Chapter 10! Yay! Double digits! Sorry for the long wait! I got the movie for Christmas! XD
Disclaimer: I do not own SWAC or FOTD.
SPOV (Sonny)
The door finally budged. Chad was like a vampire running in the night. I stopped him and he nearly mauled me with his skateboard!
"God, Sonny are you okay? I'm sorry!"
He probably believed he did hit me. Okay, well he did but not that hard because I saw it coming. Yet, now that I see he's okay, I'm mad for getting locked up in the attic! We're the only two here! It had to be him!
"That's it Chad. I thought you being murdered down here I-" I gestured to the attic door above us but then put my arm back down. "Give me that." I took his skateboard. "You're gonna kill someone with this thing."
"I'm sorry! There were- there were faces! I'm serious! They were right-"
"Faces? Chad, faces?" He was looking off into another part of the hallway. "Look at me." He turned back to me. "You know what, you want this thing back, you go get it." With that, I tossed his skateboard up into the attic.
"You know I got locked up there. But of course you wouldn't know anything about that."
"What? No!"
"Obviously you did it because we're the only two people here."
"What did you see?"
"Nothing." My voice was barely above a whisper. I knew I was sort of lying. I made my voice louder and continued. "What are you wearing?"
"I feel safer with it on."
"Whatever." I found the flashlight on the ground and picked it up. "If we broke this, your mom's gonna be ticked."
"Can we call my mom?"
"And tell her what? That you locked me in the attic? That you nearly mauled me with your skateboard?"
"I said I was sorry and I didn't lock you in the attic. I can barely reach Sonny."
"There's a ladder Chad, okay? There's a ladder."
"I don't like ladders. They can grab your feet through the open and pull you through."
"And do what?"
"Eat you." He said it like the most obvious thing in the world.
"Eat you, right."
"That's what they do. They eat you," he stated looking around like a lost, little puppy.
"You look like a mental patient at a football game. Anything that eats you is gonna die of a nerve over dose. I think you're pretty safe. Let's go get something to eat."
We started walking down the hall, to the living room, towards the kitchen.
"Do you see things in the dark too?"
"Yeah, I see lots of things. Tables, lamps, boxes. Sometimes there worse though. I think I saw a possum once. It was disgusting."
He paused in his tracks and looked back down the hall. I was already halfway to the kitchen.
"Sonny, wait up!"
In the kitchen…
I was slapping some jelly on a slice of bread before spreading it around and smacking the other slice on top.
"It's like the Wizard of Oz out there."
"Yeah." I laughed a little as I glanced at his outfit. "You want a sandwich or a slap shot?"
Then a crackle, almost like someone stepping one a stick or maybe even someone brushing against a plastic bag… (A/N: Remember the Wal-Mart bag from chapter one?) Either way, I heard some noise that didn't seem to make sense. I tried to keep calm as I saw the panic rising to Chad's face.
"It's, uh, just a branch bumping against the window or something." He gave me a doubtful look. "Well if it's not it's something else, right?"
Just then the wire phone rang. It was the only one that will work with the power out. Knowing Chad was probably too frightened to even move, I set the plate with the jelly sandwich in front of him and walked over to the phone. I grabbed it off the holder.
"Hello?" I answered the no longer ringing.
"Hey, Sonny. It's Jane."
"Is the power out where you are?" I asked just a little curious.
"Yep. You seemed baffled, is everything alright?"
"If you label getting locked in the attic and being nailed with a skateboard okay then, yeah, it's great."
"Sounds like you got your hands full."
"Oh yeah. Definitely."
CPOV (Chad)
I wander out of the kitchen back into the living room while Sonny was gapping on the phone whistle gazing out the window. I walked around, taking in my surroundings. I scanned my left hand along the wall my first time around. Then I began making my way around the area rather than the perimeter this time. I dragged my hand across the top of then the TV, head of the couch, then the side table beside it, and, finally, the coffee table in front of the couch. Big mistake… I yelped in pain as I fell to the floor, hitting my head off the coffee table in the process.
SPOV (Sonny)
I turned around and saw Chad wasn't sitting out the counter anymore. A slight rush of panic flowed through me.
"Hold on just one sec.," I told Chad's mom.
I stretched the cord out far enough so that I could glance into the living room. No doubt, Chad was I there, running his hand along the wall. I breathed a sigh of relief and put the phone back up to my ear and turned back into the kitchen.
"Okay, I'm back."
"Is everything okay?" I heard Jane speak just before the line filled with static.
"Hello?" No answer, just static. "Hello?" Still static. I felt panic come over me again.
Then, the static disappeared and I heard Chad's mom speak.
"Hello?"
"That was weird."
But before she could reply in response, I heard Chad screaming for help.
"Sonny! Ow!"
"What now?" I asked, directed to no one in particular.
By this point I couldn't help by grow anger at Chad. It was sort of getting annoying, this whole monster thing. I would probably have a bruise on my arm from his skateboard just because he locked me up in the attic and 'saw faces peering through the wall' just before I fell through the attic door. He was losing it! He's crazy, okay? No doubt in my mind about it, he's crazy!
Yet… I also felt bad for him. I mean, come on, he 'sees' these creatures every night. He petrified. He has no idea what to do. He's really just a scared little boy who wants to be peaceful. A boy who wants to be normal.
Then again… Maybe this is all a game to get attention. It sounds reasonable. Chad, attention, him… Put the puzzle together! It's a trick! All he's doing is trying to get attention! He doesn't even 'see monsters'. It's all a big, fat lie! Man, I wish I had that smiley video camera right now…
Still… Even if it was a lie just to get attention, I knew I'd be there for him when he needed me. After all, it didn't seem like his mom seems to give him all that much attention. It barely looks likes she pays him any at all. Plus, what happened to his dad? And his sister? Oh, I wish he'd open up more.
I found myself setting the phone down on the counter and running out to the living room despite what I thought.
"Sonny? What's going on?" I faintly heard Jane's concerned voice over Chad's shouting.
"Chad, what's going on?"
My eyes widen when I found Chad sprawled across the floor, his head bleeding. I kneeled down to his level and sat pulled him up closer to me so I could get a better look at the gash in his head.
"Sonny, one of the dark things tripped me! And- and I feel and hit my head off the table!"
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Jane's panicked voice floated in the back round.
"Ow!"
"Chad, you're bleeding everywhere!"
"Bleeding?" the panic in his mom's voice rose. "Sonny, is Chad okay?"
Just then the line started to beep repeatedly before it went dead.
"Chad, why were you messing around-"
"Sonny, I swear! A monster came out from the couch and grabbed my feet!"
End of chapter 10! 'Bout time I got around to it, huh? More is to come soon, I swear! I won't make you awesome peps wait months this time. Please review! The faster you review the sooner I update… XD