Past Lives

A House Fit for Murder

~Skylor's POV~

     I crossed my arms as I stared at Ben who just looked at me dumbfounded. I couldn't tell if it was because Helen basically told him to take me to the house, or if Ben was questioning how Helen and I were actually friends. Either way, it was quite amusing.

     "Alright," Ben started, "What did you do to him?"

     "Absolutely nothing," I replied, "I was just really good friends with him. Now, if you would be so kind as to take me there, that'd be great." I glared at him and picked up the Febreze bottle and pointed it at him. He raised his hands defensively.

     "Okay, okay!" he said, "I'll take you! Just put the damn bottle down!" I smiled and got a small bag together before following Ben out of dorm room, outside, and towards the nearest forest. The walk already seemed long and we've only been working for twenty minutes. RIP. "So..." Ben started, glancing at me, "How many of us do you know about?"

     "Uh..." I said, holding out my hand and counting how many I knew. "Let's see... there's you, Slenderman, Jeff, uh Helen now. I guess... Why?"

     "Eerr.... Just seeing how well you'll be prepared to uh... meet my 'friends'..." he said. "There are a lot.. you know what? Just stay close to me. They might kill you." I raised the Febreze bottle in my hand and motioned towards that. Ben gave me a look and sighed. "Actually, with that, I'm sure you'll be fine."

     "Exactly," I said, following him into an opening. I squinted at the large mansion before giving a questioning glance to Ben and pointing towards the mansion. "The fuck?"

     "It's called, 'teleportation.' We all have the ability to teleport to the mansion," he said. I nodded slightly and continued to follow him inside. That's when I saw just how many 'friends' Ben really had. There were about five or so people in the kitchen and about there were about half a dozen people in the living room watching tv. None of which I knew. None of them seemed to notice that I was there. Except for Jeff, who was looking at me with a confused expression.

     "BEN WHAT THE FUCK?!" Jeff yelled, getting everyone to look at me.

     "I can explain!" he said, waving his arms in front of him. I just pat him on the head and turned to face Jeff, making everyone look at me confused.

    "I'm just here to see a friend," I started, "He's kinda new around here, you may know him as Bloody Painter..." The few that weren't wearing masks looked at me a little confused, but this just seemed to anger Jeff more as I wasn't a creepypasta? I guess? Who knows. It's Jeff. And we all know he's the stupidest one next to Ben.

     He ran at me with his knife in hand, but I was ready. I raised my hand up and spritzed Jeff in the eyes a few times, making him fall to the ground in pain. I heard Ben trying to hold in his laugh behind me and I put my hands on my hips in triumph.

    "I'm literally here to only see Helen," I said, "If you come near me, I will spritz you in the eyes with this Febreze. I don't care how many times you'll wanna kill me over. I. Will. Hurt. You. Now, if you'll excuse us, Ben is supposed to show me to Helen's room." Everyone just kinda stared at me, some with confused looks and other's with shocked expressions, but they let Ben take me up to Helen's room.

     I knocked on his door and I was immediately pulled in with him shutting the door in Ben's face before he hugged me. Ben yelled at Helen outside his door, but we both ignored him. After a minute of hugging, he finally pulled away and looked at me. Though he had his mask on, but seemed to realize this and quickly took it off and tossed it onto his bed behind him.

     "First of all," I started, "how dare you not tell me anything. Secondly, I love the paintings, I always knew you could be a painter. And thirdly, how dare you not tell me anything!" He smiled slightly and shook his head at me.

     "Well I..." he started before sighing. He paused, seeming to be looking for the right words to use. "I.. I didn't want you to get caught up in what I was caught up with. The night of the party, things just kinda... happened... And I knew you had it good at the college, so I didn't want the cops to think that you were an accomplice to me.." I huffed and crossed me arms before giving him an annoyed look.

     "God you're stupid sometimes," I sighed, "Do you really think I care about that crap? I swear, you men are all fucking oblivious."

"What do you mean?" Helen questioned, tilting his head slightly. I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose. I looked back up at him with an 'are you serious?' look. "What??"

"You really don't know... wow," I said, "that would surprise me if I knew you weren't so oblivious. I like you, you dumbass."

"Oh... Skylor, I uh..." he stammered out, "I don't... I uh..." he was blushing and rubbing the back of his neck and I feel like I knew why.

     "You're gay, aren't you?" I asked, getting a nod from him. I sighed. "Why are all the hot guys either taken or gay?" I questioned, a bit annoyed, though he just chuckled at me. "This is fine, I can work with this. Let's go." I grabbed his wrist before dragging him over to the door, attempting to pull him out of his room but he wouldn't budge.

     "What are you doing?" Helen questioned, "they'll kill you if you leave my room."

      "I have this," I raised the Febreze up and smiled at him, "and you. So I don't think they'll fuck with me unless they wanna put up with you or my Febreze. I've already done it to Ben twice and Jeff once."

     "And they... just didn't fight?" he asked, surprised and confused. I nodded and let him put his mask on before going downstairs with me.

     "Don't tell me your taking her home, because she can't leave alive," a masked man said, walking out from the kitchen. He had a tan jacket on and a really feminine mask on. AHA MAYBE HE'S GAY TOO!

      "He's not, but are you gay?" I questioned, making him jerk his head back at the sudden question.

      "What?"

      "Are tou gay? Yes or no. I'm trying to set this wonderful man right here up with someone," I said, gesturing to Helen.

      "Look, I know that I can't stop her once she's put her mind to something, this is out of my control, Mas-" he started but was interrupted by Jeff and Ben screaming about something. This caused everyone's attention to focus on that and we all headed up there, Helen keeping me close to him so none of them would kill me.