July 13, 2022

MailMan has been an absolute pain to keep alive as he keeps forgetting to eat or eating too much, complaining, and accidently breaking bones in bizarre ways. He sits on the sofa. Joshua sits on the floor and looks so tired and done with everything. There’s a knock at the door and Joshua groans, stands up, and answers the door. The Boogeyman walks in.

“How are things Joshua?” The Boogeyman asks

"Fucking awful. He is constantly breaking bones and keeps forgetting to eat or eats to much and he just goes on and on about how much it sucks."

"Well good news, based on your recent behavior I’m giving this back as a reward" the Boogeyman takes out a floating white heart shaped rubber band and holds it out to Joshua.

Joshua snatches it and stares at it "Thank you, thank you so fucking much."

"I now expect you to keep up the relationship between you and Cole. So no throwing it away over an argument or refusing to pay them a visit in forever."

Joshua nods. "Understandable" He starts walking over to MailMan with a smile.

MailMan looks over "Whatcha got there?"

"A smoothie." Joshua puts the soul into MailMan

The soul is absorbed as MailMan blinks some. Joshua waits with a happy smile. MailMan’s eyes morph some as he grabs his face and grumbles.

"You alright?" Joshua asks, his smile fading as he looks worried.

MailMan slides off the sofa onto the floor before stumbling up and running to the bathroom with some difficulty.

Joshua follows him.

MailMan coughs over the sink. Joshua walks in and watches with a worried look. MailMan is breathing heavily as he steps back and hits the wall before falling over.

"Dear?" Joshua's voice is quiet with a mix of worried and scared

His pupils are in the heart shape again and his teeth are triangular and as he puts a hand on his own throat and starts to shake and cry.

Joshua is shaking as he keeps watching with worriedness and now fear

MailMan winces and curls up more on the floor beginning to hyperventilate. A drop of blood runs down from his nose.

Joshua watches not really sure what to do

There’s a growing feeling of bad luck as he begins to cry blood.

Joshua decides to slowly walk away from the bathroom. On leaving the bathroom, he no longer feels any bad luck.

Joshua walks back to the living room and sits on the couch still shaking with fear.

He’s able to overhear various sounds of pain and sobbing coming from the bathroom.

Joshua's leg bounces as he gets more worried and scared.

It continues for an uncomfortable amount of time.

Joshua keeps sitting on the couch and covers his ears

After several hours it’s gone quiet.

Joshua is no longer shaking with fear and is now just worried as he calls out to the bathroom. "Dear? are you okay?"

He can hear the bathroom sink start running

Joshua decides to wait a little longer as he calls out again "Just cleaning up?"

The sink shuts off as MailMan makes his way to the living room. His eyes and teeth are back to normal but his face is wet and his eyes look sore. There’s a decent amount of blood stains on his shirt and his hair is a mess. He looks around at the room and seems exhausted and out of it.

"You look......like you need a nap." Joshua pats the spot next to him.

He walks over and sits down to next to him still looking around at the room likes its new to him "I-I’m ok dear just uh...yeah."

"Do you know what happened to you?"

He shakes his head

"Do you wanna just take a nap?"

He nods.

"Do you care if I curl up on your lap?"

"Do whatever." He lays back. If he didnt move long enough, he would look dead.

Joshua curls up on Mailman's lap and rests his head on his chest.