Chapter Four

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"There's a place downtown, where the freaks all come around. It's a hole in the wall. It's a dirty free-for-all. Turn me on. Take it off. Take it off, everybody take it off. There's a place I know. If you're looking for a show. Where they go hardcore. And there's litter on the floor. Turn me on. Take it off. Take it off, everybody take it off." (Ke$ha-Take It Off)

I sing while walking around the house. This is a place for freaks. I think to myself. No wounder this song is perfect for this place. Freak-house. I just call it home. "Nina? Sweetheart please come inside now... And stop looking for your father. He will be back soon honey... And if not... Someone will take his place." My mother waits for me as I slowly trudge to the porch and climb up the few stairs. "But mom... I don't want someone else. I want dad... My dad! My real dad!" I cry. I have killed my mother, but why does she hug me and love me? And yes my mother has returned, same as Zalgo. Ben... We are still working on, but he has come home. I'm guessing he only came home to get his video games. "N-Nina?" Ben. He only trusts me for some weird reason... "Yes Benny? What's wrong?" I turn around and see Ben right behind me, holding a photo. "I-is this me? I-it looks like me but... Why are me eyes bleeding?" I kneel down next to the poor boy and hug him tightly. "Because that IS you Benny. Look, you died long before I was born. And... When I turned sixteen I killed everyone here. I even killed you. And... I'm sorry." Tears are streaming down my face like a waterfall and all I can do is try not to sound like I'm crying. "I just want you to remember who and what you used to be. You used to be Ben Drowned... Please remember." He pulls away from me, fear exploding in his eyes. "N-Nina? Nina the Killer?" He remembers. Good. "Nina! I remember now! S-Sally! Where's Sally?! Is she okay? Is she still here?!" I smile and nod 'yes'. "She is fine. And she has been waiting for you to remember us, remember what you were. She misses you a lot Benny, why don't you go up to her room and play with her? I bet she can still beat you are video games." He smiles and runs into the house, and I can just hear him and Sal getting along just fine. "Glad we got one more." I forgot my mother was there and when I turn around again I scream. "Nina, it's okay! It's just me. Calm down." Her smile warms my once dark heart, and it brings a smile to my face as well. "Sorry, mom. Just... Lost in thought I guess. I'm gonna stay out here a little longer. I'll be in soon don't worry." She nods, understanding. "Okay. Come in before day-break, okay? I don't want you goofing around with the humans that come into this part of the forest at dawn." I smile and nod. Then I walk deeper into the woods. Walking for hours, I finally stop at a big tree with a rope ladder leading up. "I can't believe it's still here." My tree house. The one Slenderman built for me when I was younger. I take hold of the ladder and begin to my climb to the top. It takes me more than five minutes because I haven't gotten used to this 'wiggle ladder' as I used to call it. I stop when I get to the top and look out, the house isn't that far away and I can still see it, but... I've just been walking around in random directions. I step off the ladder and already standing on the almost rotten, wooden planks. "How is all of this still here?" I wounder aloud. I look at the planks, thinking that they need to be replaced, I place my hand on them and say a few demon words. Smiling and proud of my work, i stand up on new planks, as part demon I can heal anything, but this is the first time I have used this power. I could have used it on my family, but... I knew it wouldn't work. I turn around slowly, remembering all the fun times I've had up here, when my eyes roll over the slide I stop in my place. The slide... Still had that one dent in the bottom where Jackson ran into it that first day we met, I can still remember it all... Perfectly.

Twenty years ago... And yes Nina is still only sixteen

"Woo-hoo!" I slide down the tall slide that goes to my tree house, built on a very tall tree. When i get to the bottom my father comes out of the house. "There you are! Been looking all over for you!" "Sorry dad." "It's ok. You keep playing I just needed to know where you were." "O.K!" I climb back up and slide down again. "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Why is dad so overprotective? It's weird...BAM! What the heck was that? "Ahhhhhhh!" Something bumps into the slide and I fall off down to the ground. I scream loud and long. "I got ya! I got ya! I got ya!" Someone yells below me. "Ahhhh- oof!" I land hard in someones arms, those arms are attached to a boy my age. He has a blue mask with big, round, black, eyes, and what looks like paint coming from the eyes. Cute. "I'm so sorry Miss. Are you hurt? God my boss is gonna kill me if you're hurt! Please don't be hurt!" "I..I'm fine... Um... Who are you?" "Oh right, duh, um, my name is EyeLessJack. But everyone calls me Jack." "My name is Nina." He smiles and I smile back. Well at least I think he is, I can't tell behind that mask.

I can't believe it was that long ago... I remember everyone. Masky, Hoodie, Offender, Splandor, Trender, Tender... All of them! Helen... Or know as the Bloody Painter, my best friend, and I killed him! Jeff, I pushed him down into a deep and permanent sleep. Jane, I stabbed her until she died from blood loss. Sally, poor girl bled to death on her carpet. And Ben... I smashed into the wall about several hundred times. I feel sorry for what I did to them all. And I mean it. I slide down the slide and feel the small dent. As I reach the bottom I can see my father... I want to call out to him. Want to make him remember. But there is no way I can do that, he was to do that on his own, but a little of my help couldn't hurt. I walk right up to him when I reach the bottom of the slide and look him in the eyes and say. "Daddy?" Only a matter of time before he can remember.

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