Suicide Virus

Suicide Virus: Corrupted Silence

Yukino's eyelids felt so heavy laying down on the bed. She could feel her muscles relax on the soft surface, her bed had never felt so pleasant. For only a moment she felt uneasy, so close from sleep yet so far from it. The disturbance had been the silence itself, at least she thought so. She believed it to be white noise buzzing in her ears. She couldn't shake the feeling that it was something else though, something more sinister. The noise was natural yet unnatural, a dichotomy she couldn't quite understand. She twisted and turned in the bed, restlessness had set in, gnawing at her sanity. She tried rationalizing it. It surely was just the night, the dark, her anxiety for the stressful day ahead. But as she felt about ready to snap the noise disappeared as mysteriously as it had arrived and she was left in eerie silence. The suddenness of its disappearance had startled her as she now laid wide eyed in her bed. However she took a deep breath and shut her eyes which took everything in her to do as the uneasy feeling that wracked her body. Her sleep was not real sleep. The night was riddled by nightmares and sudden awakenings. Finally when the clock hit 4:00 am she got off her bed, both a chore and a respite from her night horrors.

The nightmares followed her on her walk to the bus stop and the ride to her workplace. The restlessness made her feel ill, her stomach churned and she could feel the bags under her eyes. Walking out of the bus she couldn't think about anything else other than just how miserable she felt. Yukino desperately wished she had stayed at home. Crossing the road from the bus stop she heard the noise that had kept her up ring in her ear again making her stop on her tracks. Her attention on the noise was broken when she heard the sound of frantic honking and the screeching of tires as a driver had to stomp on the brakes to not hit her.

"What the hell are you doing?!" the driver screamed at her from inside the car.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," She pleaded while quickly getting off the road.

On the other side she tried to control her breathing, her heart was racing both in embarrassment and because she nearly got ran over. Even though she could hardly hear anything other than her heartbeat she could still hear the faint buzzing of the noise. It hadn't stopped burrowing itself into her ear for a second though it seemed to have shifted. She could hear it coming from a specific direction. Up. She craned her neck to look at the roof of the building just to find there was a woman standing at the ledge. Before she could say a word however the woman went over free falling twelve stories down to concrete. She careened down slamming to the floor with a thud, causing a small tremor. The crunch of her bones was sickening. Yukino had screamed throughout the whole trajectory down and she couldn't control herself seeing the bloody pulp that lay before her. Even more shocking was the fact that the woman had a similar outfit to hers.

"Yukino are you okay?" a voice said from behind her making her jump.

Yukino looked at her friend Keiko and back at the corpse. However when she looked back the corpse was no longer there, "Keiko I-"

"Stress getting to you too huh?" Keiko said, "At least I'm not screaming on the sidewalk yet," she joked.

"But she...how?"

"C'mon, we're going to be late," Keiko said pulling her forward.

The rest of the day was just as stressful. Paperwork was absolutely everywhere, the boss kept demanding things from her and slackers kept dumping their job on her. Being the new one in the office wasn't easy. The only one remotely nice was Keiko. With all the stress the fact that the damn noise kept ringing in her ears didn't help any, it was getting very frustrating for her. She'd almost found herself cursing out a coworker for accidentally bumping into her. Yukino had settled for a disapproving glare instead. She was finally able to let out a breath of relief. When she walked into the front office she was surprised not to see Keiko. She clocked off and as she was exiting the office the noise in her ear rang louder and again it seemed to be coming from a specific direction rather than residing in her ear. It was coming from the roof.