Chapter 2

Thank you all SO MUCH for your lovely comments! I'm really, really grateful, more than I can say :)

Here's the second installment, written from nostalgia. Remember how I said pieces might be pointless and off? I think this one fits that category.

Note: The Prince of Persia trilogy and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood are both PC games I have played before. They're AWESOME. 'Slender: The Eight Pages' is the most simple yet scariest game I've ever played in my life. Thankfully, I was with all of my cousins, and it was because I was missing them that I ended up writing this.

ArHi Drabble |Opportunism|

Arnav did not like that game.

NK had told him that for best effect, he ought to play it in the dark, with only his headphones on and the volume turned up high.

Having cleared Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed in record time, he didn't think there was anything this simple, internet-downloadable game had to offer that would faze him.

I mean, how difficult could it be? The objective was simple enough - collect the pages and get out.

He did not sleep at all that night. He winced at every tiny sound, from the creak of the ceiling fan to the singing of a cricket outside his window. And when Di gingerly opened his door and shuffled in to wake him up for the day, Arnav- nerves strung tight from a night of paranoia and sleeplessness- fell out of bed.

He did not like that game at all.

That is, until Khushi found it on his laptop and decided she had to see for herself exactly why he had paled and gone into a litany of discouragement the moment she'd asked him about it.

By the third jump-scare, she was practically clinging to his side, her face half buried into his chest, the headphones he had reluctantly perched over her ears slipping off her hair.

'Khushi, it's ok, you can still do this,' he urged, reaching an arm around her to cradle the side of her head, and lowering his mouth closer to her ear to continue his encouragement. And as she whimpered, one hand reaching out to the controls of the keyboard while the other fisted tightly into his shirt, he decided that, in the right kind of environment, there was nothing scary about Slender Man at all.

Comments are welcome! I hope this wasn't TOO random :P

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