~Chapter 2 Carter~
When I wake up it's quiet, but Slendy is standing over me.
"Amara's awake." I follow him into the infirmary and sit on the chair next to her bed. I take her hand and she cries a little.
"I was 4 months. It was a girl." She starts sobbing. The door opens and LJ walks in. He sits on the side of the bed and hugs her, "I'm sorry." She pulls away and looks at me, "Her name was Emma Marie." I bit my lip and walked out of the room. I go to my room and sit on my bed. There's a knock on my door.
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT!" I scream. The door opens and Hoodie walks in.
"It wasn't your fault." I glare at him.
"Fuck off." He sits by me and puts his arm around my shoulder. I start sobbing and bury my face in his chest. The door opens again and in walks Jeff.
"Hey bitches what's up." I look up and snarl at him.
"Get out Crazy hoe." I get up, push him out, and slam the door in his face. I sit back on the bed and lie down on my back, "It's my fault. I should have picked somebody else to go with me." My door slams open and I sit up seeing Amara standing in my doorway, dressed in sweatpants and a sweater.
"I have an idea! Let's go!" She grabs my arm and pulls me out to the car, "DRIVE!" She pushes me into the driver's side as she gets in the passenger side.
"Where are we going?" She stares forwards.
"My old house." I frown and pull up to the curb in front of the house.
"You're going to take his baby aren't you." She nods and goes through a window and I follow right behind her. I take out my knife and follow her up the stairs, "Mara?" She opens a door and we go inside.
"I'm gonna kill him." My mouth falls open as she pulls out her knife and holds it over his head, "Amara!" I whisper. She ignores me and stares at her brother's sleeping face. She sighs and puts the knife back in her belt.
"I can't." We close the door behind us as we make our way to the baby's room. I follow her into the baby's room and watch her carefully scoop the sleeping child in her arms. She stares at the baby girl and smiles, "Hello little girl...I'm your auntie Amara." I watch as Amara hugs the baby and kisses her head before placing her back in the crib, "Let's go, Carter." The light flickers on and we both turn towards the door
"Amara?" Amara tears up and hugs her brother quickly before yanking me out the window. We run to the car and drive away.
~Amara~
I look out the passenger window, and watch the trees go by as Carter drives us back home,
"You couldn't take her." Carter states,
"No, I couldn't, as much as I wanted to, I couldn't put my brother through that." I say. Carter nods.
"You couldn't stand to see your brother being without his child, because you know the feeling." I nod, afraid that if I keep talking i'll start crying again, "We don't have to talk anymore." I nod and continue staring out the window. When we get home we hide the car and go inside, "I'll make some dinner." Carter goes into the kitchen as I sit on the couch next to Slendy.
"Hey daddy." I kiss his cheek and lie my head on his lap.
"Amara. You can always try again when you're older." I nod and close my eyes. What seems like a few moments later, there's a loud crash from the kitchen and then.
"JEFF YOU FUCKING IDIOT I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Jeff comes running from the kitchen covered in what looks like flour.
"What the hell." I mumble and get up going into the kitchen. I stop and my mouth falls open.
"Oh...my...god." Carter is standing in the middle of the kitchen covered in chocolate sauce and flour with chicken bits lying all over the floor.
"Wow," I say shaking my head laughing a little, "I'm going to leave you to clean this up." I say not wanting to step into the mess of whatever the hell she was making. I walk up the stairs and to Sally's room knowing she's probably awake by now. I get to her door and I hear her talking to someone, so I carefully open the door and see Jack sitting on the floor playing dolls with Sally. I walked in the door and closed it behind me.
"MOMMYYY!" Sally squeals and runs up and hugs my legs. I pick her up and hug her.
"Hello my little doll." Sally wraps her arms around my neck.
"Daddy said you got hurt, and so did the baby." I set Sally down and she hugs my stomach then places a kiss on it before going back to LJ. I go and sit next to Jack and I lay my head on his shoulder.
"I'm sorry, I should have been more careful." I say quietly so Sally doesn't hear.
"Sally, why don't you ask Hoodie to come play with you, Mommy and Daddy need to go talk." Jack says. Sally kisses our cheeks and runs out of the room. I look at him and raise my brow.
"Okay let's talk then." Jack looks at me.
"It's not your fault, you can't blame yourself for this." I lie down on my back.
"Yes it is!" I knew somehow that if Carter got hurt that she would live, but for some reason I forgot about our baby and my…" I wave my hands around my head, "CRAZY...went away. It's like I had to do everything I could to protect her...That's how it used to be when we were little, whatever harm was coming at us we would protect each other and act on instinct." Jack leans down and lies next to me.
"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to bring her here if it's going to get you hurt." I glare at him and stand up, "NO! IT WAS A GREAT IDEA!...She's my best friend, I couldn't just let her stay out there with...with HIM!" I sigh and sit back down, "You haven't seen what they did. He's been wiping her memory for 4 years for some UNKNOWN reason!" I grip my hair, "He unlocked her "powers" ,or whatever they are, and he made her help him with his stupid bidding! Who knows what else he did to her." Jack takes my hand.
"It's okay, Amara." He leans over and kisses my cheek, "Let's get ready for bed." I nod and stand, going towards the door.
"Imma go put Sally to bed." When I get down stairs I see Carter, Hoodie, Ben, and Sally sitting on the floor with big bowls of ice cream while Ben plays a game.
"YOU LITTLE SHIT!" Ben gets up and throws the controler onto the couch.
"HEY WATCH THE LANGUAGE AROUND THE KID ASSHOLE!" Carter yells at him. I laugh a little and they all look at me.
"MOMMY!" Sally runs to me with chocolate covering her mouth, I pick her up.
"Is Auntie Moo-Moo giving you sweets before bed!?" Sally blushes and giggles.
"No, of course not. Hoodie did!" Hoodie's mouth falls open.
"You traitor!" He runs over to us and takes Sally and tickles her, "You were supposed to say it was Ben!" Sally continues to laugh away, until Carter snatches her away and hugs her.
"Poor little Sally, is Hoodie being a winch?" Sally snorts and kisses her cheek before getting set down,
"Bed tiiiime!" She sings and runs up to her room.
"Amara?" I look at Carter and smile.
"You know you two should get together." I wink at them and head upstairs after Sally.
~Carter~
I watch Amara run up the stairs after Sally avoiding looking over at Hoodie.
"So, you wanna go out?" I look back at him flipping him the bird and go upstairs.
"BEN CLEAN THE KITCHEN!" I hear him sigh and I smirk. Once I'm sitting on my bed there's a knock on the door.
"I just sat down so open it yourself!" The door opens and Hoodie comes in smiling at me.
"Ben cleaned the kitchen. And I was serious. Do you wanna go out sometime." I look at him.
"Yeah, i'm sure it's clean," I say sarcastically, "And yeah we should go out sometime," I blush a little. Then getting up I take his arm and shove him out of my room.
"Goodnight." His mouth falls open and I wave.
"Tomorrow good?" He asks. I nod and close the door.
"Damn that boy is too hot for his own good!" I hear a chuckle and then hear.
"THANKS!" from the other side of the door and I laugh. I sit on the bed, I put a hand in my jacket pocket and feel something in there I didn't notice before. I talk it out and it's a silver ring with writing on the outside of it. I stare at it trying to remember where it came from. I'm suddenly hit with a wave of nausea.
~FLASHBACK~
Amara, June, and I sit on the couch at my house. My father is out with his friends and mom is asleep. We are playing uno when we hear a loud noise from outside.
"What the hell was that." Amara says. I stand up and walk over to the window trying to see outside.
"I'm not seeing anything." I turn around to go back to the couch when I hear a thump on the door, "Hello?" I look out the peephole and jump back shocked. Standing there is a thing wearing a hat, a trench coat and a tie around his neck. It doesn't have eyes, or a nose, but he has a mouth filled with teeth and a tongue. I slowly crack the door open, "Who ARE YOUUUU." I yell. I hear Amara and June laugh from the living room, l laugh a little too and slam the door and lock it. I look out the window again to make sure, then going back into the living room I plop down onto the couch.
"Who was it?" June asks while shuffling the cards.
"I'm not sure just some man wearing a hat." I don't bother to mention the part about him having no face or that he looked like a creep, "Alrighty girls I'm going to bed." I get up and stretch, I go back into my room and a few moments later Amara and June walk in, "You guys get that side of the bed." I lie on the right side of my California king sized bed. They lay on the other side.
"Why is your bed so big anyways?" I shrug.
"Because I'm awesome." Amara snorts and snatches my bumblebee transformers blanket from me.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" I snatch it back and hug it, "It's okay BumbleBee, the mean lady doesn't have you anymore." I glare at the both as they laugh, "Don't touch my baby." I snuggle my blanket and cover up with the rest. Pretty soon I hear Amara and June start snoring so I slowly let myself fall asleep.
I wake up shivering, I look down and my blankets gone, I look over and I see Amara cuddled up with my blanket, "Are you serious?" I mumble. I get up carefully, not wanting to wake them, and I make my way into the living room. I go to the couch and grab a blanket when suddenly I feel a presence behind me. I hug the blanket closer to me and turn around. Standing there is the man from before. He smiles at me and holds out two roses.
"The red rose allows you to be granted my undying devotion and your sexual desires. And the Blue flower forfeits your life." The man Pauses and frowns, "If you will not love me, I won't allow you to love another." I raise my brow at the guy.
"Sure dude, get out of my house." I start to push him out when he holds up his hand, "Wait. Take this and then when you are ready for me just rub the writing."
He takes off a ring and hands it to me.
"Ummmm...Okay?" He sighs, "Put it on." I slide the ring onto my finger and I feel my eyes slide closed.
~FlashBack End~
I shiver, still holding the silver ring in my hand.
"What was that?" I ask myself. I put the ring aside on my side table and lay down.I lay there for a while trying to fall asleep but I can't stop thinking about the ring, so I decided to get up. I go down to the kitchen and get a glass of water. I'm staring out the window by the sink when I feel someone tap my shoulder, I quickly spin around, "HOLY SHIT, YOU SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME." I whisper, yell, and Hoodie just laughs.
"I didn't think you were that jumpy," he says.
"I'm usually not, it's just been a longggg day," I say with a sigh, sitting on the floor and sip my water. Hoodie sits next to me and I put the water down on the other side of me.
"Yeah I understand that, it gets a little crazy sometimes but everything will be okay." he says and I nod my head. I glance around the room, it's mostly dark but the moonlight coming through the window is enough to be able to see, in the dark the moonlight looks like a really pale blue color. I look at his direction and find him staring at me.
"What?" I ask. He smiles slightly.
"You look really beautiful in the moonlight."I blush and suddenly I get a good idea.
"Follow me," I say and stand up and go up the stairs, he follows behind me. I go to my room and open the window where the roof is flat, I carefully climb out on the roof and sit down. Hoodie sits next to me, "Look how pretty it is," I say looking up at the moon. I feel him glance over at me then he looks up at the moon.
"Yeah, it is pretty, this was a good idea." I look at him from the corner of my eye and blush when I meet his gaze. We look at each other fully now and I smile, "You're really pretty too." I look down and he takes my chin in his hand and turns my head towards him, "Really, you are beautiful." He leans towards me and pauses before closing the gap between us. His lips meet mine and my face flushes red. His lips start to move and I copy his actions, after a moment I realize what I'm doing and freeze. Hoodie pulls away and frowns, "Are you okay?" I stand up and back away from him, closer to the edge, "Watch out!" He stands up after me, but my foot has already slipped off the slope.
"AH!" I try to grab the gutter, but my hand misses and I fall 3 stories. I land on my back gasping, all I see is Hoodie looking down at me.
~Flashback~
I get up from my bed and look into my full body mirror. I touch my hair that comes down to my waist and frown at the natural blood red color of my hair. I lean closer to the mirror and look at my eyes, they're a forest green color. I step back and look at my body, I'm not thin, but I'm not big either...I mean I could stand to lose a few but besides that I look okay. Sighing I snatched up the Scissors and and put my hair in a pony tail and just cut it off. I hear a knock on the door.
"Hey, Carter, it's Amara, can I come in?" I look at my hair that's now lying on the ground.
"Yeah." The door opens.
"Hey, I wanted to talk about…Nice hair cut." I smile.
"I needed a change." Amara sits on my bed and I sit next to her.
"Listen. You know you don't need to stay here right?" I sigh and flop onto my back.
"Yes I do. I have nowhere else to go. I am NOT going into the house with that...guy in there, he creeps me out." Amara stands up and pulls me up by my arms.
"Liking somebody doesn't make them a creep, Carter." I groan and flop my arms around.
"But I used to be a lesbian! Now I'm...weird." Amara giggles.
"Yeah, you were." I glare at her remembering back in 10th grade with Mary.
"Shut up." Amara twirls in a circle and snorts then starts singing.
"Why can't you be gay? Why can't you be gaaay." She grabs my arm and spins me around, "Siiiiiing!" I roll my eyes when Amara turns on the radio and that damn song comes on. In the background you can hear it," Why can't we be friends, Why can't we be friends." And right smack dab in front of me is Amara giggling I smirk and take her and and start singing along, "Why can't we be gay! Why can't we be gay!" The door slams open and we both stop.
"WHAT is with the noise!" I look down at my hands frowning.
"Nothing we were just playing around." The man walks up to me and glares at me.
"I thought I said not to make any noise while I'm home." I keep looking down not wanting to look at him. I feel Amara stand up.
"I'm going to need you to get the fuck out of here." She says getting in his face a little. I look up wide eyed, he smirks at Amara and smacks her. I gasp, and she just laughs lowly. I watch her quickly pull a knife out of her pocket and point it at him, "Touch me again, I'll cut your fucking hands off." she growls, he chuckles, rolls his eyes and leaves the room, slamming the door behind him.