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"Bye, Chrissy

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"Bye, Chrissy. Merry Christmas!"

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   "Jesus." I whisper to myself as I get in my car.

   It is heavily snowing, and it has been since last night. It's beautiful, just insanely inconvenient.

   I put the wrapped guitar in the backseat with some struggle.

   Having no idea how to wrap a gift, I just put some wrapping paper around it and taped it.

   It was a very shoddy wrapping job, but it's the thought that counts I guess.

   In a hurry to get warm, I start the car.

   The trailer park wasn't too far away from my apartment.

   I had some idea where I was going, but I just hope I don't get lost.

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   Much to my concern, lost is what I got.

   I pull over next to this creep ass house, pulling out my map.

   "Oh." I say to myself, feeling stupid. I just turned down the wrong road.

   Before I can pull back out onto the road, I stop myself, something feeling wrong.

   I look up to the house that I parked in front of, feeling a strong connection to it.

   This whole memory fiasco has taught me that I need to trust my instincts more.

   I take a deep breath before getting out of the car and walking up to the house.

   Standing in front of the door, I pull my coat tighter around me before reaching for the door knob.

   Locked.

   I look around at the windows, seeing that most of them were boarded up.

   There was one window on the second floor that wasn't, though.

   I inhale deeply before climbing up one of the polls, making it up onto the roof.

   "Trust your gut." I say to myself if reassurance, walking along the roof before making my way to the window.

   "Please be unlocked. Please be unlocked." I repeat to myself over and over.

   "Hell yeah." I say as I open the window.

   I go to crawl in through the window, only to lose my footing and fall through.

   I groan in pain, "Fuck..."

   I get up off of the floor, shivering from the cold.
  
   I look around the room I'm in, it's a bedroom. Knowing that no one lived here because of the condition the room is in, I decide to start snooping around.

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