BFB: Despair Rising

Chapter 5

It had been a week past now, and Four hadn't started the next contest at all, and he didn't care or think about how many crazy fans would get without a new episode. The contestants were just as confused, just as impatient, annoyed and bothered. Instead, Four had been fretting to why X shouldn't leave the valleys they stayed in or go anywhere else, and just watching his poor friend. Nobody liked what Four was doing, it was all so sudden and bad.

"Four, I need to go now," X hurried over to the blue number, who was standing there emotionlessly. He glanced at X, instantly narrowing his eyes in a scowl.
"You aren't going anywhere X," he spat angrily. "Not without me!"
"You still haven't told me to why you won't let me go anywhere else alone! I just want to see somebody. And you said I can't go anywhere for a week, and it's been a week!" X complained. "X, you know better then to talk back to me," Four snarled nastily, his claws stretching out threateningly. "You've gone mad!" X cried, hurrying away. His heart shot with hurt, and he stretched his arm, looping it around a tree and grabbing his yellow friend, stretching his arm and X back towards him. He gently let go, "fine. You can leave. Make sure you come back safely, and hang out with me after!" He growled stubbornly, as X's eyes lit up in joy. "Thank you!" He hugged Four, before scurrying out of sight. A heartbreaking realization thrashed through him, X never hung out with him since, he was always sadly spacing out, dreaming in broad daylight. He choked back a wail, stop thinking about Two! Why don't you think about me? Stop! Please X, stop..

X bounded back into the clearing, holding a golden teddy bear with bushy fur. Two is gifting him now?
Four made his way to X, his eyes gleaming chips of ice.
"What is this?" He snarled, tugging it's ear. At this point, nearly every contestant was staring at them curiously. Of course they would be up to watch a quarrel with me and X, why not?
"U-Um..my friend gave it to me," he stammered, stepping back whilst slightly tugging the bear away from Four's grasp. He gripped harder, "who?" His voice was deeper and quieter now, his breath shaking menacingly. "Why do you want to know? You'll just get mad, shout at me, then hurt me!" X yelped angrily, tears in his eyes. Mentally bewildered, he shook his head in disbelief, "tell me or it will happen either way, I need to know! Tell me, in front of everyone!" Four argued, screeching at this point. X shrunk backwards, his eyes wide with fear, "I don't want to fight you!" He sobbed. "I wouldn't want to fight me neither," he whispered coldly, yanking the bear from this arms. He finely grasped its's head and torn it clean off, it's stuffing tumbling out. X stared in horror. Shocked and confused gasps whispered like wind through the crowd that watched them, which turned into murmuring, eventually getting louder. Four stomped his foot and screeched, silencing them instantly. He dropped the remains of the stuffed animal and walked away slowly, the objects' voices churning back up again behind him. Leafy pushed through the crowd and thudded after him right after comforting X.
Four halted as he was far enough from everyone, Leafy slowing down. He turned to Leafy and glared coldly. What can you do to help me? X is lying to me! He won't admit he's spending time with Two and not me! You can't heal my wounds..
"Four..you've seemed really on edge lately," Leafy murmured softly, gazing at him sympathetically. He grunted in response. "Don't think I'm going to see you as an enemy now just because you did that, and just because you snap at all of us and delayed BFB 25, cause I don't. Everybody deserves a chance and I believe there's a reason behind this behavior. Please Four, talk to me, I want to help you, I'll keep it between you and me, and I promise that from the bottom of my heart."
Four shakily sighed, Leafy was honest and genuine, specially to him. He couldn't bottle up his feelings forever. The bottle would shatter if doesn't spill out a little bit at least. It wasn't long until he found himself pouring out everything on that one day.
"Not too long ago, I followed X's trails out of the flower field, I- I stalked him. Then, I saw him playing with Two, and he knew that if I ever found out about that, he would hurt me. And I am hurt, I'm broken! He doesn't even hang out with me anymore, he wants to be with Two! I keep having nightmares about it and—"
"Not too much," she slid her finger over his lips. "I get that, Four. I know how it feels to be lonely, to be left behind by somebody. But you have me now, you can talk to me about your feelings whenever you want to. Everything's going to be okay. I promise. I feel that you are heavily suspicious and-or troubled by that sighting, and I'm sorry. Nobody deserves to be treated like this, but please Four, don't spread and take out your fury on other beings, you'll only make everything worse." She comfortingly hugged him, Four's heart warming and his expression softening. He carefully hugged back, breathing deeply. "Everything will be okay," Leafy murmured.