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(𝐒𝟏) 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟏𝟕

𝟏ˢᵗ 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖.

"𝐒𝐨, (Your name) can feel its presence, and Ashlyn can hear them? So what, we use both of your special abilities to save the day?" Tyler asks us as he narrows his eyes at us. Ashlyn thinks for a moment before she starts speaking.

"No-.." She pauses for a moment. "-Well.. yes but later on. I think we should stay here for now so we can rest.. and prepare ourselves. Once we go outside, there's no telling what we'll encounter. Let's all also stay here in the living room. In case something happens we won't all be split up. There isn't really much we can do, so do some mental exercises." She tells us.

"Mental exercises?" Aiden asks her.

"Imagining yourself in certain situations and seeing how you'll react. Anytime you aren't asleep that's what we should be doing." Ashlyn explain a bit further into depth.

"Yeah great plan. Daydream and sleep as monsters are right at our doorway." Tyler says sarcastically. Ashlyn ignores him. "We'll take turns keeping watch. Logan, is the time still twelve?" she asks Logan.

"O-oh.. um- i'll check." Logan replies and starts to get his phone out. The time still being '𝟏𝟐:𝟎𝟎' "..it hasn't changed.." He tells us.

Ashlyn then seems to be in thought as he says that. "Alright, We'll keep resetting a timer every hour. I'll take the first shift, who wants to go after?" She asks us. I raise my hand to volunteer. She needs and she starts to take watch.

Everyone goes to sleep, well besides me. I stay up just staring at the ceiling. Before i knew it an hour passed. Ashlyn walked over to me to 'wake me up' only to see i was awake.

"Oh, your awake?" She asks me.

I nod. "Yeah, i can't sleep haha." I says with a slight chuckle. She shakes her head as she sighs. "Well, it's your turn to keep watch." She tells me.

I sigh and nod as i get up and stretch, hearing a few pops. "Alright, sleep well Ashlyn." She nods and goes over to sleep with everybody else. I knew for a fact that i wouldn't be able to sleep, especially in this situation.

So i decide to keep watch for the rest of the time. Finally, the last timer beeped and i recalled a total of seven hours. I sigh and close my eyes as i feel my surroundings shift.

I then open my eyes again. I'm back in the closet. 'I'm back in here..?' I ask myself. I could still feel my surroundings slightly shift which caused me to feel dizzy.

I hold myself onto the ground as i look around as my surroundings move. I could hear Taylor and Ashlyn in their room.

"Where's the others? Are the monsters still-.." Taylor gets cut off by Ashlyn. "So it did happen- you remember right?!" I could hear Ashlyn exclaim. "What do you-.." Taylor asks sounding confused as it then goes quiet.

I then start to get up as i could feel my head throbbing i hold onto it as i start to get up and out the closet.

I feel nauseous and run to the bathroom. I see Ashlyn and Taylor there as well. Ashlyn in the tub, and Taylor with the toilet. I then take the sink and throw up in there. We stay in the bathroom for what seems a while.

Emma then came into the bathroom half asleep. "Tay.. Ashlyn.. (Your name)..?" She asks. She hears all of us throw up again. "ARE YOU GUYS OKAY??!!" She asks us as she exclaims. We then hear another familiar voice. "Taylor, Ashlyn, (Your name)! Are you in here?!"

"Ah! Found 'em!" Aiden announces as he places one of his hands on Emma's shoulder, startling her. "What are you doing in here?! Get out!" Emma shouts at Aiden.

"Wait, aren't you supposed to be dead or something?" Aiden asks Emma, confused.

Emma looks at him startled as he says that. Aiden gets pushed by Tyler. "Move-.." He then seems relieved to see Taylor. Both Aiden and Tyler put their hand up to their mouth. "Ah- I feel another wave coming in-.." Aiden says. I hear Logan groan from the living room.

I hold my throbbing head as i sweat from throwing up. 'What in the world is happening..?' I ask my self as i close my eyes and groan quietly as i throw up again.

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Word count; 587
April 13ᵗʰ, 2024
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EDIT;
Word count; 759
June 18ᵗʰ, 2024

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