The Slender Man. Chpt. 5

Wendy peaked her head from under the covers and looked at the clock on the wall. Jordan's night light gave enough light so that she could see it was fifteen minutes to eleven. By now her mom should be alseep, but her plans said for her to go at eleven and she had full intentions to go by the plan exactly.

five minutes later, she got up anywase.

she reached under her bed and pulled out her back pack. it was already filled with some snacks and sweets she been saveing up, along with her favorite box of crayons and some paper. she stood over her bag with pride, ready for her adventure.

Wendy looked over to the bed on the other side of the room. there was a large lump hideing in the covers, un-moveing. she tipped toed to the other side, fearfull that any sound would wake thier mother. she got to the side of the bed and gently shook the lump. "jordan wake up it's time."

"..."

Wendy shook the lump again. "Come on Jordan it's time to go to magic land."

"..."

"...fine since your asleep," wendy said walking over to the night light. she pulled it out, bringing the room into total darkness. "I'll be takeing this with me and leave you all alone." It wasn't long before the dark and silent room had the soft sounds of crying. wendy plugged the light back in "knew you were only pretending."

the crying stopped with the return of the lights. a small girl, just younger of wendy, sat up with the covers still wrapped around her. her eyes filled with tears. "I...I thought you left."

"nope."  wendy said with a big smile "you said we would go to magic land together so im going to make sure that we do ok?"

"...ya" Jordan said after a small pause. like her sister, she had a back pack ready underneath her bed. she grabbed her favorite doll bunny, a flimsy and worn doll. the two sisters changed into warm clotheing  that they prepared just hours ago. she stood before her sister, showing that she was ready.

Wendy nodded and crept to the window. it was just short enough so they could see out of it, but she already had  a pile of books under it to help them get through. Wendy was able to crawl over and out of the window with ease. she stood and looked into the dark woods, the moon giveing just enough light to see ahead. she took a deep breath of the nights air, feeling the sence of adventure energizeing her. it took her a few minutes to realise she was alone. she looked back at the window waiting for her sister. "come on slow poke, times-a-waisting."

"..." Jordan poked her head up so she can just see out. "you sure about this?"

"sure im sure, now come on." wendy said with a smile and a wave. Jordan stood thier for a few seconds before slimbing out, bunny in hand.

The two walked hand in hand into the woods. Wendy pulled a flashlight out of her bag so they could see the way better. they knew the way, but the trail seemed longer than it did during the day. they walked to a small clearing with a large bundle of fallen trees piled together. Wendy and johny found it together and did some improvements to it so that it looked more like a pirate ship (the only thing they added was a stick with a piece of cloth attached to it).

Wedny looked around angerly. "he was supposed to be here. we can't go to magic land without him." wendy pouted and walked around the clearing, looking for signs of him. "he better not be late, we can not go off the schedule for even one second. how can he be so mean? you know what im saying jordan....jordan?"

Jordan hadn't moved since they walked into the clearing. she stood looking up into the trees. Wendy walked over to her, "what do you see?" she shined the flash light towards the direction she was looking. she shined the light back and forth, scanning the area. till she found him. the beam of light stopped on a tall person. at least ten feet tall standing on the other side of the clearing between the trees. It had no face to speak of, the head was just a lump of pale skin. It wore a dark suit with a matching dark tie that somehow fit it's increadily thin and tall body.

"Mr. Gaint!" wendy said happily running over to it. she gave it's leg a hug "im sorry i said bad things about you mr. gaint, i didn't see you at first. did you wait long?"

The thing didn't say anything, nor did it make any movemnt of yes or no. it stood there, stareing at her with no eyes. wendy smiled "so you ready to take us to magic land?"

The slender man seemed to understand that. It's arms extended down just low enough for wendy to hold it. she looked over at jordan, she stood there holding bunny, not moveing. "come on jordan, its time to go to magic land."

"..." jordan wasnt moveing.

Wendy sighed. "give me a second mr. gaint." she walked over to Jordan. "whats wrong it's time to go"

jordan slowly shook her head, "no...this doesn't seem right."

the girls didn't notice that the slender man had grown more arms.

"we been over this, he is going to take us to magic land. he's a gaint, so he is going to take us home."

"but dont gaints eat people?"

the slender man kept two arms at its sides, but many of the others  slowly and silently slid behind it, curveing around the trees.

"this gaint is too thin to eat people. besides, he has no claws or sharp teeth."

"he doesn't have a face!"

If the girls would pay attention, they may have seen the arms slowly circleing the clearing. some above thier heads, others crawling on the woods floor.

"listen, if we can go to magic land, we can go to where all the fairy tales are made. we'll meet wizards, dragons, fairies, mermaids, and unicorns."

The hands slowly converged into the middle towards the girls.

"...fairies?" jordan asked

"yes lots of fairies. we'll even go to the fairy castle i promise."

many of the hands dangled above them like spiders, just a few feet over them and getting closer.

"...ok" jordan reached out and grabbed wendy's hand. she squeezed bunny hard

"good" wendy said with a smile and turned around towards the slender man. "we're ready now mr. giant."

Jordan looked behind her real quick. she was sure she heard something. she shook her head, trying to get any doudt our of her mind. she walked over to the wendy and the slender man. wendy was already holding his hand, jordan slowly took his other hand as well. the three walked deeper in the woods, wendy going on and on about what they should do first when they go to magic land.

Jordan looked back once, seeing a light in the distance. she thought it was thier old home. she hoped thier mother wouldn't miss them too much.

that was the last time Jordan saw home, and the last time she heard her sister's voice.