Life, The Universe, and Everything

The police investigation is all but over, go figure. They found nothing because there is nothing to find. The funeral's tomorrow afternoon. Elaine, neither I nor MrStumblr meant to make you feel ad with those flowers. He just felt guilty about upsetting you with his situation.
I'm going to go take a shower now. I've been staying with friends and I haven't taken good care of myself. That needs to change.

Australia

Again, I'm only putting up a short post so people know I'm alive. We've been doing the tourist thing all over the world still. After Bejing we hopped to Indonesia for a day and then to Sydney. We've been picking up necessities as needed on our travels, including new suitcases. It's nice, actually, having nice things. My grandma gave me the suitcase I have sitting at home. She doesn't travel much so when I took my senior trip to New York in high school I took second hand luggage along. Which was fine, I loved that she wanted to help me. But new is nice.

We're making a special stop next. Won't say where again. And MrStumblr is going through withdrawal from not posting, but he's adamant that if he does it won't be pretty. That's why I'm letting you people know what's going on. See you all later.

Not a vacation

As MrStumblr noted, we're on the move. We saw some events that terrified us. First his car at supper, then the same message spray painted on his house. Finally he went to one of his therapy sessions and found a file with my name on it. She got called out for something and he looked through it. It's a stalker's file. There's all sorts of photos of me. And a CD. The disc is the important part. He uploaded it's contents to one of those file sharing sites so he could look at it later. It's all surveylence footage of my old apartment. And she was there. Just like Masky came in the night in Marble Hornets, so she came in the night for me. There are several times it shows me vanishing from bed and I walk in and head back to bed later.


Finally we saw Him again. He was already in the house when we got home from grocery shopping. And so we ran. Hopped a plane to New York City, where we got a new wardrobe and stayed low for a couple days. We're mooching off of airport WiFi now. And no, I won't say where we're going next. I don't want to meet anyone unpleasant.

The Rotational Air Circulation Device

So we worked things out. Mostly. I still don't know what to think of what he's done, but he's still the guy who charmed his way into my life. The least I could do is let him take me to dinner again. And it went well. We laughed, we drank a bit, we had a good time. And now I sit on my bed, knowing full well that I'm dead tired and need sleep. James is asleep (at least I think he is). But I think he'll tell you the rest of the story tomorrow morning. It was, slightly exciting, but mostly terrifying.

Sorry I'm so scatterbrained tonight. I think I had a bit much to drink. I just hope I can sleep it off. Hell, I just hope I can sleep.

A map for my mind

I need to write this out, think it through. This is almost too much. I'll start from the beginning.

I found the Slender Man a few month ago, and first saw him shortly after. And then I started blogging. I did what I could to keep him out of my writing, but that didn't last too long. And James, sorry, MrStumblr, well he sorta pushed that to the front of my thoughts. So you can bet I'd be shitting bricks when I found out he could see him too. That night we ran. My kitchen was connected to the garage so we hit the button and we took off in my car before the door finished opening. He was furious, tentacles everywhere. And stupidly, I took off for the countryside, towards my favorite lake. There are no trees anywhere near it, but the fastest route runs through a small county park. That park is nothing but trails and trees. Bad move. He was there, at every turn, every rut in the road. MrStumblr helped a lot, keeping me in a condition to drive and making sure we didn't hit anything.

Worst half hour of my life. He put us in a loop. It's normally a 10 minute drive, but it took until trip number three for us to realize what had happened. I saw a rut I'd left there previously and realized I was letting the fear control us. After that, we slowly talked our way back to calm and escaped. Not before he smashed in a few windows, but we escaped unharmed. Another few minutes and we were at the lake. I just parked the car and we sat there. Terrified for our lives until sunrise.

And then I moved in and we talked. I told him I was stalked and he told me that he wasn't human in the same way I was. It's a bit of a leap to realize your boyfriend was at one point the equivalent of a proxy. It's quite another to notice that he has been anything but proxyish since you met him. I don't think the Slender Man's controlling him at all. Or at least not in the same way the rest of his minions are. I think I can trust MrStumblr. I should go talk to him. Now that I've got this all worked out, I need to see where we stand.

Packing

Sorry for the absence folks. I've been packing, with James' help. I'm moving in. His roomie moved out a while ago so he's got a spare bedroom for me. He said we'd talk rent when I found another job, which I can work with. I think he's got a trust fund or something. He's got some great photos of a recent trip to Ireland and I find myself questioning how it's possible. None of my business though.

All I have left is a few odds and ends (cable modem and router and other such bits). Oh wow, and he just pulled up with a small moving van and pizza.