Night II

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Mia gets home from work and wraps things up a bit more energized tonight from the events from the last. She makes her way to the kitchen eyeing the remote on the couch, in the place she had placed it. "Don't you move tonight, okay?" She giggles to herself as she finds it to be amusing her talking to an inanimate object, trying to make light of her worries. She makes her food and walks upstairs to her room without incident, continuously eyeing the remote in an almost humorous way.

As Mia starts drifting to sleep, the usual visions cloud her mind, but something peculiar is shown along with them... A long dark figure, with long knife like fingers, bends down her door frame and flicks the nightlight she had replaced the bulb of the night before, making it shatter, as it climbs into her closet.

Mia wakes the next morning to a pool of sweat, as her lungs compress hard from what she had seen, and immediately stares at the closet. With a big gulp of courage and her lungs standing still, Mia slowly peaks into the closet. It's full of her clothes, seemingly untouched. "God... I really need those pills." Mia sighs with relief and looks at the night light, which had gone off again, "ugh...".

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