Maliki's pov.

I'm listening to music on my phone when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn and see Liu.

"Hey, Liu." I say, taking my headphones off.

"Hey Maliki." She says back to me.

"Is there anything I can help you with?" I ask, looking at the girl.

"Well... I kinda wanted to know stuff about you. What your favorite ways of killing are, what weapons you'd like to use, ya know." She said, showing me a smile.

"Alright, shouldn't be too hard." I say, tossing the headphones onto my desk and walking over to my bed.

Liu and I sit on the bed and she starts asking me questions.

"What are your preferred ways of killing?" She asks.

"Well... I don't like... messes. Blood on my clothes is what I mean. Other than that, I like stabbing and hacking." I say staring off into nothingness.

"I see... so ranged attacks suite you well, I understand. And hacking and stabbing? Nice... nice..." she replies.

"What... are these questions for?" I ask.

"You need a weapon to carry everywhere. Me and Jess have knives, tami has hatchets, Jane has two knives so that's cool. Slenda has her weird mind stuff, Ann has her chainsaw, And You have nothing. Nothing yet. I just wanted to get a basic understanding of how you kill before I ask you anything else." She explains.

"Ah, I see. Any other questions?" I ask,

"Oh yeah! Who do you look for in a romantic partner?" She asks, surprising the hell out of me.

I blush and tilt my head in confusion.

"What does that have to do with anything!?" I ask, not seeing the correlation.

"Oh, c'mon. You're type. What's your type of girlfriend? Are you... are you... into dudes? If you are it's totally ok." Liu says looking me in the eyes.

"I'm not... into men. Not like that's a bad thing. I just don't like guys. I guess my type is... hmm..." i trail off.

What was my type? I can only think of a woman who cares about me but that's too simple. I've never really thought about it too much.

"I... don't know. I never thought about it. I guess... it would have to be... hmm... tall and strong... smart too..." I say, looking to the ground.

"Ooh? Are you describing me?" Liu asks, laughing.

Thinking it over, I totally was. Liu chuckled even more when she saw my cherry red face.

"I'd be grateful if you were, but I can't keep chatting right now. I've got to head to my room real quick. I'll be back soon." Liu said, standing up and leaving the room.

I laid down on my bed, looking up at the ceiling, and wait for her to return. She comes back minutes later and hands me a wooden box. I take it and open it. Inside is a slingshot, and a pouch with a bunch of steel balls inside (no not Gyro Zeppeli's steel balls sadly.)

"I hope you like it. I thought it was the perfect weapon for you. It's small and light weight, and those steel balls will pack a serious punch to anyone you wanna kill!" Liu shouts with a smile.

The slingshot is powerful, and if I hit someone with it, they'll definitely get hurt.

"This is amazing! What can I do to repay you?" I ask.

"You'll repay me soon enough, Maliki." Liu said in a strange tone.

"Well... for what it's worth now, thank you." I say, looking at the weapon.

"Don't worry about it. Me and Jess want to head out into the city. Care to join us?" Liu asks.

I never really hung out with her or Jess before, so I accepted their offer.

"Sure. I'd like that." I say, setting the box on my nightstand and putting the bag of steel balls into my pocket.

Jess walks in, and blushes when she sees me. I wonder why she blushed.

"Hey, Maliki." She says, holding out a box with a bow on it.

I took it and opened it. Inside was a Karambit knife.

"I just thought you might like it. Never know when you need one." She said, smiling genuinely.

I slipped the knife into my back pocket, and hugged Jess as a thank you.

"Are we all ready to go?" She asks, hugging me back.

"Yep!" Liu yells.

"Yeah." I say, standing up and putting the slingshot into my other pocket.

We leave the house and head through the woods. The corpse of that copycat started to rot, and so we covered out noses and hurried to the city.

"I haven't been here for a couple of weeks so I hope things died down a bit." I day to myself, running across the street with the other two.

"What do we want to eat?" I ask the two girls.

"I'm all for pizza." Jess said. Putting a face mask on to hide her smile.

"I second that!" Liu yelled, smiling widely.

"Alright then. Pizza it is." I say, as we walk to one of the many pizza joints in the city.

We soon made it to a pizza restaurant, and placed an order for two large pepperoni pizzas, one with extra cheese. We waited outside until the pizza was done, but a large group of guys passed us by, and took notice to Jess's figure.

"Hot damn!" One of them yelled,

"Look at the ass on that bitch!" Another one said.

One of the guys approached and tried talking to Jess.

"What's up, beautiful?" He asks.

Jess didn't respond, only grabbing my hand.

"You're with this loser?" He asks.

"Mmhmm. Boyfriend of a lifetime, now hows about you fuck off?" Jess says, trying to get the man to leave us alone.

I only blushed and held her hand.

"Heh, Tell you what, I'll give you $400 to be with me." He says, taking out his wallet.

"Get the fuck away from me before I gut you like the filthy pig you are." Jess growled, tightening the grip she had on my hand.

"Pshh... whatever. At least your face ain't fucked up like your boyfriend or the other chick's." He said, before stomping away.

"Go inside... and wait for the pizzas. I got something I need to deal with." Jess said, but I stopped her before she could run after the guy.

"I'll do it." I say, taking out my slingshot.

"Alright." Jess said, taking Liu inside.

I followed the man for a few blocks, but aimed the slingshot when he tried to pick up a different girl. I shot at him from about 30 feet away from him, and he dropped almost instantly, and began to violently seize. The girls screamed when they saw his blood, but I had already started running back to the pizza place. Jess and Liu were waiting for me outside with the pizzas. We quickly left the area, and hid in an abandoned building to eat our pizza.

"I gotta tell ya, this slingshot is amazing." I say, swallowing a bite of my pizza.

"I hoped so." Jess says, finishing half of the other pizza.

"So... why did you kill that guy? Could it be... he insulted us?" Liu asked.

"Huh? U-um.. he... asked for it! He was an asshole. I did it for that reason only!" I say, knowing full well they didn't believe me.

And they were right.

We continued laughing and hanging out together, looking around the other abandoned places. Night was soon upon us, and so we decided to leave. We walked all the way back to the mansion, feeling exhausted. I fell asleep on my bed, with the other two also on my bed for whatever reason. I wasn't going to question it.

(Sorry about the long pause of posts. I've gotten no sleep cus of school and shit but I'll try to post more)