Chapter 10
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Cecil walked fearfully next to the older boy with him. Before when they were with the girls, it wasn't as bad being with him, but now that it was just the two of them, he felt very insecure. If only he was stronger, he could have pushed those mannequins himself. Or at least help.

Being the oldest male also made Roy the strongest. This fact made Cecil even more scared. Given Roy's personality (or what he's seen of it), if he did one little thing that Roy did not like, the boy could easily snap and hurt him.

The two were walking down an extremely dark hallway. They could barely see two feet in front of them.

"Well, now I'm back to one annoying child..." Roy thought out loud. "Too bad I had to be stuck with this one..." He sighed. "Either of the other two would have been so much nicer to-" He stopped himself in mid-sentence. Then looked down at the boy walking next to him and smiled. "Your name is Cecil, right?" Cecil nodded slowly. "Even your name is girly." He said under his breath.

Cecil looked down at the ground. How much longer is he going to have to take this discouragement? He's never felt so badly about himself before in his whole life. And he's only been with Roy for a little while.

Once they got to the end of the hall, they saw that it was a dead end. "How does that work...?" Roy said. They turned around to head back the other way, but it had changed. Instead of being a hallway, it turned to the right and a little light was coming from that direction. "Well, let's go." Roy said, pulling Cecil along with him.

Around the corner wasn't too different from before, aside from the light that was coming from the door on the other end. It was grey, like the rest of the room.

"Ladies first." Roy said, opening the door and letting Cecil go through first.

Cecil's eyes widened with fear. This new room absolutely terrified him. It was filled with a bunch if... Children's toys... Yet they were so unsettling... One half of the room was painted in a light pink color, and the other a dark blue." What's with this room? It's weird." He asked mostly himself. And then suddenly he felt the presence of some sort of feeling coming from the man next to him. It was a mixture or anger and sadness.

He slowly looked up at Roy, slightly afraid that he had upset him. The look on the older's face said that he had. Cecil was about to apologize when he turned to look down on him, making the boy shut his mouth. And then he smiled, confusing the boy with his sudden change in expression. Especially since it was him.

"You're right." Roy said. "This place is weird. Pointless, I'd say, considering where we are... We should keep going. You want to meet up with your friends, right?" He walked over and tried the other door. "Damn. Locked. Don't worry, shorty. I'll look for the key myself. You just stand there, looking beautiful, and don't touch anything. Okay?"

"B-but won't we find it faster if we both look for it?" Cecil asked, walking over to and starting to search through a bookshelf on the pink side of the room. "Hmm? What's this?" He pulled out a book that said "Me and my family." on it. It looked like a picture book or something.

"I SAID-" Roy exclaimed, losing his cool from just a minute ago, "-DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!" He grabbed the book out of the boy's hand and slammed him against the wall. "Didn't you hear me?!" He threatened.

Cecil slowly nodded and barely managed to choke out a small "I-I'm sorry!"

Roy continued to glare into the boy's eyes. Though his face showed that he was mad, the feeling inside his eye had nothing with that. In that green orb was a mixture of sadness and fear and not anger. He was so afraid.

Even though Cecil did have no idea why Roy looked the way he did or why he felt the need to comfort him. Something in him just clicked and he wrapped his arms around the older boy and pulled him close, whispering in his ear a sincere "I'm sorry. It'll be okay". The book was dropped to the ground. He felt Roy's hands briefly reach up and touch his back, almost returning the hug. Then they tightly griped his shoulders and pulled him away.

"Wh-what do you think you're doing?!" Roy stuttered, his face a bit pink. Now his eye held confusion. Cecil smiled, but shrugged in response. Now that he knew Roy's eyes were like an open book, he was slightly less afraid of him. Roy averted his eyes and dropped his hands down. "Whatever." He said, going back to what he was doing, "Just stop looking, okay?" Cecil nodded, even though it wouldn't be seen, anyway. He picked up the fallen book, tempted to go through it, considering it was almost obvious that Roy was hiding something. But he decided against doing so, as to not anger the older boy any more than before.

"Here it is!" Roy exclaimed, pulling a key from a stuffer bear's hands. He went over to the door, unlocked it, and stepped through the now open door way. He turned back and called to the other, "You coming, sh-" He stopped and eyed the book in Cecil's hands. His eyes narrowed. "What do you think you're doing...?"

Quickly Cecil put the book back, and stuttered, "I-I was just putting it back in its place! That's all!" He then ran to Roy's side, who gave him a skeptical look. And again, his eyes held a bit of fear.

"L-let's just go." Roy put an arm around Cecil's shoulder, leading him away and closed the door behind them.

-A/N: I feel so bad for Cecil! ;-; Because he's such a happy child and then ROY comes along and messes with him and-... T-T

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