His Little Marionette (The Puppeteer x Reader)

Chapter 2: Noises

No one's POV

After Alicia left, Y/N checked the time to see that it was 7PM. She decided to make something to eat. She didn't feel like making anything fancy, so she just made herself a turkey sandwich. She sat on the couch in front of the TV to find something to watch. She decided to watch the news since Alicia told her about the murders happening around the city. When she got to the news, they were talking about a game that had happened a few hours ago. After they were done with that, someone was talking about the recent murders. They talked about how the last murder happened near the college. They urged everyone living at or near the college to lock their doors and windows. Y/N had one of her windows open to let some fresh air in. She made a mental note to close it before she went to bed. After she was done eating her sandwich, she put the plate in the sink and washed it off. She checked the time to see that it was 7:25PM.

She decided that she should work on the homework that is due the next day. She remembered that it was a large project. She remembered that she had to do a presentation for the project. She opened her computer to find the project. She found it and opened it up and saw she had 18 slides of the presentation finished.

She looked for the paper that had the instructions for the project. She looked at it to realize just how large the project actually was. She looked at where she left off on the last slide. By the looks of it, she would probably need 30 slides to get everything she needed for the project onto the presentation. She knew that this was going to take a long time.

"Alright, time pull an all nighter. Hope I can get this done by the morning..." Y/N said to herself. She remembered how long it took her to do 18 slides. Just to get 6 done, it took her 5 hours. The slides are very detailed. She knew she would be up all night to get the other 12 done. She hoped she could actually stay up to do the project. She was not looking forward to tomorrow.

It was 1:40AM and Y/N had 4 more slides left to get done on her project. She was about to pass out from where she sat. Trying to power through the night was proving difficult to her. She was doing everything she could to stay awake. She knew she had to get the project done. She decided to open up YouTube and play some music to help her stay awake. That seemed to help her a bit. She started to feel a little more awake when she started to sing quietly to each song. She always loved listening to music and singing. It helped her a lot, especially with all the stress she goes through being in college.

About a half hour later, Y/N thought she heard noises coming from the other room. She stopped singing and paused her music and listened for a bit to see if she could hear anything else. After a while, she decided to look around to see if she could find the source of the noises she heard earlier. She looked around and found the window she opened earlier was never closed. She closed the window and assumed that the noises she was hearing came from outside.

It was 3:20AM and Y/N was just about done with her project! She was happy that she might be able to get a couple of hours to rest tonight. She only had a couple slides left to finish up. She could get the project done by 5AM if she keeps working! She could get 3 hours of sleep if she gets it done at said time.

Y/N kept working on her project and quietly singing until she started to hear other noises. She paused her music and got up to investigate. She went to the window she had closed earlier that night. She noticed something below the window. She bent down to get a closer look at it...