He couldn't stop. Not now. Jeff is an idiot to write him that letter. The crumpled up paper remains in his hands as he runs down the street and away from Masky and Hoodie's house. He was wrong, just like he always thought he was. Jeff would never love him.
Stopping at the lone oak tree in the park, he remembered when Jeff and he first met. Ordered by Slenderman, he came to this town looking for the notorious killer, Jeff. This is where they met. He closed his eyes and leaned his forehead onto the rough bark.
A pale faced freak with long black hair gripped his knife tightly in his hands before slashing the girl once more. Blood gushed to the floor and he dropped her, but not before whispering his favorite saying, "Go to sleep".
BEN looked at him through the girl's phone that lay on the blacktop. The screen was shattered from the fall, but he could make Jeff out perfectly through the cracked glass. He breathed out a heavy sigh and started to slip himself through the phone's screen.
"Hello there, Jeff," he said calmly, hoping not to scare the psychotic killer.
"What?" Jeff spun around startled and nearly dropped his knife. He looked around frantically before his eyes came to rest on the short elf. "What? Who are you?"
BEN watched Jeff with a strong desire. He looked into those bright blue eyes ringed with black. Unblinking eyes? This was a surprise. He smiled to himself.
Jeff gripped his knife again and slashed at BEN. "Why don't you just shut up?"
BEN laughed and dodged the blow successfully. "Why don't you just come with me?"
"Not on your life. What are you? A cosplay freak?"
Cringing at those words, he moved in closer. He had to throw the pale boy off. "No, I'm afraid I'm not. I can't be one of your little playthings..."
Jeff lowered his knife. "Too bad. I would have had so much fun with you."
"Come on. Join me in a little walk. That won't hurt you, now will it?"
Jeff looked up at the night sky and rubbed his chin. "I guess it wouldn't. Who are you?"
"I'm BEN..."
They became fast friends after that. Meeting with Slenderman that night was also a big turn around for them. Jeff became BEN's proxy. Neither of them were happy with the arrangement, but what could they do? It was Slenderman who gave them this.
BEN removes his head from the tree and sighs. Jeff is his one and only crush. He opens his stiff hand to see the note. Tears touch his eyes once again.
I can't believe I fell for it... BEN thinks as he crumples the paper up again and throws it into the street.
"BEN? BEN, where are you?"
He hears Jeff's voice calling to him from down the street. Wiping his cheeks once more, he sets off again. He doesn't want to see Jeff like this. As a proxy, BEN could make Jeff do whatever he wanted, but there is one thing he would never do. He would never, in all his life, make Jeff love him. He couldn't.
"BEN? Damnit! Where are you?"
"Jeff sounds desperate...maybe I should go to him..." he mutters. He turns around and takes one last look where Jeff's voice is coming from. "Nah...I think I need some alone time."
