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In my town there is this common myth that many parents use on their kids so that the little freaks won't go wandering into the woods alone.
Usually they tell them that deep inside the woods there are these hungry terrifying monsters waiting for someone, anyone, to walk into the woods so that they can hunt them.
I think it's for their meat, or their organs, or their blood, and whatever else monsters eat. They tell them that the monsters sit and lurk inside the woods and wait patiently for someone to become their next meal.
Sadly there might honestly be some truth to the myth. Recently there's been a lot of people going missing around town.
Everyday there's more and more missing people posters scattered around communal cork boards, windows of random stores, and wherever there's space.
It's usually just lots of families asking the media if anyone has seen their loved ones and giving strangers all their contact information.
I'm sorry for them, truly.
I can't imagine the pain of having somebody you loved and cared for so deeply, get taken away from you so suddenly.
Good thing I have no loved ones!!
just me, myself, and I.
heh.
Sometimes it gets a little bit lonely, but I can't complain about my life. I live in a nice apartment, I just finished paying off my car payments so I've got a little extra money right now. I have food in my fridge, and I have a good paying job. My life is nice.
maybe I should get a cat, or hamster. I like hamsters, they're just these little cute balls of fluff!! I've heard they die easily though.
I finally stop at the door to my apartment that I call my home, and I grab my keys from my bag. All day I've been having a POUNDING headache. I hope I have some Advil left, I think I have some left. I hope I have some left.
If not then I'll just try to go to bed, I'm pretty sure that's what my mother used to do.
I opened the door then relocked it quickly before rubbing the dirt off my shoes on the welcome mat then taking them off and flopping onto my dear couch that I got on clearance at a garage sale.
The beautifully relaxing sound of rain pouring continues outside. It's been raining a lot recently, I hope all the homeless people are safe.
It still sucks that it's been raining though. Now my socks are moist and my jacket that is supposed to be warm, dry, and light! is now cold, wet and heavy because of the rude rain.
After I lied on my couch like a dead possum for a little while longer I eventually went to go and get ready for bed.
I grab my favorite striped pajamas that I use almost every single day until they need to be washed. I lit a few candles so that once I'm done with my shower, my apartment will smell like sugar cookies.
After I put away the lighter I started setting everything up for my everything shower, I've been needing to do one for a while now.
At last! I'm finally ready to take an hour long shower and then collapse into my amazingly cheap but comfy bed.
Until a notification appears on my phone.
I assume it's nothing so I just ignored the annoying noise that came from my phone. However it seems like my bratty phone doesn't like being ignored sadly, because more and more notifications keep coming through.
However! I am a strong, resilient person, so I continue to ignore the annoying repeated sounds coming from my phone.
UNTIL THE VOLUME STARTED GETTING LOUDER
Since when was the volume able to turn itself up by itself?
Out of fear, I grabbed my toothbrush and started poking my phone with it, which only resulted in MORE notifications coming through.
This is bananas. All I wanted to do was take a nice warm shower to ease my headache and sleep, and not have any noise reach my beautifully precious ears.
However, life isn't fair. At all.
Thus, I gathered up the courage and grabbed my phone! only to see that there's no notifications?
how is that possible?
I swear I heard the notification sound..
but then why is there no pop up? shouldn't there be the little pop ups on my lock-screen?
huh, very strange...
veeeeeeeery strange...
Maybe tomorrow I could go to T-Mobile and ask them about it if the rain gets any better.
I glare at my phone for a few more minutes before remembering that if I don't get into the shower now then the water will run cold!
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After my lovely shower was sadly done, I went to hide inside the warm sheets of my bed to slowly fall asleep.
I try to massage whatever pressure points I have on my head to ease my headache but it still stands even stronger than ever. Even after having a nice shower, taking some medicine, and trying to go to sleep in my pitch black bedroom!
wait a minute... when was the last time I ate? I think I'm hungry. Maybe that's why my headache hasn't gone away yet! Usually I always eat a nice warm meal as soon as I get home but I guess I just forgot this time.
I get up from my bed and plant my socked feet onto the wooden floors and start walking.
I made my way to my dear kitchen and grabbed one of those microwavable Kraft cup thingys, the ones that explode when you don't add water. After I made sure that there was water inside the cup, that was filled all the way to the line, I shoved it into my microwave and sat on my couch while waiting.
It feels nice today, it's cold inside my apartment, a little colder than normal but I don't mind! It's probably colder today because my balcony door is open.
hold up, my balcony door is open?
WHY ON EARTH IS MY BALCONY DOOR WIDE OPEN???
I don't remember going into my balcony today, let alone within the past few hours that I've been home..
did I forget to close it this morning maybe?
No! I didn't go out today, I was in a rush this morning so I didn't get to go onto the balcony today.
I quickly start desperately searching every inch throughout my whole apartment, looking out to see if anything has been stolen after closing and locking my balcony door.
Then I flinched when a loud noise came from inside the kitchen...
oh silly me! I forgot all about my Mac n cheese!!
It was just the microwave beeping that it was done. But I can smell smoke.. did I forget to put water in the cup? I can't remember..
I ran towards the kitchen. slipping on the tiled floor, almost knocking myself into the fridge.
Before I aggressively opened up the microwave, only to burn myself while trying to grab the Mac n cheese cup without any protection.
However! my dear Mac n cheese was not burnt! which made me really happy to see and brought a smile onto my face.
Opening up the little cheese packet with child proof scissors, which was surprisingly difficult to do. I still managed though, I'm so cool, totally didn't have to bite it open or anything.. who would do that, hahh.
After that I grabbed a plastic fork because I refuse to wash any dishes when there's a clear and easy way to avoid dish washing, and of course grabbed a pretty little napkin and sat on the cold tiled floor of my kitchen to eat my beloved warm dinner.
I took my first bite of cheesy deliciousness and loved every bit of it.
WHACK
I fell face first into the floor, letting my poor Mac n cheese drop and become a new mess to clean on my floor.
wait, who turned my lights off?