𝙎𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 | ℤ𝕒𝕜 𝔹𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕩 𝔽𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕖 𝕆𝕔

"𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙪" | 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 4

(TW! Sleep Paralysis)

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(𝔸𝕤𝕙𝕝𝕖𝕪'𝕤 𝕡𝕠𝕧)
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   As I close the taxi door, I look at Zak through the window and wave goodbye, I don't know if he saw me because he didn't wave back. Is it bad that I like him? It isn't a 'like' as in middle school crush like I actually 'like' him, I could picture us being together.

  Zak was so handsome, I could just get lost in his eyes, in fact, the first time we met, I did. He has so much depth to him. I would love Zak just as much as I do even if he didn't have the fame, the money, or the tv show. Zak would be Zak. It's as if we met in a past life, and lost each other. Now we have finally reunited once more.

   I got my phone out of my pocket and saw Zak's number:

𝙕𝙖𝙠

  I looked at the name, something was missing.

  Oh well.

  I decided to text him:

Ashley: Hey Zak!

Zak: Is this Ashley?

Ashley: I would hope so lol

Zak: cool

Zak: whatcha doin?

Ashley: riding in a cab, going home

Zak: cool

Ashley: say, are you guys done filming the next season?

Zak: I wish,
         we leave for new castle, pennsylvania in 3 days.

Ashley: how often do you ever get a break?

Zak: not that often, we wrap a season and then get a month off, and then it's right back to the road again. this job requires us to travel a bunch, so we travel to different places once or twice a week.

Ashley: that sounds like a lot, wow.

Zak: yeah, 

Ashley: Hey, while you're still here, you wanna go hang? I mean if not that's cool

Zak: That would be cool, where do you think we could go?

Ashley: We could go to lake las vegas, I've been there a few times and it's really beautiful.

Zak: sure!

Ashley: When are you free?

Zak: Tomorrow night, does that sound good to you?

Ashley: I'm good with that too

Zak: I can just pick you up if you want

Ashley: That would be nice since I can't drive lol

Zak: Okay, send me your address and I'll come and pick you up then.

Ashley: alrighty

  I send my address to Zak and I pay the driver and head over to the elevator to go upstairs. I press the up button and get into the opening doors.

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(𝙕𝙖𝙠'𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙫)
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  Ashley sends me her address and I turn off my phone and put it in my back pocket. I wave the cashier goodbye and walk over to my car. I get in and drive home.

  I park my car in my garage and open the door to my living room. There I see Aaron sitting on the couch reviewing some footage.

"Hey man," I say.

"Hey bro, how's the museum holding up?" Aaron asked with a wave.

"Pretty smooth, those staff run things pretty tightly," I responded

"That's good," Aaron said.

  I walked over to the couch and took my phone out of my back pocket, then, I set it on the glass coffee table. 

"Find anything man?" I asked

"Loads of stuff," Aaron said

"Like what?" I asked.

"Watch this, right after you did that EVP session and heard one of the spirits say something, a white ball of light shoots out the back of your head." Aaron elaborated, pointing to the screen in front of him.

"That's sick! See? That's the reason why we do this stuff!" I jump up excitedly, pointing at the screen with a smile.

"There is a handful of more footage that has similar qualities throughout the whole time that we are in this room," Aaron says.

  Aaron and I's conversation lasts a little longer, and then we both watch some tv. Nick comes down the stairs a while later. He asks me the same questions Aaron did, and I answered the same.

  A little while later I made dinner for the three of us and we had fun eating, laughing, and talking about the behind-the-scenes of some past episodes.

"Hey, guys?" I said

"Yeah?" Both Nick and Aaron said at the same time.

"Have you ever met someone and had an instant connection with them?" I ask.

"Oh sure, that happened when I met you," Aaron says

"Not that way," Nick says, slapping him on the back of the head

"That happened with me and Veronique, we met a while back, and I remember the first time seeing her I had an instant connection to her," Nick said.

"Are you saying that you met someone?" Aaron asks

"Not necessarily," I say in response, picking at my food with my fork.

   We move past the conversation and we finish our food, I collect the plates and do the dishes. I then go upstairs and take off my clothes and change into some sweatpants and go to my bathroom. I look at myself in the mirror and brush my teeth. After that, I go back downstairs, grab my phone, and wish everyone goodnight.

   I plug my phone in and doze off to sleep.

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(𝔸𝕤𝕙𝕝𝕖𝕪'𝕤 𝕡𝕠𝕧)
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  I lay in bed, staring at my phone. I think about all that has happened today and I smile. I turn off my phone and my eyes begin to become very heavy.

Suddenly, My eyes jerk open, and I see my room, but in the corner, there is a giant 7-foot tall creature with a black hat that is made out of a black mass. The creature slowly approached me and stood at the left front corner of my bed. Then, it jumped on top of the bed and whispered in my ear. 

"I'm gonna kill you." 

  I tried to scream, but I couldn't. I couldn't move my body. I couldn't do anything.

  The creature smirked at my efforts to struggle and started laughing menacingly, showing off its dagger-like teeth.

  My eyes jolt open, and all of a sudden, it's over. I sit up and begin to tear up.

  I cry for a good 2 hours. When are they ever going to stop? This has been happening for years. I'm tired of it. Why me?

 I look at my phone on my nightstand. I unlock the lock screen and look at Zak and I's text messages.

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'zak i had another sleep paralysis and this one was even worse than the last they won't stop coming, what do i do? im so lost.' I type, quickly deleting it all.

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'i just want to be around you' I type, again, deleting it all.

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'miss u' I type, staring at the message, going to hit the delete button, and my finger slipping and accidentally hitting send.

  I gasp at what I've done. I go to my living room and watch tv in shame. Hopefully, he will take up some lame excuse like 'Oh, well that was for my mom.' Like, who texts their mom at 4 in the morning? NOT ME. But I guess we will have to go with it.

ugh.

I'm such an idiot.

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Date Published: 4/11/2022 | 12:10 A.M.
Word Count: 1138 Words