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I remembered the first time I threw up. It seemed horrific at the time, I felt awful, as tears squeezed out of the corners of my eyes. My mother took extra care for me, cleaning my face, and giving me a bath after she was sure that I was fine for a while. Though no matter how comforted I was with her words, I can vividly remember her yelling from the living room while I sat in the bath tub. She was yelling at my father. I never liked it when they bickered at each other; their relationship was hardly perfect in any way. I knew she was only sticking up for me, but I never liked to hear her bicker.
Father was quiet and calm of the whole situation, though he never took apart of it in anyway. He always said he had too many things to do. I was bewildered that night when dad entered the bathroom. I actually thought that he was going to check on me, but instead he took a piss in the toilet without closing the curtain. I didn't even think he knew I was there, he whistled a commercial tune, zipping up his pants, and flushed the toilet. It was only after he washed his hands, and reached for the towels to wipe them dry that he saw me gazing back up at him. He looked down at me, bewilderness striking his face. Bags were collected under his dull hollow black eyes, unfocused without his glasses, his greasy dirty blond hair sticking out of his head in odd places.
"Sorry" He told me before exiting the bathroom, and turning out the light. And there I was, sitting in the darkness that my father shrouded me in. I listened to their fighting again, bringing my knees to my mouth, praying that I wouldn't vomit ever again. I remembered wanting to understand what all their words meant. The only line that dad argued back at my mother wasn't clear back then, but made perfect sense now. I think it made me sick for another day, just trying to figure out what it all meant.
"You know what? I wasn't the one that decided to keep the baby when you were pregnant."
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The Universe Will Die Without You
Chapter four The Voice in My Mind
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"Look at all the people gathering around the tent!" I heard Paula say.
"Yup, it must have worked then. Yet again, Apple Kid, you come in handy." Ness said as I heard footsteps go around me. I slowly opened my eyes to see little Paula looking out the window, a bowl of cereal was in her hands. It looked cloudy and stormy outside still, but it was brighter. It must have been morning already. I checked my watch on the nightstand next to me, and brought it extremely close to my eyes. I was surprised to see that it read 10:35 am, which was rather late in my opinion.
"You're awake!" I grabbed my glasses, and saw Paula standing by my bed. I yawned.
"Morning, Paula" I yawned sitting up in bed.
"We think the zombie paper worked!" Paula said.
"Oh really?"
Paula nodded. "Ness, Jeff just woke up!" She said. He must have been in the bathroom, though the door was open, the fan was on. Ness paced out, and went around my bed, and picked up my pile of clothes and tossing them on my bed.
"Morning. Eat, and get dressed, we're gonna be leaving soon." Ness said without even looking at me and pacing back into the bathroom again, and shutting the door. I stretched out my spine when Paula handed me a bowl of frosted flakes cereal.
"Here you go. The hotel provided this" Paula smiled handing me the bowl. I smiled to her.
"Thanks" I was about half way done with my cereal when Paula said "Thank you for hearing me, and coming to help us. It must have taken a long time to get to us..." I looked up at her.
"It's nothing, really. I'm more than happy to help you guys save...the world..." My face could have gone blue from the mere thought of such a big task, but Paula put her teddy bear in my face.
"Tubby thanks you too" She giggled. I chuckled and patted the bear.
"Did you build that space ship you crashed?" She asked curiously. I could only laugh.
"Nah, Dr. Andonuts created it. He let me use it to reach you guys. It was pretty quick to make it here in an hour." I replied. Paula frowned.
"He's not going to be very happy once he finds that you crashed his invention." I kept myself from getting riled up over him.
"He won't mind. He has another model at his lab" I lied. It was nerve racking how Paula looked at me.
"You really hate that man... don't you?" She asked. My eyes shot open, gawking at her suggestion. Almost immediately, we both heard the bathroom door open, Ness pacing toward his bed, and stuffing belongings into his back pack silently. I smiled at Paula sadly as I stood up, and ruffled her hair. "I'm gonna get ready" I whispered to her.
After brushing my teeth, and getting back into my school uniform, I walked out of the bathroom to find Paula by the window again, and Ness absent. I sighed, and just walked over to my bag to put my stuff away.
"Hi again" Paula said.
"Hey" I replied walking up to the window to join her. She was right, there was a decent crowd around the entrance of the tent, and some of them were the people that were hiding inside of it.
"Hopefully this unblocked where we need to go next...according to Ness" She said. We both heard the door open behind us, which happened to be Ness again.
"Alright, let's get going guys" He smirked, tossing my bag to me. Paula ran up to Ness, and took his hand.
"Let's go, Jeff" He said, yet again, avoiding eye contact. Was he still bothered about last night?
"Ok".
When we started to rush downstairs out the door, the hotel manager's hand stopped Ness to a halt on the shoulder.
"The name's Ness, right?" He asked. Ness nodded raising his eyebrow.
"Someone wants to talk to yah on the phone" He said pointing to the phone lying on the counter. Ness groaned aggravatingly.
"Yes?" Ness spoke in the receiver Paula started to fiddle with her skirt. Ness sighed bringing his hand to his forehead.
"Hey, Dad…" I glanced up to see how weak he really looked when talking to his dad.
"Just don't do it again, okay? I know it doesn't happen often, but we-" He must have been cut off by his dad.
"My receiver phone number? Hang on, I have it somewhere…" Paula tugged at my shirt as Ness kept talking to his father. Paula looked worried, as if something really went wrong. I smiled, not fully, but enough to convince her, as I ruffled my hand through her golden locks, tightening the green bowtie in her hair.
"Jeff? You mean Mom told you about him?" My eyes darted back when I heard my name.
"A…are you sure? Okay…" Ness said turning towards me, holding out the phone wearingly.
"He wants to talk to you" Ness said to me bewildered. I frowned, taking the phone timidly from his hand, and putting the phone up to my ear.
"Hello?" I spoke.
"Hello, is this my son's new companion, Jeff?" A middle aged deep voice spoke on the other line.
"Yes, it is."
"How are you doing?" I wondered what this man wanted to tell me, as I felt my stomach twisting.
"I'm fine… how are you?" I asked.
"I'm doing a lot better, thank you. Hey listen, I know you must be very confused as to why you are stuck in the scenario you're in. I'm not quite sure myself, but I know it's an urgent manner. I may never get to meet you or Paula in person, but I heard that you're possibly older than my son. I don't want you to feel threatened by me, but listen. I have done some pretty reckless things with my life before, everyone does, and it's a fact of life. Let me tell you, you kids are all alone, stuck in an ugly world that you may even need to save. However, if I ever get any news about my son getting into any unnecessary trouble, or get hurt just from the recklessness of a friend, they'll regret it, got that?" He spoke to me in a monotone voice. I couldn't stop my gulp.
"I understand. I wouldn't want anything to happen bad to happen to them either…" I stated fretfully. Ness's father laughed on the other line.
"That's perfect. Did I make you nervous? Don't feel pressured, Jeff, Ness needs to share some of the responsibility himself. He's been taking care of this Paula gal for over a month it seems. Now I do want to ask you a favor, ok?"
"Alright…" I already had a feeling of what he would tell me.
"Please take care of my son for me. I know you just met him, and he probably seems very distant at the moment, but I promise, he's a very special boy. Though he's very timid when it comes to meeting guys around his age; he's not as outgoing as you may have expected. Sometimes, he thinks he makes the right decisions, when in actuality he may not, so keep him in check. He's my son after all. Just treat him with respect, and try to keep yourselves out of danger as much as you three can manage. I hear Paula is only eight years old, so keep her out of trouble as much as possible as well. So Jeff, can you keep that a promise as much as much as you can?" I nodded, glancing over at Ness, who was knelt down, talking to Paula. I sighed.
"I'll do my best." I said.
"Good. I'll check on you three once and a while. It was nice talking to you. May I speak to Ness one more time before I have to go?"
"Yes, that's fine, nice talking to you too." I said before handing the phone to Ness, whom immediately took it.
"What did you tell him?" Ness said nervously in the phone. "Oh, ok… thanks for the cash, Dad… I will… love you, bye." Ness put the phone down, sighing forcefully.
"You ok? You look really flustered…" I asked curiously. Ness rubbed the back of his neck.
"Me? Nah, he just likes to pick on me sometimes." He leaned closer. "Don't say anything about my father around Paula, ok? She doesn't know anything about last night." The realization clicked, looking down to her as she played with her teddy bear more.
"Oh of course, sorry" I said modestly. Ness brought his head back to the door.
"Then that settles it, let's get going!" He said grabbing Paula's hand as we went out the door.
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Even news channels were there. That's how popular this scene was as we approached the circus tent. Ness sped up to try and squeeze through the crowd. Paula reached for my hand, so I accepted it into my own so none of us would get lost in the crowd. When we entered the tent, all three of us covered our nose from the foul stench of molten cheese, and smelly feet. When we got a front row view, multiple zombies looked stuck to the floor, some still struggling to escape but only tearing their bodies apart in the process. Others were lifeless corpses. I cringed.
"It reeks in here!" I exclaimed under my hand. Paula muffled her mouth and nose under her teddy bear. Ness was talking to someone nearby.
"This zombie paper really seemed to work well. I wonder if they'll ever invent "pretty girl paper" to attract beautiful women. Wait that was sexist wasn't it? I'm sorry" The man laughed. Ness rolled his eyes, and took Paula by the hand, as Paula did to my own as we ventured closer to the zombies.
"We'll get you kids for this! Master Belch will teach you kids a lesson you won't forget!" One zombie yelled at us.
"Great! Now if I even try getting out of this mess, my body will just rip apart...it's because I'm a zombie." The closer we got to them, the more enraged they got. Paula was intimidated, until Ness stood in front of her, neither of us letting go of her.
"Wait...if all the zombies are here, then that means we can get up to that spot that they were guarding!" Ness exclaimed, taking off out of the tent dragging us along. I wasn't sure at the time what he was talking about, probably a place they ventured to before I joined them.
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"A well?" I asked standing around the old well north of the cemetery, all three of us looking down it. There was even a latter that led into its narrow dark abyss.
"Apparently, but if they were guarding this well, then obviously something's down there that they don't want us to find. I'll go first." Ness said climbing over the rim and on the latter. Paula soon followed.
"Are you sure?" I asked down the well. Ness's voice echoed, "Jeff, come on!" I sighed, and followed them down.
"I can't see!" Paula complained. Ness sighed.
"Everyone hold hands again..." I grabbed Paula's hand again when Ness grabbed Paula's other hand. Walking through the low murky water that soaked and froze our feet, I couldn't help but notice the atmosphere slowly start to glow a dark intensity blue.
We ended up in a couple rooms, some wielding coffins. Even I was sort of freaked out. And I was right, the entire cave seemed to start glowing blue and green, it was strange, but everything on this journey so far has been strange, so where was I to complain? A zombie and its dog approached us.
"How did you three get down here!?" He exclaimed as the dog hissed.
"How come you're not stuck to the zombie paper back in Threed?" Ness replied tauntingly holding up his bat. The zombie growled furiously.
"You won't get away with this!" He yelled half running, half limping towards us.
"Huh, just try to stop us!" Ness said running up to the zombie faster, and whacking it in the ribs. The zombie tumbled back, while the dog lunged at me and Paula. When I was about to block her, Paula used one of her freezing super human abilities on the mutt, in which made the dog flinch, but then got back up again. In attempt to bite Paula, the dog tried bumping me out of the way, just to get to her. Paula shrieked and threw her teddy bear at the dog, in which started to rip apart into pieces of cotton. I shot the mutt in the head, cringing as it yelped and toppled over. Part of me had regretted shooting the dog.
"You alright, Paula?" I asked her. She nodded, but pointed to the left over zombie and Ness, still fighting. Ness yelped as the zombie bit his neck. Paula used another freezing attack on the zombie while I slowly pointed the gun up at the zombie, feeling my grasp tremble while I was aiming for the zombie. The fact that I was holding my gun up to a being that was somewhat human in a sense made my heart skip a beat. I hoped to death that this shot wouldn't do anything tragic
Before I was able to pull the trigger, Ness was able to push the zombie to the ground, and kick it. The zombie fell silent, and started to disintegrate. We all panted, until Ness snickered to himself.
"These zombies have nothing on us. Aww, but the dog tore your teddy bear apart…" Paula smiled.
"It's ok, as long as we're alive" She said. Ness grunted in reply and looked at me. I must have looked zoned out, still thinking back to when I would have shot the zombie.
"You alright, Jeff?" Ness asked casually, catching me out of my reverie. I shook my head.
"Yeah, I'm fine. You ok? That zombie took a bite in your neck." I said. Ness shrugged, touching the now red bite.
"He wasn't able to puncture through my skin, so it's cool." We eventually fell silent, venturing through the tunnels again. I could have sworn the further we ventured, the smellier it got. Paula gasped.
"What was that?!" She said. Ness and I scanned the room, until a ghostly figure appeared before us. It was silent, but it seemed to lash out to Ness. Ness gasped, and must have used one of his special abilities, because the ghost had a faint shrill as it flew out in front of us again.
"Its another ghost!" Paula exclaimed as fire flew from her palms. The ghost moaned faintly again, until it disappeared. All of us sighed. However, it was then, that I saw the ghostly figure fly in front of my face again, laughing as it did so, as it disappeared. Neither Ness nor Paula even noticed. I thought I had heard someone say faintly "kill." My head started to seemingly spin, until Paula tugged on my shirt.
"Are you okay?" Paula asked. My eyes were wide when I looked down to her, but I smiled.
"Yes, I'm fine now, thank you Paula" I said earnestly. After we were off again, I couldn't shake off the feeling of Ness eyeing me suspiciously.
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When we made our way up a couple more steps, we were able to see the sun light from a hole on the ceiling from afar. One of us was bound to say something, but then we all caught a whiff of a more disgusting smell, worse than the tent full of zombies.
"It smells like puke..." Ness said under his hand. The more we approached the exit, the more it smelled. I thought what the hell could be up there, a thousand corpses? When we were almost there, we all halted at a small neon pink blob that literally looked like a pile of puke with eyeballs.
"You have fly's honey, though I'd accept you as a friend in this case, no." When it spoke, its breath was enough to kill a wave of flies.
"Please...don't talk ever again" I told the pile of puke. The pile of puke spit something and landed on Paula, who shrieked in disgust, covering her mouth.
"Shit" Ness swore as he took out his bat, and swung at the blob. In the process, he spattered the puke everywhere, as it landed on my shirt, and even more on Paula. I stood in front of her, and took out a big bottle rocket.
"Ness, get out of the way for a moment" I ordered lighting my match, and firing the rocket. All of us covered both guarding Paula in the process. When I looked at her, she really didn't look good...
"She's weak Jeff, destroy her, now!" I heard something say in my head. I shook my head, ignoring the sudden odd thought, as Ness growled.
The pile of puke splattered more, but it still thrived. Paula was hacking behind us.
"You kids really think you can take me out that easily? I'm a mortal enemy to your kind. However, I'm not even Master Belch!" It spoke as the nauseating smell infected our nostrils. Ness's hands started to glow.
"Shut up!" He yelled as he attacked him with...whatever powers he had. The nice thing was that nothing splattered at us this time, but behind me, I could only hear Paula mutter "I need air...I need air..." while she seemed to put her hands together, like she was praying. Then out of nowhere, a light surrounded the pile of puke, and a hideous scream echoed throughout the well walls as the pile of puke seemed to melt away.
"Serves him right!" Ness exclaimed. I turned to look at Paula again, who was now swaying uncomfortably.
"Kill her now!!" The voice spoke again. I growled in frustration.
"Ness, get over here!" I ordered again. When Ness was next to me, Paula started to vomit all over herself. Her face was pale white. My eyes went wide.
"PAULA!!" We both exclaimed in unison. Afterwards, we heard a man holler down at us "Is someone down there?!" Ness turned around and yelled "YES! Help us, please!" Ness panicked, picking up Paula and running to the latter.
"Think of what marvelous things you could accomplish by just killing them, Jeff. You should do so before it's too late" It said again. Trying to keep sane, I climbed up after them. When we were out of that wretched well, as I gasped for air, the man was telling us about a valley with inhabitants in the cave up ahead.
"Do they have a hospital?!" Ness exclaimed.
"Yes, they do. But, I must warn you-" We were already running away from the man.
"They're not human!" He hollered at us.
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By the time we had made it to the cave, we had dodged a couple of herds of enemies, and attempted to dodge a couple more in the cave. Paula had vomited at least three more times all over Ness. Along the way, we passed a weird looking creature that didn't seem to harm us in any way. Just by recalling what I saw in such a small time, it looked like a bald man's head. And I couldn't shed off the feeling of it following us.
When we made it through the tunnel, we couldn't help but stop in our tracks. The whole town was like a horrific dream in the scenario we were in. The buildings were tipi- like with bow ties at the top of all of them. And the things that inhabited this place weren't even human. They were all practically walking heads with big noses, whiskers, and one antenna with a bow tie. One of the beings ran up to us.
"Mr. Saturns..." Ness muttered.
"You look like you in big trouble, ZOOM" It spoke to us. Paula groaned, and clung to Ness.
"pppppiiiiiIIIIIIEEEEEEWWWwww! You three stinky, DING! You three need to go to doctor, BOING!" It spoke in its odd accent.
"YES! Please, where is it, where's your hospital? Can you help her?!" Ness asked.
"Follow me, BOOM!" He said as he led us to a nearby building that looked the same as all the others. As we followed the Mr. Saturn, another smaller one without any bow followed us.
Inside the small building, there was one bed, and one Mr. Saturn with a band around its head. Oddly enough, he was sitting in a trash can.
"PIIEW! You three STINKY! We can operate on you, DING!" He said as multiple other Mr. Saturns came out as Ness laid her on the bed. And all the Mr. Saturns gathered around her with tools, and wash clothes. Ness's eyes were very hard in anger and distress.
"Do you even trust these little people?" I asked Ness. "How do you know they can cure Paula?" Ness put his hand on his forehead.
"We've come across them before on our adventure. Paula trusts them, and so do I...I think" He replied.
"Once girl takes medicine, let her rest, ZOOM! Go to pond, middle of valley, go wash up, ZOING!" One of the Mr. Saturns gave her a small cup with purple medicine.
"Ness, Jeff, it's alright, this is the same medicine they use at any of the local hospitals when I was sick from before...they must have obtained a share of it somehow" She explained as she sipped the medicine. Ness and I glanced at each other nervously. After she finished, she brought both of her vomit covered feet to the ground, Mr. Saturn's surrounding her. She still looked pale, as she almost toppled over, but all of our fast reflexes prevented it from happening.
"She needs sleep, BOOM! Needs to change into different clothes first, DING!" Paula held her head as she lay on the small bed. Wincing, Ness and I studied her condition, and then looked at each other nervously. She was too weak to do anything, but she obviously needed to get out of her dress. And the Mr. Saturns were too small… then that meant…
"But...she's too nauseous to do anything...that means...one of us..." I started nervously. I glanced over at Ness who was blushed a deep shade of crimson.
"I'll do it...I... I've been around girls more than you...no offense" Ness stuttered reaching into his yellow back pack.
"She's just a little kid, and it's not like you'll be changing her into a clean pair of..." Now it was my turn to blush madly.
"Thank Goodness I don't have to go that far..." Ness mumbled handing Mr. Saturn her night gown, then picking up Paula slowly, and carrying her into the lit closet while two Mr. Saturn's followed in after her. At least they were helping them...
Poor Paula...
"Kill her… kill Ness… for the sake of humanity…" I shook my head madly, grasping my head.
"Shut up, just shut up!" I told the voice.
A few minutes later, the two Mr. Saturn's came out carrying Paula's dirty clothes, while a still blushing Ness held Paula protectively in her clean night gown, and laid her on the bed.
"Thank you" she said receiving a glass of water from a Mr. Saturn. Ness put a hand to his forehead. The doctor Mr. Saturn waddled up to us.
"Now Paula rests, you two need to leave her be for a while she rests, DING!" Mr. Saturn said while the others seemed to attempt to push us out the building.
"Get better, Paula!" Ness told her before being forced out of the tipi. I looked back at her, and saw her waving and smiling weakly. I waved back at her, before we veered to the pond.
"You fool…"
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Ness halted, taking his dirty cap off, tossing it aside to run his fingers though his hair.
"I can't believe this is happening… it's disgusting!" He ranted. I could only grunt in reply. Ness turned around to face me.
"You saw what happened. A thing like that shouldn't even exist! That jerk off Master Belch that everyone keeps bringing up will pay for this! If what that pile said about him is true… then Paula…" He shuddered at what was yet to come.
"He's stressed out… do it… kill him" The voice said.
"Ness, please tell me something… I don't really know why we're out here, doing who knows what. What are we trying to accomplish from all this, and why are Paula and I involved. Does it really have to do with us trying to save the world?" Ness gave me a dawned look.
"You don't know…? Something bad is going to happen to this planet, let alone this universe, and as hard as it seems, we're the only few that can stop it" He replied, almost annoyingly. My lips formed an 'O'.
"I mean, couldn't you tell by that outbreak of zombies in Threed? The pile of vomit we just faced?" I stopped him from continuing.
"I know it was for something important… I just wasn't sure exactly what it was. There just seems to be no reasonable explanation for all this, it's just all coming at me at once." I replied. Ness sighed.
"It's alright if you're confused, so was I when I started. I think Paula understands better than both of us, yet Paula keeps claiming that I'm the one that Giygas is more so after."
"Giygas is the almighty one… he's the one you must defend, Jeff! Don't let Ness feed you his lies!" My eyebrows frowned.
"Just who exactly is this Giygas guy you keep bringing up? Is he the one who keeps sending things out to stop us?" Ness nodded.
"He's either an alien or some sort of evil force… not from this planet of course, but still. I was told from someone that claimed that they were from the future that the universe would fall under his plans if there was nothing to stop it. So I guess here we are…" Ness explained as best as he could. However, it seemed as if the more he spoke, the more distorted my vision became.
"Lies… lies Jeff! Kill him…" I held my forehead, groaning.
"… Jeff?" Ness spoke aware of my condition.
"In the end… he will only go out to kill you, and everyone you love… you wouldn't want that, would you?" I shook my head madly.
"Jeff, what's wrong!?" Ness exclaimed. I wasn't sure exactly what was going on, both of their voices just seemed to talk to me all at once.
"KILL HIM! KILL HIM NOW!!" He finally shrieked before I lost control of my body, but was conscious at the same time. I averted my head towards the ground, my messy blond hair brushing against my bangs.
"Jeff…?" Ness asked. I didn't reply at first, but when he saw my rapid eye movement look up at him, he knew something was terribly wrong. I was possessed by this being… It had to have been the ghost we saw back below the well.
"Ness…" I rasped, forced angrily to glare at the boy I knew for not even a full 24 hours. Ness's eyes widened in horror, as I lunged out at him, wrapping my hands around his neck, as gravity forced us both on the ground. I wanted to tell him… I really did. My heart started to race from the lack of control.
"Jeff! What are-" He choked as I strangled him on the ground. His scared blue eyes squinted as he tried to look me in the eye as well as trying to tug my grip away from him. I growled.
"… Please…" I managed to gasp out, trying to loosen my grip. Ness grunted painfully. It was then that I felt my breath being punched forcefully out of my stomach, as Ness kneed me. My grip loosened, as Ness pushed me off of him. I rolled on my side, trying to breathe. Ness held his neck, and was gasping for air, like he had been under water for more than three minutes.
"Jeff, you're possessed…" Ness managed to speak. I groaned, trying to collect what he said while the ghost kept shrieking into my mind. I closed my eyes forcefully, feeling someone grab my hands.
"You need help…" I heard Ness say before I was completely lost in the voice in my head.
Before I knew it, the voice screamed for the last time, as everything started to become clear to me again. I opened my eyes slowly, Doctor Mr. Saturn, and Ness both looking back down at me.
"All better, ZING!" Mr. Saturn spoke before descending off. I groaned, groping my forehead.
"Are you alright now?" Ness asked cautiously. I sat up, starting to feel more energized, and me.
"Yes actually… I feel much better, what did you do?" I asked. Ness sighed, smiling softly.
"That's good. I just brought you back here where Paula is. You must have been possessed by that ghost back there, I could see in your eyes. Both Paula and I have been possessed before did you hear a voice in your head that ordered you to kill?" My eyes went wide.
"Yeah, he kept telling me to kill both you and Paula. I wasn't sure what to do about it… what to say." Ness sat beside me, leaning forward to stare into the distance, though there was a wall in front of us.
"It was a good thing that you refused. I didn't realize you had been hiding it in for this long. Nonetheless Jeff, I'm really happy that you didn't listen to it…" I nodded, wondering why his voice had gotten so soft.
"Is there something bothering you too? How's Paula doing?" I asked.
"She's sleeping soundly now… which is good. It's just this whole new ordeal that's going on is bothering me… that's all." I 'hmmed' in response. Ness snorted.
"Come on let's wash this foul stench off us at the pond they suggested. He said standing up again. He turned around to me as I stood, and looked at my eyes again. I raised an eyebrow, glancing around me. Soon enough, Ness smiled up at me.
"Just making sure" He snickered walking towards the door. I started to walk, but halted.
"Ahh… Ness?" Ness spun around raising an eyebrow. My expression must have been somewhat sheepish.
"Sorry… and thanks" I told him. It seemed to take a while for it to click, but soon enough, he threw me back a cocky grin.
"It's okay just tell me earlier if you get possessed again." He said before darting out of the small building.