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TW BLOOD AND SELFHARM!
It was night when the friend group came together.
Jackson held the diary in his shaking hands "Alright so... how do we get rid of this thing.?" Exer looked at the diary “Maybe we should try some things..?” He began looking around. “should we destroy it?” … Brenda started speaking “but what if something happens to you..? Or one of us!?
They sat on the wet grass in a cirkel, they had planned to meet up in the woods at the lake. It was silent for a couple of minutes until David broke the silence. “Maybe.. its like a spiritual thing? How did Exer get bonded with the diary anyway?! There has to be something to break that!” He already felt tears in his eyes. He looked at the ground, fidgeting with some grass "There has to be…”
Exer held davids hand and strokes it gently. “We will breake it. Once and for all.” Pamela spoke while looking at the diary next to Jackson. “Exer smiles warmly “Don’t worry Day, as long as we stick together we can break it.” David nods slowly and smiles back.
Brenda turns to Ron “Ronald do you have that magic book?” Ronald was looking up watching some birds, distracted Ronald like always.. she snaps her fingers infront of his face. He fliches “I know birds are pretty, but focus big guy.” “O ye right.!” He hands her the magic book they found at their school library. The group looked at the magic book. “It has some information about old ancient magic.” Brenda began speaking as she opened the book.
While the rest was busy finding some information, david looked at the diary and decided to take a look in it. He was examining the pages. Till he saw 2 pages sticking together.. what the.? He pulls it apart slowly. His eyes widened.
The page showed some stickmans, their group… at the lake.. One was drawn with green crayon around it.. Exer. But one stickman was drawn lying on the ground. Blond hair. It looked a little faded.. David was thinking and realised. Wait.. thats.. me?!
David felt his heart in his throat. So this is the answer.. he thought to himself. A sacrifise.
David examined the drawing more, the drawing showed blood from the stickmans (Davids) hand. And a bloodmark on the diary. when he looked at the group. Was the moment he knew the answer. The solution. The sacrifise. For Exer.
“Ugh why is there no answer!” Brenda groans. Exer sights and looked at David “babe are you okay.? You look pale..?
“Oh yeah im fine! Im just tired!” It was indeed 2AM so that made sense. The moon was shining bright in the pitch black sky, they brought some flashlights to shine at the diary and the book. Ronald accidentally shines in jacksons eyes. They gathered some stuff they brought in the middle of the cirkel they sat in. Some books, pencils, a toothbrush..? And some small pocket knifes.
David was in deep thought, he would do anything for Exer. He would fight for him, hide for him and.. die for him. But he wasn’t really going to die? Right.? He shivers. What would happen if he sacrifises himself?
David saw how much Exer suffered, Exer would sob in his arms when his magic took over. When they were kids he saw how much Exer was going thru. David wanted to end it all. For his Best-friend, for his boyfriend. For his lover.
He looked at exer, who looked desperately into the books to find an answer. An answer he knew.
David slowly got a pocket knife without someone noticing. Okay.. my hand.. he was still holding the diary. “Im going to look around for a bit.” Its a dumb excuse but the rest was busy anyways. He stood up and walked behind some bushes.
Okay lets do this quick.. he grabbed the pocket knife. Damn this is going to hurt.. he slowly cutted a little of his hand. It stings. He whines a little. Now it was time to go back and end this.
He walked back, he took a deep breath and finally spoke up “Guys… I have the answer.” They all turned their heads to David as their eyes widened. “You do..?” Exer looked confused.
David slowly took some steps back and holds the diary infront of him. “Im ending this once and for all so you don’t have to suffer no more.” “David what are you doing?!” Exer voice became more worried. David puts his bleeding hand on the diary page “bringing back your peace.”
It was silent for a moment… then.. WHAM stong green magic coming out of the diary, moving everywhere. The group was screaming. It began cirkeling David. “DAY!!” Exer screams crying. “DAVID NO HOLD ON!” brenda runs towards the magic but it pushes her hard to the ground.
It started cirkeling faster and faster. “DAY NO!” Exer began coughing and fell on his knees. His magic was slowly leaving his body..
Trees were shaking, bushes were collapsing, plants were moving. The green was like a bubble moving faster than ever around David. It was like a strong wind, David fell to the ground “EXER!!” He screamed of fear.
And then.. BOOM everything stopped… everyone was pushed meters back on the ground by the strong wind. Silence… after some minutes they managed to sit up. everyone groaned of pain. Exer quickly got up “DAY!!” Exer screamed running with a bad leg towards where David layed..
“Exer..?” David whined. “Im here day, im here!” He sobs “I won’t let you go!” “We will get you to a hospital!”
“Exer im.. fading away..” david looked him in the eyes with tears. “N-no no day.." Exer saw Davids legs starting to fade "No please i cant lose you!!" He sobs while holding david close to his chest. "Exer its alright.." he smiles. "Im so glad that I met you at the arcade, my life became so much better when you became part of it." he smiles. "Day..." he sobs while holding him closer. "I cant lose you.. Please your my light, my happiness my everything.." tears were falling down. "Exer.. promise me.. to keep those memories.." he cries "I.. promise day.." "I promise my love..." he hugs David tight while sobbing.
"I love you Exer." "I always did."
Exers light faded away in his arms.