【COZEN】Bloody Painter x Reader

❥Chapter 32

The room went silent after that shattering sound. Millions of thoughts but a single and logical one came to your head, possibilities that it was the same person that harmed Aiden came in and was looking for him.

"Mom... take Aiden with you upstairs." You whispered to her, your mother only looked at you in disbelief, she didn't want to leave you with whoever just broke in. It was too late to take him upstairs or to argue, the footsteps stopped you were met with a shadow, you slowly turned around to see the person that broke in.

He was standing at the entrance of the kitchen as he looked at you, he was wearing a white mask so you couldn't completely see his face but you definitely felt his eyes on you.

"Stay away!" Your mother shouted at him, trying to not get any closer to you, it was a bad idea as this person broke out of their trance and moved their head to look at your mother, he even noticed Aiden in her hold, he walked fast towards your mother pushing her away with his foot in an aggressive manner, this made your mother let go of Aiden and drop his head harshly on the floor.

"Wait don't do anything to him–!" You tried to stop him only for the masked person to point the knife at you as he was crouched down, his other hand grasping Aiden's hair tightly, his head moved to look up at you, he didn't say anything but he still kept his knife pointed towards you, "please... let him go I don't know what he–"

"Could've done?" The masked person finally answered, shock came through your body when you recognized his voice, "he's done a lot of things to you." He continues.

"Helen?" You called out his name, that was Helen, your very own friend. You felt your legs weakening as you finally heard his voice again, but he was dressed way too differently.

Helen stood up this time, still grabbing Aiden's hair almost dragging him as he turned around to face you, "he's done a lot to you when Tom was alive, and you still care for him?" He asks. Though as he was about to speak up more your mother quickly grabbed him, wrapping her arms around him trying to restrain from doing anything else.

Helen harshly lets go of Aiden, he quickly tried moving backwards but struggled as your mother tried to stop him, "(Y/n), please run! Find the police, they should be on their way already!"

You only backed away slightly, Helen freeing himself from your mother's grasp, pushing her away harshly making her fall on the floor with a hard thud. "I will make sure to hurt those who have hurt me and you, (Y/n), and I will start with this weak and pathetic thing." Helen takes off his mask, his blue eyes finally coming into contact with yours.

Those were the eyes that terrified you back then and they still do now, no hint of that soft and shy boy you once knew, the boy that would share his sketchbook and tease your drawings, he was completely hidden behind those eyes. "Helen... please don't hurt Aiden, we can fix this please this is not the way." You pleaded, you didn't want anyone to get hurt.

"Would you say the same thing about Ban, do you still want him alive after all the things he's done?" He asks you once again. You couldn't help but stay silent, all you wanted to do was to put a stop to this and take away his knife, you took a step closer and he quickly took notice of it, without hesitation he quickly steps closer to your mother quickly grabbing her by her hair and pouring the tip of the knife at her neck, "don't do anything rash, (Y/n)." He says.

You only froze in your spot, not knowing what to do, you didn't want your mother involved in this why is he involving her out of all things?

"Answer me, (Y/n), would you say the same thing about Ban after everything he has done?" He asks you that same question again, "who would you prefer alive is the better question." He changes the topic, his face showing a hint of a taunting  behavior that really set you off, you didn't like the way he was toying with you. The way he had your mother in his grasp and the way he just had Aiden laying on the floor by his side.

"Please... let her go." You got on your knees as you looked defeated, you didn't want anyone to get hurt, so why was Helen making everything difficult? You didn't understand, "Helen, please I'm begging you don't hurt anyone we can fix this."

"It's too late to fix anything." He responds softly, the hand that was holding the knife pulling away from your mother's direction but quickly moving to Aiden's body, ready to jab him on the back of his neck. You wasted no time to quickly tackle him before he could even do another movement, you get on top of him trying to get the knife away from him, he gritted his teeth in anger as he tried to push you away.

He didn't want to hurt you.

You grabbed him by the wrists trying to keep him restraining from doing any other movements hit his body kept thrashing around trying to break free from you. You knew you two weren't as strong and one of you was gonna get tired soon, you didn't wanna give up though, you wanted to tire him out as soon as possible but it was impossible.

It was after you felt a strong grab at your throat.

Helen broke free and he took the opportunity to grab you by the throat pushing you to the side and slamming you to the floor as hard as he could, now taking the chance to get on top of you, both hands wrapping around your neck, completely strangling you, reminding you of the first time he tried doing it when you were at his house.

You could see it in his eyes that they were completely empty as he looked down at you.

This isn't Helen.

You didn't know this boy, your vision was becoming a blur at the sight of this unknown boy strangling you.