For months I have been running away to the forest. I don't want to be around people who will talk about my friend badly. Sometimes I will even stay with him in the forest throughout the night for days at a time. Mother tries to lock my bedroom door from the other side to keep me from leaving, but I usually know how to either pick the lock or sneak out from my window. Slender Man always welcomes me. At school the children give me weird looks and don't like to be around me anymore. I don't care. All I need is my one and only friend and he waits for me each day. He waits until I return to him so we can play and draw and walk together. Richard heard this and he approached me one day. With a deep growl he smacked my face and sent me flying off of my seat. Crouching by my fallen body he smirked.
"Oh what are you going to do about it, Nancy? Huh? You gonna get your little demon friend to help you and kill me?"
I curled up on the floor and held in my tears. He grabbed my hair and jerked my head to face him.
"Why don't you send him a little message for me since you're his little errand girl." He slipped a piece of paper into my mouth and grinned. "You're gonna die, Nancy. When that time comes don't come crying to me when he tries to take you away and eat you."
He let my hair go and I lay silently on the ground. Finally I pushed myself up and ran away out of the school and into the woods. Before hand, I opened the note Richard had shoved into my mouth (I put it in my pocket once I got up). It read, "Go to hell, Slender Man." I shouted angrily and ripped it up into little shreds so that they were nothing but snowflakes in the air. Sprinting all the way to the comfort of the trees Slender Man waited by the tree stump.
"We are going to be happy, Mr. Slender." I said. "We are going to be the best of friends forever and ever."
Slender Man gave me a paper and we drew for a while. After we played hide-n-seek, our favorite game that never gets old, and walked around the trees. He soon suddenly stopped and I wondered what he was doing when he slowly turned towards me with a bright red flower in his hand. Bending to my height he put it delicately in my golden brown hair and pulled out a pretty crimson bow from his pocket to tie my hair with. I smiled happily and hugged him. In my mind only Slender Man understood how I felt. He felt my pain the others caused me. We shall be together forever. Just like I promised.
"I will always be here with you." I smiled at him and he nodded.
I went home and went straight to my room. On my writing desk I drew many pictures of me and Slender Man. I also drew a picture of Richard being killed by him. All of the papers covered my desk and I soon went to bed waiting for mother to strap me in.
When she finally did I said to her in a grave tone, "You will all die soon. Then you won't say I'm crazy anymore. You'll see. You'll all see."
