After my out burst I found it hard to face Linda. I couldn't forget what I had seen and erase what I now knew. That monster was doing this to me. He was the cause of all the pain I'd been living through and some how I forgot that IT was even doing this.

Linda didn't follow me as I returned to lay down on the couch. I could hear her moving the table and chairs back while picking up the papers that had flown about upon the impact of table and wall. She didn't say a word as it became silent, not one as I heard her walk towards where I lay. I was faced away in shame and fear of my own self, unable to look at her and see the same fear come back two times worse if not more.

I didn't expect though to feel her sit behind me and pull me up into a tight hug. My eyes snapping open with confusion and lack of any understanding why she would be doing this. But then I heard it, the once muffled sounds of sobbing, now out in the open air. I had been crying and I hadn't even registered it. Linda was trying to comfort me.

I looked at her with fear, but she looked at me with worry and pity. She held me as if I was but a child in need of a parents loving touch and comfort. Rocking softly as she hummed and stroked my hair softly, in a slow calming fashion.

I didn't fight it. I embraced it fully. Closing my eyes and letting her soothe me as if I was but a babe crying out in fear for it's mother's warmth and love. She was filling the void no one else could ever do.

I have no memory of when I feel asleep. Just the way I woke to a glaring sun shinning too brightly for such a horrible mood I was in. My eyes and head ached from the emotions of the previous night. I prayed it was only a nightmare. None of it had happened, but I was never so lucky.

I turned to look toward the kitchen and there plan as day were the marks I had left on the wall and table. What I didn't expect to see was Bill seated and smiling at me. An array of foods placed put on the table, which I admit was sturdier the. I would have given it credit a day ago.

Linda soon came into view as she placed another dish out. Bill pointing with a nod and a word to her that I was awake finally. It was all the more eerie for me that I could hear this all from my place on the couch.

She came to greet me with a smile, but I couldn't face her or Bill as I laid back down facing away once more.

"No you don't! You are not allowed to mop around here after what happened yesterday! Get your ass up and have breakfast with us or so help me I will dump ice water all over you."

Linda's threat didn't spur me. Only made me curl all the more into myself, pulling the blanket around me tighter.

I heard footsteps leaving me and sighed relieved, but for a moment. They returned shortly along with a sudden shock of wet and cold.

I screamed startled, leaping from the couch, most likely looking like a very displeased wet cat.

I glared with all my might at Linda, but it didn't phase her as she grinned at me in a proud of herself fashion.

"I did warn you Bobby." She snorted, walking back into the kitchen with her finger swinging a fairly large bucket by its handle.

"She has it ready and waiting while she made breakfast. Sorry I didn't warn you Bobby. She threatened me with not allowing me to eat her cooking. I couldn't risk it."

I sighed heavily, but nodded, my mood lightening a bit. "No harm Billy. I know her ways of bribery too well. She'd have kept her promise and then ate it in front of you while making obnoxious happy noises."

"I would not have!"

"You would too have! You've done it to me you liar!"

Linda merely grinned knowing too well I was right but at the same time had made me forget about why I was in such a bad mood.

Groaning I pulled my freezing soaked shirt free. Luckily, or if not planned, she had only gotten the top of me drenched. My hair was soggy as I pushed it from my eyes. Frowning as Linda continued to grin at me as she tossed a fresh shirt to me.

"You really did plan this all out didn't you?"

She only smiled all the more as I slipped the right fitting shirt over my head and sat down to eat. It wasn't until I heard Bill's laughter and him staring at my chest that I caught on that it was one of hers.

"BARBIE? Really Lin?" I glare as she begins to join along with Bill in his laughter.

Rubbing my face I sigh as I give up and join in with only a single chuckle.

I'm still warn and weary, but their laughter lifts my spirits. Letting myself relax into my seat as Little bds comes to sit with us with her last dish.

"Alright boys, dig in."

I sluggishly begin to fill my plate as the others do the same. Though I can see a questioning look on Billy's face.

"Miss Linda, you cooked an awful lot, this is more then what my mother makes for our family. I'd feel bad if it goes to waste account of you making it all for us."

Linda smiled assuredly at him as I stuck a while cinnamon roll into my mouth.

"Bill, you don't worry about that. In fact I tried to make only a bit more then usual."

He looked confused by this before looking at me. Linda's thumb pointing in my direction I could see as why he would be.

With a roll still in my mouth and one in a free hand with my other holding a fork currently cutting a pancake in half, I looked equally perplexed until she spoke once more.

"As you can see Bobby here doesn't actually know how much more he eats then the average human being. I make double the amount for him before even making anything for myself."

I nearly chocked when I tried to protest, swallowing the roll in my mouth completely whole.

"What!? Linda you should've told me. It's not right I eat before you nor the fact out of house and home."

Instead of protesting back, she and Bill alike looked at me as if I'd grown a second head.

"W...wh...What?"

"Bobby...did you just swallow that cinnamon roll whole?"

It took me a moment as I nodded to catch on to why they looked so startled.

I looked at the one in my hand realizing it was nearly twice the size of it if not more. Looking at the other rolls as well they were as large if not give or take larger.

I dropped my fork and roll in horror before scooting my chair back and away from the table. This time minding the force I used to do so.

"Bobby, are you alright. You can breath fine, yes?"

Linda was already up and hovering around me, making sure I wasn't about to officiate right then and there.

"Bobby..."

My eyes shot up to meet Billy's full of concern, on my behalf?

"Are you okay? That was a pretty impressive trick if you are."

His smile was bright as he watched me.

How could he be so calm and look so happy when he should be afraid of me as much as I am if myself at this moment.

"Why aren't you scared?"

I could feel the tears of my own worries and fears build as I asked finally out loud to them both.

"That monster is inside me... he has to be... or he's using me... yet neither of you are afraid. How? I can't even be strong for myself. My world is crumbling around me. I hear IT mock me...threaten to harm you both...I'm so scared..." the dam breaks releasing my tears once more. "I'm not just afraid for me...I'm scared I'll harm you both in the end."

"Bobby, you won't hurt either of us."

Linda so confidant as she tries to reach to wipe the tears away, only to have me flinch away quickly.

"No! We don't know that! You both are better off if I just off myself. Maybe head first into a wood chipper so I don't chicken out."

Linda looks horrified by my words, screeching a no as she tries to grab hold of me. It's Billy though who is the most calm of us. He looks at me with deep concern and sadness as he finally speaks his mind on what I've just suggested.

"I don't think it would work even if you tried, though I'd prefer you didn't try it any way Bobby."

Linda stops trying to grab me as we both watch him confused by his words, though Linda looks relieved that Bill doesn't want me to try and kill myself either.

"If IT is hiding in you... then I doubt you would die. We couldn't properly kill IT before and I don't believe something as simple as a wood chipper would do it either. He'd probably even stop you before you could test it out." I now notice even Billy has begun to cry, as well as Linda.

"Bobby, don't do anything stupid...I lost my brother already and I can't lose anyone else. Especially my newest friend. So please, no matter what, don't do anything dumb and talk to us. Let us know what is happening. We'll figure this out together and when we do we'll kill IT and save you in the process. Okay?"

How could I have let all my fears blind me to how others cared about me? I let my fear blind me and pull me far from those I loved and cared about. My friends...no, more then that. They were the family I couldn't remember ever having.

"I promise...I..I w..won't do anything s..stupid."