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Break The Chain {BEN Drowned x Reader} 09

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This has got to be the longest hour in history, because it is. And You’re not used to having to spend your time trying to remain awake, listen to people you found supper annoying as you pretend to pay attention while a demon (or whatever the hell he was) was trying to get your attention because, and you quote, “this Is so boring! This place would look nicer burning in fire!”.

It’s called school, and you’re back in it.

You lean on your desk, head held by your hand as you stared forward, your eyes drooping slightly as your other hand played with your pencil, your notebooks were opened in a random pages and adorned with doodles, most of them drawn by BEN and others made by you as you tried to remain awake, History wasn’t one of your fortes, but you sure as heck never knew how boring it actually was.

Your body, though present in the classroom was a whole different story to where your mind was, and it was currently thinking about everything that had happened yesterday, your mind was still reeling back to the hooded figure, the strange envelope and BEN’s feigned disinterest towards it, though snatching it away from you and becoming slightly more intrusive into your personal space, bastard was enjoying himself alright. He left after making a really weird statement and your mind played the whole thing over and over.

“If you don’t trust me. I’ll gain your trust somehow.”

Your eyes lazily scanned the classroom and among various heads, students sleeping and the really old history teacher speaking even though no one was paying attention, was BEN, he was casually floating, looking around with real interest, you could tell by how he was poking and observing and even managing to do things without gaining much attention on himself, though impossible since he’s invisible to others at the moment, that it wasn’t just to bother you.

You only stared, and a part of you wondered if he never went to school, but then you mentally slapped yourself because that was just a stupid thought, why would he, a monster, need to attend school? You blink only to find red irises staring right at you, BEN waves and you roll your eyes.

“It was with great interest that-“ The bell, thank every living creature for it, rang and cut off rather rudely the woman, she blinked as in disbelief before adjusting her glasses on her nose as the students picked up their belongings and left the classrooms, some even waved goodbye to the lady. You decided to stay back until everyone was left, and after a mental battle within yourself you stood up, grabbed your binder and backpack and headed outside, muttering a goodbye to the woman. She acknowledges it with a nod from her part.

As you step outside, you squint your eyes and look around for (best friend), you two had your next class together, BEN besides you only floated until he was directly in front of your face, you scowled but remained silent, talking alone will not do you good right now.

“Who are you looking for?” He asks, and you only shrug, walking right by him you decide to start heading to P.E, last class of the day and hopefully will be full with the other girls who were too busy distracting the teacher into giving the class, usually you shook your head at the behavior, but today you were hoping the man was too busy to notice your absence. After all, BEN had asked of you a favor this morning, after having disappeared for an hour and coming back just before you left for school, his breath smelled of cigarettes and having him so close wasn’t comfortable.

He said he wanted to speak to you, alone, and that sent various red flags to your mind, but you agreed and told him that it would be best to do so at last period. Though by now you could care less about the favor he asked of, he’s probably just going to scare the hell out of you, do something completely stupid or actually burn the school down. You were pretty sure the latter would most likely happen sooner or later.

“Hey, don’t ignore me!” And he’s whining, great.

“Can’t talk here” You mutter and keep on walking, the changing rooms are just around the corner and there seems to be more students around the area, BEN pressed for more information though, a part of you wanted to shove his stupid little green hat on his mouth, but it would end up in a bad scenario, so you opt to biting your lip instead and keep looking forward, fastening your pace, he doesn’t seem to care that normal people don’t talk to midair.

“It’s really important sweetheart” His voice has that certain tone to it, it’s annoying to no end and you have to bite your tongue to not scold him for using that stupid nickname. It brings back memories, and you feel your throat closing, you close your eyes, stop walking for a second, breathe in, out, and keep on walking.

“It can wait” You hiss, open the door to the changing room and walk in, closing the door behind you, right on BEN’s face.

He scowls.




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“Let’s go girls! Two more laps and then you’re all allowed to go home!” The voice of the P.E coach echoes all around the campus, you’re drenched in sweat by the time that you finished the last two laps, heading to the locker room to regain your breathing. Your legs ache and you sit down on a bench, watching as the last two girls exit the locker room, their voices slowly fading away.

You sigh, deciding that you´re just going to walk home, without company because you weren´t really up to strike a conversation, though for the most part if it did happen, you would simply nod and at least look like you´re acknowledging whatever it is that people would talk to you about. A nice bath while listening to music followed by wearing your pjs doing homework and then going to sleep sounded just about right, dinner was going to be with both your parents at the table and for once you were more than grateful. Moments like these were extremely rare.

Of course, your mind was thinking about what BEN wanted, you did promise him that the two of you would talk, but so far, you have been alone in the locker room for at least ten minutes. If he was so urgent on speaking with you, he would´ve come right inside a long while ago. Not like you wanted him to anyways, after all, he had been watching you from afar while you ran, and made no single movement to remain closely by your side, in fact, he wasn’t even looking at you. It was almost like he was looking out for something, or someone.

So that alone worried you, the past events had done nothing but unsettle you more than having him around, I mean, you still feel comfortable around him but it wasn´t enough to have him sleep with you in the same room, though he has stayed large periods of times just commenting about random things in your room, usually until you fell asleep, and by the time you wake up, he´s sitting atop your drawers, legs crossed and slightly snoring.

It hadn´t occurred until now, but you never thought that he slept. Well, you realized that he didn´t sleep, took short naps, yes, but nothing that exceeded ten to twenty minutes.

Alas, you weren´t worried about what he did, as long as it didn´t affect your well being, physically and mentally and that of those around you.

You stand up, wincing slightly with the sudden movement of your legs, grabbed your bad and headed towards the door to leave; school staff would come in any second now to lock the place. Upon grabbing the handle, out of the corner of your eye you caught sight of something, curious, you turned around and walked towards it. A black envelope, silver decorations, and for once you´re sure that this does belong to you.

“That´s wasn’t here before” You mumbled. Carefully opening the envelope, you´re greeted by the same white paper, but unlike before this one doesn't have any foreign writing nor a drawing accompanied by it, but in cursive huge letters written in red ink, or what you hope it is, is your name and the words “Look behind you”

Without your proper thinking, your body instantly turned around and a gasp escaped your mouth when you noticed that the locker room wasn't as before, the red lockers and the crème painted walls, as well as the floor, posters, everything, was in black and white. The floor upon closer noticing, wasn't painted black. It was the same black liquid from your house.

A shudder ran up your spine when the events from before came racing back to your mind, looking at the clock in hanging in the wall for what seemed like forever only confirmed your fear.

It´s frozen.

Just like before.

“It´s not funny BEN!” Though you said that, you knew that BEN wasn´t in here, you were alone and that unsettled you greatly, you took deep breaths and tried to calm down, but the sense of dread didn´t leave, it wouldn´t leave, not now, not ever. Adding to the problems, the black liquid seemed to reached higher into your body, and your legs were now covered in it, it was reaching your knees.

You bit your lip, last time it happened you were dragged to a cold place, and there were screams. Your ears picked up the familiar sound of the screams, agonizing, wails of help and hatred, though it was more clear now, your sense of logic was long gone, the words were gibberish to your brain, you only thought about getting somewhere high, somewhere where the hands can´t grab you.

You fight back a sob when the liquid fills the room entirely, and in a blink of an eye you’re reaching forward towards the light, the substance is quickly filling up your mouth, you´re crying though it´s muffled by the screams, they´re louder now, and the hands.
Oh god.

“H-Help!” You scream out to anyone, but you don´t get a response, just like before the freezing hands start to grab, painfully, yanking you, dragging you down into the abyss, their desperate screams of pain mixing with your owns.

Whatever air was left was already gone, you felt yourself being dragged deeper and deeper, your ears among the screams picked up that forsaken song, the same song you could hear the first time you entered the mansion, the same day you had met BEN. It should´ve bothered you, but somehow, it was comforting, it was alluring and it made you feel safe.

The single thought of it irritated you to no end though, why were you thinking about him right now? Of all times? BEN´s the one responsible for your suffering right now, he´s the one that´s messed up your life and yet you´re here thinking he´s going to save you. Maybe it was because of those words he had said.

“I’ll gain your trust somehow.”

You grabbed to that false sense of hope, because if he wanted to have your trust, he could get you out of here.

And just like that, you felt the cold vanish, your ears didn´t ring, didn´t hurt from the awful cries, hands no longer held you to drag you down nor to hurt you. But in their place were two arms wrapped around you in a comforting manner. It takes you a minute to realize that you´re being hugged, and before you know it, you´re crying, hard, into someone´s chest as you bring them closer to you.

You don´t know just how long you had been crying, but it had reduced to sobbing and then you completely stopped, you sniffed, but never took your head away from the person´s chest, which upon further notice was female.

Finally, you leaned back and were met by the sight of black eyes staring at you, ebony long hair that was longer than your own hair, and black painted lips on white skin. No, that´s a mask. It´s a mask.

You blink confused, the woman never stopped staring at you, she didn´t utter a single word either and you quickly scanned your surroundings, you were back in your “room” and the other you was sitting on your bed.

You frowned.

“How…” You were cut off by the woman when she stood up, she extended out her hand for you to take and you stared at it dumbly for a while before realizing that she´s offering you help to stand up, blushing, you take her hand you notice just how soft, delicate fingers and hand she has, its pearly white, just like her mask, she wore a black dress that hugged her body in a pleasing way that showed of her curves.

Standing up, trying to stay afoot, you stood there awkwardly, your eyes set back again on the other you, she was just sitting down, not minding whatever you were doing, she was also not being creepy. She wasn't even mimicking your actions. It unsettled you, but you pushed that thought away.

“Come, I bet you must be tired. Sit down, make yourself at home” The woman speaks, and you surprisingly notice that even though she´s wearing a mask, her voice doesn't sound as muffled as you had hoped it would. Neither nodding, though not knowing why nor asking questions, you sit down on the edge of your bed, as far as possible from the other you. She’s now looking at the woman, just like you.

“I´m sorry that you had to endure that. It´s kind of your little master’s fault.” She says, you watch as she snaps her fingers and from thin air appears a chair; you raise an eyebrow when she sits down. “This will be short, he´ll start worrying about you”

“Master? I don’t have a master”

The woman laughs a little. “True true, sorry about that. We’ll just address him as BEN”

Your stomach dropped, not because of the way she said his name, it almost sounded like venom was dripping from her tongue the moment she spoke his name, but because she actually said his name. You frowned.

“I already know he’s the one responsible for all of my bad luck.” She cuts you off with a  clap of her hands.

“Oh, you’re smart! I like that”

You roll your eyes, though you weren't offended over the fact that she just called you stupid. “Like I was saying… But I am wondering just who the fuck are you and where the hell am I.”

The silence isn't something that comes as a surprise, and you’re actually wondering if she’s debating telling you her name.

“I am someone that can give you answers” of fucking course “And we’re in your mind sweetheart.”

“Please don’t call me that” You mumble, and you could tell that she had raised an eyebrow beneath her mask.

“Sorry, my bad. I know just how much he likes to give his pets nicknames.” You knew by the way her voice sounded, she had grin beneath her mask. Her presence is annoying, but she had said she could give you answers.

“Anyways” she continues, “we’re in your mind.” She states as if it’s something that’s more than obvious, or at least to her it is. To you is something new, and you’re finding yourself asking another question.

“Okay, so if we’re in my mind. What are you doing here?”

“Like I said, I’m here to give answers to any of your questions. Anything, just ask, I know everything.”

You raise an eyebrow and she sighs.

“Okay, maybe not everything but I know a lot of information about your current situation”

You were thinking somehow, that if she was in fact telling the truth, and this is your mind, then she might be something that your mind made up to cope with the fact that probably you’re still in the dark place probably being eaten alive by those… things. But you were sure that you knew nothing about your situation.

You bit your lip, thinking your words clearly, you didn’t actually know what to ask, but the words left your mouth before you even realized it. “I suppose you want something in exchange?”

The woman lifted her mask a bit up, until you could see her lips, and just like the one’s painted in the mask, her lips were black as well, skin white as paper. “Correct”

“And you’re the one that sent the envelope”

“Again, correct”

“Then… if you are speaking the truth, I suppose that you actually want something in exchange for any information I get from you? If so, then what do you want?” You weren’t exactly sure if you were asking or stating facts by now.

“I want to form a contract with you.” You blinked.

“What?”

“Yes, a contract, just what you heard.” Her black lips turn to form into a soft smile. She’s waiting for a response, but you don’t give her one, because you’re more confused than ever right now. A contract? A contract for what? You can’t agree to this, you might as well sign a pact with the devil himself. She could be him, but you realized that you’re just thinking stupidly.

“I-“ She cuts you off.

“It’s okay, it doesn't have to be right now. You can ask anything you want and I’ll answer truthfully. Just come here every day at this exact same hour, I’ll try and make the journey less… painful.” The woman looks to a wall where a clock stands. “Oh, time’s over. I’ll see you tomorrow _________”

In a blink of an eye, you’re back in the locker room, the envelope you had in hand wasn't even there and your eyes met BEN’s. He was frowning.

“Are you okay?” His voice is laced with concern, and you blink, then again and you nod. Walking towards the door, walking out and looking at the ground, you start to head home. BEN doesn't mutter a single word the whole way, and for once you’re grateful. You still can’t shake the feeling of the hands grabbing you out of your mind.
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Story belongs to PrincessSakura1221
Inspired by the song: The Chain by Three Days Grace.
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