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Three months.
It’s been three months since Yi Xi last made an impulsive decision. Killing her friends. She not only brutally murdered them without pity, she ate them too. She done it rather quickly, within a span of three to four months, she took them all down.
Yi Xi is obviously desensitized to eating people, but she used to do it to random strangers. She was never prepared for the slab of meat on the plate belonging to her friends. She felt guilty eating her victims for the first time, and never got over it.
Today was the same old routine she adapted three months ago. Having the urge to vomit something out, yet she ends up not being able to puke out anything the moment she steps to the toilet. It’s disturbing to her that her insides have been treating her friends’ viscera like that.
Nonetheless, it’s still worth trying to vomit, who knows if the bad happens one day? Yi Xi walks over to the sink between her bathtub and the toilet. She spat out saliva into the toilet again, nothing too bad. She looks up into the mirror, her hair’s in a mess, her red pupils glowing in black irises. Something her friends would’ve noticed if they were there to see.
Yi Xi then goes off to brush her hair by running it inbetween her fingers, it wasn’t doing much of a great job since her hair didn’t change much. After Yi Xi gives up trying and lets go of hand, the lightbulb right above her suddenly started flickering. Coincidence, right?
No. Didn’t she change the lightbulb last week? She sighed, believing the electricity’s bugging out again…
Next second, the entire bathroom starts shaking, Yi Xi looks around confused on what’s happening. The light goes off, before returning a few seconds later. She looks back at the mirror. Nothing changed, as usual…
That was until Yi Xi looked at what’s behind her in her reflection.
There was a black, floating silhouette right behind her. It had a smoking particle from the silhouette's head. Although the silhouette was floating at a lower level than her height, it creeped her off.
She turns around to face the silhouette. The silhouette starts making a scrambley unsettling sound towards her. Yi Xi’s first reaction is to reach out her hand and wave a bit at the silhouette, making sure her fingers goes inside the shadows of the silhouette.
The second her fingers were in, they were met with ice cold, as if she just shoved them into snow. It was pretty much hypothermia at this point, so she pulled her hand out. The shadow of the silhouette started fading away, instead showing a ghost…. Wait.
Yi Xi started feeling some sort of familiarity facing this ghost. The ghost had fluffy brown hair as messy as hers, its insides were outright exposed, only showing its stomach and intestines, it also wearing a cape–
Yi Xi then recognized the cape. Moreso the pins on the cape. It was a fig leaf, next to a heart with an arrow spiked through it…
It was Hayden.
Hayden, the funny, sarcastic, easily angered guy of the group, was standing right behind her. With the body scars she left him with as he screamed and bled out with. It felt unreal, Yi Xi even had to blink multiple times to make sure she wasn't dreaming. She wasn’t.
Y.X: “... Uhm.”
Yi Xi wanted to say something to Hayden, but struggled to come up with anything. She ends up awkwardly staring at one of his eyes, because the other seems to be permanently shut.
H: “Yes?”
Hayden’s voice echoed through the bathroom, even though the bathroom is small, it sent a chill down Yi Xi’s back.
Y.X: “Hey!... There…”
Yi Xi lets out a chuckle, a nervous one at best.
H: “Hey.”
H: “Jesus, your bathroom is a bit dusty over here. When was the last time you cleaned it?”
Hayden waves around his arm…. No, smoke that imitates a hand. As if he’s trying to clean the place himself.
Y.X: “Why would you want to know?... It’s not like you’re meant to be here.”
H: “For future visitors! Nobody wants to excuse themselves to a bathroom only to walk in to this.”
Y.X: “I clean my apartment often, Hayden. You’re overanalyzing my bathroom. It’s not like I sleep here.”
H: “Uh huh.”
H: “Anyways. How’s your year going, I should ask.”
Hayden says, crossing his arms and backing up a little.
Y.X: “Not… Really good.”
H: “Not surprised. You know my answer. Have you bought anything expensive recently?”
Y.X: “I wanted to waste money so I got an old recording tape CRT from a garage sale.”
H: “What will you even use it for?”
Y.X: “I don’t know. It just reminds me of Miku.”
H: “Mm? Okay.”
Hayden glides around the bathroom, flying up to check the ceiling, and the shelves his eye level can’t reach. Yi Xi just awkwardly stands there. She can’t fight Hayden to go away, she can’t swing her cleaver into him… Unlike someone who died that way, and she just doesn’t want to be in the room anymore.
Y.X: “Can you leave, please?”
Hayden then shook his head, the collar with a floating leash making a bell song with the head.
H: “No.”
Y.X: “I have some errands to run. I don’t trust you alone.
H: “Just a few more minutes-
Yi Xi then quick-walks her way through the bathroom door and immediately slams the door behind her. She quickly gets things ready, and leaves the apartment complex.
Odd enough, once she walks out she sees her neighbor in the halls as usual. She waves hi and the neighbor starts a short chit-chat with Yi Xi. After the conversation ended, the neighbor waves goodbye to her, and goes back to their room, leaving Yi Xi alone.
Yi Xi then realizes that Hayden didn’t follow her outside, fortunately. But she’s still unsure whether to return to her bathroom at night or not. Oh well, she’s probably going to spend her day walking around in public instead.