It had been a couple of weeks after we had visited the house; my bruise was almost gone but the headaches remained. After our encounter with the masked man; Jay insisted that I stay at his place, at least for a while. I wouldn't say it, but I was glad Jay offered. I was scared to be alone; I was afraid that he would come for me while I was by myself. We've spent a lot of time looking through the tapes, hoping to find something but with little luck.

"We've looked through almost all these tapes and we still haven't found anything." I sighed; we had been going at this for hours, it was pretty late when we decided to stop.

"I think we deserve a break from this, we should go out and do something. Tell you what; I'll treat you to some lunch out. Sound good?" Jay asked me.

"Sounds like a plan to me. It'll be nice to do something other than watch these tapes." I smiled; a lunch out with Jay was just what I needed.

"Good night Katie. I'll see you in the morning."

"Night Jay."He went into his room, shutting his door. I yawn, ready for a hopeful good night sleep.

I was standing in the middle of a forest. The trees were tall and their leaves were covering most of the sky, but I could tell it was about mid afternoon. I didn't know why, but I wanted to get out of here, and fast. Someone started singing; it sounded like a girl's voice.

Come little children, I'll take thee away

Into a land of enchantment

I began to follow it, trying to find the source. Strangely the closer I got the harder it was to make out the words. A buzzing noise was growing as I got closer and I kept coughing. Soon I arrived at a meadow filled with flowers; in the center was two girls. One had light brown hair in a pony tail wearing a light blue dress, the other had dark brown hair in two pigtails wearing a pale yellow dress. They looked no more than 6. Their backs were to me and they both were making a crown of flowers. "What are you two doing here?" I asked, approaching the girls. They said nothing, just continued humming to themselves. "You girls shouldn't be here by yourself." I reached out to touch one of them when I was over come with a large coughing fit. I fell to the ground, keeping a hand over my mouth and using the other for support. I couldn't control it; when I looked at my hand I saw blood. Peaking back, I saw the girls had turned their attention to the woods across from us. The girl in blue called out, "Mr. Slendy! Have you come back to play with us?" I fainted, but not before I saw someone stand in front of the girls.

I shot up, coughing hard. It was a few minutes before I finally stopped, without blood this time. I checked my phone; it was a little after midnight. I glanced around Jay's living room, my heart still pounding from the dream. I couldn't decide if it was more strange or creepy. There was something familiar about the dream, but I couldn't figure out what. I laid back on the couch, hoping to fall back asleep and forget the dream. Suddenly, there was a bang out of nowhere. I sat up again; that sounded like it came from Jay's room.

"Jay? Everything all right?" No response. "Are you ok? Jay!" I hurried over to his door and knocked. "Jay, answer me. This isn't funny, please answer me." I didn't hear anything from inside, which worried me even more. ""That's it, I'm coming in." Opening the door, I peered inside and was surprised at what I found.

Nothing; Jay's room was empty, he was gone. His keys were still in the little bowl he kept on his dresser; he never left without them. I did a quick search of his room; from what I could tell nothing was missing. Instead; I found something new that I never noticed before.

"A camera? Why is this here." It was half hidden under a shirt, something that he must have hid from me when ever I was in his room. I wondered why he would keep this from me when an answer quickly came to my mind. Jay was filming himself, just like Alex did. I'd bet that Jay had another camera somewhere in his apartment, probably to keep an eye on me while I slept.

"Jay...I hope you're not ending up like Alex." I was growing more and more scared and worried. There was no way Jay could have left the apartment without me knowing. I didn't hear a door open and his window was still locked, so he couldn't have gone out through it. I sat down on the edge of the bed, feeling a little sick. Worrying so much wasn't helping the situation; I made my way back to the living room, trying to tell myself that Jay was ok and that he'll be back. My headache wouldn't subside and I was coughing more and more. I leaned against the wall; sliding down to the floor as the coughing became harsher. I was scared that I might start coughing up blood, just like in my dream. After a few minutes they slowly stopped and with some glasses of water I felt better, save for the headache. I took some aspirin, hoping it would be enough for the headaches to stop so I could sleep. Laying down on the couch I soon drifted off to sleep, telling myself if Jay was still missing in the morning I would worry then.

The first thing I did when I woke up was check out Jay's room. Much to my relief he was back, still sleeping. I closed his door; I'd talk to him later about him disappearing and the camera when he woke up. I was going to check the Youtube and Twitter accounts when I saw a piece of paper folded on top of my laptop. I remember it wasn't there last night and I'm pretty sure it wasn't there when Jay went missing. All that was written on the outside was my name. The inside was what really worried me.

i hOpe yOu slept well last night

yOu didn't lOOk cOmfOrtable

All the O's had an X through them, just like the strange symbol that we've been seeing. There wasn't anything that gave away who left me the note. It clearly wasn't Jay, he wasn't one for pranks. I felt a chill go down my spine; someone had been watching me sleep. Who ever it was had access to the apartment, but the doors and windows were locked so how did they get it?

"Katie, what are you looking at?" I jumped; I didn't hear Jay leave his room. I quickly hid the words from him.

"This? Oh just a note I wrote to myself, nothing important." He nodded, thankfully not asking any more. I debated when to question Jay; by the looks of it he didn't remember his disappearing act last night so I had to make the first move.

"Jay, there are somethings I need to ask you." We were about to head out for lunch; I was waiting for Jay to finish up somethings on the computer.

"What's up." I hesitant; I wasn't really sure to ask him.

"Where you up sometime last night, around 2?"

"At 2? No, I think I slept through the night. Why do you ask?"

"Well...last night I heard some noise coming from your room. When I went to check it out you were gone." He stared at me, shocked. "I checked the doors and windows; they were all locked. It was like you vanished." He leaned back into the chair, a shocked look still on his face.

"I just vanished? That's...impossible; there's no way. I-I need to check it." He muttered the last part to himself, heading to his bedroom.

"Are you going to check your camera?" He froze and turned to look at me. I simple stared at the floor, afraid to meet his eye.

"What camera?"

"The one I found while looking for you. You have it hidden on your dresser."

"...I don't know what you're talking about." I could tell I got him; Jay was never a good liar.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about." I looked him squarely in the face; trying to stay calm. "You've been recording yourself, just like Alex did."

"No, i-it's not like that..."

"I'm scared Jay, I'm scared that if you keep recording yourself you might end up like Alex. I won't know what to do then!" I nearly broke down, holding my face in my hands. I heard Jay move and the couch sag down. He put his arm around me, giving me a half hug.

"I understand that you're worried about me, but you don't have too. I started doing it after when had the encounter with that masked man, when you started staying over." I waited, trying to see what he was getting at. "I did it for my safety and for yours. I know you don't like people worrying about you but I didn't want something bad to happen to you because of me. I just want to know you're ok Kate." I peaked at him, still hiding my face.

"That's the only reason?"

"I promise you that's the only reason why." I had to smile; Jay might do strange things, but most of the time he had a good reason.

"I don't get why you hid this. I would have understood if you would have explained why."
"I wasn't sure how you were going to react. Apparently I do some pretty strange things." I chuckled; he was right about that, somethings he did wasn't exactly normal. "Hope you don't mind waiting for lunch a little longer, I want to see what really happened to me last night."

"I was going to ask the same thing." The beginning of the tape was normal; Jay went to bed a little before midnight and fell asleep. It was just after midnight when the masked man appeared in his room, just watching Jay. Suddenly both of them disappeared and Jay didn't return for 3 hours.

"Well, at least we know what really happened." I commented.

"The fact that it was that masked man doesn't make it any better. He knows where I live and he can break into my apartment."

"We just have to keep on eye out for anything strange."
"What isn't strange anymore?" He had a point, our lives haven't exactly been normal for sometime now. "I'm going to upload this; you were right I shouldn't have hidden this from you and everyone."

"That's fine, do you want to grab lunch after you're done?"

"I lost my appetite. You can go out and get something if you want, I'll be right here."

"Ok, I'll see you in a few." Jay nodded his head, typing away on his computer. I headed out the door, not really hungry myself but I wanted sometime to think. We had gotten into something much bigger than I first believed; I didn't know how all this was going to end and I wasn't sure if I wanted to.