Chapter Four: Spilled Secrets
- Bedroom -
Ricky wasnt allowed to leave his room anymore until his uncle decided to lift his punishment, he was grounded for three months. Ricky felt like he was being gifted by this punishment since all his worries would be safe. All afternoon he played with his board games and sketched out a few drawings. A knock was heard from his window Ricky thinking it was a branch hitting it from the wind. He looked over seeing Nathan from a distance throwing small pebbles at the window and stopped before he noticed. "..nathan?" he mouthed the words and Nathan suddenly responded with a nod. Ricky squinted his eyes and opened his window not too loudly. "..Nathan? you never leave the treeho-" Ricky got interupted. "Yeah I know but..please hangout with me im so lonely..plus I have something to show you." Ricky listened to Nathan and stood still for a moment remembering his horrible dream/nightmare yesterday. "..alright" he thought it was all just a dream, dreams couldnt be real. Ricky climbed out the window as he shut it slowly and walked with Nathan through the woods without any shoes on, just socks. Nathan took a small turn and pointed to the dead corpse of a wolf. "..what is it" Nathan's voice was shaky as he never saw anything like it. Ricky squinted his eyes and grabbed his shoulder. "it's just a wolf buddy, nothing to be scared about." Ricky turned back and headed to the treehouse, Nathan followed having another idea of what to draw later.
- Treehouse -
"fuck! I mean, darn" Ricky didnt want to teach Nathan any bad words as he accidentally cut himself from the harsh wooden wall. Nathan looked surprised and grabbed his finger holding it above a drawing. "..what are you doing?" Ricky glimpses at Nathan's eyes...they were so focused on his finger and he kinda liked it..he took that thought out of his head. "I'm adding...color." he let the blood spill and wiped his finger off with his shirt. "..for later" he smiled and saw the drawing of an enormous wolf began to turn dark red from the blood. "you're really weird, i like it" Ricky smiled and showed his dimples. Ricky let the time pass watching the drawing turn to dry blood and didnt question it as he didnt understans anything Nathan does for a living. He thought about how his therapist gave him small lessons of reality and what not. Questioning his thoughts and stared at the ceiling hoping it would crush onto him so he could feel what its like. To die. "..Snap out of it" Nathan pushed Ricky softly noticing. "..sorry, just feeling off." he said looking at Nathan...when did he ever eat? sleep? shower? Ricky kept looking at Nathan and needed answers. "Nathan what if... you're not real." Nathan froze and glared st Ricky raising an eyebrow. "What are you talking about" Nathan crawled closer to Ricky grasping his arm out of confusion. "..I mean other people can't see you" Ricky's head was down to his knees breathing heavily getting a but worried hearing Nathan's voice. "..Im right here Ricky you can feel me, hear me...look at me!" Ricky got startled and looked as Nathan was close to his face probably too close. "...I just let me think for a moment please" Ricky shut his eyes and needed a moment. "God...I knew you would find out..just not soon enough" Nathan's hand turned to a dark red with rough scaly skin. His hand violently touched Ricky's for head forcing him to sleep and forget they ever met. Nathan sat there and watched as Nathan slept. He wasn't going to remember him. Nathan yelled and pounded the wall almost crying, "...No I have a job here to do." he calmed himself down and gained a new form, possibly a much more different personality and body. Hearing a loud growl from outside as his new pet was here, the big wolf, with a big feeling of hunger and meat. Nathan's faced changed as he gave the wolf a signal to go fetch some food. A few hours passed as Ricky felt a burning sensation in his forehead. "Mmm?" he got up coughing as he was still in the treehouse. "how did I get here.." He saw someone else in the corner as he flinched backing up farther into the corner. "..don't worry it's me." Nathan smiled as he handed out his arm which was kinda hairy. "My name's Nathan" he had a different tone to it and pronounced it in a different way as if Ricky never heard it before. "..uh nice to meet you" Ricky felt safer as they talked to eachother and began to reconnect. Nathan has done this about 45 times with him.
- Dinner -
Ricky got back home in time as his uncle was preparing dinner. "..I met this dude in the treehouse today..he was so nice" His uncle stopped as he was giving Ricky his plate of food. "Nathan right??..." he was confused. "no..well that's not how you say it I think it was Nathan" Ricky uses the same pronunciation and looked at his uncle. "I thought- nevermind." he got worried and decided to eat in the living room.
- End of Chapter Four -