Chapter 12: Meeting the brothers (part II)

"Goddamnit, I should have asked him to take me there."

I mumbled to myself as I wandered aimlessly among the leafless trees. Today was the day I came to Slenderman's house to spend Christmas with his family, which were his brothers. He offered to teleport me there, but I declined… which made me regret that decision because at this very moment, I had no idea where I was going.

I changed my outfit today so that I would be comfortable to walk around the forest. My tied my hair into a long braid. I was wearing the same blouse but I replaced my skirt with a pair of blue jeans. I wore a pair of doll shoes with shorter heels and scarps. My big backpack gently bounced with every step I took.

"Wait… this part seems familiar…" I looked around before sighing as I face-palmed. "What am I talking about? They all look familiar."

As I wandered around, I suddenly felt something, or someone, behind me. The more I stepped forward, the more that feeling got bigger. Wait… could it be…?

"Slender? Is that you?"

I turned around and asked. But my moment of relief was turned down when I found no one behind.

"Guess I have to go some more…" Letting out a heavy sigh, I continued walking forward. "God, I hate myself so much for turning down his offer-"

Before I could finish, I was startled when something suddenly poked my shoulder.

"Gah!" I yelped and turned around. "Who's there?! Show yourse-"

Once again, unable to finish my words, I was cut off at the sight of the thing being held in front of my face. It was a red rose, but it wasn't like any ordinary rose. This rose right here… it had something in it… Allurement…. Beauty… Attraction… Charisma… Almost every word used to describe the most charming thing in this world. Seeing it made me speechless and I couldn't take my eyes from it…

"Such a beautiful rose…"

I said quietly as I reached out one hand to take it…

"Konna! Don't take it!"

I snapped out when I heard Slenderman's voice.

…

Hold on, what was I doing…?

"S- Slender?" I asked as Slender huffed once he was in front of me. "Why are you here? I thought you were at your house?"

"What are you doing here?"

Another voice was heard and I turned to its direction. Standing in front of me was another pale and faceless man. He was like another version of Slenderman, but he was slightly taller and wore different clothes. He had a black trench hat on his head and, unlike Slender, he had a mouth full of sharp teeth. I blushed a little when I saw that under his long black trench coat was nothing but his bare chest and a black tie. He also wore black pants and black polished shoes. Behind his back was white tentacles and one of them was holding a red rose.

Wait a minute… That rose…

"I almost succeeded, and you just came to ruin it all." He knitted his eyebrows a little, seeming to be a bit disappointed and annoyed. "You never did this, Slender."

"W- what- why- how-" Slender cut himself off multiple times. "Did you forget that easily?! I said that my friend was coming over and I literally described EVERYTHING about her because I damn knew that you would do this to her if I didn't! It was, like, a few hours ago, and yet here you are, holding that fucking rose and ready to lure my friend in!"

The other Slenderman-look-alike seemed unusually calm while Slender poured his anger out on him. He rubbed his chin and lightly nodded his head.

"Oh, so this is your friend?" He chuckled in a low tone. "Haha, I'm very sorry. She looks so cute that I thought she would be my new victim."

'Victim'? What did he mean by that-

"Ah! There you all are!"

Two other Slenderman-look-alikes ran over us. One was kind of similar to the two I was beside. He also had pale skin and featureless face and he was wearing a pair of black glasses, a green neck scarf, a white shirt with roll-up sleeves, a yellow vest sweater worn over the shirt, black jeans and black shoes. The other one stood out a lot because unlike the other three, he had features on his face, although he still didn't have a nose and his eyes and mouth were like solid black holes. His outfit was one of the thing that made him look special too. He was wearing a black top hat with red ribbon, white dress shirt worn underneath a black coat, black pants, black shoes and gloves. His outfit was covered completely in colorful polka-dots, except his shirt, shoes and red bowtie.

Four Slendermen?

What in the world…?

...

I fainted.

"Thank God, you woke up…"

I heard Slenderman's voice as my eyes fluttered open. When I had fully opened them, I saw that he was looking down at me with a concern look that was on his face.

"S- Slenderman…" I asked as I rubbed my head. "W- What happened…?"

"Oh!" Another voice came up and popped up beside Slender was a Slender-look-alike, well, the one that stood out the most. "The little girl's awake!"

Being startled, I stood up and looked around. Seeing all other three Slenderman versions looking at me made me frightened more.

"Uh… uh…" I stuttered out, unable to say anything.

"Aw, don't be scared!" That other mentioned one offered a hand toward me, which resulted in me backing away.

"Splendor!" Slender scolded. "Stop that! You're scaring her more." He then turned over me. "Hey, how are you now?"

"Um… I'm quite fine now… Where am I?" I asked, confused.

"You're at my house, Konna."

He then turned over the others. "This is Konna Fujukama, the friend I mentioned. Now, won't you introduce yourselves? I doubt that she'll open up to you if you don't."

"Oh, of course!" The polka-dots-covered one said cheerfully as a big smile was on his face. "I'm Splendorman, but just Splendor is fine. Nice to meet you, Slendy's friend!" He then took my hands and shook it rapidly.

"Haha… nice to meet you too, Splendorman." I chuckled, trying my best not to mind his non-stop hand shaking.

A deep voice then was heard from the one with the trench coat. "I have a different name, but… feel free to call me Smexy, beautiful~ That's what I am, the smart and sexy Smexy~"

"Uh… yes, hello… uh, Smexy." I said, uncomfortable with his… somehow creepy tone. Gosh, that sent chill down my spine so damn much.

"And I am the most wonderful fashion designer in this world, Trenderman." The one with glasses said as he smiled as he bowed down like a gentleman. Speaking of glasses, why would he bother wearing them if he didn't even have eyes? I guess that was for his own fashion taste…

Maybe?

"I win again!"

"What?! This is the third time!"

Trenderman said as he seemingly lost another round in the chess game. I chuckled when Splendorman raised his long arms up in victory. Smexy was sitting on a chair with a book in his hand. I and Slender was sitting beside each other on the couch after cleaning up the dining table after having dinner.

"So…" I said, wanting to start a conversation. "These are your bros?"

"Yeah…" He sighed. "I hate this when they're here. They're annoying as hell."

"Who's the youngest in the family, then?" I secretly bet that it would be Splendorman, since he was so cheerful and friendly.

"I'm the youngest."

I stared at him in surprise as I found out my theory was wrong. "You? The youngest?!"

"Yes…" He sighed again. "I'm the freaking youngest one, Splendor is the third one, Smexy is the second and Trender is the oldest."

I paused for a while before saying. "Speaking of Smexy…"

"Hmm?"

"Before I snapped out a long while ago…" I stared at the ceiling as I recalled my first encounter with Smexy. "… What happened?"

He stayed quiet for a good few seconds. "Well, I can't explain this aloud so I'll give you hints."

"Okay, I'm quite good with hints. Bring them on." I said, full of confidence.

"So… Smexy's other name, which he doesn't usually want to let people know, is Sexual Offenderman."

"Sexual… Offenderman…?" I fused my eyebrow together.

"Yes, that's one hint." He continued. "And about the rose he was holding with his tentacle… it has a spell in it and he uses it to lure his victims, who are mostly women, into his… 'trap'."

"Hmm… Okay."

"Now fuse those two hints together and you'll understand why I shouted at you not to take the rose."

"Sexual Offenderman… Magic rose that lures women into his 'trap'…"

I mumbled those words for a while… before my face burnt up as I got the idea.

"Oh… alright… I got it…" I said, looking away as I blushed lightly.

"Thank god. I don't want to explain every detail to you one bit."

"Oh." Trenderman said as he looked at the clock hung on the wall. "It's almost eleven."

Splendor yawned. "It's that late already? No wonder I'm getting a little tired."

"See you all tomorrow." Smexy said as he stood up and headed to his room.

"Good night!" Said Splendor as he ran off.

Yawning, I giggled a bit at his childishness.

Maybe I was taking a liking to him.

Third person's POV

"Slender."

Slender turned away from his windows as he heard his brother Smexy calling his name.

"What is it?" The tall man said. "I thought you were asleep by now. It's past midnight."

The older brother sighed. "I was lying on my bed… until I thought about your friend, Konna."

The younger one stared at him for a while before speaking up again. "What's with her?"

Offenderman stayed quiet for a few minutes.

"Is this about her that you decided not to hurt Konna like your other victims?"

Slenderman said nothing and stared outside from his window instead. He let the moonlight shone through his room as they just stood there in silence until a few seconds later, when he finally decided to answer his brother.

"Maybe, maybe not. Who knows…?"

The offender sighed again before closing the door behind him, leaving his younger brother alone once again.