Touch Starved

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Haha, hey. Slight lapse of judgement. I'm uploading everything. Unedited, might I add. Because I will not have time after, like, today. Enjoy. That's good for y'all, right? Also. Sorry if my humor is weird or sucks. I hope it will grow on you like a lovable fungus.

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I knew I had a dark humor, and a terrible timing problem. I was also really mean, and in no way cute, but being an ugly jerk didn't mean I deserved to die like this, did it? I mean, yeah, maybe I had a bit of an attitude, and I was bad with words which landed me in a lot of trouble and plenty of regrets, but it didn't mean that I should, like, die. Via titan.

There was clearly some sort of otherworldly being out here, and they were a straight up... jerk, in my opinion. Like who did this from kindness in their hearts? Was this Hell? Did I just straight up die? Frick me, what the heck.

The titan had yet to give up, having been trying to reach me for, oh... I don't know, ten - fifteen? - minutes. I would have expected it to have the attention span of a goldfish, or enough brains to say "mission failed, get 'em next time."

But, no. This jerk was still here and I had taken to sitting down. Because even though these jerks were strong, it seemed they had nothing on my boy here, Rotten Tree. What an absolute unit. The skeleton stared indifferently at the waving fingers. I wish I could be as calm as he. Although, I didn't want to be as dead. I named him Jimmy. I cringed as a maggot fell from his eye socket.

The fingers disappeared, and the eye reappeared. Was it trying to determine whether I was worth its time? I would tell it, if it could even understand, that I wasn't even worth my own time.

It stuck one finger in this time, and it reached all the way to its first knuckle. It swiped dangerously close to me. I stood up, darting over to the other side of the tree as the finger was removed. The digit re-entered and swiped at where I had been, curling in on the air. The finger disappeared and I could feel its eye peering back in. It couldn't see me though, and I heard a roar. Was it... frustrated?

Fingers from both hands, gripped at the edge of the hole and started pulling. The edges splintered apart, and I stumbled away, back towards the middle of the tree.

I flopped down on my butt, stumbling over a rock. My tree was being demolished, and that was huge. It was playing still, but growing bored, clearly. I didn't like that. I looked at Jimmy, swallowing thickly.

"Can... can you believe the nerve of this guy?" I choked out. I stood up. "Jimmy, can I ask you a favor?"

I cringed, gagging but not barfing as I stood. Leaning over the body, I reached out to touch Jimmy. I pulled my hands back, not wanting to go near him. The tree split more, a splinter hitting me in the ankles. I jumped, startled.

"Oh, God." I leaned forwards, grabbing Jimmy by the armpit. I held him out at arm's length, feeling absolutely disgusted at these prospects. The hands disappeared and I threw Jimmy out of the tree.

Immediately, a hand snatched it up, and I took my chance.

I darted out while the titan was distracted. His head busy looking at the sky as he dropped poor Jimmy in and I scampered off, farther into the woods.

My legs, not used to the running screamed continuously at me. I was shaking, and since there were no thunderous feet, I knew it was just me. The sight of poor Jimmy danced in my mind.

That could have been me.

I promised myself - if I made it out - I would dedicate a shrine to my new lord and savior, Jimmy the Skeleton. A heroic man, even in death.