A few days later
Jeff's P.O.V.
I returned to the class from the office box in hand. I knew who it was from, that was the reason I didn't open it till the end of the day. I sat at my desk and looked at the projects the students had turned in confused on how to grade them, if I was even supposed to grade them. I ran my finger through my hair pushing it out of my face and leaned back turning to see a face in the window on the door. I raised a brow at Jeffrey and gestured for him to come in. "Are you just going to stalk me or come in?" he blushed stepping holding the door open for…Liu. My heart skipped a beat at the sight of him, his timid nature hadn't changed. "H-hello Jeffrey."
"Hey sir um…" he started rubbing the back of his neck "Yes?"
"Our parents found out that you're our new neighbor and…" shit. "And…?" Liu sighed rolling his eyes "Our parents want you to come over for dinner." I raised a brow "I know it sounds weird but we're still kinda new here and our mom wants to get to know as many neighbors as possible."
"Yeah that's a little weird." For a number of reasons. "Um what's for dinner?"
"Well its football night so anything that you wouldn't want your doctor to know you ate." I nodded considering going to see my parents and sit at the table with them and their clones of my brother and I. "well can you promise not to kill me?"
"Meh can't promise that with how many times my mother will refill you wine glass." I laughed "I think I can do that when?"
"Please do it as soon as possible so our mom will get off our back." I sighed "yeah just gimmie a minute to clean up and we can go I'm not making any progress here anyway." They nodded "Anyway we can help?"
"Yeah go turn off the light tables in the back and see if there is any leftover art supplies on the desks." The nodded and set down their packs heading to the back of the room. I took this time to open the box to actually see where I would be living while I was here. I narrowed my eyes at the address I would be living at…right…next…door to Jeffery, great. I packed up my stuff and Jeffery and Liu walked over "nothing was left out." I nodded and headed out the door and held it open for the boys. I locked the door behind us and we walked to the front of the door. Trying to make the situation less awkward I used a story from my past with Nina and fudged a few ideas ok a lot of ideas. "This is weird last time I left a school with a student there saw a gun being shoved in my back."
"Whoa what happened?!"
"Girl fell for me and when she confessed her feelings I tried to let her down easy but when she heard me say 'I'm flattered but…' she didn't take it so well shot a teacher on the way out"
"Dude did they live?"
"Yeah he was shot in the shoulder out of work for a while but he was lucky."
"Yeah what happened after that?"
"Well she forced me into a stolen car and we drove to my place at the time and she found out why I had to say no besides she was my student and I was twice her age."
"Girlfriend?"
"No?"
"Fiancé?"
"Nope."
"Wife?" I shook my head "then what?" Liu snorted "his secret is the same as mine."
"Ooooh boyfriend." Holy shit Liu's gay?! That's…that's where the gayness went. I nodded trying to hold back my surprise "better keep that story to yourself around my parents."
"Why?"
"Not exactly open to that kind of thing."
"So I'm guessing they don't know about your brother." They shook their heads as that little monster in my head told me it was time to kill again "H-Hey you guys got a way to get home? because as a teacher it would be 'inappropriate' for me to drive you home."
"Yeah we can take the bus." I pulled out my wallet "Here take this." I said pulling out money the shook their head "Nah we got these." They said holding up whale cards, whale was the company that owned the buses having one of those you could get on the bus no cash need just scan and it takes money from your account. "Nice well I'll meet you there I gotta make a stop before I get there." they nodded "But change before you get there if you can its football night!" I waved still wondering why football played in the middle of the week before running for a house with one resident pulling off my makeup.
I stumbled into the laundry room of the old man's house "For an old man you put up one hell of a fight." I pulled off my bloodied sweatshirt hoping he had bleach, to my luck he didn't. I looked at my watch I didn't have time to wash the thing anyway. "You happy old man?! Now I'm gonna be late for dinner with myself!" I growled throwing my bloodied clothes in the washer and looking through some of the old man's clothes finding an oversize sweatshirt in his closet and some undersized jeans in a box under his bed. I headed out the door unbuttoning the pants and pulling the sweatshirt down to cover it.
I pushed my hair out of my face before knocking on the door. I was glad that the one to open the door was Jeffery "Hey what took you so long dinner is on the table."
"Yeah sorry the bank was being a pain." He smiled letting me in "Nice place." I said walking in and turning to look around "There he is!" I heard my father's voice behind me and did my best not to stiffen and turned to look at him "Hi, I'm Jeff Slender. Jeffery's teacher."
"Yeah I heard, welcome. I'm Peter and this is my wife Margaret." I nodded "Nice to meet you both, so what's for dinner?" He laughed "Well, let's just say I hope you don't have a heart condition."
Slender's P.O.V.
"sir we've narrowed down the list of places Jeff could have been sent to 46 dimensions but our defenses of failing to Zalgo's minions what are our orders?!"
"Let me deal with it." I stood pushing past them and heading out the door to find Zalgo holding clockwork by her throat but dropped her at the sight of me "clockwork get everyone inside…I'll take care of this." He smiled at me as clockwork followed my orders "finally the master comes out to play." He said standing to prepare for a fight.
Jeff's P.O.V.
I collided with Jeffery's father pushing him back my feet digging into the ground "RUN! LIU! RUN! NOW!" I watched as Jeffery ran after Liu jumping to tackle him but he didn't make it and Liu crossed the line "TOUCHDOWN!" I cheered high fiving Liu "that's three to nothing ready to give up yet?" Liu said poking his brother "geez you're fast since when did you get so fast?" Jeff said sitting on the ground laying back. "I don't think I'm getting faster I think you're getting slower." Jeff glared at him. "Ok boys wash up dessert is ready Jeff go change your pants there all covered in mud." Jeffery rolled his eyes at his mom before getting up to follow us inside. We pulled off our shoes and headed into the kitchen for the amazing pie Jeffery's mother had made.
Many months later
I stumbled up the stairs, cheep scotch fogging my brain. Months here and not a single sign that Slender was going to come for me. Is there no way to get me back? Or…or is he leaving me here on propose? What am I gonna do? People are going to start to ask questions soon. I'm going to be found out. People are going to find out that I'm the cause of the murders recently, they're going to find out I'm not a teacher. I slammed the wall in anger. "What am I gonna do?" I walked into my room and flopped onto the bed soon passing out.
The next day
I rubbed my head trying to curb my head ache as I walked into my class room and sat down at my desk. I pulled my long burnt black hair back into a pony tail. The bell rang moments later causing my head to throb. Students soon started filing into the class room checking my school email finding out there's going to be an assembly to day. Great. The second bell rang and stood walking front of my desk. "Good morning everyone how was your weekend? Do anything fun?" A few kids raised their hands to share " ?" I said pointing to the class delinquent "your mom." I rolled my eyes I thought that joke died but the class giggling said otherwise "well I had no idea you're a necrophiliac." The classed roared with laughter. "anyway on that note we have an assembly to day in 10 minutes but because of the science fair it will be held in the auditorium so that means it will be split into two assemblies so when we get back you get to sit here and watch a short film I was going to show you tomorrow. Ok?" they nodded "so in this ten minutes I will turn a blind eye to phones and head phones but if I can hear it I'll ask you to turn it down." I walked around my desk sitting down and leaned back, stretching. I picked up my school issued laptop and set in on my lap putting my feet on my desk. I scrolled through my emails deleting as needed. I looked around the class room to see who was missing the only one missing was Jeffery. I marked him absent and went back to my email as the intercom went off "classes in assembly A please report to the auditorium." I nodded to my class and stood as they followed me out of the class room. Us being just doors down from the auditorium we were the first to arrive I sat my students down in the area marked with my name and sat down with them. We waited as the other class room filed in and I felt a poke in my side "sir?" I turned to a small girl next to me with short blond hair "yes?" she blushed "well I've been wondering why don't you ever blink?" I chuckled "I'm surprised you're the first person to ask considering how long I've been here. Well if you want to know I was born without eye lids."
"Oh I'm so-."
"No its fine didn't really affect my life because I have over active tear ducts so my eyes never get dry."
"And it never affected your vision?" I shook my head turning to look up at the principle who was talking on stage who I had conflicted feelings about. "I know this was a surprise but we had some detectives come in today and they want to talk to you about the recent string of murders. So please give a warm welcome to detective Tim Simons and detective brain storm." My heart skipped a beat. No there's no way. I was right to men walked on sage but it wasn't them they didn't have masks on and Masky and Hoodie never took their masks off .I immediately turned to the teacher behind be "hey can you watch my class?" I said raising my phone showing them I had a call. They nodded and practically ran out of there. I burst out the front door scanning the parking lot hoping to see their car. No luck. I weaved my way through the cars looking inside hoping to see something that would tell me it was their car but nothing. I walked back to the school and sat on the curb running my hands through my hair. "I'm going insane, more than I already am." I walked to the office and talked to the lady at the counter "hey Laura I have a family emergency can you find someone to fill in for me?"
"Sure thing." I nodded walking out leaving my stuff in my class room and just walked home.
I pushed open the door of my house and walked in pulling off my clothes down to my under shirt and boxers and fell onto the couch. I wanted to sleep but all I could do was cry.