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Summary:

A depressed freelance artist finds a sick Spanish-speaking borrower.

Chapter 1: Hallucinations

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'Just my lucky day, well, night. Fucking rats.'

 

 

Just as Amber was about to go to sleep and complain about the rats to her landlord tomorrow, she heard something.

 

' Achoo! '

 

'That wasn't a rat.' Amber thought. She slowly got to her feet and grabbed the boxcutter she sometimes uses for art.

 

She slowly headed to where she thought she had heard the sneeze. The bathroom.

 

 

 

'It sounds too human for a rat but too soft for a person.' Her footsteps were practically nonexistent.

 

 

 

 

'I didn't spend 6 years at school sneaking and avoiding people for nothing'

 

When she opened the door, it was empty, all that showed someone might have been there was the fact the medicine cabinet was opened.

 

She was about to leave and pretend it was all a dream when she heard a small sneeze next to her.

 

She turned quickly and saw-

A tiny person?

 

The tiny person bolted in the opposite direction before she could figure out what was going on.



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'That was too close.' Kitty thought as she ran behind the outlet.

 

'But I got the’ Achoo-!

She sneezed again.

'The bean almost caught me!'

 

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‘I should have got to sleep sooner. These hallucinations are killing me.’

 

When she was about to fall asleep, she felt a thought drift into her mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘What if it was real?’