‘’Liar Liar’’ chapter 2 (currywise x reader sfw)
TRIGGER WARNINGS APPLY TO THIS WORK : ABUSE / EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION, THE ROMANTICIZATION OF SUCH THINGS IS NOT THE INTENT OF THIS WORK WHAT SO EVER. PLEASE STAY SAFE.
Here we are with chapter 2 of my very first bigger project! I don’t know if anyone cares at all but I’m gonna keep writing this and publishing it. Mostly because it’s good practice and I enjoy writing :^) Again, don’t roast me for being bad at writing I haven’t done this a lot- haha-
Oh another thing, I know these are really short because my initial goal has been to write around 1000 words per chapter because again I’m not used to writing super long text. I hope I can change that later on though!
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You had spent the first weeks crying to yourself and trying to piece together who was who in the contacts list of your cellphone. The weeks after that were spent frantically collecting whatever memorabilia you could find to re-gather yourself- or what was yourself. You gave yourself set rules to follow each day, with steps to try to remember who you were the day before. In case you woke up again with no recollection of your ‘’new self’’, you could somehow piece even that (your name here lol sorry to interrupt continue on) together.
You started keeping a journal, spending hours every day detailing what happened. It was a whole lot of ‘’not much’’ on a day to day basis, at least in your current situation. You were left alone with your own thoughts- if you could even call them your thoughts. They were the thoughts of who ever owned this body before they lost their mind and became the shell of who they once were.
It had been a while since you last saw the monster that chased you in the woods, but that didn’t stop your mind from wandering back to that day. Nothing could.
You went through the pictures on what was presumably your cellphone before the incident. It was a part of your new daily routine at this point, trying to remember faces; your family, friends, coworkers, anyone or anything that seemed important. While haphazardly going through the folders upon folders of images something caught your eye, something familiar.
He was holding some sort of animal and a couple flowers. You couldn’t even tell what the hell the furry thing in his arms was, but you figured it was some fucked up way of showing affection. You stammered out a weak hello and rapidly darted your eyes between the clown’s face and the animal carcass. ‘’P-please take that poor thing outside’’ you whispered with a look of pure terror creeping across your face. If a dead thing was his way of showing affection you didn’t want to do what he could have done to you in the forest. You reluctantly accepted his flowers.
‘’Wh- what are you doing here?’’
Another cigar slipped from his sleeve and he lit it with a flick of his fingers. ‘’I had to check up on you, babydoll’’ he took a long and somehow condescending drag from his cigar. ‘’To see if your little jig is up yet’’ he continued and flashed a crooked smile at you. You couldn’t do anything but stare back at him with pure confusion lacing your eyes. Tears started to swell up.
He wasn’t going to leave you alone again, was he? You had nothing to prove yourself with. No matter what you did you knew he wouldn’t believe you. He kept staring at you with his piercing blue eyes, anxiety swelling up in your stomach to the point where you felt like you could burst. His gaze darted around your small apartment, paying careful attention to the papers and notebooks scattered around. You never got the chance to clean up after yourself.
‘’You’re really taking this whole gag of yours further than I guessed’’ he chuckled while haphazardly flipping through a notebook he found laying on the floor. He let out a condescending huff and dropped the book back into it’s place. You remained silent. If something was certain in your mind it was that nothing you said could convince him.
Another spiteful drag of his cigar.
He was visibly getting pissed off now.
He gripped your chin as gently as he could with a primal rage pooling in his abdomen. ‘’Tell ya what’’ he hissed. The sweet nicknames had dropped what seemed like an eternity ago. You started shaking again, now out of a sick mixture of fear and frustration.
‘’I’ll give ya one last chance! Now, tell the truth will ya?’’ his words shattered the last bit of hope you had. You knew nothing about who you once were, you didn’t even quite know who Pennywise was. Thoughts were rushing through your head so fast you couldn’t make any coherent decisions. You needed time. You couldn’t just-
‘’I- I’m sorry Pennywise. I know it was a dumb stunt, I just-’’ you stammered out. Something was screaming inside you; why would you do that, why would you do that, why would you- ‘’I just wanted some attention is all’’ you continued with a gargantuan lump forming in your throat. This would eventually land you in deep shit, but you just needed him to stay. At least you were half speaking the truth, you did need at least some attention. You had been too frightened to answer the phone when your family called to check up on you. You had been alone, so alone.
‘’That wasn’t so hard, was it?’’ he began to stroke your hair as he spoke in a kind tone you had never expected from a monstrous clown. You started sobbing, half from relief and half from the dread of lying to a monster that could send you flying across the room with a flick of his fingers.
He wrapped his arms around you, hushing you as if you were a distressed child. The blood from that poor animal carcass was smearing all over your clothes as he held you in his tender hold. He had carelessly left it laying around at your doorstep, where it would continue to smell like death long after it’s passing.
You gripped the silky fabric of his costume and let his warmth calm your nerves for the time being, you could deal with this mess later. For now you just needed someone to care about you, even if it means sinking further into your web of lies.
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Thank you for once again reading my shit! I had fun with the plot on this chapter and I have a plot twist in mind a few chapters down :^) Again, let me know if you want like a tagged section on these chapters or something!