Let us begin! We are now in notebook number 2. Umm oh yeah important note because I have no idea on how to explain it in the book, so T.K is a cannibal and unlike Jack eats whatever she wants to of the body. In the second book it's explained better.
There was a knock on the door.
"C-come in." I said
Kit came into the room with headphones around her neck holding a big orange book, Hoodie followed after her.
"I thought you might want to see the scrapbook Hoodie is making." Kit explained. "Do you?"
"Yeah, s-sure."
Kit opened up the book to the first few pages and showed me the pictures. There was a picture Masky sound asleep on the floor in My Little Pony boxers and one of him playing football with Jeff and Jack. The paper the pictures of him were on was dark orange and at the top of the page were fuzzy black letters that spelled out Masky. The next was a darkish navy bluish purple color and had pictures of Eyeless Jack eating kidneys and cooking. Sally's page was light pink and had a picture of her hugging Charlie her teddy bear and playing dress up with Ben. Jeff's background was dark red and had a picture of him flipping off the camera and wrestling with Masky. The next page was about Hoodie.
"C-can we please sk-skip this page?" Hoodie asked.
"Are you ashamed that you were caught on camera?" Kit teased.
This page wasn't as neat or professional looking as the other pages. The pictures were put on crooked; the letters that spelt Hoodie's name weren't used with stickers but instead were just colored in.
"This page has a story; I wasn't living here at the time though." Kit said. "Basically this is what happened. So Hoodie is pretty good at taking pictures and is taking all these photos for his scrapbook and Jeff thought 'Hey he takes pictures of us so why don't we take pictures of him?' After that Jeff got Masky who is the only other person in this house that is skilled in photography to take pictures of Hoodie when he wasn't aware. After they took the pictures Masky made this page."
"They're m-mean." Hoodie grumbled.
The pictures were of Hoodie running away from Jeff who had a clump of green plants in his hand and one of Hoodie following Slenderman around.
"What is J-Jeff chasing y-you with?" I asked curiously.
"That's Ragweed, he's allergic to it."
The other pages were about Ben Drowned, Ticci-Toby and Twisted Kit. Ben's page was green and had pictures of him playing a video game and eating pizza, Toby's page was olive green and had pictures of him hanging upside down in a tree and poking Masky, Kit's page was dark purple and had a picture of her sticking her tongue out and giving Hoodie a bro-fist.
"Right n-now I'm preparing y-your page." Hoodie stuttered.
"Oh it's f-fine." I replied.
In truth I didn't deserve anything Hoodie made for me. As for as I could see if I had a page in his scrapbook that meant he thought of me as a part of the family. I guess it looked comforting to have a family, to have people watching your back or somebody to fool around with. I don't need a family, I'm fine by myself.
The rest of the day was pretty calm. Masky, Jeff and Hoodie played a card game, Ben played a video game, Jack played with Sally and Charlie and Kit walked around listening to music. Me, I didn't do much other than read and think to myself. Jack let me borrow a book titled The Fault in Our Stars. So far The Fault in Our Stars is a really good book, it's about this girl named Hazel and she has cancer. She goes to these meeting that are supposed to boost confidence in life or something; she only goes because her parents want her to. One day there is a new guy there named Augustus and they soon become fast friends. That's what I've read so far. I love reading; it's one of the last joys I allow myself to keep.
Once the sky began to darken things began to get chaotic. Jeff was sharpening his knives, Jack and Kit complained about how hungry they were, objects began to fall around Kit and Ben was glitching
"Okay, I can't handle you children any longer! Get out, do something with your energy." Slenderman said after a bookshelf almost crushed Hoodie.
There were a few whoops of joy and then pretty much everyone dashed out the door and into the night. The only ones left in the mansion were Slenderman, Sally, Masky, Hoodie and me.
"Hey Amity."
I looked up from The Fault in Our Stars and saw Masky.
"Wanna come with me?" He asked.
I just shrugged, I would like to stay and read but I must admit that I did feel sort of jittery.
"I'll take that as a yes." Masky said then he turned to Slenderman and asked. "Hey Slendy, can Amity come with me?"
"Amity may come with you but when you two come back please be quiet I'm putting Sally to bed and the last thing I need is her to wake up in the middle of the night. Be good to Amity." Slenderman replied.
"I will. Come on Amity!"
I put the book down on the coffee table, zipped up the old camouflage jacket Kit had lent to me, slipped on my sneakers and followed Masky. As we walked I found that I could see easily in the dark, an advantage to being a proxy maybe?
"Wh-where are we g-going?" I asked.
"We are going to go mess around with some people."
"H-how? I thought humans without the proxy symbol w-would be sure to die."
"You know what Amity? You learn quite fast, you're smart. Your right any non proxy human would quickly die here in the Nightmare Realm so we're going to get to Earth by using a portal." Masky explained.
I suppose it made sense that portals existed, how else did Slenderman make it to Earth? Okay that was rhetorical question, Slenderman can teleport but there must be other beings that need to get to Earth somehow.
"Where are the o-others?"
"Most likely they went to Earth." Masky replied.
"T-to do what?"
"Jack is probably eating somebody's kidneys, Jeff is a murder, Kit is also a cannibal like Jack and Ben is like a ghost that haunts a certain videogame." Masky said casually.
"And we're proxies?" I replied getting the gist.
Masky looked over at me and nodded silently.
He tried to small conversations but I shrugged off any questions about myself as quickly as I could without answering. I'm not his friend or apart of his family so he shouldn't know about me, we're strangers as far as I'm concerned. I feel as if I've been to open, being open is dangerous; it means people can know your thoughts and emotions. Letting others know my thoughts and emotions will just get me hurt.
We managed to get into some sort of a conversation about portals. Masky explained to me that there are three sorts of portals, Earth Wells, Frost Caves and Proxy Travel. Earth Wells are wells that lead to Earth. Frost Caves are big, dark and cold caves that you walk in until you see a light which leads you to Earth. The third form of travel, Proxy Travel is a form of portal that only proxies can use; the proxies that can use Proxy Travel though have been with their master for a while. I asked Masky if he could and he told me could but he said it was easier to go to the Frost Cave since using Proxy Travel took up a lot of his energy.
After a long amount of walking Masky and I came to a cave. It was in the woods surrounded by old Rowan trees, there was moss growing on the cave and it had a curtain of leafy green plants covering the entrance like a curtain. Inside the cave was very cold; if it wasn't pitch black I could probably see my breath. Masky had me hold his hand as we continued to stumble around in the dark.
"M-Masky I'm c-cold." I shivered.
"I would let you wear my jacket Amity but I'm cold to, I'm sorry. We should be there soon I think though." Masky said in the dark.
My fingers were stiff and my nose felt numb. Masky had not better be lost, he sounds lost to me. If we get lost in this cave then I'm probably going to scream at the top of my lungs, I don't want to die in a freezing cold cave!
After what seemed an eternity of walking it began to get really lukewarm, I began to get dizzy. We continued to walk on but it was hard for me, I had a migraine and every sound hurt my head like a hammer with thumping my skull. You would expect a place like this to be silent but instead it's rather noisy; water dripped onto the floor from the ceiling almost every second and the sounds we made echoed loudly.
"Do you have a headache Amity?"
"Yes." I muttered, his voice was loud.
"Good. Sit down now." He ordered.
How did he know I had a headache and why was it good? What would sitting down do for me? On the ground I could hear Masky chanting odd words that I didn't know. As he continued to do this I began to feel as if I was on fire, I heard static like sounds and my body felt as if it was being twisted into knots and shapes. It took me everything I had in order not to scream out in pain, I just listened to the outlandish words Masky was now chanting very quickly.
Okay so I do not own the Earth Well idea, Pasta Monsters do. I made up the Frost Caves but the Proxy Travel idea came to me by watching The Seer up on YouTube.