The 'Trash Trio' 2

## sephet04/07/2019

Kyle pulled his blanket a little tighter around his shoulders and scooted on his mattress so there was room for everyone to come chill, somehow his bed being on the floor made it seem like a far more reasonable place to just hang out. Even though both Rhett and Val shared a room otherwise. At least he knew for *sure* no one was currently fucking on his bed, for all the denial he could never be completely certain about the other two.
“I call this meeting of the Midnight Society open, I think we’re supposed to tell scary stories now. Has anyone here been haunted?”

## Rose | Rhett | Marci04/07/2019

Rhett wasn’t really in the greatest of moods after his day had all but gone straight to hell. His coffee date with Iskra had been promptly interrupted by the sudden zoo incident and from that point on things were just plain chaotic. At least the team had managed to capture and detain all the unruly animals without much more than some bruises and such to show for it. No one died, he reminded himself while exhaling a sigh and sitting at the end of Kyle’s bed.
He stared at Kyle blankly and shivered at the idea of being haunted. His mind always traveling back to unpleasant thoughts. “No, but I’ve talked to a dead person.” Rhett piped up and smiled a little. “It was a good time. How about you? Ever felt like something was coming for you?"(edited)

## birdman | Valentine04/07/2019

"I grew up on a rez," replied a very excited Valentine, before Kyle had even finished talking. "Of *course* I've been haunted. Well.... okay, not me specifically. I used to go out with my uncle to an' from a town nearby our house, but it was like... an hour or so of driving, I think. He claims it was one of those mutated deers from the poisoned river water, but one time we were driving down the highway and he fuckin *swerves* outta the way," Valentine motioned like he was driving a car, all dramatic-like. "Thinkin' a guy was standing in the middle of the road, on all fours." he had cracked a grin, but his face fell very cold. "Now, Rhett, I know you can pull that kind of thing off well, but as far as I'm aware, it wasn't a person at all. 'Ccording to him, he kept seeing it in strange places. Like... underneath the stairwell, or creeping behind a shower curtain- though, if you ask me, sounds like his head was playin' tricks. Never really know, with those sorts of things though, hey?"

## sephet04/07/2019

“Damn that is intense. I love the idea of terrifying ghosts and cryptids and shit. If any of my family’d been visited by something demonic seeming they probably wouldn’t say…” He laughed a little and chewed his lip as he tried to think of something worth saying. “I mean mostly my family did that like… ‘my father’s spirit guided me’ or something, you know? Before I found out what sleep paralysis was I totally thought something tried to kill me in my sleep as a teen but… that was just my brain.”

## Rose | Rhett | Marci04/07/2019

Following the story of Valentine’s uncle was pretty interesting, actually. Rhett wasn’t sure about the whole supernatural type stuff but knew for fact ghosts existed now from his own experience. He stared at Val for a moment wondering if it could’ve just been another shapeshifter like himself or Annie playing games but then shrugged. “Sounds like whatever it was just wanted a place to stay. Don’t you guys have legends and myths like the Wendigo and crap like that?”

“So are your parents religious?” He asked dumbly with his face turned back to Kyle, not meaning much behind the question. It was just that and nothing too serious in his mind. “That’s when your brain makes up scary images and stuff, right? Sounds absolutely awful..how do you get out of it?”

## birdman | Valentine04/07/2019

"*Wiindigoowi?*" Valentine asked, "Yeah, we do, but like... that ain't the only one. Tourists go nuts for that stuff." he laughed, crossing his legs. "I was never in a very religious family myself- we had our traditions an' all- but I did get fostered out to a family for a little while, they... *man*, they were um... They sure did like Jesus a lot, I'll tell ya. That shit's way creepier than any legend my folks had."

## sephet04/07/2019

“I can honestly see myself being one of those tourists, I love lore like that and stuff. Not that I actually go anywhere but I could probably go dick around in some spooky woods or something… maybe.” Kyle scratched his jaw as he thought about it, it always looked cool and interesting in videos but he did remember camping when he was younger and being uncomfortable and eaten alive by bugs.
At Rhetts question of religion he couldn’t help but laugh, “Oh man, so much. They are *so* religious. They are definitely the ones talking about Jesus a lot. And yup, there’s a lot of real creepy stuff involved.” He rubbed his eyes and sighed heavily trying to keep from getting deep with that answer. So much of it was Complicated.
“Sleep paralysis is like, part of you is awake but the rest of you isn’t so you can’t move your body at all but you’re conscious and then your brain starts providing you images. Images can change… I had a lot of like… a thing sitting on my chest staring at me? It was really freaky and I told absolutely no one.”

## Rose | Rhett | Marci04/07/2019

“Hmm, let’s do it then. Find some woods, get absolutely lost and camp out for a couple days. I bet nothing could go wrong.” He chuckled at the idea even though he wasn’t entirely joking. Going on a camping trip with friends was something he’d never experienced but surely it wasn’t much different from their current arrangement.

His laughter returned at Valentine’s answer on religion. “I can see where you’re coming from, the guy was obviously just a wizard, though. Turning water to wine and walking on water...not to mention, didn’t he die and come back at some point?” He smiled and stood up on the grounded mattress before readjusting his sitting position. Now having his legs crossed in front of him and elbows propped on his knees. “Why didn’t you tell anyone?” He asked with furrowed brows then glanced at Val with another question in mind. “You were in foster care?”

April 8, 2019

## birdman | Valentine04/08/2019

"For a bit, yeah." he begun, resting his chin on his hand. "Now *that's* a real ghost story, though, jeez- Baptists got some real dark imagery goin' on in what they're up to." he laughed, and turned to Kyle. It was really late, and their little fella session had a tendency to get pretty deep pretty quickly, so he tucked a blanket around his shoulders to hunker down for the rest of the night. "I thought I had sleep paralysis for *years*," he explained, "but it turned out just to be like, just the visions. That shit did end up actually happening."

## sephet04/08/2019

“Camping with friends is probably more fun than camping with your parents, yeah.” He laughed a little at the idea. If Rhett could turn into a bear they probably wouldn’t have to be too afraid of bears, right?

“Yeah, luckily a tiny demonic guy sitting on my chest and staring at me did not turn out to be real. That would not be something I needed in my life.” He snorted a little bit at Rhett’s question and shrugged. “I mean, when I was a kid I gave people boils when I panicked, I was already an actual literal plague. I didn’t need another exorcism. I kept a lot of things secret from my parents. I don’t think they know much of anything about me anymore…”

## Rose | Rhett | Marci04/08/2019

Rhett smiled and watched Val huddle up under the blanket he’d brought along and wondered how long this little ‘meeting’ would take. Either way, the boy settled for stretching out before shifting. A cat softly trotting over to Kyle and sitting next to him. Knowing how he was about touching, Rhett figured it’d be alright for him to at least come closer in another form. He paused, fur bristling slightly in alarm as he looked back at Kyle. “Wait, what?” He stood in the center of the mattress, his mouth agape as he thought on what was said. “*Another* one?? What happened? It was the real thing?” His questions fell from his mouth in quick succession before he forced it to close back.
He was quickly becoming aware of how little they truly knew of one another. Of course, little things but this seemed like a good as any time to inquire more. “That sounds horrible..” Continuing to Kyle’s side, the cat laid down against his thigh and waited to hear more but not before glancing at Valentine. “Were you able to tell anyone or did you just figure it out for yourself, too? You guys have gone through so much hell.”(edited)

April 9, 2019

## birdman | Valentine04/09/2019

"I'm fucking glad I've never been exorcised," Valentine blurted, puffing his cheeks out. "The worst thing'd happened to me was the baptists thinkin' I was gay at one point," he paused, mostly for comedic effect. "... They were right, I mean- but y'know, I didn't let them know *that*." he laughed. It wasn't something he liked to think about. Keep it light, Valentine, Jesus.
"I found out when I was nine, actually, about the future," he explained, "Summn... really bad happened, I saw it happen an hour before. Kinda went from there, I guess."

## sephet04/09/2019

“It wasn’t officially sanctioned, and neither was the priest. I wouldn’t have qualified under the Catholic church’s like… possession diagnosis. That’s a lot of talking in tongues and completely dissociating from yourself. I just fucked up people’s skin when they touched me, but it made people think I was possessed by evil, you know?” He shrugged a little, considering how to explain the experience. “It’s not really as extreme when the person isn’t suffering from a mental illness or something? Like a lot of the screaming and writhing and stuff, I didn’t really feel the need to do that. I just got splashed with holy water and had passages read at me. It was scary ‘cause I was a kid but there was no like… being strapped to the bed and starved for a month. Eventually I just got better at controlling my ability and I just…”
He grinned a little at Val and nodded. “I just worked on keeping the congregation from figuring out I was gay. Even if I moved here for a dumb reason being away from small town vaguely cult-like church goers is nice.”
“I’m sorry it was something bad, dude. You ever get big visions of nice things happening?”

## Rose | Rhett | Marci04/09/2019

“Same here.” Rhett agreed to Valentine’s comment, laying his head against the covers and curiously listening on. He huffed at Val’s continued experience with the religious people not sure whether to find it funny or deeply unsettling with how both he and Kyle were treated for such things. “Your parents weren’t powered then?” He asked Kyle after hearing him out about the exorcism and how horrible that all sounded. Even without it being like what Rhett had seen in the movies, a kid going through that sort of thing seemed completely wrong.

Going back to Valentine’s future vision coming into play at nine years old, Rhett couldn’t imagine how terrifying that must’ve been either. “Yeah, does anything good ever happen in your visions?” His eyes drifted up to Val again.

## birdman | Valentine04/09/2019

"Good things happen all the time!" he threw his hands up, "I see *mostly* good things, I mean- my life's mostly good, so that's what I see the most!" he shrugged, "It's good when the bad things are notable. It means they're out of the ordinary. Everything else straight up rocks comparatively."

## sephet04/09/2019

“Nah, they didn’t pay much attention to powered things, maybe if I had a more holy seeming power they woulda been more cool with it but… oh well.” He shrugged a little, shifting to run his hands over the back of his head and scrub the scruff there. Somehow that had become a very soothing gesture. “When I was 18 and moved out I did basically every rebellious teen thing I could think of. Sometimes I just shake my head at how much money I spent on tattoos, right?”

“True. I’m glad, then, that it really stands out when bad things happen. It’s good most things are chill. I like the atmosphere of the house here. We have our crises but it’s… it feels like it’s gonna become ordinary.” He sighed a laugh and shook his head, suddenly uncertain with himself. “I mean I just think it’s cool. Living with people again. And it bein’ you guys.”