Chapter 5

by Undecisivepsycho

As I cook my breakfast Slenderman and Eyeless Jack come down silently and stand behind me, watching.

"So, what exactly is that?" Slender asks, only daring to speak once im done cooking, and startling me.

"It's something like 'bird in the hole'" Jeff answers for me as I catch the food on my plate, it having been thrown into the air when I jumped.

"Ah, so you can cook?" Slender inquires, snagging a stray bit of egg from my plate, "and rather well too..."

"Yeah sort of...thanks I guess?" I say, looking at him skeptically as I sit down to eat.

"Duuuuude, what's that smell? Did someone kidnap a chef or something?" BEN asks, almost drifting into the kitchen.

"Yes, it looks like Jeff unwittingly brought one home last night." Slender replies.

"Cool, we've been needing real food. No offense Slendy, but even your cooking isn't that great." BEN states. Slender simply "looks" at me, the obvious question filling the room.

"No, there is no fucking way I'm letting myself be a stereotype. You guys can either get some cookbooks or eat microwave meals"

"Well...we've tried that, but some how it always goes wrong...BEN once managed to burn cold cereal even." Jeff explained.

"Yeah, I still don't know how that happened." BEN wondered aloud.

I couldn't believe it. My mouth hung open and I froze for a few minutes, dumbfounded at how bad they really are at cooking.

"Did zhi...break?" Masky asked, looking up from his sketchbook.

"No...I just can't believe you're all really that bad. How the fuck do you even burn cold cereal?" I ask in disappointment, "alright fine...since it seems you'll all starve if I don't, I'd better do the cooking from now on. I'll need some cook books though, I can't do anything fancy without instructions."

"That should be no problem, we have a set stored in the attic, I'll retrieve them later. I'm sure we'll all come to appreciate this Zhi." Slender reassures me once everybody quiets down.

"Alright thanks Slender, I suppose I'd better start." I sigh, turning back to the stove and preparing to make enough eggs for everybody that lives in the house, occasionally threatening Jeff with a lack of food if he continues to be a bother. Once the eggs are ready I make everyone a plate and a glass of either orange juice or milk, looking at the one left over plate afterward with confusion.

"I'll be taking this one up to Rake, he doesn't normally eat with the rest of us." Slender explains, taking the last plate and heading for the stairs.

"Then why does it smell like- Oh..." Hoodie stops in the threshold, looking amazed that there was actual edible food laid out on the table.

"Dude, we can actually eat without being sick now! The new girl can cook!" BEN excitedly explains.

"My name is Zhi, BEN!" Zhi snapped, smacking BEN in the back of the head with the spatula.

"Alright, I'm Sorry! Jeez, you didn't have to hit so hard..." BEN whined, the food depleting his high.

"If I hadn't you wouldn't have gotten my point. Now, I'm heading upstairs." Zhi reported, putting away the spatula and heading upstairs just as Slender was coming down to eat.

"Hey, wait! When's lunch?!" BEN yells up after her.

"When I decide to make it!" she shouted back.

"Let me try," Masky offers, getting up and leaning out of the kitchen, "Hey, Zhi? When do you think you'll decide to make lunch?"

"Just come and get me when the majority gets hungry, okay?" she replies, smiling down at him from the banister.

"Ok, thank you Zhi!" Masky says sweetly before sitting back down to eat, Zhi continuing to her room.

"What the hell? Why didn't you get yelled at?" BEN pouted

"Probably because he wasn't an ass about it." I answer for Masky, getting up to clean my dishes.

"Jeff has a point, you got what you asked for, BEN." Slendy said, pointing at him with a forkful of egg.

"So? Aw, whatever man. Hey, where are you going?" BEN asked me, getting ready to clean his dishes as I start to go for the stairs.

"To check in on her and see what she's doing." I reply, dashing up the stairs and walking toward her room. I could hear her music as I got closer to her room, when I had reached her door I knocked a few times, eventually realizing she probably couldn't hear the door over her music. Not seeing any other options I slowly turned the knob on her door and push it open, sighing in relief when I find it's not locked or alarmed, but gasping in shock when I see her dancing around. I barely recognized the song, I think it was one by Daft Punk, but I couldn't be sure.