The boy and (NOT) his spider

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The train stopped.

The doors opened.

The cat and his friend had already left.

You were unsure of which door to exit.

You decided to go through the one in front of you.
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A bedroom.

You walked into a bedroom.

But it wasn't yours.

You looked around for a bit.

The sunlight in the room was bright.

The walls were covered with a light lavender color decorated with spiders.

From the ceiling, there was a single spider hanging from a ceiling fan.

"Pretty cool, right?"

There was a white haired kid watching you as you admired his room.

He had bandages wrapped around his eye.

"What happened to your eye?"

"Oh this?"

"Hehe, that's a bit rude don't you think?"

"..."

He turns away.

"I've always hated spiders."

"Then why do you have one?"

"Oh, him?"

You nod.

He laughs.

"He's not mine, hehe."

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He lifts his bandages.

His other eye looks... Empty.

Full of an emotion that can't be named.

A void.

A void of regrets and desperation.

It was sucking you in.

Now you were desperate.

Desperate to escape this void.

"You can't..."

The kid stood in front of you.

His head was down, almost looking sad.

"What do mean?"

He looked up at you.

Ah, now you could see it.

The absolute hopelessness in his eyes mixed horribly with something else.

You couldn't name it.

He stepped closer, held your face, and smiled.

"You can't leave..."

"Not without me."

You gasped as the taste of something sweet entered your mouth.

Too sweet.

It was like you were drowning in a pool of overly sweet juice.

The air was painfully replaced by juice.

"Don't worry."

"You're almost there..."

But where?

"Back to reality!"

"You've been here way too long..."

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