Chapter 3

New Rooms and New Feelings

by undecisivepsycho

"Alright," Slender announced, coming down the stairs, dusting his hands together, "I've set up your room as best as I could, I hope it's not too different"

"Sweet! Can I see it?!" I yelled, running up a few steps in excitement before turning back to Jeff, "Come on, you're the one that brought me here, you've gotta show me the way!"

Jeff's POV

"Hm? Oh yeah, fine.." I replied, grabbing her arm as I passed her on the stairs. I had spaced out for a moment there, what was wrong with me?

When we had reached the top I turned down the first hallway to the left, leading her to the very end where here new room lay.

"Well here it is I guess." I said, noticing that she was just standing at the doorway, looking in, "Is something wrong Zhi? Did Slender forget something?"

"No, I just didn't realize what Slender meant when he said he hoped it wasn't too different...I didn't think he'd go through the difficulty of setting it up the way it was at my...old home." She said, walking in and climbing up to her top bunk.

"Why do you need a set of bunk beds anyway? Aren't you an only child?" I ask as she begins to throw stuff from the top bunk onto the bottom.

"I like having them, and I actually have three siblings. I shared this set with my brother when I was a baby."

"What about the other two? Didn't they need beds?" I asked, wanting to know more about her life.

"I don't really know, I hadn't met them until I was 6. My sisters are ten years older and my brother is six years older than I am. They've all had kids and are sort of married."

"How do you get sort of married?"

"The oldest ended up mostly separated from her husband, but it wasn't official for quite a while." Zhi stated, giving me a half confused smirk.

"I guess that makes sense in a way. When you're done with...whatever you're doing...do you wanna go down and get something to eat? I'm sure the others will be downstairs by now." I suggested as awkwardly as I possibly could.

"N-not really...I'm pretty tired and I'm sure they won't die before morning." she replied, tossing the last item down and lying on her side, facing the wall.

"alright, see you then I suppose," I said, backing out and shutting her door before heading down the hall to the stairs, "Jeez that was awkward as hell, what the fuck is wrong with me today?'

"Yo, what's wrong dude? Why ya putting yourself down now?" BEN asked, actually pausing his game for once.

"Shut the fuck up BEN, it's none of your goddamn business." I snap, walking into the kitchen to fetch some booze.

"Well you don't need to be snippy about it, I actually paused to ask, asshole." BEN yelled back in my direction.

Ignoring the shorter male I pulled some vodka from the fridge and went back up to my room, planning to drink myself into darkness. I was pretty close to passing out when I was yanked back to reality by whimpering coming through the wall dividing my room from Zhi's. I'm sure it was much louder in her room. Naturally I wanted to see what the noise was coming from, so I went to my empty closet and slide the back wall out of the way. Some rooms in the house were conjoined like this. When I stepped in I immediately saw her, curled up, hugging her pillow, her blanket on the floor, and whimpering as if trapped in a nightmare. Figuring the cold was the problem I tossed the blanket back up onto her and waited for her to calm down. She must not have been very cold since she didn't stop making that pitiful noise, but I couldn't think of what else to do for her. After a moment of thought I climbed up with her and pulled her to my chest. Eventually she managed to quiet down, but now I was trapped up there with her. I couldn't leave her just in case she started up again, and I didn't really want her to associate the mansion with nightmares after the first night. My only choice was to stay with Zhi through the night, I didn't mind, but I was beginning to worry about the strange things she seemed to be doing to me. I shifted into a halfway comfortable position while still holding her and managed to drift off to sleep after a few minutes.

Authors note (feat. Important info toward the middle-end for those who don't like vague health things):

Here's the next installment guys! I hope you've all been enjoying it so far! I started writing this in 9th or 10th grade and most of the way through high school, though its written form is no where near ending either. What you are reading isn't identical to its written counterpart, I've been trying to improve some parts as I type it up since I was younger when I started it and some parts are too long or poorly executed! The written form is also currently 23 chapters long, but the typed form you will see may be a little bit shorter due to some of the chapters being really short and not worth putting up on their own, so I'll be fusing some chapters together. What you guys will see may end up being between 20 to 22 chapters until I continue past "23". Also, as a very early warning/spoiler: I will be adding many Ocs in much later chapters, and a group of them will come all at once! Also in a chapter coming up in a few updates, there is a vague shower/"kidnapping"/doctor check up/gynecology scene, if that stuff in a quick succession make you uncomfortable despite little to no graphic description, then I suggest you pay attention to further announcements and take not of how I will choose to mark the scene so you may skip over it! It is vaguely described, and I won't put in any more description than there already is, as I would like to keep it out of the actual sex range, so far in written form its more of a "this happened and I(zhi) tried not to think about it happening while it happened! So here's the one or two word/s that fit it without going into detail of how it happened"

SORRY FOR THE LONG AUTHOR'S NOTE BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO FORGET IT IN LATER INSTALLMENTS AND I'M WRITING THIS AT 2 AM CAUSE I CANT SLEEP!