The Flaw With Perfection

Chapter Nine: "Ultimately there's a piece missing"

'I never knew that the ceiling had so many cracks in it' Lou thought. he had been lying on the cold hard ground for over 3 hours now, which hadn't felt that long to him. He was to fixated on his breathing and the beating of his heart which was growing slower and slower as he began to drift off into sleep. It was that moment when he was swiftly awakened by a loud knocking on the door. On instinct, he got up to open it but then realized it would be pointless to try to open it from his side of the door.
After a moment's silence, it swung open and Mandy slowly stepped in, looking to the floor, stiff, robotic almost.
Lou almost smiled but when he saw the two who walked in close behind her it disappeared.
Moxy and Lucky bat. An odd group he thought.
Silence filled the room. Mandy continued to look to the ground and said: "um Lou?" Her voice shook and she could hardly speak, but still, Lou hung on her every word. "Yes?" He said hopefully. It was almost like he breathed out the word, trying not to blow her over as if she was a leaf.
She continued "I can't do this anymore, I can't see you anymore" those words made him crumble it felt like a dagger had lodged itself into his chest, his eyes went big as if trying to find the truth behind that, but he saw nothing. He remained silent "I need to go on with my own life without..." she paused trying to search for the right word "without you."
Two daggers. He stumbled backwards and didn't know how to respond. Mandy  continued "it's just that i...i..." Lou cut her off 
"You what? You got tired of having to put up with a pain like me?" His tone was bitter.
"No that's not-" Lucky bat shot her a glance, she felt it and stopped. Lucky bats threats rung in her mind, if she didn't do this Lou would starve.
Mandy found her resolve and was ready to save Lou even if he didn't know it.

"Your so arrogant" Mandy clenched her jaw
"All you care about is yourself" she stepped closer "I don't want to be around you anymore, your toxic" Mandy stopped and a sparkle flickered in her eye then an idea came to her, she continued "you're like a pen with no ink chamber, no matter how many times you take it apart it will never work because ultimately there's a piece missing."
Three daggers. Lou bit the inside of his cheek to keep his eyes from watering. After a moment he then said, "you truly are just like the others, you don't understand what I have to live with, you don't understand me at all." That cut into Mandy and she almost broke the character she had made, she could feel  that if she kept this up then it would overwhelm her and she would slip up, trying to escape
She turned around and started to walk away, she went past Lucky bat then Moxy and then she remembered she turned around again and said "what I came here to say was to tell you I hate you, and now I have done just that" four daggers
What was happening, this wasn't the Mandy that Lou knew, she would have never done anything like this. Lou was about to say something when Mandy took one step closer to him with the pen and notebook In Her hands "oh and I almost forgot, here." She gave him the gifts "so you can document all the years you spend alone" Lou received it and said nothing, his eyes were glued to the ground he didn't understand it, any of it  "goodbye...Lou" Mandy said, walking out through the door. Lou's gaze shot back to her, the way she said his name, it was almost as if she was choking back tears. The door shut and Lou knew it would be for the last time.

He sat on his bed with its grey sheets, he had never liked the colour grey it wasn't white and neither was it black, it was an imperfect merging of the two, but now he knew that the reason he didn't like grey was because it was all he was. He didn't belong in any world, he had no place. Lou then looked to the notebook In his hands that Mandy gave him, he paged through it searching for a sign, something, anything but he eventually reached the end and nothing, there were no messages explaining anything, there were no final words. His soul sank realizing that what Mandy had said, she meant. He then decided to wright how he felt, from now on he would have no one to speak to, so he would have to get used to talking to himself.  He began to write and realized that the ink didn't work, he tried to press harder on the page but still, nothing came out,  it was as if something was stopping the nib from getting out all the way. He then thought back to something that Mandy had said: "a pen without an ink chamber, no matter how many times you take it apart it will never work." Frantically piece by piece he disassembled the pen and just as he thought there was a note wrapped around the ink chamber. He carefully unravelled it and it read
"Lucky bat made me do it"
Lou raised his hand to his mouth and began to cry. His Friend hadn't abandoned him. He felt something he hadn't before, was it joy or something else...
Whichever it was, Lou knew that Mandy needed his help, but he was no use to her locked up like this.
He needed to escape.