Two Sided (TS Book 1) [SEE PROFILE FOR DETAILS]

Chapter 23- Insanity

I was starting to look around my room for anything that could be entertainment other than my phone. After finding nothing but dust, I started tidying up my room and cleaning up. There was miscellaneous crap everywhere you could think, and they say a messy and stressed room means a messy and stressed mind! Come to think of it, I was pretty stressed, but that was from the infected. I dragged my green, purple-spiked tail around my room as I was walking, and I eventually came across a calendar which had apparently fallen to the floor at some point. I picked it up and glanced at the page, which said it was August. I flipped a page to get to September, and looked at the date, September 23.

Wow.. only a couple months until the end of the year..

I glanced over the next two weeks, and that's when I saw something that made my chest sink.

September 28th:
Ally, Joocie, Oof, and TBVG Visiting!!

We only had five days to make everything seem normal, five days to make it look like Gulvic and Ryzo don't exist, and five days to bring Meme, Woolf, and Muffin back from the dead.

That's a lot for five days. I need to tell everyone..

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-Oompa POV-
I was in the kitchen, looking in the fridge, deciding what to drink. I just wanted to catch a break. Socks then entered the room for, I assume, the same reason as me. I thought he was going to head over to my direction when he started looking through the cabinets.

"What are you looking for, Socks?"

He didn't respond, only kept looking through the cabinets almost as if he didn't hear me.

"Socks?"

"Yeah? What's up, Oompa?"

"Did you.. hear me?"

"You never said my.. name."

"Are you pulling my leg?"

"No- I never heard you say my name.."

"I literally said, 'What are you looking for, Socks'."

"I never heard that.. but anyway I'm just trying to find something to drink- we ran out of water bottles again."

"Why are you looking in there then?"

"What?"

"Why are you looking in the cabinet? All the drinks are over here."

I gestured to the fridge, which I had closed as I didn't want to let the cold, misty air out.

"Oh, I.. guess I forgot.."

He let out a nervous laugh and walked over to the fridge, which was now open once again. I couldn't help the detective side of me, and raised my voice.

"Gulvic, what are you doing to Socks? Why are you making him forget the simplest things and why don't you just tell us all what's up?"

A confused expression spread across his face, and he genuinely asked,

"Who's Socks?"

I didn't have words. I could only muster,

"Y-you are.."

"What? I am.."

He held out his last word, expecting me to give an adjective to describe him.

"What?"

"You aren't stable-"

"Yeah I didn't think I would be."

A couple minutes of an awkward silence then went by, with the only sound being the air conditioning's intermittent air circulation. We both got our drinks, and were set to leave the room. I didn't want to leave him alone here, and I don't think he wanted to leave me alone either. The orange, demon-possessed astronaut then dumped onto me,