~The Fallen Rabbit~ (A Ticci-Toby x Reader story)

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Journal Entry #84,

Today is another day of misery. Like always mom and dad are fighting, drunken words slurred over one another, thankfully the only thing keeping me sane is writing in this journal. For some reason I have the weirdest feeling ever which has been here for maybe.. a week? I don't know, all I know is it's a feeling as if I'm being watched. Anyways, this was a short entry as I really need to get the fuck away from this house, now.

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As you closed your journal you got up from your bed. Your legs and back popping as you stretch your body, the screaming from below your room making you grow more and more irritated as you think, what if I just gut them, have their blood dripping down my arms, no one will know, no one will care. You dismiss said thoughts as you know you can't do something like that but if so, why do you keep thinking about it? You notice how your window is slightly ajar, I don't remember doing that?

As you make your way to the door you grab your journal off your bed as well as your phone and keys off your dresser. You take note as you walk down the stairs towards the front door that there is broken glass scattered all across the floor. You carefully make your way past all of it to get to your shoes ignoring your mothers constant slurred babbling, you don't even know who she's talking too at this point.

You make sure you lock your door on your way out of the house and begin venturing south, you remember that a couple blocks away from your house there is a forest that you've been meaning to walk thought for quite a while now.

After about 15 minutes of walking you finally made it to the forest. You have an unknown feeling creep up to you, a dark feeling. as always you dismiss it and whisper to yourself, "It's probably just the stupid food I ate this morning".

Once you were a little ways into the forest you decided to take a few pictures and continue to walk deeper into the forest leaving the path you were on. You begin to have this weird static noise in your ear, it's not loud but it's definitely there, you brush it off as you had recently had an ear infection so it's probably just the remnants of that.

You stop in your track to take a picture of this beautiful flower you saw when you heard something, almost like jumping behind you. You whip around only to see nothing, you decide to see if something is actually there by talking, maybe that way if it's some kind of animal it'll just run away from the sound and loudness of your voice.

"Hey! Is someone there? Look if there is I'm really not in the mood to deal with your bullshit, I'm just trying to take pictures then I'll fuck off." you say this quite a bit of annoyance as you truly do not want to deal with anybody else at the moment, your day is already flipped to begin with. After 30 seconds of no answer you roll your eyes and begin to walk away from that spot. Now that you think about it, that noise was probably just a stick falling off a tree.

You walk for a little bit to find the path again and once you do don't you become really agitated and on edge, you then hear another noise, sound like, talking? You slowly begin walking towards that noise because maybe those people can lead you back onto the path. You hide behind a tree to get a good look of the exact spot where the noise is coming from, it's a man, a quite tall man who looks very bulky but you only think this as all you can see is a very big jacket.

The man seems to be mumbling to himself but almost like at random times. You slowly emerge from behind the tree and take a few steps before saying "Uhm, excuse me? I don't want any trouble I just need some help".

The man freezes in place in such an unnatural way, looking as if he isn't even breathing, then he turns and you can finally get a good look at this man, you can't tell much about the age of this man but he must be between the ages of 18-22. You notice he's wearing a mask that covers his mouth but not his nose, weird. You also notice he has an axe in his one hand, something you for some reason didn't notice before. You know to not show fear so you bring your eyes back to his and tell yourself he's probably just a lumberjack.

The man takes note of how you react to him and straightens up, putting the axe in a loop he has in his pants, he raises his hands and says to you "Oh *click* sorry about the hatchet *pop*, I'm just.. cutting some wood, What *smack**pop* do you need help with?"

You notice how he keeps making weird twitchy movements and noises so it makes your mind go blank for a minute. He notices and says "Sorry *pop**click* I have Tourettes." You make an "O" shape with your mouth yet no words come out. You then say "Right, sorry for staring, I got lost and I don't know my way back to the trail, you don't have to bring me there but if you could maybe just point me in the direction? I have like 20 bucks I could give you?". You take the 20 dollars out of your phone case and hold it up to the man. He looks at you unfazed by the money and walks up you you, "Come with *smack**whistle* me"

You thank the man while still holding the money out just incase he may want it and continue following him keeping at least an arms distance away from him as he still is some stranger. "Are you going to be able to find your way back here? to this spot I mean, I don't exactly remember how far I went off the trail" You say to the man, He scoffs in a laughing matter and says without looking at you, "I know*whistle* this place like the back of my hand hands!, I'll be fine."

You two walk for what you think to be 10 minutes, all while the man walking beside you is making these noises and sometimes hitting himself but it is honestly welcome as neither of you are talking, it brings some sort of comfort so there isn't total silence.

You finally see the trail  so you run towards it, you begin to say, "Oh there it is! Hey thank you for.." as you turn around to thank the man he's gone. Your blood runs cold, how did he disappear so fast? he was right beside you. you call out for the man multiple times yet nothing happens in return. "I'm not sure if you can hear me but thank you!" you semi scream into the forest.

You turn around to walk on the trail and make your way back home, you don't know how far into the trail you are until you notice this big rock that you saw from the beginning of the trail. Finally out of the trail, you look back to see if the man is there but nothing. A bit disappointed you make your way back home.

Little do you know, He knows your thankful and where you live.

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"𝓜𝔂 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝔁𝓲𝓮𝓼, 𝓦𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱 𝓗𝓮𝓻."

"We will sir."

~(Word count: 1299)~