"You can never bet me!" The blonde boy yelled to his best friend. He pressed a few more buttons and soon defeated his friend. "Ha I told you so."

"Yah yah," his dirty blonde friend said quite annoyed with him. "That is because you played as Link!" She yelled now standing up.

"Well you played Zelda." He said standing up, just to annoy her.

"You know I don't like to play the princesses!" She said, hand now on her hips.

"But you are one." He smirked.

"Yah, right." She said sitting back down grabbing a bag of chips. "This time I get to be Link."

"Fine," he sighed obviously annoyed and sat back down. They continued to play their games of super smash bros and it was a complete balance. On who would win, and who would lose. However the boy was always ahead of her by one win. They'd play other games, and the same would happened, he'd be one ahead of her. She would never get mad. Only a bit flustered that she can't meet her best friends level. These two where probably the best gamers at their age of twelve.

"Well I should go home," he sighed getting up.

"Why?" Said the girl, her face still glued to the screen.

"It's getting dark." Said the boy, throwing on his green hoodie on. The girl seems the shiver at the word.

"O-okay." She said. She stood up, brushing some crumbs off her. She pulled her friend into a light hug. "Bye Ben."

"Bye Faith," he smirked, hugging her back a bit tighter than she was. They two let go before he walked out her back door and went threw the forest located behind her house. She went up stairs to her room and got a raven black, with the slightest hint of navy, hoodie. She went back into her gaming room only to here multiple people yelling. She rushed to the back off her parents house, fearing only the worse. Her eyes fell upon a group of older boys, surrounding a younger one. They all pushed the younger one around and laughed as he tried to escape. She rushed over to them and tried to break to circle of boys.

"Let him go!" She yelled over and over again. One The bigger ones turned to her.

"Oh, look. It's the little bitch." He said to her. His words not hurting her. These boys had always bullied her and her friend, whom was the boy in the circle. Never for any particular reason, just to do so. However Ben always inferred it was because of their love for gaming. Faith always seemed to shrug it off.

"Let him go," she yelled,clutching her fist.

"Or what?"

"I'll- I'll, I'll kill you!"

"Haha," he snickered. "Throw him in the lake." The others grabbed Ben's arms and legs as he attempted to squirm out of their grips. They put a gag on him, to muffle his screams and chains on his wrist. Faith tried to rush to him and help, but the boy in front of her grabbed and threw her to the wall of her house. The boys there him into the center, and deepest part of the lake. The older boys walked off all laughing. She gasped and ran into the lake, trying to save her friend, knowing he hadn't learned to swim properly. She swam to the center as her friend sank deeper and deeper. She saw him and swam close to him trying to grab his hand. Something grabbed her foot and pulled her up.

"B-Ben, h-he, he's drowning!" She cried. The person who grabbed her look at her extremely concerned. The male figure nodded and swam downwards. Her parents rushed outside and found their daughter crying in the middle of the lake. Her father made a mad dash to his daughter. He dragged her to the shore as she struggled in his grib, trying to swim downwards. She screamed as tears ran down her face. Her parents tried to talk to her but she heard none of it.

-.-

"Some one went after him." She told the police the following day. "I tried to s-save but I couldn't. That w-water was too cold."

"Faith, no one went after him." Spoke the female police officer.

"Yes! Someone did." She yelled trying to hold back tears.

"No, no one did. It was probably a hallucination. That tends to happen with a lack of oxygen."

Faith sighed and looked at her game.

"Can you describe the person that tried to save Ben?"

"No face, white skin, a tux, and black tentacles. It sounds like a hallucination now that I think about it." Faith sighed looking down at her hands folded in her lab.

"Thanks for you co-operation sweetie." The lady said turning around. She walked to the girls parents. "She might need therapy."

"What?" Her mother spoke.

"She's just lost her best friend, right in front of her. That's quite a lot to indore as a twelve year old. It is hard enough with just his death."

"She'll be okay, will she?"

"Most likely, but it was the fact she had hallucination of a beast that might cause her to go insane."

"Yes," said her father. "We'll see what we can do."

"Thank you for your time." The police officer said as she walked out of their house.

-.-

No one was tried with any account of murder, due to the fact no one was at the scene besides Faith. And they couldn't charge her of anything.

-.-

"Sir keep it, he is your grandson." Faith told the old man.

"How about you finish it for him. I now how much her loved that game," the old man said handing her back the game cartridge. She looked down at it, her best friends name written on it in all caps.

She walked to her house and out it in her Nintendo 64. She looked at the screen and went all the way to the profiles. The look of saddens in her blue eyes was overwhelming.

BEN

She nearly cried and out of saddens, anger, guilt, and every ounce of emotion she had that blocked her from what was really happening. She added on word to that profile screen. . .

Drowned

-.-

Years later, Faith was out into mental therapy after getting slight schizophrenia at the age of fifteen. She grew slightly insane, but no one ever saw it. You could ask anyone, she was just a depressed girl, obsessed with the death of her best friend. No one knew how suicidal she was, but she did nothing to show it, knowing her parents will see she was insane.

She gave Ben's grandfather back the cartridge, and he gave it to a young man. Every night she imagined the being that pulled Ben out of the lake, still as vivid as when she first saw it. When the video game Slender Forest came out, she was the first to get it. Memories had filled her of the night.

Strange advents have been happening recently, people going missing, murders, and suicides have been popping up more and more. Or so it seemed to her. And to here, they seemed like that all happened in the forest right behind her house. Maybe it was the fact her friend died, or the fact she never feared that stuff. She followed three of them; people being stabbed to death, people being mauled to death, and people committing suicide after going insane.