☁️🐰 "Who are you?"

                                    

                                          
1256 words
Nonbinary reader x Cole
As you roamed through the woods, you heard a sudden rustle. You shot up, looking around tensely.
"Whose there?" You ask, sounding like a crazy person. You held your deer mask close to your face, reaching into your back pocket for a knife.
Cole slowly emerged with his rabbit mask, obviously just as tense. "Who are you?" You heard the shaken boy ask, catching your breath after almost being jump scared.
"I'm Cole, uhm.. you?" He said as he scratched his head awkwardly.
"I'm fiddlestick" you reply.
"Ah.. I like your name." He said as he smiled, approaching you; taking off his mask to reveal his face. Large rounded nose, shoulder length blonde hair, his eyes a gentle grey. 
You smiled, taking in his appearance as you felt your heart skip a beat or two. Zoinks!! Zoo wee mama buddy. Buddys stunning.
"Wow.." is all you could make out. You wanted to take off your mask too, but got scared. "Can I.. see you?" He asks, gesturing to the mask.
You nod quickly, taking it off and reveal your face, Cole's eyes lighting up. "Oh my god.. you look so lovely." He says with zero shame.
"May I.. touch you?" He asks. Man that sounds like you're about to get molested fml.
You can't help but laugh and nod, his wording terrible. "Yeah.." You murmur, Cole's cold and lanky hands reaching out and gently cup your face in his hands, caressing your once warm skin.
"You're so warm.. it feels so good." He comments, his eyes roaming around your face as if he's looking at the Mona Lisa. "And you're so cold.." you respond, wanting to shiver from the freezing feeling but you had just met someone and didn't want to scare them off.
"I love.. your everything." He says as his thumbs run across your nose, gently feeling your cracked lips and textured forehead. It was like he was in heaven, feeling all the different textures. Like autisms mortal enemy. 
His quiet comment turned you red, a smile forming on your face as you hid your embarrassment with a quick move of slipping your mask back on.
He frowned faintly, but accepted the fact you wanted a moment alone. "You're.. really.. attractive." He stammers out, clearly just as embarrassed.
"Uhh.. do you wanna.. come back home with me? You can meet my friends. They'd like your mask." He says as he holds out a hand, putting his mask back on too.
You reluctantly took his hand, following him through the woods. Apparently you lack a LOT of situational awareness and survival instinct. But yk he seems sweet, why not trust him? 
"𝔂𝓮𝓻 𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝓾𝓭𝓭𝔂" "what." "What?" 
Ignoring that 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 mess, you soon arrive at a cottage.. what? Oh yeah 𝔂𝓮𝓻 definitely 𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓮𝓭. This finna get 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂.
As you reluctantly walk in, you're met with a brunette child-looking teen doing a bad backflip, a much taller teenage girl attempting to stop him and a blonde girl reading a book. All three including Cole were not only dressed similarly, but had relatively similar masks.
That doesn't sound like a cult at all.
Either 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 way, you walk in. Everything falls silent. Their hidden eyes turn to look at you in sync, feeling like you were like some specimen; you tense up. 
"This feels wrong." You mutter to Cole as he chuckles. He pushes you forward, his hands gently holding your shoulders.
"This is..." he pauses, not knowing your name. You say it in place for him, continuing on. "And I met them on my walk earlier, they have a mask like us, say hi." He says as he smiles.
One by one, everyone introduces themself.
"Hello, I'm Perrine. I'm sorry if anyone scared you, we're happy to meet you. Im the oldest here and my mask is a moose. Sorry if it scares you.. it's a little.. odd, huh?" She says with a chuckle, two twin brunette braids behind her shoulders.
She moves out of the way, making way for Clémentine, who holds a giddy hand out.
"Hii!! I'm Clémmie, I'm the second youngest my mask is a goat.. or lamb? I dunno Kingsley made it for me, ask him. But it's nice to meet you you seem super sweet! I like the deer mask it's cool. My favorite are white tailed deer." She says, rambling on about deer as she soon got moved out of the way by Kingsley.
He was the short one you walked in on doing a backflip. He looks at you, a giddy grin and handful of dead crickets in hand.
"Want a dead cricket? I'm Kingsley I'm the youngest. I made everyone's masks can I make you one?" He asks, smiling proudly. You reluctantly take a cricket, putting it in your shirts pocket.
He walks off, presumably to make a mask. You turn to Cole, who looked clearly embarrassed by how you walked in on everyone acting. "I'm so sorry.." he whispers in shame, grabbing your hand.
As you were pulled close by Cole, you begin blushing once more, the flush visible with your ears sticking out. He looks at you with a smile, slowly taking your mask off once more, his hand reaching up and begins gently rubbing back and forth with his thumb against your cheek.
"Can I play with your hair?" He asks as he doesn't even wait for a response before dragging you off to his room. "Oh- okay then."  you murmur
Soon, you two arrived at his room, pulling you in as he sat you on the bed. His room was covered in simple drawings, paintings and even a couple sea animals on the ceiling. 
Such as sting rays, small fish, and sharks. They were cute. He brought you back to reality with a simple "hey."
You looked back down at him, smiling awkwardly. "Sorry i was looking at the paintings." You mutter awkwardly. He chuckles as he nods, reaching out as he gently pets the top of your head. 
As he sat against the wall, he pulled you close against his chest, his hand gently roaming against your hair, his fingers slightly entsngling through your soft hair that shone well in the warm light of the bedroom.
Feeling his fingers gently run through your hair and rub your scalp you began to feel tired. Thankfully, you hadn't been drugged. Well.. maybe. But that's no fent. That's love. Ever feel that before bud? No? Oh. .....awkward. 
"It's alright, go to sleep. I won't let anything hurt you." Cole whispers reassuringly. He gently pet your head with a soft hum, his other hand wrapping around your waist, hoping it didn't make you uncomfortable.
Thankfully, u never get that touch so it was comforting feeling it. His hand gently rubbed up and down on your side, his other hand scratching your scalp. His humming, hearing his heart beat, it was like you were in heaven. So, soon, you fall asleep entirely. 
Your soft snores, hearing your heartbeat decrease, watching your eyes slowly shut as you let out a soft sigh of relief, it was so adorable to Cole he didn't know what to do with himself. So instead, he simply pulls you closer, gives your head a gentle kiss as he yawns. 
The thought of falling asleep like this tiring him out. What a baby. But either way, you both sit there on the bed, quietly sleeping; enjoying each others presence. 
... fag.