Creepypasta - The Guardian Mother

13 | The Library

"Um, Ruby?" I could hear Lulu from the distance. Her voice was muffled, so I couldn't hear her properly. "What are you doing?" She asked.

I stayed still, soaking up the wooden smells from the books. I always loved the smells of library books. The wood carving of the books is so divine to smell. Besides lavender, I think the fumes are the best.

Silent as I was, I could hear another voice that wasn't Lulu's. The voice was more masculine and rough and deep; like a man. His voice seemed to be quieter than Lulu as she spoke. When it was Lulu's turn to speak, her voice too was quiet. But that didn't bother me. They could smack talk all they like. Judge me, giggle at me. Heck, say in front of me.

I am in heaven.

Lulu's POV

"What the hell is she doing?" I turned to see E.J standing beside me. He seemed confused after the sudden event Ruby had done. From where I was standing, Ruby was about 3 metres away.  

"To be honest, I have no idea. One minute, Ruby was admiring at the entrance, then the next minute, she sunk into the book pile."

In the library, we have a pile of books just dumped into the left corner of the room. It's been there since I've first arrived at the mansion a few years ago. Slenderman had hired a librarian to sort out the books. The librarian was a human in her late 20s; she - yes, the human was a woman - and she required money. She never said what the money was. I never got her name either. I just called her Libra, short for Librarian and also her Zodiac Sign is Libra. 

Libra was nice, unlike the others in the mansion. The others here are always cold, only keeping to themselves and ignoring everyone. Besides from Sally, no one wants to hang around with one another. Sally is the only exception because she forces us like Masky or Jeff to play with her. If we could, we wouldn't want to play with Sally. But Sally isn't sweet and adorable, she can be a brute when she wants to. And her teddy bear is the cherry on top of her.

Libra, on the other hand, was different from the others. She acted genuinely happy, which shocked me at the start because of who we are and what we do. Surprised Libra didn't call the police or didn't come back after. She stuck around for quite a while. Well, she did stick for about 3 months, about 6 months ago before Ruby arrived. I wish I could say Libra left and moved to Minneapolis in Minnesota as was her origin plan.

However, she didn't. Two days before Libra was supposed to leave her job, robbers had broken into her house. 

... Ugh, this is a bad idea

...

"Well, shouldn't we do something about her in particular?" I heard E.J stated beside me. I looked back at Ruby, slowly becoming one with the book pile.

"I know we should," I paused, "But I feel like we should leave her there, on the other hand." Ruby moved deeper into the pile, to where I couldn't anymore see her arms and hands. Her back is almost submerging under the pile and only her legs are sticking out. Her entire head and hair has gone missing and is lost under the hard wooden books with the furry papers to accompany her.

"We better get her out of the pile," E.J refused, "Slenderman needs her for her official training soon." If I had eyes, I would roll them and express my distaste for 'him'.

I walked closer to the pile on the side, where Ruby's right arm used to be visible. I bend down and reached forward with both my hands. As I scoured the pile to find something that belongs to Ruby's body - that, of course, is still attached to her - E.J went to the opposite side, reached forward and pulled out Ruby's other arm. I reached more forward and felt a warm feeling brush on my hand. It must be Ruby's arm.