Own trouble

It was like electricity was running all over my body, I looked at the window without stopping to smile but suddenly that smile faded.

—No, what am I thinking, this isn’t time to get excited, I could get killed for real, I shouldn’t take this lightly.

—Yes, you’re right

—Was it wrong to feel good?

—DIE

—I hope you can leave

—I hope you can’t leave

I stand up of the chair and started looking for something to get out, I didn’t find anything but what I noticed was the book that I use to hit the red eyes from that time, I swallow my saliva and took the book, but by the time I wanted to take it I couldn’t it was like if it was glue to the shelf, I put my feet on the shelf and started to pull, I could hear a lot of cracking and other types of weird sounds, I couldn’t describe what it was but I would soon discover.

When I did a final pull, the book came out and I was thrown by my own force, hitting the sofa, I patted my head and looked at the book. The part behind it had red gum but there was liquid dropping out of it too.

I looked at the shelf and saw how there was the same liquid and gum inside it, but that wasn’t gum, and the liquid… I look at the book and put it in front of my nose to sniff it, the smell, the aroma of iron.

—Blood…

—It’s blood

—BLOOD!

—blood…

—There’s no way that’s blood

And the gum was not gum either, it was meat. The thing that I hit with the book, it should have solidified with the book, I look in disbelief the book until something made me look everywhere, a voice

—Ahhh, you… you did this to my son…

A voice was talking to me, it wasn't the ones that I was talking to this entire time, it was another, I look up at the shelf and saw a pair of red eyes could be seen from the deep of the shelf

—My son was just passing by, he didn’t do anything wrong, but you kill him, you murderer

The voice was similar to and old lady, one that was tired but sweet, although this one didn't sound sweet at all, it was full of hatred, pain and melancholy

—Murderer

—Assassin

—Executioner

—Slayer

—Killer

The eyes on the shelf started to multiply and the pair of red eyes became, four and then six while the other eyes were separated from them, the six eyes were from only one being, or so I believed.

—But don’t worry, you will soon accompany my son, he was very sensitive and didn’t like to feel alone, so I will send it with him —the voice of the shelf was getting deeper and disoriented as it was speaking—. NOW YOU BE A GOOD BOY!

A hand was getting out of the shelf, following by a skinny hairy arm, I gasp and get up the fastest I could, reaching the door, and looking for my keys, I started looking every single one until a hit make the entire room rumble, I look behind me and the leg of the creature was out, a big long skinny and hairy leg was out, I try to stopped looking for the right one and began to try every single one until there was one that unlock the door.

When one finally entered and heard the sound of getting unlocked, I smiled, I twisted the knob, but it didn’t open.

I try multiple times but it didn’t work, I began to hit the door with my fist and legs, trying to open it, I started to hyperventilate and getting desperate, I wanted to get out, I didn’t want that thing to come out for me, I look back again as I was twisting with all my strength the knob.

The creature wasn’t fully out yet, but all their libs were, two long legs and arms, hairy, gross, with that pink in their fingers and toes characteristic of rats, that made eyes wide open, and make me continue to twist the knob with even the things that I couldn’t, until it was finally open and saw myself laughing in front of me.

—It's not that funny when you are the one knocking right?

I ran ignoring myself, this time there was a bigger tread to be worried about.

—Hey, where are you going? Come on, you can’t take a joke?

I couldn’t believe what I just saw, and I didn’t want to see it fully out, so I continue to run without looking and leaving myself behind

—What it's that? What it's that?! What is that!

These two times I was running for fear, but there was something different now, I could tell that myself is playing with me, on the other hand, that thing, it was about to end with me, if I get caught it was going to be the last thing I saw, I didn’t want to observe it that thing in first class.

I ran without any real goal, I reached the main lobby again and went downstairs, running the same places that I ran while escaping from myself.

When I reached the bathroom I ran to the main door, smiling but when I try to open it, it didn’t, I looked for my keys but I couldn’t find them either.

Some footsteps were starting to be heard from behind, it was big, it wasn’t myself, it was probably that thing that came out of the shell, I run to the kitchen and saw the door of the basement and kick to open it, the footsteps were getting closer, I just had one thing to do, before becoming some kind of rat food or something even worse, I prefer saving myself in this form, anything was better that getting cough.

My legs didn’t respond when I saw directly at the end of the basement, but it was the only thing to do, if my legs didn’t want to respond, then I would make my body do it for me, I lean myself throwing me to the abyss with my eyes close, hoping to finally wake up from this nightmare