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It was only the second day in the new apartment , it was mostly empty as both Mafuyu and Emu didn't have many material possessions to their names , other than their clothes there wasn't much more , the only things they bought right away were the beds , the fridge and the stove , they needed places to sleep and a way to make food first and foremost after all .
On that day it was raining , not a light drizzle , yet not a storm either , a gentle shower somewhere in the middle . The apartment they had rented , it had access to a garden , well kept , the owner seemed quite proud of it , the expressionless void watched as the rain gently poured onto the flowers , forget-me-nots , they seemed to follow the lyricist , could a flower haunt someone ? The purple petals danced with the drops that fell from the sky , was it cold ? Could the little flower feel ? The day had been dark and gloomy , but peaceful somehow , the sounds of rain seemed to bring about that atmosphere even if it was a colder day .
As Mafuyu was reminded of something it got up from the floor where it had been sitting to watch was the rain poured , walking over to the kitchen it got the trash bag , readying itself to take it out despite Emu telling void she would do it , she knew of voids relatively newfound difficulty with the outside , but it didn't want to push that onto her , it could do it by itself . The denial of the severity of its agoraphobia had yet to subside . And like that void took a deep breath as it slowly opened the door , an umbrella in hand careful steps were taken towards the trashcan , one foot in front of the other , one step then another until it could finally put away the trash , that hadn't been so bad after all ... That was until it heard the door slamming shut .
The door that could only be open with a key from the outside , that only had a knob on the inside , the door which the key had been left on the inside ... Emu wasn't home , Mafuyu's phone had stayed on the inside ... Void was trapped outside . Outside . OUTSIDE .
It was not a slow crescendo when the panic set in , it was immediate , it was hard to breathe , it was so cold , it was so loud ... Shaking , but was void shaking from the cold or from the fear ? Both ? Neither ? Its head hurt , it pulsated . Holding the umbrella as if its life depended on it the terrified lyricist walked over to the dry spot in front of the door , then sitting down in front of it , hugging voids knees close to its chest , eyes tightly closed as to avoid the shadows it felt like it could see out of the corner of its eyes , like they're trying to attack it , waiting for the perfect opportunity . A voice very similar to its deceased mother's , the clearest void ever heard it , kept speaking , saying how it was its fault , that as always void made the wrong choice , oh how useless and incompetent , stupid it had become .
Accompanied by all of those unfortunate aspects to its tragic situation there Mafuyu stayed , terrified , awaiting for either help or death , whatever came first .