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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="22de03c254ffb3acde690a01d25ebe5d" 'They're close' I thought to myself. 'I think that was one of them there'. I walk for a few more minutes and then stop. I pull my bag off my shoulder and set it down and take ten steps back. "Alright," I say loudly "I know you're out there! I'm the one who sent you the message! You can come out! I just want to talk for a bit!" I shout out into the woods, turning slowly as I do. After I finish I hear a bit of rustling and what sounded like an amused giggle. I continued to spin slowly, searching the dark brush for movement until I see a bush move and I wait for a moment, then some one emerges from the shrubbery, their face mostly hidden by their hood in the shade of the thick woods. The first thing I note is that it is clearly a girl, and second, she is wearing a mask. Okay, that limits it down to like, four./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="e8438f1370d6a7af28de1622474b69a3" We didn't talk at first, just stared off into space for a moment. I was the one to finally break the silence. "When should I leave?" I ask, sounding sadder than I expected of meant it. "Later," He said, slowly gaining a small grin as he looked at me with a small side-long glance "We need to at least finish our Naruto Movie Marathon." He said. "Yeah, I suppose we should, shouldn't we?" I say back with a slight chuckle, matching his grin. "We only have two more to watch, so it will take about two and a half, three hours." He said looking at the clock on his phone. "It's only 10:00," I say thinking about it when I'm suddenly struck by an idea. Looking at Gabe with a slightly sick grin, I say, "I could leave at 1:45." He just looked at me for a moment, a confused look on his face. "Why would yo... Ooohhh. 1:45. Right." he said smiling. We just laugh for a bit. I enjoy the sound, at a point in time that felt like it would last forever. Soon, it wouldn't be something that I could share with him. Or any of my friends./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="0c22330f3e789e727011e4a93f7e45c2" It was just a short walk to the woods from his house. As I went I went through my list of things which included a few pairs of shoes plus the black goth combat boots I was wearing, a pair of fingerless gloves, my dark red and black weave jacket, my heavy American Eagle aviator jacket, a few hats, mostly beanies, a pair of goggles and sunglasses, a black cloth lower face mask that covered from my nose down and conformed to my chin, a multi-tool, swiss-army knife, large zombie hunter knife, a tacticle knife with a bent blade similar to a kukri, a large Winchester boey knife, a small throwing hatchet, a compas/wistle/flash light/knife sharpener/fire starter, an actually good flash light, a belt and some extra cloths and my phone, laptop, and bluetooth headphones and a charger for each./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="22de03c254ffb3acde690a01d25ebe5d" 'They're close' I thought to myself. 'I think that was one of them there'. I walk for a few more minutes and then stop. I pull my bag off my shoulder and set it down and take ten steps back. "Alright," I say loudly "I know you're out there! I'm the one who sent you the message! You can come out! I just want to talk for a bit!" I shout out into the woods, turning slowly as I do. After I finish I hear a bit of rustling and what sounded like an amused giggle. I continued to spin slowly, searching the dark brush for movement until I see a bush move and I wait for a moment, then some one emerges from the shrubbery, their face mostly hidden by their hood in the shade of the thick woods. The first thing I note is that it is clearly a girl, and second, she is wearing a mask. Okay, that limits it down to like, four./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="5892fe2a6ffd0f6193bcbeeaeb23a7b9" I sat down on the ground, slowly as to not alarm them, saying "Alright, thats good enough, thanks. Knowing who you are, I'm not gonna ask you to take your masks off." I'm not sure, but they seemed slightly relieved by that. "Sit down, for gosh sake. You're stressing me out." I said as I motioned at the ground in front of me before continuing. For some reason even though I knew that they were psychotic killers, I still wasn't comfortable cursing in front of complete strangers. "So, I'm sure you're all em style="box-sizing: border-box;"very/em interested with what I could possibly have to say to you." They looked at me skeptically and snuck quick glances at each other, except Tammy. She just leaned forward slightly with curiosity and I couldn't help to smirk at how cute she was. 'If this works out," I thought, 'this is going to be very fun.' She seemed to notice this as she blushed ever so slightly but didn't move and inch so I moved on. "I came to, bargain, for lack of a better term in this I saw you watching me and that you marked my house, I knew that I would most likely die whether I tried to fun or if I was stupid enough to try to fight for my life." they seemed amused by that concept. "However, I also wasn't just gonna lie down like a dog and wait for you to come after me. So I decided on my only other option, and now offer you a deal, which I was hopping em style="box-sizing: border-box;"she/em would be here in person for." I paused for a moment to slowly let it sink in what I was suggesting before confirming their thoughts. "I wish to join you and ask the slender to become one of her proxies." I said in a very serious tone. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="ee78e19d3813bbd7f387d26224cda3b3" There was a moment of complete silence before, "BAHAHahahahahahaha!" Jess suddenly fell into a fit of laughter, rolling around on the ground "Ha! You can't be serious! You? A normal human? Ask to become a proxy? HA! No way Slender would agree to that!" She said mockingly. For some reason this annoyed me greatly, which is generally pretty hard to do./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="2eca722b14fd079d149e56d68ff049ec" "I'm not." Was my simple reply, which seemed to surprise her. "But, I knew that it was better than my chances of survival with the other three options. Plus, why would you add just another meaningless casualty that ultimately gained you nothing, when you could instead add what could be another very powerful friend?' I asked. At the looks that were sent my way, I spoke again. "I know that I don't look like much," I said, picking up a branch lying near my on the ground, roughly the size of my long for-leg. "But I am much stronger," I then grabbed the thick branch by both ends and easily snapped it in half and it exploded with a loud snap, sending wood chips flying every where, even while I was still sitting. "And faster," Before they could say anything, I quickly jumped to my feet, took one long, quick step and jumped, high and quite far, spinning myself in the air and landed right behind jess before they could even react as I continued. "And very skilled." I finished as Jess quickly spun around, knife in hand aiming for my throat. I grabbed her fore-arm, blade just passing under mine, and used her momentum to spin her all the way around, pinning her empty hand behind her with my arm wrapped around the front of her stomach, and tightened my grip on her knife hand and held the blade to her throat with her own hand still wrapped around the handle under my own much larger one, effectively pinning her at my mercy/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="efb71116f059a91f6e2fc977a22de7d0" "Let me go, you bastard!" she yelled. So I did. I brought my elbow holding the knife to her throat up and pulled with my other hand, spinning her,as well as disarming her in the process. I expertly spun and flipped the blade in my hand before turning and throwing it into a tree behind back to face them, my point thoroughly made, I again sat where I stood. Jess stood there staring at me for a few seconds, fuming, before turning that same rage to her allies, mostly Jax, who seamed to be in charge for the most part at the moment. "Why didn't you help me you ass?!" She yelled angrily./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="b063a5c90f3dc60d80eac09268c54870"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"A/N: Yes! Chapter three is finally done! em style="box-sizing: border-box;"FINALLY!/em Sorry it took me so long, it was an unnecessary wait. And I have zero excuse other than my life is crazy and by the time I get around to a point that I can write I just want to die from pure brain exhaustion. Any way! Thank you for reading, like, review, comment, follow and why not check out my other new story too! BTW, also currently short and slow updating. But hopefully that will change come summer where theres more work and relaxation, and less school and weeping caused by brain exertion. Out!*tornado of fire*/span/p