SOMEONE: Rana!
[[Stay quiet]]
[[Open the door]] MOM: Finally! Good lord, what took You so long?
[[Lie]]
[[Tell the truth]] SOMEONE who knows Your friend: RANA!! Your friend is here. but fine, just keep her waiting I guess.
[[Open the door]]
[[Still keep quiet]] SOMEONE whos fed up with Your attitude: Oh my god! I cannot deal with this attitude today, I'll go back downstairs and tell Wrench to go home.
[[Open the door]] YOU: I didn't hear You.
MOM: Sure..whatever, get Your ass downstairs before I take off Your door again.
You perk up, as if it took You this long to acually listen to her voice. It did. You look at her with wide eyes, sureley shes joking, right?
she smirks and looks at You with a 'Hah! gotcha' look on her face as she moves out of the way of the doorframe to let You pass.
YOU: Her name is Wren, not Wrench.
MOM: Wren, Wrench, Weener dog, same thing.
Ugh what is up her ass today?
[[Say nothing as You walk out of the room]]
[[Thank her for letting You pass]] YOU: I just didn't want to get out of bed.
MOM: Well that much was obvious
Your mother crosses her arms and waits expectantly, You wonder what shes waiting for. Goodness, You *cannot* do this today;maybe You'll just tell Wren off Yourself.
Suddenly Your train of thought is broken when Your mother raises her voice and says
"GET THE F!#% UP JESUS CHRIST."
'She is such a kind hearted soul' You think sarcasticly and You snicker to Yourself. She sees You snicker, she rolls her eyes and moves out of the way of Your doorframe to let You pass.
YOU: Its Wren, not Wrench.
MOM: Whatever! I dont care just go downstairs.
[[Thank her for letting You pass]]
[[Say nothing as You walk out of the room]] You walk by her as if You have no care in the world, just to piss her off, it works.
She rolls her eyes again as You make You way past her.
[[Head Downstairs]] YOU: Thanks.
You say flatly.
She scowls at You as You smugly make Your way past her.
[[Head Downstairs]] You make Your way downstairs, just as Your about to head to the kitchen for some breakfast You remeber that Wren in still waiting outside, probably being attacked by mosquitos as we speak.
[[Eh, she can fend them off for a little while longer (no Wren path)]]
[[Go let Wren in (Wren path)]] You open Your eyes slowly and lazily. Its dark out, well atleast You think it is. Its kinda hard to tell when Your surrounded in COMPLETE. UTTER. DARKNESS. You rise, the feel of Your wet hair slaping up agaist Your back as You sit up comes as a suprise. You look back becuase, what the hell was that, ya know? You are shocked (more or less) to see You are not in Your room, or on Your bed at all. Instead You are in the shallowest pond ever, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by black sky and cold air.
That sure explains the whole 'Your hair being wet' thing.
Wait a minute...this is another of those goddamn dreams, isint it?
You have been having these dreams all week, You wake up in some random place, in a pond, in the dark, cold and wet and alone.
You rub Your eyes, You feel genuine fatuige, even if Your dreaming. You open Your eyes and jump back in horror as You are greeted with two beaty red eyes staring right at You. Its smile goes ear to ear and its dull yellow teeth stick out of its face.
It backs up with this kind of eligance You would never expect, he also respects Your personal space enough to know when to back off (take notes MOM:).
THING: Hello. Rana, right?
It chuckles. Ew.
THING: How was Your sleep?
[[Good, thanks!]]
[[Who are You?]] THING: That's great!!
He says almost too enthusiasticly. You pretty sure he didint even listen to Your response.
Plus, who even is he?
You decide to ask him
[[Who are You?]] THING: Too bad!!
He says almost too enthusiasticly. You pretty sure he didint even listen to Your response.
You asked him a question, to which he did not provide an answer. what the hell was his deal?
YOU: Are You even listening to me? WHO. ARE. You.
The thing dosent respond, instead it just stares at You.
You blink for a split second, and when You open Your eyes again the creature has vanished.
YOU: Ugh whatever, this is just a weird ass dream anyway.
[[Knock knock]] You hear knocking, its probably just the dream right?
[[KNOCK KNOCK]] The knocking is still ringing in Your ears. The knocking is getting more aggresive. Its Your dream, right? Why isint the knocking going away?
[[KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK]] SOMEONE: OPEN THIS DAMN DOOR!!
[[Oh]] Its probably Your mother. In fact, You are quite certain it is. You never know though, better keep quiet.
[[Knock Knock]] You open the door and are greeted with a short and stubby, ginger haired Wren. But uncharacteristically, Wren looks upset.
She looks at you with and irritated expression and she bursts through your door, pushing you out of her way.
She walks down the hallway to your kitchen, pulls our a chair from the kitchen table and takes a seat. She is silent
Do you [[ask her whats wrong]] or [[say nothing to Wren]].You decide that keeping Your one and only friend isint a priotity, besides whats wrong with being utterly alone?
[[Head on down to the kitchen]] You continue to make You way down to the kitchen, You come across the stray You and Your mother decide to feed sitting on the counter across the room. You call him Tatter. Tatter the Brown and white cat.
[[Pet Tatter]]
[[Leave Tatter alone ]] You decide to leave tatter alone.
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You walk past him and open the cabinet, [[bread]] or [[cereal]]?You walk across the sunlit kitchen and reach forward to give Tatter a scratch on the head.
[[Tatter warmly accepts Your hand with a purr as he rubs his head against Your palm]] You smile to Yourself, what a sweetie he is. You pull away from Tatter as his eyes follow Your hand in dissapointment.
You head over to the cabinet, [[Bread]] or [[Cereal]]?You grab two peices of bread, You put them in the rusty toster You and Your mom havent replaced since You bought the house. You psuh the lever down and reach over the the other counter to grab some butter, to Your dissapointment, the butter is doused in mold.
-
You could probably scrape the mold off, You grab a knife and try and slice off a corner of mold, only to be greated with even more mold. This is extremely old butter, damn. Your not feeling ready to risk getting sick for some toast in the morning.
So much for butter toast this morning.
The rusty old toaster pops up and makes a noise like the house is about to explode, but hey;at least you have toasted bread.
[[well, its time to head out.]]You grab the box of frosted flakes, You reach for the fridge only to remeber that its not in service. There is some milk in there though....No, You're not going to drink spoiled milk just to have a somewhat normal breakfast.
You check the best before date.."Nov 8th 2022".
Ew.
You decide to settle for toast this morning.
[[well, its time to head out.]] You need to get out of this house. You pick up Tatter as he crawls up over your shoulder and steadys himself before flopping down. His claws dig into your sweater a bit, but you dont mind.
You feel at ease with Tatter by your side. You grab the doorknob and push the door open, a gust of fresh air hitting your face as you gaze out into the sunny forest srrounding your house.
You take your first step, such a euphoric feeling. You finally leave this hell of a house.
-
Your walking down the dirt pathway that goes from your house to the town when you realize Wren did, in fact, leave. You feel guilty. You'll apologize to her on sunday at the town hall meeting.
You keep walking down the path, you look around and take in the greenery and beauty you are submerged in. The sun hit the waxy leaves just perfectly, maybe moving to the middle of nowhere was not really such a horrible thing. Plus it let to you meeting your fuzzy friend ,Tatter. You walk down, take a right turn, and wind up right infront of Your front door.
[[Open the door and let Wren in]] You grab two peices of bread, You put them in the rusty toster You and Your mom havent replaced since You bought the house. You psuh the lever down and reach over the the other counter to grab some butter, to Your dissapointment, the butter is doused in mold.
-
You could probably scrape the mold off, You grab a knife and try and slice off a corner of mold, only to be greated with even more mold. This is extremely old butter, damn. Your not feeling ready to risk getting sick for some toast in the morning.
So much for butter toast this morning.
The rusty old toaster pops up and makes a noise like the house is about to explode, but hey;at least you have toasted bread.
[[You need to get out of here]] You grab the box of frosted flakes, You reach for the fridge only to remeber that its not in service. There is some milk in there though....No, You're not going to drink spoiled milk just to have a somewhat normal breakfast.
You check the best before date.."Nov 8th 2022".
Ew.
You decide to settle for toast this morning.
[[You need to get out of here]]You need to leave. The brightly lit kitchen hurts your eyes, its stuffy, it smells like smoke because of your rusty old toaster. You need to get out.
Your head spins as you seemingly trip over yourself, you grab onto the counter beside you for support before you wind up falling anyway. You landed right on your tailbone, yeowch! This house was too crowded.
You need to get out. You need to get out.
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You down your pee stain coloured hallway, the yellow walls look most unpleasent. The floor feels like ice, you cant keep your balance. Your're slipping on nothing as you struggle to walk in a staight line. You look back, Tatter has left through the window.
Your mom is in the basement.
[[Tell her you're leaving]] or [[Say nothing as you walk out the door]]You call down to your mom from where you stand, she dosen't respond.
You call again...no response.
You walk towards the stairs that lead to the basement and call her once again. You're yelling now, you need to know shes there. You need to let her know. You look down at the stairs and get nauseous, the expand and close in on themselves as if they were mirrors in a fun house. You feel sick to your stomach as you give up and turn away.
[[Go out the front door]]You decide you dont care enough to go through all the effort of yelling down to the basement just to let her know. Everything felt like it was closing in on your, the house got smaller by the second.
[[Go out the front door]] Your shaky hand reacher for the door knob as you finally let yourself get a breath of fresh air. You are surroudned by forest. The sun somehow dosent bother you anymore, and you immedietly feel better.
You take your first step, such a euphoric feeling. You finally leave this hell of a house.
-
Your walking down the dirt pathway that goes from your house to the town when you realize Wren did, in fact, leave. You feel guilty. You'll apologize to her on sunday at the town hall meeting.
You keep walking down the path, you look around and take in the greenery and beauty you are submerged in. The sun hit the waxy leaves just perfectly, maybe moving to the middle of nowhere was not really such a horrible thing.
-
[[As you keep walking down the path, you are finally greated with the top of the town church, the mucky old cross peaks up through the trees]]The trees unveil like theatre curtains, and the sigh of the town bathed in sunlight brings a smile to your face, you look around as the sight of the beautiful town is ruined by the 'not so beautiful' people.
Ugh.
-
You continue to take you time, waltzing around town and avoiding every person in sight, which you wish was none. You walk slowly, unknowingly counting you steps as you stride along the street.
1, 2, 3,- you wonder what Wren is up to right now, you still feel guilty.
34, 35, 36,- whenever you take even the sligtest pause, ruin the rythm of your walking in a tiniest way, you restart. You restart because if you kept counting, it would be wrong. It would betray your..."system".
You take a breath as you glance around the city once more, [[where did every one go?]]You say nothing as she stares at you. She huffs, and puffs, and walks the f- out of there. You didint care, you could talk to her later.
-
[[Go out the front door]] You: What's wrong?
You say in a concerned tone, you want her to know you acually care.
Wren: 'What's wrong???' WHATS WRONG???? YOU LEFT ME TO BE A BLOODY FEAST FOR THE DAMN MOSQUITOS. FOR SOOOOO LONG. WHAT WERE YOU EVEN DOING?!?!
What were you doing? You were asleep, then your mom yelled at you and you woke up. And you honestly were considering not opening the door, why would you tell her that though? Oh, you weren't going to.
You: I just...fell down the uh, stairs?
Wren looks at you like you just spoke a foreign language.
You: Yup! I fell down the stairs because I was rushing to the door to open it for you! My mom got mad at me because I was making too much of a rukus and stuff. Sorry!
Wren is confused, but thankfully goes along with your lie and continues,
Wren: Well I hope you recover quickly because we need to head to town!
Oh right, you and Wren planned to visit the old church. Not to attenend the sermon but to investigate. Apparently the church was 'haunted'! ooooOOOooOooO...you didin't belive any of that stuff, but Wren was a huge paranormal fan, so you went along with it anyway.
-
You and wren walk along the path, down to the town. Going down town.
You and wren finally reach the church, but when you turn around the check if its okay to go in first, she isint there. You look around a bit.
RANA: Wren!! Wren where did you go?
She probably just chickened out.
You realize that all the townspeople that had preveously been there, have vanished.
-
[[You take a step into the church]]
As you glance around the town once again, you realize that it has gone silent as the chattering of townspeople has suddenly fallen into the slight sound of the wind blowing. All the people have vanished, and you are left directly infront of the old church. You remeber this is where you were supposed to meet Wren today. She must be pissed that you bailed on her. Damn, if only she were here, huh.
-
You feel as though you are being pulled towards the door as you burst through, though to no ones suprise there is no one else inside. You blink once again just to be greated with that "thing" again. It smiles gleefully, but says nothing.
You ask, [[what is happening? where is everybody?]]It just chuckles again. Gross.
It clickes its tounge as you are transported in the blink of an eye to the very place you were this morning. The shallowest pond, in the middle of nowhere. surrounded by bloack sky and cold chilling air.
Thing: I was wondering when I'd see you again. I've been feeling rather, munchy.
Its smile only grows larger as its wide grin turns into a shallow pit of demon throat. Your covered in spit, resting on its tounge as you feel your legs being shattered in two as the Thing bites down. You scream as if anyone can even hear you, the Thing ignores your cries as it continues to chow down on your powerless body.
Your vision goes black and you feel numb. You fall deeper and deeper into this slumber until you cant feel anything. Your brain no longer registers the pain, or anything, really.
You keep slipping.
1...
2...
3...
4...
5...
6...................
THE END As you glance around the town once again, you realize that it has gone silent as the chattering of townspeople has suddenly fallen into the slight sound of the wind blowing. All the people have vanished, and you are left directly infront of the old church. You remeber this is where you were supposed to meet Wren today. She must be pissed that you bailed on her. Damn, if only she were here, huh. Well, atleast you have the cat.
-
You feel as though you are being pulled towards the door as you burst through. At this point Tatter is growling and scraching at your back. You know somethings wrong when even the cat looses its cool. You're on egde, coveredr in goosebumps. Tatter is growling, back arched and staring straight ahead. He's looking right at the podium. And you feel it too...there is something on the stage.
You take a few steps closer, Tatters grip intensifying on your shoulder . Tatter lets out a deep "mrreeaaooowwww" the closer you got. Each step putting you more on edge.
7...
8...
9 steps, you're almost there.
10...
11...
You're full on trembling now. Even the cat on your shoulder isint- wait, [[wheres the cat?]]
You blink once again just to be greated with that "thing" again. It smiles gleefully, but says nothing.
You look around in panic. Where is he? Where is Tatter? Where is the cat?! He cant be far right. You rub your eyes to get rid of the tears already flowing down your cheeks.
Then, you see [[it]]. There it is, that "Thing" is back.
And right in between its dull yellow teeth, is a tail.
[[A tail?]]Tatters tail. Its Tatters tail.
You see a trail of blood falling down the "Things" dumb ugly chin. Its smile grows impossibly wider as it watches your face turn from pure concern, to pure horror. Pure. Utter. Horror.
[[Tatter...]]Just then you hear a muffled, pained meow coming from inside the "Thing"'s mouth. He's alive!
"Tatter!!" You cry. Suprisingly the creature opens its mouth as it reveals the poor injured cat, missing half a tail. You waste no time, you reach into the "Thing"'s mouth and grab Tatter off his slimy, mucky tongue. You rip of a corner of your shirt and warp in around Tatters tail to help stop the bleeding...well, for now.
The creature opens its mouth to speak, or so you think. Instead you are greated with the sight of your mother, coverd in saliva and crying to herself.
"Mom!" you yell.
MOM: Rana!?
She yells in response.
THING: I see you two have met before,
It laughs out loud to its self. It knows you two have met, and its brought you both here for a reason.
THING: You, my dear Rana, have a choice to make. A very important choice indeed.
The thing rolls your mother off its tongue and she falls to the floor, you rush over to help her up but before you can the "Thing" stops you.
THING: Nuh uh uh, not so fast dear child.
It pulls tatter out of your hands before it speaks again,
THING: Now, dont be inconsiderate. I'm still hungry.
What was he implying?
THING: You can only chose one dear Rana.Think about it, don't wanna make the wrong choice now, do we?
Why was he making you do this?
THING: hurry uuuppp~ dont want me to start counting down do we?
All this build up, just to be forced to choose between some of the closest family members you have. You cant- not now. You cant chose only one...right? No! Don't think such cruel things Rana! you hav-
THING: You're taking too long. Time to count.
It says with a grin. No! NO!
5...
This cant be it.
4...
There has to be a way! There just has to!
3...
You hear the number echo in your head.
2...
Oh my god, oh my god, OH MY GOD!
1.
THING: you have to choose now, Rana. [[The Cat]] or [[Your Mother]]?You start to shake even harder. You feel like running away, just leaving. Maybe you would wake up tomorrow and they would both be there. Happy, and alive.
But thats not the case, its never the case.
RANA: My mom.
Your mother smiles at you. for the first time in what feels like forever. You've made the right choice...right?
The creature grabs tater and drops him into its mouth.
"Crunch".
[[Crunch.]]You look back at your mother with tears in your eyes. She raised you! But you cant live your life hating her, so why not take the hate away?
RANA: I choose,
You gulp,
RANA: Tatter.
Your mother looks at you in disbelief. She starts to sob uncontrolably as the "Thing" scoops her up into his mouth. You hear a scream, followed my a loud "crunch".
Crunch.
Crunch.
Crunch.
Crunch.
You rub your eyes and the creature is gone. And so is your mom.
THE END. -
You wake up. You get dressed. You go downstairs. There is your mother. You say hello. She smiles and says it back. She looks happy. You are happy too.
You are happy.
-
Apparently your mom had opened the door for Wren, and Wren explained that you two were planning on going to the church. When you didint come home, she got worried and headed over there herself. Then that "Thing" caught her.
You are glad she is safe now.
You are happy.
THE END. Now that you're alone, the whole paranormal thing definitetly gets a whole lot scarier.
Its empty and dark and spooky. Ugh, and dusty too. You rub your eyes and suddenly you are greated by a familiar smiling face. The "Thing" is back. Ew.
[[what is happening? where is everybody?]]