06-02-2016, 10:11 PM
The little girl tossed some more leaves into the fire, reinvigorating the stagnating orange and yellow tendrils into something more useful for cooking food. She had put her lunch: a chunk of salted meat from one of her barrels, into the pot of boiling water, and had been stirring it for a good while with a wooden spoon. She had to take great care not to brush her hand against the pot as she stirred, though. She burned her hand the first time she did that, and she didn’t want to experience that kind of pain again if she could help it.
Eventually, after a few more minutes, she carefully pulled out the slab of steak out of the heated pot, trying to prevent the water dripping from the brown meat chunk from landing on her body as she set it down onto the rocky ground of her abode. She sat still, occasionally patting the top of her food as she watched the smoke rise from her campfire, the sticks within crackling from the heat. She wasn’t particularly interested in the cycle of fire and how it functioned, though she could imagine that Paige would study it for hours and hours on end. Just that alone got her wanting to take notes; it could’ve been enough to impress her.
She placed her hand back onto the meat chunk, noticing that it was no longer scalding hot. Sighing, she brought her hands around it, bringing it to her mouth. She began to chew, ripping out small lumps of meat every so often to make it easier on her throat. During this time, she was thinking. Not about Habernathy, thankfully, but about the OSburb file.
Paul had sent it to her through the PesterOmni message board, probably as a gift, and she had found out soon after that Ahmed also had the game. She had asked Ahmed to wait for a while before playing, but… she just couldn’t get his request out of her mind. After all, this was the first time she had one of her friends ask her to play with them in a long while, especially from someone she didn’t contact very often. Yet despite this… she knew she shouldn’t do it. What if she accidentally slip during play of her situation? What if… he does something? She couldn’t do that to her friends, not after what she had done to her last set of friends. It was too awful and horrible to do again.
But… she didn’t want them to play without her. Yet she also would rather they did…
“Goodness, Finn was right about you. You ARE indecisive.”
She froze, her mouth mere inches away from her food. No…
Her eyes darted all around her room, finally settling upon the opposite side of her campfire. Behind it, seemingly within the flames, was him. He was small, roughly her height, but was vastly different in appearance. He wore a green sweater with a single light green stripe down the middle as well as black shorts and sneakers. His hair was a thin shade of red, as if to complement the fire’s colors. The most noticeable part of his appearance, however, were his eyes. They were wide open in an almost gleeful way, with a large smile to boot. The two locked eyes, the boy gnawing on another piece of meat like a baby chewing a toy.
“I mean, it can’t be THAT hard, right? It’s just a decision of playing a game with your friends! No harm in that.” The boy said, making sure not to speak with his mouth full.
Frisk turned around, frowning as she looked down to the ground. She continued munching on her piece of meat even as she glanced up towards the boy, whom had reappeared right in front of her and was staring at her.
“Come on, now. What’s so hard about this?” He asked, fanning his eyebrows in an overly cutesy manner.
“Leave me alone…” she replied, glowering at him.
The boy leaned back a bit, obviously surprised by her remark. He took in a deep breath, closing his eyes. He brought his hand up to his face, his fist clenching and unclenching as if by instinct.
“Leave you alone……” he repeated over and over again, each time growing quieter and quieter.
The girl began to shake, suddenly realizing what she just did. Before she could respond, he reopened his eyes, revealing two sets of red dots within his eye sockets, which were bleeding a gooey red substance. His face had become mangled, almost mummified, and his hair had become ragged and unkempt. He spoke with complete malice, venom in his every word.
“You want me… to leave you alone?!” He said, cackling as the little girl started backing up, only stopping upon feeling the scorching heat of the campfire almost touch her shirt.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t help but notice you squandered that chance a loooooonnnng time ago, Frisk…” he said, his eyes never wavering from her as she curled up into a ball, whimpering like a baby. He merely harrumphed, crossing his arms as he continued.
“Besides, why would you want me to leave you alone? I’m all you have aside from your friends.”
“I don’t want you near my friends..”
“Too bad, Frisk. As long as you exist, I’ll ALWAYS be near them.” He said, his tone calm. He placed a single hand on her shoulder, starting to rub and pet it like a dog.
“There, there, Frisk… it’s okay…” He said, his voice low and soothing.
“What do you want…” Frisk replied, sniffling as she removed her hands from her face.
“I was hoping to see if we could settle this little… issue we have regarding this… OSburb… game..” he said, chuckling a bit before saying, “and I think I have that taken care of.”
The girl looked up at the demonic individual, trembling with every movement she made.
The boy did not hesitate in explaining his intentions. “For starters, I do not advise downloading this.. OSburb. It is most likely a game too dull and kid-like for someone like you.”
“Kid-like?” She said, though without a hint of offense.
“And besides,” he said, his smile growing wider by the second, “it’s not like your friends will care if you don’t play with them or not.”
That was all it took. The boy kept his happy smile going even as the little girl beneath him started to sob harder and harder.
“No.. no, you’re wrong. They like me! I know they like me!” She said in between sobs.
“Do they? I wonder why they don’t contact you very often?”
“They’re my friends… they like me…”
“They’re probably playing that game right now, not saying a word to you.”
“They wouldn’t… no.. they’re my friends..”
“I didn’t know friendship worked that way. Honestly, I didn’t. I didn’t know you could be totally ignored and forgotten about and still be friends with someone.”
“STOP!” Frisk screamed, tears streaming down her face as she practically leapt into the air, only to land back onto her knees. She bawled into her hands, her cries echoing around the cave. The boy paid no attention. Instead, he filed his fingernails with one of those file things girls use.
“Oh, alright, fine…” he muttered, rolling his eyes as he drifted towards her laptop, brushing it with his hand, “I suppose I shall leave this decision up to you. Personally, I’d find some better friends myself, but you know, I’m not the host here.”
She was about to reply when she removed her hands from her face, seeing he had disappeared. She felt absolutely sick to her stomach, worsened by the horrible throbbing in her chest as huge thumps erupted from it. He was wrong, he had to be wrong. Her friends wouldn’t do anything without her, would they?
She could not satisfy herself with just her own words. She quickly moved towards her laptop, opening it up. Before too long, she had opened up the PesterOmni and had contacted Finn.
[spoiler]
FA: "Hi, um... Finn..."
FA: "OSburb?"
FA: "Oh... yeah. Paul, um... sent me the file..."
FA: "I think... Ahmed has it too..."
FA: "Because... everyone else, um... is?"
FA: "Yeah..."
FA: "Oh, um...."
FA: "I wanted to, um..."
FA: "See... if you... you know..."
FA: "Had the game..."
FA: "Downloading... right now?"
FA: "I know... it's pretty, um... blasphemy.."
FA: "Balasp'hemy?
FA: "Oh... I, um.. understand.."
FA: "I'm... not a... loser, am I...?"
FA: "You don't... think I'm a loser, do you Finn?"
FA: "I... don't think I'm a loser..."
FA: "I... never knew you thought... that way... Finn..."
FA: "But, wait..."
FA: "Is that, um... why you think your neighbors are, um... cheating your internet?"
FA: "Or that, um... others steal your OCs?"
FA: "Okay... I'm... I'm sorry..."
FA: "Um..."
FA: "So..."
FA: "Osburb..."
FA: "You... said you were, uh... downloading it?"
FA: "I... haven't downloaded it... yet..."
FA: "Well..."
FA: "It's... I think..."
FA: "Um...."
FA: "I... want to wait... for... a special day, you know?"
FA: "About.... two days from now?"
FA: "Though..."
FA: "I'm not sure about it.... though..."
FA: "I mean... what if you guys start playing without me?"
FA: "I wouldn't mind, but..."
FA: "I don't want to... not play with you guys, and..."
FA: "Well... I wouldn't.. um...."
FA: "Want to hold you guys back..."
FA: "No... no it's fine..."
FA: "You won't have to wait..."
FA: "I mean... there are other... special days out there..."
FA: "I can wait for another to come around..."
FA: "Finn..."
FA: "I'll play with you."
FA: "I promise."
FA: "I'll ask Ahmed... if he can play too.."
FA: "I'll download it.... it might take a while, but... I'll do it.."
FA: "Bye... Finn..."[/spoiler]
Well.. there’s my decision… she thought to herself as she watched the download bar slowly fill up. She didn’t know if she was even making the right choice, given what Alex had made her do-
No. She had done it. She had done every single thing. It was her fault, and her fault alone.
She felt tears start to form in her eyes again. Wiping her nose, she opened up the message board for Ahmed, deciding to at least inform him that she changed her mind.
[spoiler]
-- freskAbenet [FA] began pestering avidProcrastinator [AP] at 14:35 --
FA: "Hi, um.... Ahmed..."
FA: "Oh... well..."
FA: "I downloaded the game."
FA: "I... think so... it's about... 50% there..."
FA: "Oh... um..."
FA: "Finn, um... wanted to play... too..."
FA: "Yeah...."
FA: "I wonder... what's going on with Aaron, Todd, Jay, and the others, too..."
FA: "Yeah..."
FA: "About... Finn, I think..."
FA: "I... I don't know, um... how to feel about him..."
FA: "Well... I dunno..."
FA: "He just seems really... pushy..."
FA: "But..."
FA: "I think he's lonely..."
FA: "Maybe he just... wants attention? And..."
FA: "This is the only way for him to gain it?"
FA: "Yeah... maybe it's just me..."
FA: "No, no! It's... fine..."
FA: "It's... very nice of you.... really, it is..."
FA: "Yeah..."
FA: "It's..almost done downloading..."
FA: "Do you... happen to know how, uh..."
FA: "It works?"
FA: "Yeah... I think I.... will..."
FA: "I'll... contact you when, um.... it's finished downloading..."
FA: "Same... bye, Ahmed..."
She had to admit, when she thought about it a bit more, it did seem like Finn wasn’t even really a bad guy. He was just… sad, and lonely. She could understand, though. She wouldn’t want him to feel that way anymore than she did.
She was about to just close out of PesterOmni when she saw luxuriusUncertainty was online again, and had begun pestering her. Curious, she pulled it up.
[spoiler]
FA: "Oh... hi, Finn.."
FA: "Oh... what is it?"
FA: "Oh.... um...
FA: "It's... a special day... in two days..."
FA: "Well... we all have... special days... right?"
FA: "Ones to... call our own...?"
FA: "I..."
FA: "...."
FA: "I just... I don't know..."
FA: "It's not that... just..."
FA: "It's.... kinda like... um... you know..."
FA: "How, um... everyone has a day to... look forward to..."
FA]: "Sorta..."
FA: "Okay..."
FA: "The, um... OSburb game is... um.."
FA: "Almost done downloading... too..."
FA: "Should be in... um..."
FA: "2 minutes and 12 seconds..."
FA: "It's what the... bar says..."
FA: "Okay..."
FA: "Bye... Finn..."[/spoiler]
I’m so sorry, Finn… you deserve to know… i... i'm so sorry...
>>Frisk: Wait for Download to Complete
Eventually, after a few more minutes, she carefully pulled out the slab of steak out of the heated pot, trying to prevent the water dripping from the brown meat chunk from landing on her body as she set it down onto the rocky ground of her abode. She sat still, occasionally patting the top of her food as she watched the smoke rise from her campfire, the sticks within crackling from the heat. She wasn’t particularly interested in the cycle of fire and how it functioned, though she could imagine that Paige would study it for hours and hours on end. Just that alone got her wanting to take notes; it could’ve been enough to impress her.
She placed her hand back onto the meat chunk, noticing that it was no longer scalding hot. Sighing, she brought her hands around it, bringing it to her mouth. She began to chew, ripping out small lumps of meat every so often to make it easier on her throat. During this time, she was thinking. Not about Habernathy, thankfully, but about the OSburb file.
Paul had sent it to her through the PesterOmni message board, probably as a gift, and she had found out soon after that Ahmed also had the game. She had asked Ahmed to wait for a while before playing, but… she just couldn’t get his request out of her mind. After all, this was the first time she had one of her friends ask her to play with them in a long while, especially from someone she didn’t contact very often. Yet despite this… she knew she shouldn’t do it. What if she accidentally slip during play of her situation? What if… he does something? She couldn’t do that to her friends, not after what she had done to her last set of friends. It was too awful and horrible to do again.
But… she didn’t want them to play without her. Yet she also would rather they did…
“Goodness, Finn was right about you. You ARE indecisive.”
She froze, her mouth mere inches away from her food. No…
Her eyes darted all around her room, finally settling upon the opposite side of her campfire. Behind it, seemingly within the flames, was him. He was small, roughly her height, but was vastly different in appearance. He wore a green sweater with a single light green stripe down the middle as well as black shorts and sneakers. His hair was a thin shade of red, as if to complement the fire’s colors. The most noticeable part of his appearance, however, were his eyes. They were wide open in an almost gleeful way, with a large smile to boot. The two locked eyes, the boy gnawing on another piece of meat like a baby chewing a toy.
“I mean, it can’t be THAT hard, right? It’s just a decision of playing a game with your friends! No harm in that.” The boy said, making sure not to speak with his mouth full.
Frisk turned around, frowning as she looked down to the ground. She continued munching on her piece of meat even as she glanced up towards the boy, whom had reappeared right in front of her and was staring at her.
“Come on, now. What’s so hard about this?” He asked, fanning his eyebrows in an overly cutesy manner.
“Leave me alone…” she replied, glowering at him.
The boy leaned back a bit, obviously surprised by her remark. He took in a deep breath, closing his eyes. He brought his hand up to his face, his fist clenching and unclenching as if by instinct.
“Leave you alone……” he repeated over and over again, each time growing quieter and quieter.
The girl began to shake, suddenly realizing what she just did. Before she could respond, he reopened his eyes, revealing two sets of red dots within his eye sockets, which were bleeding a gooey red substance. His face had become mangled, almost mummified, and his hair had become ragged and unkempt. He spoke with complete malice, venom in his every word.
“You want me… to leave you alone?!” He said, cackling as the little girl started backing up, only stopping upon feeling the scorching heat of the campfire almost touch her shirt.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t help but notice you squandered that chance a loooooonnnng time ago, Frisk…” he said, his eyes never wavering from her as she curled up into a ball, whimpering like a baby. He merely harrumphed, crossing his arms as he continued.
“Besides, why would you want me to leave you alone? I’m all you have aside from your friends.”
“I don’t want you near my friends..”
“Too bad, Frisk. As long as you exist, I’ll ALWAYS be near them.” He said, his tone calm. He placed a single hand on her shoulder, starting to rub and pet it like a dog.
“There, there, Frisk… it’s okay…” He said, his voice low and soothing.
“What do you want…” Frisk replied, sniffling as she removed her hands from her face.
“I was hoping to see if we could settle this little… issue we have regarding this… OSburb… game..” he said, chuckling a bit before saying, “and I think I have that taken care of.”
The girl looked up at the demonic individual, trembling with every movement she made.
The boy did not hesitate in explaining his intentions. “For starters, I do not advise downloading this.. OSburb. It is most likely a game too dull and kid-like for someone like you.”
“Kid-like?” She said, though without a hint of offense.
“And besides,” he said, his smile growing wider by the second, “it’s not like your friends will care if you don’t play with them or not.”
That was all it took. The boy kept his happy smile going even as the little girl beneath him started to sob harder and harder.
“No.. no, you’re wrong. They like me! I know they like me!” She said in between sobs.
“Do they? I wonder why they don’t contact you very often?”
“They’re my friends… they like me…”
“They’re probably playing that game right now, not saying a word to you.”
“They wouldn’t… no.. they’re my friends..”
“I didn’t know friendship worked that way. Honestly, I didn’t. I didn’t know you could be totally ignored and forgotten about and still be friends with someone.”
“STOP!” Frisk screamed, tears streaming down her face as she practically leapt into the air, only to land back onto her knees. She bawled into her hands, her cries echoing around the cave. The boy paid no attention. Instead, he filed his fingernails with one of those file things girls use.
“Oh, alright, fine…” he muttered, rolling his eyes as he drifted towards her laptop, brushing it with his hand, “I suppose I shall leave this decision up to you. Personally, I’d find some better friends myself, but you know, I’m not the host here.”
She was about to reply when she removed her hands from her face, seeing he had disappeared. She felt absolutely sick to her stomach, worsened by the horrible throbbing in her chest as huge thumps erupted from it. He was wrong, he had to be wrong. Her friends wouldn’t do anything without her, would they?
She could not satisfy herself with just her own words. She quickly moved towards her laptop, opening it up. Before too long, she had opened up the PesterOmni and had contacted Finn.
[spoiler]
-- freskAbenet [FA] began pestering luxuriusUncertainty [LU] at 14:03 --
FA: "Hi, um... Finn..."
FA: "OSburb?"
FA: "Oh... yeah. Paul, um... sent me the file..."
FA: "I think... Ahmed has it too..."
FA: "Because... everyone else, um... is?"
FA: "Yeah..."
FA: "Oh, um...."
FA: "I wanted to, um..."
FA: "See... if you... you know..."
FA: "Had the game..."
FA: "Downloading... right now?"
FA: "I know... it's pretty, um... blasphemy.."
FA: "Balasp'hemy?
FA: "Oh... I, um.. understand.."
FA: "I'm... not a... loser, am I...?"
FA: "You don't... think I'm a loser, do you Finn?"
FA: "I... don't think I'm a loser..."
FA: "I... never knew you thought... that way... Finn..."
FA: "But, wait..."
FA: "Is that, um... why you think your neighbors are, um... cheating your internet?"
FA: "Or that, um... others steal your OCs?"
FA: "Okay... I'm... I'm sorry..."
FA: "Um..."
FA: "So..."
FA: "Osburb..."
FA: "You... said you were, uh... downloading it?"
FA: "I... haven't downloaded it... yet..."
FA: "Well..."
FA: "It's... I think..."
FA: "Um...."
FA: "I... want to wait... for... a special day, you know?"
FA: "About.... two days from now?"
FA: "Though..."
FA: "I'm not sure about it.... though..."
FA: "I mean... what if you guys start playing without me?"
FA: "I wouldn't mind, but..."
FA: "I don't want to... not play with you guys, and..."
FA: "Well... I wouldn't.. um...."
FA: "Want to hold you guys back..."
FA: "No... no it's fine..."
FA: "You won't have to wait..."
FA: "I mean... there are other... special days out there..."
FA: "I can wait for another to come around..."
FA: "Finn..."
FA: "I'll play with you."
FA: "I promise."
FA: "I'll ask Ahmed... if he can play too.."
FA: "I'll download it.... it might take a while, but... I'll do it.."
-- luxuriusUncertainty [LU] has ceased pestering freskAbenet [FA] at 14:16 --
FA: "Bye... Finn..."[/spoiler]
Well.. there’s my decision… she thought to herself as she watched the download bar slowly fill up. She didn’t know if she was even making the right choice, given what Alex had made her do-
No. She had done it. She had done every single thing. It was her fault, and her fault alone.
She felt tears start to form in her eyes again. Wiping her nose, she opened up the message board for Ahmed, deciding to at least inform him that she changed her mind.
[spoiler]
-- freskAbenet [FA] began pestering avidProcrastinator [AP] at 14:35 --
FA: "Hi, um.... Ahmed..."
FA: "Oh... well..."
FA: "I downloaded the game."
FA: "I... think so... it's about... 50% there..."
FA: "Oh... um..."
FA: "Finn, um... wanted to play... too..."
FA: "Yeah...."
FA: "I wonder... what's going on with Aaron, Todd, Jay, and the others, too..."
FA: "Yeah..."
FA: "About... Finn, I think..."
FA: "I... I don't know, um... how to feel about him..."
FA: "Well... I dunno..."
FA: "He just seems really... pushy..."
FA: "But..."
FA: "I think he's lonely..."
FA: "Maybe he just... wants attention? And..."
FA: "This is the only way for him to gain it?"
FA: "Yeah... maybe it's just me..."
FA: "No, no! It's... fine..."
FA: "It's... very nice of you.... really, it is..."
FA: "Yeah..."
FA: "It's..almost done downloading..."
FA: "Do you... happen to know how, uh..."
FA: "It works?"
FA: "Yeah... I think I.... will..."
FA: "I'll... contact you when, um.... it's finished downloading..."
FA: "Same... bye, Ahmed..."
-- freskAbenet [FA] ceased pestering avidProcrastinator [AP] at 14:42 --[/spoiler]
She had to admit, when she thought about it a bit more, it did seem like Finn wasn’t even really a bad guy. He was just… sad, and lonely. She could understand, though. She wouldn’t want him to feel that way anymore than she did.
She was about to just close out of PesterOmni when she saw luxuriusUncertainty was online again, and had begun pestering her. Curious, she pulled it up.
[spoiler]
-- luxuriousUncertainty [LU] began pestering freskAbenet [FA] at 14:58 --
FA: "Oh... hi, Finn.."
FA: "Oh... what is it?"
FA: "Oh.... um...
FA: "It's... a special day... in two days..."
FA: "Well... we all have... special days... right?"
FA: "Ones to... call our own...?"
FA: "I..."
FA: "...."
FA: "I just... I don't know..."
FA: "It's not that... just..."
FA: "It's.... kinda like... um... you know..."
FA: "How, um... everyone has a day to... look forward to..."
FA]: "Sorta..."
FA: "Okay..."
FA: "The, um... OSburb game is... um.."
FA: "Almost done downloading... too..."
FA: "Should be in... um..."
FA: "2 minutes and 12 seconds..."
FA: "It's what the... bar says..."
FA: "Okay..."
-- luxuriousUncertainty [LU] ceased pestering freskAbenet [FA] at 15:04 --
FA: "Bye... Finn..."[/spoiler]
I’m so sorry, Finn… you deserve to know… i... i'm so sorry...
>>Frisk: Wait for Download to Complete
Quote:Full PesterLogs:
Frisk and Finn
Frisk and Ahmed
Finn and Frisk
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i may be all alone
but i'm here to tell ya honey
that i'm bad to the bone
B-B-B-Bad to the bone
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