Meet Rachel, Tiny, Max, and a little bit of Dr. Loomis. You also have a small dose of Jamie/Andy, but it isn't full fledged romance yet. Now, I will shut up before I reveal any more spoilers.
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Andy peaked into the room beside his, and he slowly took a step inside.
Jamie was laying in her bed, asleep or unconscious with some kind of cap made of wires on her head, suction cups keeping it fastened to her forehead.
Andy slowly crossed the room and placed the flowers inside the vase beside the bed (he'd called his mom and asked her to bring some when she visited. She'd been skeptical, but she hadn't asked).
A hand clasped his wrist, and he jumped as he turned to face Jamie, now awake and staring at him.
"Um, hi," Andy said, shyly. "I'm Andy. You're Jamie, right?"
The girl nodded.
"Do you talk?"
Jamie shook her head.
"It's okay. I honestly don't talk much either," Andy said right before the door opened.
A blonde teenager stepped inside, and she smiled at Jamie before frowning at Andy.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"I'm Andy, room next door," he replied. "You?"
"Rachel, her sister," the girl replied, and Andy shook her hand.
"Well," Andy said, shuffling his feet awkwardly, "I should probably get back to my room."
A hand on his wrist stopped him from walking away, and he turned to Jamie, who looked at him, pleadingly.
"You want me to stay?"
She nodded.
Andy shrugged. "Okay. I don't have anything on my schedule for another hour, so…"
He pursed his lips before sitting on the edge of her bed.
If he hadn't been looking at Jamie, he would've seen Rachel smile at the two of them.
A banging on the window startled him, and he looked up to see a girl with curly black hair and baggy, dark clothes standing on the sill outside the window.
"Open up!" she exclaimed as a German Shepard peaked over her shoulder.
Andy glanced at Jamie, who was mouthing a word that looked like axe or maybe Max. Choked gasps escaped her lips, her vocal cords unable to form words.
The window slid open, and the girl ducked inside. The dog scrambled onto the bed to see Jamie.
"They don't allow Max in here!" Rachel hissed to the girl.
"You know what they can do if they can't take a joke," the girl giggled.
"She doesn't even remember," Rachel murmured.
Remember what? Andy wondered before their voices lowered some more, and he could no longer ease drop on the conversation.
"And who is this?" the girl asked, gesturing to Andy.
"Andy," the boy answered. "Room next door."
The girl nodded. "I'm Tina, and the dog is Max."
Andy nodded, and Rachel reached for something hidden behind a door while Tina got Jamie's attention.
"I wonder what Rachel is hiding behind door number three?" Tina chirped as Rachel reappeared with a pink princess dress.
"Ooh," Tina sing songed while Jamie tripped off of the bed and rushed over to get a better look.
"What are you going as?" Tina asked Andy, referring to the clinic's Halloween party.
"Prince Charming," Andy responded. "My mom said I couldn't be superman for the fifth year in a row, so that's what I'm stuck with."
Tina glanced at Rachel, and they smiled at each other. Andy wondered what that was all about.
The door opened, and someone cleared their throat. All of them turned to see a badly burned man standing in the doorway.
"What is going on?" he asked.
Tina muttered her apologies and grabbed Max by the collar to escort him out. Rachel and the man talked in hushed tones before Rachel turned to Jamie, having just enough time to whisper a few words before a crash shattered the atmosphere (no pun intended).
The remains of the previously intact window lay scattered across the floor, and the man picked up the rock that had flown (more accurately, been thrown) through the window.
Andy glanced at the note.
The evil child must die.
Why did someone hate Jamie so much? It reminded him of their neighbors after the Chucky incident. They all thought Andy was some sort of demon or Chucky's helper or something. Nonetheless, they believed him to be evil, just like the doll that still haunted his nightmares.
Rachel placed an arm around Jamie, and she glanced at the small space between the children, and Andy followed her gaze.
His hand was intertwined with Jamie's.
"Stay with Jamie," Rachel instructed Andy. "And… look out for her, okay?"
Andy wasn't sure what he needed to watch for-more rocks, the people that had thrown them, or whatever people thought made Jamie evil- but he simply nodded as Rachel and the man left the room.
Andy and Jamie never unlocked their hands.
Fair warning. Most of the chapters will be short. There will be some long chapters, of course, particularly when we start actually getting into the horror stuff and get out of the beginning. But the majority will be short chapters, which will wind up with many more chapters than if they were all long, so it's kind of a lose some, win some situation.
Thanks for reading!