When she pulls the string on the box, Charlotte backs away and screams. Reaction to her screaming and what I saw, I scream too. This causes Ray to run into the main room of the Man Cave.

"What?!" He screams at us.

"Ew!" Charlotte says. She walks behind the couch. "Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. That's just gross."

Henry's POV

"What are you guys scre-Oh my God!" Ray yells as he gets closer look at the box. He bends down and stares at the box with squinted eyes. "What is it?"

"He, uh," I clear my throat. I take a couple steps back. "He gave her a dead rat, wrapped in his underwear."

"Well that's disgusting." Ray says.

"Why would he do that?!" Charlotte screams from behind the couch. "What did I do?"

I point towards the box. "There's something written on the inside."

Ray walks closer to the box because he knows Charlotte and I will not go near it.

"Uh," He leans closer to the box. "'You shouldn't have thrown out the orchids.'"

Charlotte stomps her foot which is a crazy bad sign. When she stomps her foot, she has become very angry.

"Is that his stupid reasoning?! Because I threw out his dumb orchids! They weren't even in my favorite color. If he was a good stalker, he would have known to get me purple orchids!"

"Char, I think it's best you sit down and take a breather." I say. My motions towards the couch.

She crosses her arms and stomps her way to the front of the couch and plops down.

"Anyway," I say turning back to Ray. "I was TOTALLY right about the dead animal. Ha!"

"How was I supposed to know this guy is that weird?"

"What do you mean you were right about the dead animal?" Charlotte asks.

Ray's eyes grow larger and I realize what I had said. She wasn't supposed to know we were there! Geez, stupid mouth!

"Uh," I say. "You know, I had told Ray abou- "

"Please, don't lie to me." She says. She looks at me with tired eyes from lack of sleep and stress over this stupid thing and I feel bad for even thinking about lying to her.

"Ray and I had a little stake out at your house this morning." I confess. "In case anything too crazy happened."

"Oh," She says nodding. "Did you see him walk in the house?"

Ray shook his head. "No, it was too dark to see your porch."

"But know that if we did know he was in your house, we would ha-"

Charlotte nods. "I know, Henry."

She sighs like in this moment she really doesn't know what to do. And that leaves us quiet. She turns around slowly and walks away. The way she was walking, she was probably going to the bathroom.

"Help me get this out before she comes back." Ray says.

I get a garbage bag from a place I totally forgot and walk back to him. Carefully, Ray picks the box up, without touching the rat, and drops it in the bag. He takes the bag and continues on with tying it. I cross my arms.

Apparently, I looked agitated with my crossed arms and angry expression. That led to Ray asking me a question.

"What's your problem?"

"I'm not doing a good job of protecting Charlotte."

"Henry, if anything we, both, aren't doing a very good job."

"It's worse on my half though. I'm her best friend. It's part of the job of being best friend. The person is supposed to keep them safe, make sure they don't get hurt. And the other person does that back."

"You aren't a super hero." Ray says.

I stand up a little bit straighter. "Oh, yeah, I forgot. You're the super hero. I'm just the sidekick."

"Henry, that's no-"

"Why didn't we just catch the guy this morning?" I ask. In my head I wanted to stop talking and calm down. But I was getting so angry. "He was on the porch, no actually correction. He was in the HOUSE. We could have captured him. He would've gone away. It would have been plain and simple."

Ray looked at me for a second.

I keep my arms crossed. "I am finished."

"Okay," He says. "The reason we couldn't just barge in the house and capture him is because we do not know what kind of person we are dealing with. He could be highly dangerous. One move that makes him angry and we are toast."

"But you can't get hurt. Why are you worried?"

"Because you and Charlotte can get hurt!" He says.

"Oh,"

"Guys,"

We turn around and see Charlotte heading towards the elevator.

"I'm going to go on home since there isn't any crime alert or anything. Okay?" She says.

"Okay," Ray says. He walks away with the bag still in his hand.

"Do you want me to walk with you?" I ask her.

She shakes her head. "Nope, I'm fine. Bye." She waves at me and leaves.

Around 6:30 that evening I decide to text Charlotte and see how she was doing.

To: Charlotte

From: You

Hey Char, how's it going?

To: You

From: Charlotte

It's going good. Parents went to get dinner. You?

To: Charlotte

From: You

Rad beans, man. Mom is trying to fix a crazy dish, not sure I want to eat it.

To: You

From: Charlotte

Rad beans? Haha. Well I hope you survive the crazy food. I have to work on homework.

I lay my phone back on the couch and continue on with watching TV.

I walk around my bedroom aimlessly for about 30 minutes. At the beginning of me walking around my room, I was actually looking for an album I wanted to listen to.

Right when I was about to lift a pillow off the ground, All Time Low's song "Something's Gotta Give" starts playing. I realize it was my ringtone. Charlotte must have changed it. For a moment I contemplate whether or not I should answer the call or simply dance to the song.

"Hello," I decided to answer the phone.

On the other side of the phone there was breathing and shuffling. And not shuffling of cards, shuffling of feet, like the person was moving fast but their feet wouldn't keep up with each other.

"Hello," I repeat.

There was no response. Only creepy breathing and the shuffling feet.

"Hey, dude. If you didn't want to have a conversation, why did you call?" I ask.

Unexpectedly, a girl's scream comes through, followed by a sentence. "Leave me alone!"

I knew the voice instantly and I knew who the caller was.

Quickly, I run out the bedroom door, through the hall, down the stairs, and through the front door. While doing that I was speaking to the caller.

"If you even lay one of your nasty, creepy fingers on her I will mu-"

Before I could finish, the stalker-caller laughed and ended the call. Instantly, I call Ray.

"Hey Henry, what's up?" He says when he answers.

"He is at her house. In her house, with her. Her parents aren't home. Ray, he-he's gonna get her and she's going to be gone. And I can't de-"

"Henry, shut up and run. I'll meet you there." He says.

Oh snap! What's going to happen?!

So I took some of your guys' ideas and put them in here. Like the whole dead animal thing, the underwear, and Ray and Henry kind of arguing.

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