What Comes from Below...

Within these Walls...

It was a sunny summer day in Glendale, California. Mark was sitting in the shallow end of the pool, while Mason and I were swimming around in the deep end. Mason was starting to get tired, so we decided to get out of the pool. I walked over to the chairs to grab Mason his towel. I dried him off and took him inside to get dressed and prepare him to take a nap. Mason snuggled up in his bed whilst cuddling his teddy bear. We read two short books and by the time I got to the last page of the second book, I turned to Mason and noticed he was passed out. Instead of getting up, I wrapped my arms around him and fell asleep.

1 hour later, I wake up from a heavy sleep. At first I thought Mason was still asleep, but eventually noticed that I was cuddling with the bed sheets. I sat up to see he wasn't there. I assumed he had gotten out of bed to find his dad, so I went down stairs to see if I could find him. When I arrived at the living room, I heard noises. Where were they coming from though? Knowing Mason goes into the basement every so often, I went to see if he or Mark was maybe there. I opened the door to the basement and went down the stairs. Mason was sitting in the corner of the room all by himself, no toys to be seen. I carefully walked up to him and asked what was doing.
"I'm talking to Link." Mason replied softly.
"Oh, who's Link, honey?"
"Link is my friend. He tells me to go places, so I listen."
"Well Mason, how about you and Link take a break and come have an afternoon snack?" I tried convincing Mason to come back upstairs with me.
"Okay, but Link doesn't want to go."
"That's okay, we can go upstairs anyway." He grabbed my hand and we headed to the kitchen. He still had his teddy bear in hand. Mark walked in from outside and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Hey, I'm headed up to my office for a bit."
"Okay, what do you want me to make for dinner?"
"Food. How about pizza?"
"Guess I'm not making dinner tonight." He walked up to his office leaving us to our afternoon snack.

(Mark's POV)
I headed up to my office to record videos for the weekend. I turned on my recording lights, and clicked my monitor and computer on. I sat down, put my headphones on and opened steam. I searched through the new games, and then threw my already owned games. Before I started to record, I texted Wade, Bob, and Sean to play some prop hunt. They agreed to play and so we got on teamspeak and a gmod server. I hit record and let the filming begin. We recorded for over two hours which provided 4 videos. I checked my watch and it read, "5:30". I went back downstairs to join my family in a kid friendly movie.

Wife's (POV)
"Oh hey, did you finish your recordings?" I asked Mark.
"Yeah."
"I ordered pizza and it should be here in about 30 minutes." Mark walked over and sat down next to us, but Mason got up and headed to the wall. He started talking to the wall and asking it why he should do that. I wondered what he was talking about and asked Mark to go see of he is okay.

Mark's (POV)
I got up to talk to Mason. "What are you doing bud?"
"Talking to Link"
"Who's Link?"
"He talks to me through the walls."
"What is he saying?"
"Kill mommy and daddy."
"Uh, I don't think you should talk to Link anymore, Mason."
"Okay." He got up and walked back to the couch like nothing happened. I followed closely behind.

End of part 1