At a skatepark. Jay was doing her thing. Pulling off impressive tricks. This time she had an audience. Josh was recording her. She skated over to him.
"Did you get all my awesomeness nerd?" jay asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Sorry…i'm doing a story for the fallcreek paper. "Jay yani. The legendary skater girl."" josh said.
"Legendary skater girl? Alright, I'll give you an interview, Mr. Young reporter. But first snacks…I'm starving." jay said after grabbing some chips and an energy drink. The two started chatting. Mostly about her skating across rooftops stunt. And her rivalry with corey wilde. During it a couple of mean girls wearing makeup went by. Making comments about how josh was so hopeless in getting a girl that he's now gay, jay just sighed in annoyance. "Bitches. Do they have nothing better to do?" she asked.
"Do you deal with that constantly?" josh asked.
"Yeah…I wouldn't be caught dead wearing makeup. And because i don't act like a "proper girl"" she said that with finger quotes "you got bitches like that calling me a boy. At first it pissed me off. But I just grew numb to it. Dumb broads can't even come up with something new." jay said in annoyance.
"Yeah…it's unfair though. I think you're beautiful without makeup." josh said. Before covering his mouth after realizing what came out of his mouth.
"I…gotta go." jay said as she skated off.
"Smooth josh…way to scare her off." josh said, annoyed at himself. Unbeknownst to him. Jay was blushing as she skated off. She didn't want anyone seeing her with red cheeks.
A week later.
Lacey was clinging to dave hard as she was having a horrible nightmare…of pigs eating flowers. A corpse coming out from under the bed and reaching for her…and a human corpse being dangled from the ceiling by computer cords like a puppet…it's face she feel she could recognize.
"Lacey…lacey!" she heard someone scream she woke up in a cold sweat. "Are you alright…must have been having a horrible dream." dave said as he held on to his girlfriend.
"Yeah….just let me hold you for a bit until I calm down…is that alright?" lacey said shaking.
"Of course." he said holding her.
"Thank you…my knight in shining armor." lacey said with a smile. Both of them were a bit late for class that day. But hey better than not showing up at all…as many hungover students tend to do. At lunch. Dave sat with his band.
"Hey dave! I got a story I need your help with." josh said as he sat at their table. Jay looked away hiding her face with her hand. Maisie saw this and had a raised eyebrow with a smug grin.
"Sure josh, what's up?" dave asked.
"Well. actually i need the help of lacey and the jammers. Consider it involves them." josh said. The three girls looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "I caught wind of an old flash games website." josh said.
"That's not exactly news worthy josh…why do you need these girls for this?" i asked.
"Well. The site is called . It stars these three girls. Well cartoon versions of them. But get this. The game's always have this running theme of starting out wholesome and innocent but devolving into something truly weird and disturbing many believe this site is haunted." josh said. The three girls looked at each other.
"Didn't know we were that famous….alright we'll check it out once classes are done." jay said.
After classes/dave's room/dave's pov.
My room is crowded at the moment. With three ladies and josh in here. So I searched up the website. And found it. The page was all pink and the site advertised itself as a sight for young girls. I checked out the main characters' pages. And sure enough it was the three ladies. With drawn versions of them. Whoever made this sight clearly knew these three as their bios fit their characters to a tee. The first thing I did was check out the music video made to advertise the sight. It was one of their songs animated. However at the end of it was a loud scream which startled everyone. And this was only the beginning of the horror on this site…
I started by firing up Lacey's diner. It was a typical food making flash game like you'd expect. The time limit was extremely generous. Hell, I'm pretty sure you'd have to try and lose. Nothing disturbing came from it. That was until josh had an idea.
"What if you try to lose?" josh asked. So I gave his idea a whirl. And yeah this is when the disturbing shit started to happen. The game going red. And things went sour real fast. The first time out caused the game to switch to real life photos and rather depressing dialogue flashing on screen.
"This is all I have…the customers are hungry and unforgiving. If i fail i see no other option." what i'm assuming cartoon lacey is saying. After letting the timer go down again. A disturbing glitchy face of lacey appeared with the text "failure" appearing everywhere on screen. Then we're back to the normal pink screen but it wasn't there for long as it seemed cartoon lacey was letting out her frustrations about how the customers have so little patience and how her restaurant is failing and it seemed that she wanted payback and this when things get really disturbing! The graphics changed from a cartoonish kitchen into to a disgusting rusty place. Like we went into silent hill's otherworld. Hell even the cartoon lacey has turned into a silent hill monster. And the ingredients for this "meal" was unpleasant stuff like meth cigarette butts and some other gross stuff. The last ingredient being some glitched out guy. And when he was added to the bowl. Black and white footage of the guy looking at the camera appeared before glitching out.
"Uncle?" lacey asked. The meal was done. Some disgusting mess that was censored. And it gets even worse. The customers went from cartoon characters to realistic people the first two looking like mismatches of gore and the next two had black eyes and fucked up facial features like a too big for her face mouth and the male had half his face mutated like the mutants from the hill have eyes remake. The audio was this disturbing sound of this sound of someone eating with their mouth open combined these inhuman sounding noises. And now we reached the bad ending. The place was closed due to sanitary violations. And we cut to cartoon lacey. Looking utterly defeated and smoking a cigarette.
"This is it then." she said. As we cut to that image of an alley with a new addition…a blurred out image of cartoon lacey's dead body.
"Bad ending." text appeared on screen complete with the same "ta da" sound effect that happened whenever a meal was completed. Something flashed on screen. None of us could see it due to how fast it appeared on screen. But thanks to the recording software josh had me set up before starting this investigation. We managed to look back and see what it was. It was an image of a teenage girl. Her flesh had wires going into it. Computer wires. I looked over to the girls and josh. They were horrified by what they saw. None more than lacey who looked like it was taking every fiber of her being to not run out of the room screaming.
This alone was enough for a story. But josh, ever the young journalist eager to get all the facts. Insisted we play the rest. After some time for everyone to calm their nerves. I gave the next game a whirl. Lacey's petshop. The first three customers' weren't too bad. Hell the next two even got a chuckle out of some of us at the ridiculousness of a purple cat with sunglasses and a crown. And a black budgie with an emo haircut wearing black boots. The fourth is when things started to get fucking weird. A french hamster with a long neck. I don't even thing that even exists. And i knew things were going to get weird when i saw a pair of pliers. The music slowed down as the poor little thing had it's take extended forcefully it started even losing color. The next one wanted a turtle with teeth. And when i put those false teeth in. everyone went black. The only things that could be seen was the turtle and the old guy. Who now was looking at us with a fucking psycho smile. The turtle's face went wide. as we could see its gums and teeth.
The next customer wanted a bunny with no ears, tail or legs. If this was a pet shop in the real world. I'm sure the owner would tell this guy to get out. Maybe even call the cops. This guy didn't exactly look normal. The music sped up as the bunny appeared. Even cartoon lacey looked uncomfortable. But we did it anyway. Everything went black after hearing the snipping noises of the scissors we cut back to the bunny now missing it's ears, legs and tail. All bandaged up. Considering it's now darker and its eyes now longer have that cute light that the animals all had. It's safe to say that the rabbit isn't alive anymore. The last one was when things really got disturbing it was another dog. But it's face was…a disturbing human face. And when it appeared things got really weird. As we went from a cute petshop game to a fucked up point and click adventure game. Like that darkness episode 1 flash game. The first thing I had to do was get a skeleton cat his skin back. And when I did he let me through. Things got more disturbing as at the dining room table was a bunch of pig headed people eating flowers. In the living room was a cage. Inside of it was at first i thought cartoon lacey. But the hair was a different color. The key to the cage was right there. But she didn't want to leave it..finding comfort in the familiarity of the pain.
Going up the stairs and looking into the bathroom mirror. The image of lacey on the mirror turned into his life action video of a woman tangled up in computer cords. With a sad blood leaking face with no nose came into view.
"Do you like the games I made for you? These are the real girl games. Free from the lies." the disturbing woman in the mirror said. The last two rooms was the bedrooms. Some disgusting creature came out of from under the bed. Static showed up as the creature got closer and closer to the camera. It shifted to the black haired lacey looking out the window to see child cartoon lacey masie and jay. She put her hand on the window.
"All i wanted was to be a part of this…to be a part of your group…for your friends to be my friends…she knew…she knew…yet she did nothing…it was not her problem…i was not her problem." the text said on screen before we found ourselves back in this disturbing house. The last room was this room of what looked like candle wax. Picking up the matches gave this final flash horror static. Disturbing text with cartoon lacey looking disturbingly at us.
"I was the dog that bit his neck." that text stuck with me for a bit. From this i was able to piece together at least a bit of what's going on here…whoever made this game obviously lived with an abusive family member…she endured it for a while but eventually he did something that she considered the last straw and killed him. And hid his corpse under the bed. Another thing that stuck out to me was…she knew yet she did nothing…it's obvious another family knew but did nothing brushing it off as "not her problem." again everyone was disturbed by this…but none more so than lacey.
"That was…a playable version of the nightmare I had." lacey said. I was shocked to hear this. This was the nightmare she had that led her to cling to me that tightly? Maybe this website is haunted…
"Lacey…what is this all about? These games are mostly on you…" maisie said.
"I don't want to talk about it." lacey said. Sounding monotone.
"You can't be serious lacey after all this nightmarish shit. I think we're owed an-" jay said.
"I DON'T WANT TO FUCKING TALK ABOUT IT!" lacey yelled as she went over to the couch and pulled out the beretta from under my couch's pillow and fired it twice into the ceiling. Luckily everyone around here was out doing shit during this time. So I didn't have to worry about the cops being called on me again. But it's obvious she wasn't going to open up about it...so we let it go…for now.
"You have guns in here?" jay asked looking at me with a raised eye brow.
"Hobby." i replied. Josh said nothing but he knew the second reason why. Maisie just looked at her friend with worry. I turned back to the computer screen. It was an image of cartoon lacey waking up in her bed. Back to the cutesy artstyle with a box saying "whew! It was just a nightmare! Play again?" though i noticed something rotting under her bed. A pair of feet.
The last two games that we checked out were the most disturbing. That being "lacey's wardrobe." and "jay's skating game.". I checked out jay's skating game first. It was a simple game. Jay wasn't going to stop moving so it was my job to make sure she didn't fall off the rooftops or get hit by a bird. Increasing the challenge was the arrows that gave her speed boosts. Making it harder to react. And of course it was only a matter of time before things got disturbing again. In the final level. The sky turned red and dark. And there was a new speed boost. A red one that increased her speed dramatically. Luckily there was no more obstacles. That was until the long road of building ended and a pit of spikes awaited below…and a disturbing image of a skinless corpse appeared on screen with the text "you killed jay." and just like before. A really quick image appeared on screen. And going through it again. I saw what it was. It was forum posts complaining about jay. There were moms who thought jay was a bad influence on their daughters. I'm pretty sure these are the same idiots who bitched and moaned about buttercup from powerpuff girls or misty from pokemon. Of course the real jay would brush this off like does to those pretty yet mean girls. But whoever made this site and these games. Decided to pull a rather malicious move. These moms didn't want their girls to become tomboys and be "proper girls." okay. Careful what you wish for. Cause whoever made this website instead chose to traumatize those same girls.
What made this game the most disturbing was due to the recentness of it. This game is obviously based on the real jay's stunt that made her a legend. Skating across rooftops. While many agree it was an awesome stunt. It doesn't change the fact that it was pretty stupid. One missed jump. and she could have gotten seriously hurt or even killed.
The last trip was lacey's wardrobe. It's essentially one of those dress up games. Pick out the outfit and send them on their way. The first one sent my dressed up cartoon lacey was at a picnic in the park. But i saw something in the dark…I recognized that pig ugly face. In the second round of pick the outfit. The music was interrupted by the sound of the phone ringing. And when it was picked up. I immediately recognized that voice. And when it ended. Cartoon lacey got close to the screen and twisted. And everything went black. And when the game came back…that creep was right out the window. I finished the outfit. The third time around was when things got really disturbing. It was now night. And one of the shirt options was now "there's a gift on your doorstep." it was the heart shaped box that contained gore that the real lacey from the real life creep. The phone once again rang. And it was point for point the same call i heard that night. Red text started to appear. Like the cartoon lacey was talking to me. Begging me not to send her out…i wouldn't send the real lacey into the arms of a stalker and i won't do the same to this cartoon one. So i stopped playing. I hit the back button.
This was the most disturbing because of the recentness of this…that whole incident with the stalker was only two weeks ago…and the only ones who knew about that stalker thing was me lacey and the cops. I was starting to believe that those people who claimed this site was haunted were right. Just as I was thinking that. The site was updated with a new game. "Lacey visits grace." the games cover art was cartoon lacey hugging the black haired lacey that I saw in the cage back in lacey's petshop. Only thing was on my mind…who is grace? I started the game. And this one didn't have any rugpulls this time. Things were disturbing right from the get go. It was a point and click adventure game like the one lacey's petshop became. This time thre was no red. But the first image was off a building in the middle of nowhere seemingly abandoned and falling apart. But things got disturbing when I entered a bedroom and found a dead body under the bed. A cutscene played. Off a horrified cartoon lacey. But it shifted and went back and forth between the cartoon artstyle of these games…and real life. The real lacey was obviously younger, probably around 16 years of age at the time. The other room contained an even worser horror. And like before it shifted between cartoon and real life. The cartoon version showed the black haired lacey connected to the computer via ethernet cables going through her flash. Her eyes blacked out and hollow. But with a big smile on her face. But things got more fucked up as when it shifted into the real life. What was once the recolored lacey was a girl that looked like she hadn't showered in months with dirty disheveled hair. And dirt all over her naked body. The final scene was lacey running out of there. Shifting between real life and cartoon lacey. We all turned back to lacey after hearing her utterly scream and begin to utterly panic. After getting her to calm down after two hours. She sighed.
"Guess i have no choice now…remember what i'm about to say. I'm only going to say it once…because I don't like bringing this experience back into my head unless I have to. I had a cousin named grace. She was a nice enough girl. But she always seemed down about something and whenever her dad. My uncle would have her come home. She would always have this look of dread and fear whenever that happened. It was only when i was 16 that my mom finally told me why that was…my uncle was a very bad person. Not only was he dealing drugs like meth…but he was abusive to grace. Physically mentally….sexualy." lacey said that last part with utter disgust. "My mom knew about this. But did nothing. She said it wasn't her problem. It wasn't her responsibility. I couldn't believe that. I get that this was her brother. But it just pissed me off on how she could be so apathetic to what my cousin was going through. I haven't heard from her in six years. So I went to their house. It looked like it did in that game like a crack house in the middle of nowhere. I had a pocket knife with me. Just in case my uncle tried anything. But he was already dead. Considering he was a skeleton with barely any flesh. He obviously died a while ago. And just when i thought things couldn't get more disturbing. I found grace." lacey said as tears started to go down her face. "Naked and dirty. Connected to her computer via ethernet cable through her flesh. Her eyes hollowed and with a big smile on her face…that sight has always haunted me." lacey said. I got up and hugged her. My warm embrace helped her calm down. However after getting back on the chair. The website became red static. And in a black void. The black haired lacey or rather cartoon grace was there staring at us with disturbing realistic eyes.
"you thought i was dead...but no. what you found that day was me transcending into my own personal heaven. i wanted to be among you. and your group of friends. but that was something i couldn't do...this was the only way i could be among your group. you have your heaven. and i have mine. you have your story josh...ALL OF YOU STOP DIGGING!" grace yelled. And soon disturbing images flashed on screen..images of the torture she went thorugh under her uncle. Lacey's traumas…and monsters of leafmore.
"Internet explorer has stopped working." the box popped the site crashed.
At night. Lacey was asleep once again in my room. Considering she didn't want to be alone at the moment. Josh certainly has his story now. The things that guy will do for a story. He'll be a legendary reporter some day. I just know it. But i now know of the ghost that haunts laceygames.
Grace was a girl stuck in a really shitty situation with an abusive pig for a father. Not helped by her aunt being apathetic and looking the other way. At some point he did something that made her snap and kill him. Her one wish was just to be a part of her cousin's friend group. But couldn't thanks to her father's abuse and tight grip on her. So she made a website of flash games for little girls that showed the adventures of cartoon versions of her cousin and her friends. At some point she became so desperate to escape her painful reality. She inserted cables into her flesh and downloaded her mind into the website she created. However because of her traumas. Doing so corrupted the games showing what she's been through in the most horrifying way possible. While lacey was asleep i turned on my computer. And went back to the website. The site opened before turning to static and that disturbing realistic eyed black haired cartoon lacey.
"Why did you come back?" grace asked.
"To do what should have been done…i want to help you. I know I can't do anything now. What your father did was awful and I hope he's burning in hell. And Lacey's mom wasn't much better. Turning a blind eye to your suffering. But please don't take it out on lacey. When she discovered the truth…her first instinct was to drive down and get you out of there…she was too late to help you. But she tried. I can't undo what's been done. But me and lacey will be here. To ease your pain. We won't abandoned you." i said with a smile. The screen flashed white as grace changed back to the normal cartoon black haired lacey. And began to cry. I stayed there watching this for about an hour. She looked at the screen and smiled. It shifted again. Showing her hugging a cartoon version of me.
A week has passed since then. But i make sure not to leave grace alone. Lacey mustered up the courage to also talk to her cousin. And josh's story about the bizarre website became a popular read. Though no one believed it. Can't blame them. I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it myself. One day. Lacey games updated with a fourth character to the cast. A cartoon me.
"Dave is lacey's boyfriend. A kind young man who will be a shoulder to cry on at your worst. And cheer the loudest at your best. A true knight in shining armor." the description of me said. The front page also got updated it was a cartoon version of that selfie me and her took.
"Thank you Dave and lacey." the text under the photo said. I was curious about something. So i played "lacey's love meter." it was another simple game. Type a name and see what percent of love lacey has for it. So I tried my name. And in doing so…a video played. It was a cartoon version of the moments i spent with lacey and the jammers. Lacey giving me the puppy dog eyes to join the band. Writing the songs with them. The time lacey and I became a couple. Me protecting her from the stalker. Me comforting her from her nightmare. And finally showing us holding each other while sleeping on the couch. And when I was back to the love meter. Which showed that it was 999%
"My one and only true love…my knight who protected me from the worst of the worst." cartoon lacey said. I smiled at that.
There are many obscure things in this world. And this was one of them…never imagined I would be a therapist to my girlfriend's dead cousin. But i'm glad to be doing some good in this obscure world.