she vanished."

"W-wait, how did y-you know I was here in the first place?" This girl was getting back into the creepy territory.

"She said your name and I eventually found a mansion and a gentleman on the phone said how you were stuck at the store."

This girl somehow got through the barrier around the house and spied on Masky. If she was not creepy then she was now. I ran it through my mind of how she could be leading me to a trap, she could be a proxy of Zalgo for all I know. But a honk interrupted my thoughts. Masky and Hoodie were here. 

Masky seemed to be confused based on his body language. Like I was talking to air. And Hoodie had his usual demeanor of indifference.  

"You ok, Toby?" Masky called.

Y-yeah why-y?" 

"You've been standing there for a hell of a long time, just looking into space." 

"I was thinking about what this girl said while we talked."

He seemed utterly lost at that. 

"What girl?"

"The one on top of the Van." Oh, come on Masky you can see her. She is like right above my head.

"Do you have hypothermia? Because you have been out here a long time."

"No! Why would you ask that?" I was now in Masky's boat. 

"Because there is no one else besides you."

I froze just like earlier. And I moved my head and eyes up. There was no one there just like Masky had said. The girl in the black cloak disappeared. Just like Andrea.