Chapter 7: "Out Of Her Favor"
Please note that this chapter will contain Nutty quoting some lines from William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. There'll also be some slight NuttyXFlaky again. Expect that to come in more chapters of this story.
23rd October
6 days since The Grim Reaper murders began.
It had been 3 days since Lumpy's murder.
There hadn't been any new victims since.
Nutty was at home in his room looking through his mail.
Recently, ever since the town heard about Sniffle's death, people have been writing letters to Nutty.
He would admit, he was still upset about Sniffles…..
But not as much as when he first witnessed him dead.
He was also worried about everyone else.
Flippy
Flaky
Handy
Russell
Lammy
And the list goes on.
He was mostly worried about Flippy and Flaky.
Flippy was probably the only best friend Nutty has now that Sniffles is gone.
And Flaky….
Even IF Nutty wasn't her boyfriend, he would still wish the two the best in their relationship.
And what way to break one another's heart than by hearing their lover is dead.
And even IF Flippy were to die one way or another, Nutty didn't think that Flaky would return any form of love that he would give to her.
He noticed a picture of Flaky as Juliet from that night when the Happy Tree Town Performing Arts Group performed Romeo & Juliet at the Happy Tree Town Auditorium.
It's funny, Flippy was playing Romeo that night.
Now, just a few weeks after the performance, Flippy began dating Flaky.
All the times he was performing, Nutty wished HE was Romeo.
Maybe then he would've had the chance to confess, on stage, in front of thousands of people.
He smiled a little at this thought and quietly to himself "Out of her favor, where I am in love. "
He knew all of Romeo's dialogue in the opening scene with Benvolio.
He then sighed, laid back on his bed and continued.
"Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will.
Where shall we dine?—O me! What fray was here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all."
Nutty paused, sighed again, thought about the next lines then continued his old-English monologue
"Here's much to do with hate but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first created."
He paused once again, stopped a few tears that were leaking from his eyes and finished with:
"O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms.
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is."
It was there he placed the mail onto a near-by desk and fell asleep.
A few hours later, Nutty got up at 4:00AM.
He sighed and said "It just feels so lonely around here."
It was now the 24th October.
He got dressed, took his keys, his mobile phone and his radio and walked out of his house.
The sky was dark blue but a small bit of orange from the ever slowly rising sun could be seen over the horizon.
He slowly walked down a lonely pavement.
He looked around at other houses.
Many of them were dark with all the lights off.
It must've been obvious people were still asleep.
He continued walking until he got to Flippy's house.
Nutty peaked through the window.
There was Flippy, fast asleep in his bed.
He had rolled over so he faced the window and he was smiling in his sleep.
He must still be in Dreamland with Flaky or whatever fantasies a Vietnam vet would dream.
Nutty looked at him for a few minutes before he moved on.
Around him, the headlights that glowed with orange, switched to black one by one.
He continued walking down the empty pavement, just stopping briefly to look at the spot where Mime was found dead.
He continued to venture on his endless journey until he eventually reached Flaky's house.
There was a small drain pipe next to Flaky's window.
He quietly climbed up it and looked into her bedroom.
The room was a mix of blue & black.
In the bed, there were several flakes of dandruff.
Flaky lay peacefully on her side, also fast asleep like her boyfriend Flippy.
Now Nutty would never stalk a girl that he may never get in his lifetime, but then again, Flaky and Nutty knew each other for 10 years.
To you and me, Flaky would just be a red porcupine asleep in her bed.
But to Nutty, she was like a baby asleep in its crib.
In Nutty's eyes, she was beautiful.
The way that her blankets curved over her fragile body.
The way she would almost purr as she slept.
It was at this point that Nutty knew one thing:
Despite their love being unrequited, he had fallen deeply in love with Flaky all over again.
"Flaky. If you can hear me, I want you to know…." Nutty said into the window quietly.
He then proceeded to place his hand onto the glass.
"I love you." He finished.
There was an imprint on the glass when Nutty moved his hand away.
He climbed back down from the pipe and walked on.
Eventually, he came near a quiet neighbourhood.
Very faintly, he could hear an engine of some sorts running.
As he got closer to the sound, there was a small pickle left at the side of the road.
He picked it up and looked at it.
The noise was coming from right next to him.
He looked towards the sound.
It was a wood chipper.
Nothing seemed to be wrong.
Until he walked towards it.
It was then he saw something red.
Something runny inside.
As if the machine had been used.
It was blood!
Nutty almost vomited at the sight inside the vile cutting device.
The chunks inside were pieces of muscle.
There were also bits of blood-stained wool.
One was white
The other was beige.
He looked back at the pickle.
"Lammy." He quietly said.
He then got out his radio.
"Happy Tree Town Police, this is Detective Nutty. Looks like the Grim Reaper Killer has returned."
Dun-dun-dun!
So Lammy has been killed and it's only 7 days left until Halloween!
Just a random fact: I wrote this chapter whilst listening to 'Silent Circus' from the soundtrack to Silent Hill 4: The Room and 'Last Goodbye' from the original Silent Hill Soundtrack.
Now I'd like to try something. This is you, the reviews, getting involved. I'm gonna ask questions about this story for you to answer.
So, my chapter question is, who do you think is gonna die next?
Leave your answers in the review section.