Missing

(6) The Break Down On Day Two.

Tim

Yellow, orange and red colours danced across the sky and into our rooms. I nor Brian had meant to leave the curtains open, but I guess it's for the best, we need to get moving and quickly. No one likes an angry Slenderman. Especially me.  

Letting out a small sigh I went to get up, but that was prevented by the sound of someone groaning and an alarming amount of cold attacking my chest. I looked down to see what had caused this, only to see the petite twitching boy. Though, it looked like he was having a nightmare. 

I was about to wake him up, only to see that my arm was wrapped around his waist. Pulling him close to my chest. I felt my face heat up and I quickly pulled my arm away, 'Mask...! I need my mask!' I thought to myself, not sure how else to hide the growing blush on my face. I turned around to the side table and grabbed my mask, swiftly shoving it onto my face. I let out a sigh of relief as I let my head fall back onto the pillow, I laid there for a minute or two before turning to Toby. And to my surprise, tears ran down his exposed cheeks. I felt a pain in my chest at the sight, it hurt seeing him cry. Letting my emotions get the better of me, I wrapped my arms around the boy. Pulling him into a loving, and compassionate hug. 

"Don't cry, Kid, you're alright...I'm here," I muttered into his ear, and to my surprise, he responded, but not the way I wanted him to. The scared male gripped onto my shirt, sobbing into my chest. 

"I-I'm sorry I'm so weak Masky...A-A proxy shouldn't c-cry, right?" He asked, the sound of fear and defeat filling his voice. 

"Toby, every Creepypasta, and Proxy has to cry about something...Haha, even our tough guy Jeff The Killer cries when he thinks about his family," I sighed hugging him a bit harder. "So, please, don't bottle that shit up? Cry all you need. Even Slenderman would tell you that," I whispered into his ear. Toby kept sobbing into my chest, soaking my shirt with his tears. His breath began to steady and I finally spoke.

"So, what was that nightmare about?" I asked placing a hand on his pet and slowly running my hand throw this brown locks. 

"I-It's always a-about my sister," Toby twitched rapidly, but I kept a firm hold on him. "I see h-her twisted, b-broken and t-torn body..." 

"It's okay Kid. It was just a dream. Nothing to fear," I whispered to him, which in turn made the boy cling to be tighter than before. I opened my mouth to say something again, but I was cut off by the sound of Brian losing it. The masked male broke out into laughter, his once timid, shy and scared persona shattering into pieces. 

"I didn't know you two had that kind of relationship," Brian said in between his laughter. "Hell, I didn't think you swung that way Masky," Once Brian said that I let go of the beet-red boy. I jumped back and so did Toby, my face was covered with my mask, which hid my blush. Well, Toby clearly blushing a cherry red. Which made Brian laughing so hard tears slowly rolled down his cheeks.

"Oh, shut up, Hoodie," I growled, now glaring at him through my mask. 

"Fine," Brian giggled wiping away the tears. Even though I was embarrassed by what had just happened, I couldn't help but smile for two reasons. One is that I got my asshole of a friend back, and two, I had gotten to hold Toby all night long. His slim figure pulled against my large one. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I was falling for this kid. From his disorders to his adorable smile. Though I will never act on these feelings, I'll just push them down as always and never speak about them. 

"Anyways, we should start packing up," I mentioned now getting off the bed. I looked over at the blushing Toby and he nodded, well Brian snickered before muttering a sure thing.

Toby

I sat on the bed by my lonesome. Masky and Hoodie were already packing up, but I was still a bright red colour. I had just balled out my eyes on Masky... 'I've only known him from for what? Four days? God, I really should have just sucked it up.' I thought to myself, staring blankly at the wall. 

I quickly shook my head and got off the bed. I went over to my bag and grabbed my clothes, mask, and goggles. I rushed over to the washroom and got changed, now covering the missing side of my cheek. I knew it freaked out people, and I'm fairly sure it made Hoodie and Masky uncomfortable as well, so I kept it hidden most of the time. 

 I walked out of the room only to see Hoodie and Masky all packed, they sure did move quickly. But I guess it helped that we had the bare minimum, though I couldn't help but sigh. Here does another day of being in a car. 

"Hey Masky," Hoodie said, breaking the once quiet room. "Why don't we stop by a near town and get something to eat?" He suggested. And I couldn't help but get slightly excited, it had been such a long time since I had eaten out. Though, would I be allowed inside? A masked, shaggy teenager walks into a restaurant with two adult men, I wouldn't blame them if they turned us away. 

"Sure," Masky simply put as he opened the door to our room. The sun was now much brighter and it was blinding, the sun attacked my eyes but the fact that I had my goggles helped. Still, I heard a tiny hum of excitement and happiness from Hoodie. I couldn't help but smile as well. I was happy that Hoodie had dropped the helpless act. I liked this version better. 

In any case, we all brought our bags to the car. I and Hoodie hopped in well Masky went to go return the keys. 

"Sooo~" Hoodie hummed sitting in the front seat, well I sat in the back. "You and Masky," I paused. And I'm fairly sure he's smirking right now. "That was quite a show you two put on," He said a clear smirk in his voice. 

"Wh-What about u-us?" I asked. 

"Oh, nothing. Just don't go falling in love with him, k? We don't need a love-sick teen on our hands." A light laugh could be heard from the once quiet Proxy. 

"S-Sure thing," I hummed. I'm fairly sure nothing like that will happen, and hopefully, I don't break down like that again.

"Well, let's get going," Masky announced, which in turn, got a simple sure from Hoodie and a nod from me. Masky then turned on the car, and we were off. Next stop breakfast. I hummed to myself a bit, the thought of eating waffles again made me forget all my worries. 

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Welp, that was the what...Seventh chapter? I know, I know. This should have taken less time to write, and that I suck. I'm sorry. (And yes, I know that this chapter focused more on Masky and Toby's relationship over the plot. Don't worry, the next chapter things actually happen. 

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