Beings that Care

Chapter 2

         The few stairs that descend to the old house creak as I step on each one. The sound scared me even more than my father following me closely. I'm terrified of the other four boys I have yet to meet. Ideas of what they could be past through my mind. I try to think about every horror story I've ever read, ever forwarded in text messages, nothing. I can't remember anything about those creatures, I only remembered Slenderman is because I recently played the game. 

My father opened the door and called, "Everyone in the living room! I have a surprise!"  

We stood in the living room, waiting for my new housemates to come down the stairs. My father guides me to the living room and I sit on a dark red couch and look around the living room. The walls were made of a dark stone and the floor was a dark wood. There were two flights of stairs that curved into the living room. I studied the paintings hanging on the wall, one caught my eye. The painting was of a girl about the age of 15 with dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. She was wearing an orange dress and had a baby bump. She looked so familiar but I pushed it to the back of my mind as I hear footsteps running towards me and a boy shouting, "DID YOU BRING ME KIDNEYS?!?!" 

I stared at the boy running at my father. "No....was I supposed to?" My dad asks and looks at the boy. The boy wears a dark blue mask with big black eyes, a black T-shirt and skinny jeans.

"Then what's the sur- who's that?" He asks pointing at me. 

"Wait for the others to come down and I'll explain." My father says calmly as he walks up stairs to get the others. 

"Wait! You're leaving me with him?" I ask pointing to the boy who sat next to me, "No offense," I say quickly, "I'm just a bit on edge right now sorry." 

The boy nods and leans back in the couch. "I'll just be up stairs, calm down," My father said as he walked up stairs. 

I turn to the boy next to me, "What's your name?"

"Jack"

"Cool...I'm Anabelle, nice to meet you...Does everyone in this house wear masks?"

He looked at me and smiled, "Trust me, the few of us that do wear masks are so we don't scare you more than we already do." I look at him and daze off looking up the stairs, waiting for my father to come back down the stairs.

Three boys follow my dad down the stairs and I'm a bit scared at what I see. One has pitch black hair, wide open eyes, and a freakishly big smile but I am strangely attracted to him, which terrifies me. The next looks just like a real life chibi Link with blood coming from his eyes. Then the last wears an orange hoodie and a black mask with red marks all over it. My father takes a deep breath and looks at all the boys covering me from their view," I have always talked about my daughter and how wonderful it would be if she was able to live with us and well... I am proud to say that Masky and I have found her in the forest about 35 minutes ago." He moves out of the way and revealed me to the boys. 

The one with the creepy smile stepped up to me and turned to my dad,"There is no way she's YOUR daughter. She's wwwwaaaayyyy too hot to be related to you!" 

I saw my father tense up and he pointed to a painting.... the painting of my mother as a.... 17 year old? In the photo she was pregnant, just like the other woman who had caught my attention.

"Oh...I see....She has her mother's EVERYTHING! Unless you have blonde hair," Jeff added sarcastically as he crossed his arms and walked up to me, "I'm Jeff, you'll need to know it since we WILL be spending A LOT of time together," He winked and shook my hand then walked to his room. 

The hooded one came up to me simple intro telling me that his name was Hoodie and he walked up the stairs to his bedroom. The last came up to me and smiled, "I'm Ben! Do you wanna play video games with me?" 

"Ummm...I just got here and it's kinda late but I'll play tomorrow," I say hoping to please him. He nodded and skipped to his room. 

Jack and dad were the only ones left with me. "So this was your big surprise?" Jack asked.

"Go to your room," My father points up the stairs and Jack gets up and goes to his room.

"Anabelle, are you ready to see your new room?" Dad asks. 

"Sure....I guess," I follow him up the curved stairs and hope Masky is still there, he'll somehow kill the awkward...maybe. I walk into a room and Masky is putting pillows on the light blue bed. The whole room was a bit more girly than I expected. The walls were wood but engraved in the walls was a very unique design of swirls covering the room and the floors were a dark brown with a silver blue carpet at the foot of the queen size bed. The room was empty except for the bed, carpet, a wardrobe, and a vanity. 

I looked at my father, "Needs a bit of 'me' but.... I like it, thanks," I say then give him the most awkward hug I think I've ever given anyone and walk up to Masky. I give him a less awkward hug, "Thanks for cleaning it up for me...and you know...not killing me earlier." 

He laughed, "No problem." and walked out of the room with my father. 

I shout, "I'm going to bed! Night!" I lock my door and lie down on my bed to drift off to sleep.

                                                                                     MASKY'S P.O.V.

     I walk out of Anabelle's room with Slenderman and he pats me on the back," She seems to have taken a liking to you," I smiled to myself. She was cute, with her blonde hair and light blue eyes with freckles perfectly on her nose, "So... I have a job for you," I look up at Slender, "You are now in charge of protecting her. If something bad happens to her, I will blame you, but if she is happy, I congratulate you." I nod my head and walk off to my room. I don't know weather I should be happy or scared. I get a free pass from her father to hang out with her non-stop but if I don't watch her carefully enough... I don't even want to think about it. I'll worry about it when I wake up.