Mau5in' Around

Chapter 9

The evening moved over quickly. Raven finally was able to retreat to her small (temporary, as she wanted it to be) room to get some rest. After she had showered, Thomas had warned her that Mau5 had this strange, and obnoxious habit of getting really hyper at night. The best he could describe it has is an adrenalin rush that a child usually got when they started to get tired. Made since, Mau5 was pretty much an overgrown kid. 

Raven lay in her bed, and every minute or so, she’d hear the idiotic rodent giggling and laughing loudly as he frolicked all around the house. After half an hour of that nonsense, Raven had taken her pillow and smothered her head, groaning impatiently. 

Bloody hell, just calm down already… She thought to herself.

It only took a few more minutes until the sounds quieted down and she couldn’t hear him moving about anymore. He must have tired himself out and retreated to his own room. Good…

As the silence laid gently down on Raven, she began to nod off into the dream world.

…

She dreamt she was in a hotel. The hotel room was a single room with a small bathroom attached to it. Thomas and Guy both sat in arm charms across from her and Dead Mau5 lay on the bed, next to where she stood. She looked to the door that led out. She knew it was locked, and there was nothing she could do about it for now. Something about this situation made her feel sad and lonely. Even though she was with three other beings, she could not relate to them. They weren’t like her… and so she felt alone.

She heard a phone ring. She looked next to the bed on the nightstand, and sure enough, there was a telephone. It rang…

Raven came up to it and before she could pick it up, she heard Thomas’s voice to her back, “I WOULDN’T ANSWER THAT.”

But she didn’t listen. She picked it up.

“Ello?”

“Ello? Raven? Love, is that you?”

Raven’s heart leaped. Her mother…

“Mum! Mum I’m so glad to hear from you! Listen-“

“Raven, where are you? I’m so worried.”

“I know, Mum, I’m sorry. I can explain. This guy-“

The dial tone loudly interrupted her. The connection was lost.

“…Mum?” Raven’s eyes watered slightly as the tone still hummed the same pitch loudly in her ear.

“I’M SORRY RAVEN. YOU CAN’T GO BACK.” Both Guy and Thomas chanted softly together.

…

Raven awoke, slowly. That sad, lonely feeling still stirred bitterly in her chest. When she realized she was still in the guest room in the home of alien beings, she smothered her face into her pillow, groaning pitifully. Mum…

She waited to become sleepy again and to fall back into the steady state of REM. But it did not come. Her heart was starting to hammer as her mind began to race in a panic. She could not shake the homesick feeling.

So she brushed the sheets off her bare legs and stood up out of the bed. She was only wearing Dead Mau5’s baggy shirt over her undergarments, so she grabbed her tripp pants and slipped them on over her hips. 

The outside of the hallway was slightly chilly. The neon lights of blue still looked as brilliant and stunning as she remembered, but they seemed less bright. Perhaps they were adjusted according to the time. Raven began to wonder down the hall towards the bathroom again. Perhaps a warm rag on her face will help her sleep, she thought.