Friends Forever

Rated M

(This is a Revised version of my sequel to the first story "A Silent Killer". I felt some changes needed to be made and some things added. Let's see if the girls can survive this new horror tale!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Slenderman, just the story.

Chapter One

Janey walked to school, cautiously looking everywhere she went. Every so often, her heart sped up, and she felt someone watching her...

Honestly, she was such a scaredy-cat.

Ever since she was small, her mom said she'd worried about the smallest things and over think everything. And she was never able to outgrow it. She was always on her toes with something...

But she's been even more cautious especially these past few weeks:

The Slenderman was lurking around Hawley.

...Or at least, that's what people thought...

The police had already found the bodies of the Montez family and Matt Lewis the other day, but there were no solid leads to go on...

It broke her heart greatly that one of her dearest friends was killed like that. Of course she was going to attend the funeral; Amanda was very dear to her.

But…the way she died….the way they all died threw Janey off.

Many rumors circulated, and some began pinning it on the being that resigned in the dark woods...

Normally, the bluenette wouldn't listen to such things...but now, she couldn't help it...

Something in her gut told her HE had something to do with it.

Squeezing the strap of her handbag, she was wandering if he was watching her right now…

'Th-That's ridiculous, Janey!' She told herself hastily. 'H-He only comes to you when you go into the woods. Ye-Yeah that it…he'd never get me out here…'

A sharp pain edged in her head, making her gasp in slight pain.

For a while now, she's been experiencing some bad migraines, but she couldn't, for the life of her, figure out why. Every time they appeared, her vision blurred deeply and the pain throbbed against her skull. It was so bad that she had trouble focusing half the time….

Which was probably why she almost walked straight into an open manhole.

"Janey."

She flinched when someone grabbed her shoulder firmly. Looking back quickly, she sighs when she only sees her friend Donna.

"Oh Jeez, don't scare me like that!"

Donna rolls her Hazel eyes and pulls Janey back. "You need to be more careful. You almost fell into that manhole."

The dark brunette points to the pitch black hole leading to a filthy sewer. Janey jumps in surprise before blushing in embarrassment.

"S-Sorry Donna." The light blue haired-girl squeaked. "I was just thinking…"

Donna snorts playfully as they walked together towards the school gate. "And what, pray tell, were you thinking about?"

"About Amanda…I miss her so much."

The ebony brunette lowers her eyes in soft sadness, gripping her handbag. "Yeah…She was an amazing girl. I just wish we got to know her for a little longer." Her mouth frowns deeply, anger building up. "The bastard who did this is going to pay."

"…The Slenderman…"

Donna looks up, shocked. "Janey, no. Don't start acting like Heather—"

"B-but I'm serious!" Janey bit her lip, looking around nervously.

"T-The way she died was too inhumane. No person could've done that so brutally…It had to've been a monster…."

The girl is lightly hit on her head, earning a stern look from Donna.

"No…No. We will not have you all worry-worth early in the morning." She raises an eyebrow like a mother scolding a child. "Why would you even think about that? You know how easily scared you can get."

Janey pouts, rubbing her head. "I-I'm sorry…It's just that he got to our dearest friend…" Her big green eyes turned to her friend, her face frowned up in sudden anxiousness.

"W-What if he tries to get us as well? What if he doesn't just get you when you're in the woods? Wh-What if—"

Donna sighs and pushes the girl into the school. "Calm down, honey." She tunes out Janey's constant blabbering as they walk into the school...

"A-And what if he sends people after us?!"

Donna had gotten in line with Janey for breakfast; amazingly, she was able to tune the girl out as she got her food. She continued to tune her out as she grabbed her plate and sat down.

The brunette perched her ebony face on an arm, an eyebrow raised, as she watches Janey…who's worrying not stop.

"A-And what if he can teleport?!"

The older girl sighs, digging into her eggs and bacon casually.

"Are you done yet?"

She looks up from her brunette bangs, amusement on her face. Janey puffs red, irritation trying to show when it only made her look adorable.

"Donna, I'm serious!" She whined.

"Me too." Donna sighs again, adjusting her glasses.

"You really need to relax, Janey. It's only a distasteful and fucked-up coincidence that Amanda and Matt died like that. I'm sure it would've happened to anyone else if it wasn't them."

"…That doesn't make me feel any better."

"Ugh, look! Slenderman is not real! No one's going to get to you! You have me (and maybe Heather) to protect you. Even if he did exist, he'd have to come through us to get to you, okay?"

She flicks the girl's forehead playfully, chuckling softly. "Jesus, you can be so complicated at times."

"Fine…" Janey sips her juice, noticing Heather running to them excited.

"Hey guys!" She slides into the seat, panting hard with that scheming grin. Donna raises an eyebrow, still eating.

"Where's the fire, champ?"

"Here!" She slams a newspaper on the table, showing today's heading:

"SLENDERMAN STRIKES AGAIN!"

Janey nearly chokes on her orange juice as the Brunette sighs annoyed.

"Dammit, Heather." Donna replied annoyed. "I just calmed her down from this. Why'd you go and start it up again?"

Heather ignores her agitated friend, grabbing a slice of bacon from her plate.

"Isn't it amazing?" She exclaims excited. "We have a real killer loose in Hawley!"

"Amazing wouldn't be the word for this…"

Heather flicks her black hair back and points to the picture. "Are you kidding?! This is the biggest news this place has had in a while! Just think, a living legend lurking in our woods as we speak!"

Other kids were beginning to eye the weird girl, so Donna yanked her down.

"Oi, would you keep it down?" She sneers quietly. "It's too early for you to be jumping off the walls."

Heather could get too jumpy about things; just as Janey was prone to worrying too much...Heather was prone to being too excited...

The ravenette just loved to dig her nose into some type of drama.

In this case, it was the kind of drama that could probably get you killed.

Donna sighs, feeling a migraine coming on.

She loved Heather like a sister, really, she did…but the crazy girl could really take a toll on her nerves at times. And her nerves were on thin ice these pass weeks.

What started as a playful fascination...turned into a deeply annoying obsession...

Heather became too interested in all this Slenderman business; she, at first, thought it was fake, just like Donna...but over the course of the days, with all the online accounts, and videos...the girl became convinced that he was real...

'Honestly...between Janey's worrying and Heather's scheming, I'm going to age years beyond my time...'

...She still loved them though...

Donna pulled off her brown lenses to wipe them off: "Besides, why should we care?"

Heather looked bewildered, as if that was a stupid question.

"Because we're going to go find him."

...That nearly gave Donna a heart attack.

She coughed on her bacon, putting her glasses on as she shot Heather an outraged look.

"WHAT?!"

The other kids were now looking at her, staring awkwardly at the strange group; Janey sunk down in her seat, blushing embarrassingly and wishing she was somewhere else.

Donna winces at the stares before glaring at her friend.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" She whispered sharply. "Are you out of your thick skull?!"

"What?" Heather honestly couldn't see what the problem was. "I mean…he killed Amanda. She was a dear friend to us. Why wouldn't we go find him?"

Donna narrowed her hazel eyes in deeper irritation; she should've seen this coming a mile away. Heather was going to try and guilt trip her into joining the crazy train with her.

Well not this time.

Not after the… peanut butter incident.

"Heather—"

"C'MON!" The black-haired girl whispered sharply. "This is our only way to help her get her revenge!"

Donna gazed at her friend blankly.

"You're crazy, Heather" She said rather monotone before getting up from her seat and grabbing her books.

"I'm not doing that because A) Slenderman's not real, and B) if he is real, I'm not dying in the middle of a forest trying to find him."

Heather huffs: "You're such a prude." She turns to Janey for support. "C'mon, Jan-Jan, back me up."

The little bluenette looks at the Raven nervously: "Oh, I dunno Heather." She fiddles with her ebony fingers, looking worried as usual. "I'm not good with scary things. You know that."

"Please. It's not like we're going to go straight to him."

"No. He'll come to us."

Heather glared at Donna's snottiest, and scoffs.

"Ugh, you guys are unbelievable!" She gets up, swiping more of Donna's bacon. "No matter. I'll just find another way to get to you guys."

Rolling her eyes, Donna takes her leave to Geometry. "Good luck with that."

Janey waves them goodbye and heads towards her English class. She passes by an open window before a sudden deep chill runs down her body.

Looking over, the wind blows in from the woods.

'Oh. It's colder than usual…'

The bluenette shrugs and decides to let the window down, trying hard not to look into the dark woods. Even in the daytime, they were as pitch-black as night.

She didn't know what was in the woods, but she was rather sure she didn't want to find out.

'Especially if it could kill me…'

Janey flinches again, feeling a sudden migraine pulse at her head. Rubbing at her sore temple, she staggers away softly, feeling light-headed; the blur was so blinding and painful that she didn't notice the rustle of the brushes….

She didn't notice how the woods moved in motion with a dark figure….

A figure that had found their next victim.

End of Chapter 1