Ticci Toby

The long road home seemed to go on and on. The road continued to
outstretch in front of the vehicle endlessly.
The light that shone through the branches of the tall green trees danced
across the window in random patterns, every once in a while, obnoxiously
shining in your eyes.
The surrounding was full of deep green trees forming a forest around the
road. The only sound was the sound of the cars engine as it traveled
down the path. It was peaceful and let off a serene feeling.
Although the ride seemed like a nice one, it lacked every form of 'nice'
for both passengers.
The middle-aged woman behind the steering wheel had neat short brown
hair that fit her complexion quite well. She wore a green v-neck t-shirt
and a pair of blue jeans. Diamond stud earrings decorated each of her
ears which partially showed from behind her hair cut. She had deep green
eyes which where brought out by her shirt, and the lighting seemed to
make them more noticeable. There wasn't much significance to her
appearance. She just looked like any 'average mother' that you'd see on
t.v. shows and such, but one thing for sure made her differ from those
'average mothers' and that was the dark bags under her eyes.
Her facial expression was gloomy and sad, although she genuinely looked
like one who smiled a lot.
She would sniffle every once in a while, and occasionally glance back in
the rear-view mirror to look back at her son in the back seat, who was
hunched over partially, his arms held tight around his chest, and his
head pressed against the cold window.
The boy lacked any normal appearance, anyone could blandly see that
something was wrong with him. His messy brown hair went in every which
way, and his pale, almost gray skin was brought out by luminescent
lighting. His eyes where dark, unlike his mother's and he wore a white
t-shirt and scrub pants that had been provided to him by the hospital.
The clothes he had worn before where so shredded and blood stained, that
they weren't 'wearable' any more.
The right side of his face bared a few cuts along with his split
eyebrow. His right arm was bandaged up all the way up to his shoulder,
which had been shredded when his right side had hit the shattered glass.
His injuries appeared to be painful, when really he couldn't feel a
thing. He never could feel a thing. That was just one of the glories
about being him. One of the many challenges he had to face growing up,
was growing up with the rare disease that caused him to be completely
numb towards pain. Never before had he felt himself get hurt. He could
have lost an arm and felt nothing. That and another major disorder he
had faced, was the one that deemed him many insulting nick names in the
short time he attended grade school, before he was moved to home
schooling was his Tourette syndrome, which caused him to tic and twitch
in ways he couldn't control. He would crack his neck uncontrollably and
twitch every once in a while. The kids would tease him and call him
Ticci Toby and mock him with exaggerated twitching and laughing. It got
so bad he turned to homeschooling. It was too hard for him to be in a
common learning environment with seemingly every kid poking, or more
like stabbing fun at him.
Toby stared blankly out the window, his face was empty of any
depict-able emotion, and every few minutes his shoulder, arm, or foot
would twitch. Every bump that the car tires hit, made him stomach turn.
Toby Rogers was the boy's name. And the last time Toby remembered riding
a car, was when it crashed.
That was all he thought about. Unconsciously replaying everything he had
remembered before he blacked out, over and over again. Toby had been the
lucky one, when his sister hadn't been so lucky. When the thought of his
younger sister came, he couldn't help but let his eyes begin to tear up.
The horrible memories replayed in his mind. Her screaming that had been
cut off when the front of the car was smashed in. It all went blank for
a moment before Toby opened his eyes to see his sister's body, her
forehead pierced with glass shards, her hips and legs where crushed
under the force of the steering wheel, her torso pushed in from the late
inflated air bag.
This was the last thing he had seen of his dear little sister.
The road home continued on for what seemed like forever. It took so long
to get home due to his mother wanting to avoid passing the sight of the
crash.
When the surrounding gave into a familiar neighborhood, they had both
been more then ready to get out of the car and step back into their own
home.
It was a older neighborhood, with quaint little houses all next to each
other. The car drove in front of a little blue house, with white window
panes.
They both quickly noticed the old vehicle that was parked in front of
the house, and the familiar figure who stood out in the drive way. Toby
felt automatic anger and frustration take over him at the sight of his
father. His father who wasn't there.
His mother pulled the car up into the driveway beside him before turning
off the engine and preparing to step out and face her husband.
"Why is he here?" Toby said quietly as he looked back at his mother who
reached to open the car door.
"He's your father Toby, he's here because he wants to see you," His
mother responded with a monotone voice, trying to sound less shaky.
"Yet he couldn't have driven up to the hospital to see Lyra before she
died," Toby narrowed his eyes out the window.
"He was drunk that night honey, he couldn't drive-" "Yeah when is he
not," Toby pushed open the door before his mother and stumbled out onto
the driveway where he met his father's gaze before looking down at his
feet with a stern expression.
His mother stepped out behind him and met her husbands eyes before
walking around the car.
His father opened up his arms, expecting a hug from his wife, but she
walked passed him and put her arm around Toby's shoulder and influenced
him to begin walking inside.
"Connie," her husband began to say under a raspy voice, "What no welcome
home hug huh?"
She ignored her husbands obnoxious words and walked passed him with her
son under her arm. "Hey, He's 16 he can walk by himself," his father
began to follow them in.
"He's 17," Connie glared back at him before opening the door to the
house and stepping inside.
"Toby, why don't we get you in your room to rest okay? I'll come get you
when dinner is ready-" "No, I'm 16 I can walk by myself," Toby said
sarcastically, and glared back at his father before stumbling up the
small stair case and turning into his room where he slammed the door
violently.
His little room didn't have much in it. Just a small bed, a dresser, a
window, and his walls had a few framed pictures of his family, back when
they where a family. Before his father became an alcoholic, and acted
violently towards the rest of his family. Toby remembered when he was
arguing with his mother and he grabbed her by the hair and shoved her to
the floor, and when Lyra had tried to break it up, he pushed her and she
hit her back on the corner of the kitchen counter. Toby could never
forgive him for what he did to his mother and sister. Never.
Toby didn't care how much his father beat him down, he couldn't feel it
anyway, what he did care about was how he intentionally hurt the only
two people he cared about.
And when he waiting in the hospital, where his sister took her last few
breathes, the only person who didn't rush there, was his dad.
Toby stood by the window and looked out onto the street. He could have
sworn he saw things out of the corner of his eye, but quickly blamed it
on the medication he had been put on.
When dinner time had come around and his mother called up to him, Toby
came down the stairs and hesitantly sat down at the table across from
his father, and in between his mother and an empty chair.
It was quiet as his parents picked at their food, but Toby refused to
eat. Instead he just watched his dad with a blank stare.
His mother caught onto his stare towards his father and elbowed him
slightly. Toby looked over at her slightly and look down at his uneaten
food, in which he didn't touch.
Toby laid in bed, he pulled his covers over his head and stared at the
window. He was tired but there was no way he would fall asleep. He
couldn't, there was too much to think about. He had been debating on
wether or not to follow his mothers directions and forgive his father,
or continue holding a grudge with his boiling hatred.
He heard his door creak open, and his mother padded into the room and
sat on the bed next to him. She reached over and rubbed his back, which
had been turned to her.
"I know its hard Toby, trust me, I understand, but I promise you it will
get better" she said softly.
"When is he going to leave?" Toby said with a innocent tone in his shaky
voice.
Connie let her gaze fall down to her feet. "I don't know honey, he's
staying as far as I know," she replied.
Toby didn't respond. He just continued to look forward at the wall,
holding his damaged arm near his chest.
After a few minutes of silence, his mother sighed, before she leaned in
to kiss his cheek and stood up to walk out of the room. "Good night,"
she said as she closed the door.
The hours passed slowly, and Toby couldn't quit tossing and turning.
Every time he let his imagination take over, he heard the screeching of
tires, the screaming of his sister, and he could uncontrollably jerk in
bed. He threw off his covers, laying on his back, he pulled his pillow
over his face and cried into it. He could feel his chest rise and fall
as he let out each shaky breathe as he cried. He could hear his own
pitiful weeping. He would have been screaming and crying if he didn't
press his pillow over his face. After a few seconds he threw the pillow
off his face as well and sat up, hunched over, holding his head and
breathing roughly, tears streaming from his eyes. He couldn't help but
cry. He tried to keep it in, but he couldn't help but whine and whimper
as he sat there shaking. He inhaled before he stood up and walked around
his bed to the window and peered out, taking deep breathes trying to
calm down. He rubbed his eyes and looked out at the group of tall pine
trees across the street. He stopped suddenly, and his gaze slowly
centered on something standing under the street light. He heard ringing
in his ears and he couldn't look away. The figure stood beside the
street light, about 2 feet shorter then it, long arms draped at it's
sides as it stared up at him with non-existing eyes. The figure had no
features what-so-ever. No eyes, no mouth, no nose, yet it held Toby's
hypnotized stare, seemingly peering into his very being. The ringing in
his ears grew louder and louder each second he stared before suddenly it
all went black.
The next morning Toby woke in his bed. He felt different. He wasn't
tired at all, and when he consciously woke up, it felt like he had been
lying there, awake for hours. He had no thoughts flowing through his
mind. He sat up slowly and stumbled over to the wall, but when he stood
up he automatically felt dizzy. He stumbled to the doorway and walked
down the stairs. His parents where sitting at the table, his father was
in-tuned with the small t.v. that sat on the counter top, and his mother
reading the newspaper. She quickly looked over when she felt Toby's
presence looming behind her.
"Well, good morning sleepy head, you've been sleeping forever," She
greeted him with hesitated smile.
Toby slowly looked over at the clock and noticed that it was 12:30 p.m.
"I made you breakfast but it got cold, I was going to wake you, but I
felt you needed sleep," her expression fell from happy to worried as her
son resisted responding to her. "Are you alright?"
Toby stumbled over and sat by his father. He felt as if he was on idle,
and had no control over his actions. He was seeing everything he did,
but it didn't seem to register in his brain properly. He reached out to
to his fathers arm, but his hand ended up getting slapped. His father
turned to him abruptly and pushed his chair over with his foot. "Don't
touch me boy!" He yelled.
His mother stood up, "Alright knock that off! That is the last thing we
need!"
The days went by, and things continued on as they where. Connie spent
most of her time cleaning up the house, and her rude husband spent most
of his time ordering her around. It was just how it used to be before
the crash.
Toby never really left his room. He would sit by his bed, and tremble.
His mind would wonder, but his thoughts changed to fast to be
remembered. He would pace around his small room like a caged animal, or
stare out the window. The unhealthy cycle continued.
Connie continued to be pushed around by her husband, being way too
submissive to him, and Toby remained in his room.
Before he could think twice, he would begin to chew on his hands,
tearing the flesh from his fingers. He would gnaw his hands until they
bled. When his mother walked in on him while he was doing so, she
reacted horribly. She rushed him downstairs and grabbed the first aid,
wrapping his hands in it. She demanded that he wouldn't leave her side
from then.
He isolated himself so much that he grew to hate being around others.
His memory grew glitchy as well. He'd start missing memory of minutes,
hours, days, and so on. He would begin talking nonsense, about things
completely unrelated to conversations he would have. He'd go off about
seeing things, sharks in his sink as he washed the dishes, hearing
crickets in his pillows, and seeing ghosts outside his bedroom window.
All the nonsense landed him in a counselors office. His mother grew too
anxious about his mental health, she decided it would be good for him to
talk to a professional about what he was feeling.
Connie walked Toby into the building, holding his hand and guiding him
in. She walked him up to the front desk and began talking to the lady
who sat behind it.
"Mrs. Rogers?" The lady asked.
"Yes that's me," Connie nodded, "We're here to see doctor Oliver, I'm
here with Toby Rogers" "Yes, right this way," The lady stood up and lead
them down a long hallway. Toby looked at the framed artwork down the
halls and tuned in to the sound of the lady's high heels on the hard
wood floor. She opened the door to a room with a table and two chairs.
"If we can get him to sit in here for a few minutes, I'll get the
doctor," She smiled and held the door open.
Toby stumbled into the room and sat down at the table. He looked over at
his mother and the lady before the door slowly shut behind them. He
looked around the room before he held up his tightly bandaged hands and
began to bite at the bandages to unwrap his hands, but was interrupted
as the door swung open and a young woman in a black and white spotted
dress and light blonde hair stepped in, holding a clip board and a pen.
"Toby?" she asked with a smile.
Toby looked up at her and nodded.
"Nice to meet you Toby, my name is Doctor Oliver" she put her hand out
for him to shake but hesitantly pulled away when she noticed his
bandaged hands. "Oh," she smiled nervously before clearing her throat
and sitting in the chair across the table from him.
"So I'm going to ask you a few questions, try to answer then as honestly
as possible okay?" she placed her clip board down on the table.
Toby nodded slowly and held his restrained hands in his lap.
"How old are you Toby?"
"17" he responded quietly.
She wrote that down on the paper that was clipped to the clipboard.
"What is your full name?" "Toby Erin Rogers"
"What is your birthday?" "April 28th" "Who is your immediate family?"
Toby paused for a minute before answering her question, "My Mom, My Dad,
and…" he stopped, "M-my sister"
"I heard about your sister dear… I'm really sorry," her expression faded
into a sad, pity-filled look.
Toby nodded.
"Do you remember anything from the crash Toby?" Toby looked away from
her. His mind went blank for a moment. He looked down at his lap, and in
the surrounding, he heard a faint ringing sound. His eyes widened and he
froze in his place.
"Toby?" the counselor asked.
"Toby are you listening?"
Toby felt a shiver go down his spine until he froze once again and
slowly looked over out the little window through the door, where he saw
it. A dark feature-less figure, peering in at him. He stared, eyes
widened, the ringing growing louder and louder until suddenly the loud
voice of the counselor broke his trance.
"Toby!" She yelled.
Toby jumped and fell sideways out of his chair and back up into the corner.
Doctor Oliver stood up, holding her clipboard to her chest. A surprised
look in her eyes.
Toby met her eyes again, his breath hitching as he twitched.
That night Toby laid in bed. His eyes dazed as he stared straight up at
his ceiling. He could feel himself begin to doze off, when he heard the
scattering of footsteps down his hallway. He sat up and looked towards
the doorway, his door wide open. There was no light, everything was lit
by the luminescent blue glow of the moon through his window, leaving a
cold lighting. He stood up and slowly made his way towards the doorway,
when suddenly the door, which was previously wide open, slammed in his
face. He gasped and fell back. His was out of breathe when he hit the
ground and he began breathing heavily, his eyes wide open. He waited for
a few seconds before getting back up on his feet. He reached out and
grasped the cold door handle with his bandaged hand and creaked it open.
He looked out into the dark hallway and tiptoed out of his room. The
window at the end of the hallway lit up the darkness with blue moonlight
as he padded his way down. He could hear footsteps rustling around him,
and faint giggling let by the pitter patter of small feet, which sounded
like a child had run in front of him, giggling and running around. The
hallway was a lot longer then he had remembered. It seemed endless… like
the ride home from the hospital. He heard a door creak in front of him.
"Mom?" he called out in a shaky voice.
Suddenly a door slammed behind him and he jumped and turned around.
Behind him he heard a long eerie groan from behind him, that sounded to
croak right in his ear. He turned around as fast as he could and was
suddenly face to face with none other then his dead sister. Her eyes
where clouded white, her skin pale, and the right side of her jaw only
dangling on by tissue and muscle, glass protruding from her forehead,
and black blood leaking down her face, her blonde hair pulled up back in
a pony tail as it always was, wearing her grey t-shirt and athlete
shorts which where dirty and spotted with blood. Her legs where bent in
ways they shouldn't be. She stood, emitting a long croaking noise, only
an inch away from Toby's face.
Toby yelped and fell back. "AW!" he started to crawl backwards away from
her, not able to break the eye contact he held with her, blank, dead
eyes. He dragged himself backwards until he backed up into something.
He stopped for a second. Everything was dead silent except for his heavy
breathing and crying. He slowly looked up to meet the blank face of a
tall dark figure that stood over him. Behind the tall dark mass where
rows of children, looking to range from 3 to 10 years, their eyes
completely black and dark black blood leaked from their eye sockets.
He screamed and stood up as fast as he could only to be tripped by dark
black tendrils that wrapped around his ankle. He fell straight on his
stomach and got the wind knocked out of his chest. He tried to scream
out but he couldn't make a sound. He wheezed out, before it all went black.
Toby woke up with a start. He screamed out and sat up as fast as he
could, completely short of breathe. He wheezed out and held his chest
with his bandaged hands. It was just a dream…. just a dream. He laid
back down on his bed and rolled over on his side. It felt like a giant
weight had been lifted off his chest as he took in deep breathes. He
stood up and padded over to his window. He saw nothing. Nobody was out
there. No ghosts. No figures. Nothing.
He heard the rustling and coughing of his father out the doorway. His
door was closed.
He walked over and opened it. Looking out into the hallway once again.
He padded down the hallway and into the kitchen where he found his dad
standing and having a smoke in their living room.
Toby waited a second and watched him from around the corner before a
burning feeling started deep in his chest.
Deep, boiling, anger took over him. He heard the little imaginary voices
in his head.
"Do it, Do it, Do it," they chanted. He turned away and held his arms.
He felt like he actually had control over himself, unlike he did for the
past few weeks since he got home from the hospital. He actually had
complete thoughts for just moments before they where clouded by the
chanting of the little voices in his head.
"Kill him, he wasn't there, he wasn't there, kill him, kill him," they
continued on. Toby trembled. No. No he wasn't going to do it. What, was
he going crazy? No. He won't kill anyone. He can't. He hated his father,
but hated no way he was going to kill him.
That was it. The last thought he had before he fell into an idle state
once again. The influence of the voices in his head was too much. He
began to silently walk up behind his father. He reached over the counter
to the knife holder in the kitchen and pulled out a the largest knife
that had been resting in the case. He gripped it in his hand. He felt a
sensation take over his chest. He let out a snicker. "Heh… heheh…
hehehehehe! HAHAHAHA!" he began laughing so hard he had to gasp for
breathe. His father turned around abruptly before he felt a brute force
shove him to the floor. He grunted as the hair was knocked out of him.
"What!" he looked up at the boy who stood over him, grasping the kitchen
knife in his hand. "Toby what are you doing!" he went to sit up and put
hand arms out in front of him in self defense but before he knew it Toby
was on top of him. He went to grab at his neck, but his father reached
out and blocked his hand by grabbing onto this wrist.
"Stop! Get off of me you little fucker!" he yelled and with his other
hand he threw an off center punch towards Toby's shoulder, but he didn't
stop. The look in Toby's eyes was not sane. It looked as if a demon had
taken control over him. He yelled back and went to stab the knife into
his father's chest but he blocked him and grabbed onto his wrist once
again. He went to shove him back, but Toby kicked out his feet in front
of him and landed a hard blow straight to his face. His father recoiled
and pulled his arms away to cuff his face, but Toby got back up and
drove the knife straight into his shoulder. His father let out a loud
cry and went to pull the knife out, but before he could, Toby threw his
fist straight into his face. He began to pound his fists into his head,
laughing and wheezing. He cracked his neck and grabbed the knife and
ripped it out of his shoulder. He drove it deep into his dad's chest and
repeatedly stabbed into his torso, blood spilling out and getting
splattered everywhere. He didn't stop until his father's body went
still. He threw the knife over to the side and leaned over his body,
coughing and panting. He stared at his smashed in face and sat there
twitching, until a loud scream broke the silence. He looked over to see
his mother standing a few feet away, covering her mouth, tears streaming
down her eyes.
"Toby!" she screamed, "Why did you do that!?" she cried. "W-why!" She
screamed. Toby stood up and began to back away from his father's bloody
corpse. He began to back out of the kitchen. He looked down at the blood
soaked bandages on his hands and looked up at his mother one last time
before he turned and ran out of the house. He ran into the garage and
slammed his hand against the control panel on the wall and pushed the
button to open the garage door. Before he ran out his father's two
hatchets that had been hanging on the tool rack above a table full of
jars, filled to the brim with old rusted nails and screws. One hatchets
was new, it had a bright orange handle and a shiny blade, the other was
old with a wooden handle and a old dull blade. He grabbed both and
looked down at the table and his eyes met a box of matches, and under
the table was a red gasoline tank. He held both of the hatchets in one
hand and grabbed the matches and gasoline before running out of the
garage, down the driveway and up the street. As he approached the street
light that he could see out his own bedroom window he heard police
sirens in to distance. He turned around and the red and blue flashing
lights came rushing down the street. Toby stood for a second, before he
pulled open the cap on the gasoline tank and ran down the street,
spilling gasoline all over the street after him and he turned to run
into the trees. He poured the last bit of gasoline out before he reached
in his pocket and pulled out a match. He struck it against the box and
immediately dropped it. In an instant, flames burst out around him. The
fire caught onto the trees and bushes around him and before he knew it,
he was surrounded by fire. The silhouettes of police cars where visible
through the flames as he backed away into the forest around him. He
looked around but his vision was blurred, his heart was pounding and he
closed his eyes for a moment. This was it. This was the end.
Toby felt a hand on his shoulder. He opened his eyes and looked over to
see a large white hand with long boney fingers that rested on his
shoulder. He followed the arm that was attached to the hand up to a
towering dark figure. It appeared to be wearing a dark black suit, and
it's face was completely blank. It towered over Toby's small frame and
it looked down on him. Tendrils reached out from it's back. Before Toby
knew it, his vision blurred and he was surrounded by the sound of
ringing in his ears. Everything went blank.
That was it. That was the end. That was how Toby Rogers died.
A few weeks later Connie sat in her sister's kitchen. Her sister, Lori
sat next to her drinking a cup of coffee.
About three weeks ago, Connie lost her husband, and her son, and a few
weeks before, she lost her daughter to a car crash. Since then she moved
in with her sister. The police where keeping her busy, they had just
finished cleaning up the case, and the story had been released two weeks
ago, and the focus of the world seemed to have shifted to completely new
stories.
Lori switched on the T.V. to a news broadcast. On the T.V. the news
reporter began introducing the new headline.
"We have breaking news! Last night there has been a reported murder of 4
individuals. There are no suspects yet but the victims where a group of
middle school kids who had been out in the woods late last night. The
kids had been 'bludgeoned' and stabbed to death. The investigators had
discovered a weapon at the crime scene which appears to be a old, dull
bladed hatchet, as you can see here" The pictured changed to show snap
shots of the weapon exactly as it was left on the crime scene.
"Investigators had pulled the name of a possible suspect, Toby Rogers, a
17 year old boy who a few weeks ago had stabbed his father to death and
tried to cover up his escape by setting a fire in the streets and the
forest area around the neighborhood. Although they had believed the
young boy had died in the fire, investigators suspect that Rogers may
still be alive, due to the fact that his body was never found.
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