Thomas's POV
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I turned round to the heart monitor. The little mountains were slowly getting smaller, and smaller. Then, after a couple minutes, there was a loud beep and the line became flat. We screamed for the nearby doctors but by that time they were already on their way in. We were ordered to stay outside as they tried to revive her. Then after they shut the door, there was silence. We sat in the seats opposite to the door. Kory's head was in his hands and his slouched back jerking up then back down. My nose was running badly and so was the tears, they wouldn't stop. I punched Kory in the face over and over. I, I guess I couldn't help myself to do so.
"WHY DID YOU DO IT," I asked again and again. "WHY, WHY, WHY"
He grabbed my wrist, then my other and threw me to the ground and swung straight into my face. My nose began to bleed from the force and I screamed slightly. Security was already there to break the fight between us. As I was being carried away the blood from my nose swayed slightly high in the air before making a splat on the ground. I kicked my legs in the air as I screamed continuously at him as he sat up and looked at me straight in the eye. His face was bloody, the sources were his mouth and nose and a burst lip. That was the last I had saw of him that day as he was taken by security. We were taken into separate rooms to be cleaned up and calmed down, finally being forced to tell what happened. I could hardly say anything because of my sobbing and hiccuping. In the end though, I did get it out. They looked shocked as I told them and they called the police and told me everything's going to be okay
The police arrived and we were taken for lie detectors. I passed, I knew I would but somehow, Kory passed. Surprising actually. We were dropped off outside our house via police car. For me, it was amazing sitting in one. I've always dreamt of sitting in one let alone becoming an officer. They drove off whilst they waved. I stood there, watching it fade into the darkness of the night.
This night was a clear, cold one. No clouds in the sky and everything was peaceful. The only sound that was being made was the sound of leaves falling off the trees and floated away swiftly in the cold breeze. Looking up I saw the stars, the constellations. The Big Dipper, that was the most easiest to see. Then the seven sisters: a small cluster of stars, seven of them in total. My stargazing was cut short from Kory yelling at me to come in. "You'll catch a cold!" He shouts. I turn and glare at him. A long, hateful glare. Then I opened the red gate to the back garden and walked in. Why would I want to take orders from someone like that. It disgusts me.
Suddenly, my world became dark. I felt like my eyes were spinning in and out of my skull. My head was pounding and I felt like I could vomit. I looked up one last time at the stars before falling to the ground with a thump.
Tommo's dream
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I sat on the chair beside Ember's hospital bed. She smiled and she asked how I was doing in school. I replied, saying I was doing well and that I passed a higher Maths test. She laughed and said "How did you do that without my help?". She said it kindheartedly. I laughed along with her, I knew she was kidding. There was a cold air coming from her dirty window to the right of her. The curtains got caught in the wind and swayed in time with the gusts of wind that flooded through. I pushed myself forward and shuffled over to the wide open window, having to reach out to grab the handle which resulted in me having to go on my tip toe to actually reach far enough. I sighed as I closed it, I'm scared of heights and thinking of me accidentally falling out didn't make that any better. I laughed it off and got back on topic to what we were saying earlier.
"So I met this girl and-" I stopped as I turned round.
Kory, he was there. He held the plug that pumped oxygen to her lungs. I couldn't move, it was shock. Then I pounced at him and trying to pull the plug from him. It was no use. He pushed me into some medical tools that were left and my back had been cut from the tools that lay on the now fallen metal tray. I turned to look at the damage I had done. It wasn't much but there was some blood on the walls.
Then, I heard the beeping.
I turned round to the heart monitor. The little mountains were slowly getting smaller, and smaller. Then, after a couple minutes, there was a loud beep and the line became flat. I stared in shock. Red hot tears began to run down my flushed cheeks. Kory was going to yell for doctors but they were already on their way there.
We sat on the chairs opposite from the door. I turned to look at Kory with burning hatred. I could see that he was crying. I couldn't take it anymore. I swung to the back of his head with the force that I had. It hurt, a lot, but I had to get the anger out somehow.
"WHY DID YOU DO IT!" I boomed at him. "WHY WHY WHY WHY!"
That's all I could say before the child part in me took over and I began to wail out. Then the security showed up and separated me from him. I looked at my hands as they picked me up from the ground and I kicked and screamed trying to hurt him more than I ever had. My hands had gone red and raw, bleeding too. I think I might have hit too hard but I don't care, not now.
As he was being pulled away from security, he stared right into my eyes, then my soul. His eyes, though. They seemed to change colour. Both of his eyes seemed to flicker green. It was like pressing an on and off switch constantly.
That was the last I'd seen of him.
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I woke up sweating. I wiped my forehead with the back of my hand and sat up. I looked around in the darkness, panting. Then tears. I sniffled and my nose began to run. Just like in the dream, they were like little droplets of lava running down my cheeks. I just sat there for what seemed like years but in reality, just a couple minutes. Then I looked to Kory's side of the room. Where was he? I didn't care that much, honest. I just wanted to know where he went. Then I realised that I was sitting on my bed. Knowing I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep after that, I would need something to do.
Then I came to me. Ember's book. What if I read that? Maybe it would give me closure.
I turned to the small book beside me on my cabinet and flicked on my lamp, and opened the book.
I turned to the first page and began to read. I read all 159 pages in matter of minutes. She wrote about her. How she was in an orphanage because she had schizophrenia and that her parents didn't want to put up with it because she has an imaginary friend named Kory.
So then some man named Slendy that was actually a shapeshifting monster came to adopt her. Then it turned out that there were loads of people living there, one would be our next door neighbour Natalie. She's been missing for god knows how long now. Easily could've gone missing when I was 3 or round about that age. She was then trained to kill people because that's what she wanted to do. She wanted to get revenge on our parents for abandoning her but before that she had to kill another family first.
So she did and she passed so she was allowed. That was when she met me. She had known about me only because our parents mentioned me in a letter. She killed them and I was free to go with her. Then one of her family members got caught and was arrested.
That family member told the police about them to they had to over and the police found them and they started a small war. Ember was shot four times and those four bullets were in she same places where she had been shot in reality.
I was crying as I read this. Not because of the story but because of Ember. She said that I was being abused in the story and that was the reason why she killed them. Then Kory must've been her hallucination. He had a pair of black wings and his eyes changed colour. He had no eyes but when they changed to blue he was happy and when they were green they were sad.
Then, something at the bottom of the last page made me read on.
"Thomas" It read. "I know what's going to happen but listen. Just forget about me. Don't think of me and don't mourn me. Just act like I was never there. It'll be okay. I love you" -Ember.
She finished it off with a small drawn heart beside her name. I'm not even going to question how she knew what was going to happen. I was filled to the brim with pain and grief.
I decided to call it a night then. I went out like a flame.
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I woke up the next day and decided to go out for a walk. That would surely clear my mind a bit.
I walked out into the kitchen and grabbed the Cheerios and milk and began to eat at the table. There was a note left on the counter that had just caught my eye. I sat up from my seat and picked up the note.
Thomas
If your reading this, then I'm already dead
I'm sorry. I truly am sorry. I couldn't help myself. It was too painful not it do anything
I miss Mum and Dad and now I miss Ember too
It's too much for me to handle
I've been suicidal for a long time now. So why not do it now what I have the reason too.
Love you.
There was no need to know who it was from. I stared at it blankly before setting it back down and continued to eat my breakfast.
Kory's POV
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I carried Tommo to his bed and tucked him in. I don't know what was up with him and I'm not going to stick around for me to know why. I sighed and jumped onto the couch and turned it onto a random channel. Adverts were on and coincidentally, it was a suicide helpline. Heh, like that's going to happen. I need to write a note for Thomas. Not like he'll care but I need to tell him at the least.
So there I was, writing out this little note for him. I didn't feel sad or angry, I felt numb. There was no emotion left in me at all. Just blackness. Then I heard a thump coming from his room, shit.
I quickly wrote the rest and picked up a blue bag filled with razors and rope and headed out the back door. Even if he did see me it wouldn't be clear since its still dark. I grabbed my Woolley grey coat the walked out, not looking back a second time. I ran into the garden and jumped the fence and headed towards the forest. I had planned this out quite a while ago though family did get in the way of plans.
That would be the last time he will hear and see of me. For I have left a trail of hatred behind me and I'm not proud of it.
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ANNNNNDD THATS A WRAP! Thank you so much for reading this! It's my first completed story and I'm so excited! So here's 10 facts about this story!
1: This idea of this story came to me was I was listening to this song I found on a speed paint. I made a little animation in my head so I decided to made it into a story!
2: strange fact but the human concept of Slender Man came to me from an old teacher I had (R.i.p Mr. Robertson ;-;).
3: The story itself has exactly 20,000 words! That's insane! (Well, to me anyways).
4: Kory has Mixed Features Bipolar Disorder. He just acts happy all the time but he feels suicidal and has depression episodes but he hides them from everyone. That's why he's angry most of the time.
5: I actually had a different ending for this but I eventually wanted it to end on a sort of sad note.
6: Thomas is actually the name of one of my favourite youtubers. I thought it would be nice to name him one of my characters ^-^.
7: Thomas is partially blind in his right eye, (his green eye). The doctors can't explain this but his parents told him that it was his fault that he has one eye different from the other.
8: Kory is actually an "imaginary" friend of mine. He's still here today and just like in the story. He somehow grew a pair of wings, it's funny actually.
9: Ember was originally going to be apart of another story I was planing to make but then decided to place her as the main character because, why not?
10: I originally just wanted Kory to die in the other ending. But y'know, death right?
Well, here it ends. Thank you so much for reading this! It's been a blast writing this but alas, here it ends.
Goodbye!