the backrooms

the mall of sweet nothings

i woke up again, my head pounding. but this time i was in some sort of mall. i stood up from the bench that i was sitting at and slowly walked around, taking in the surreal view, if that was one way to describe it. i noticed that trist was nowhere to be seen.

one thing i noticed about the mall was that it was coming empty, and there was not a single soul around. the complete, mind buzzing silence was something that could drive you absolutely mad.

"i've been here before." i said to myself,

out of the corner of my eye i saw a figure run past me. i quickly shifted to watch where they were going. from what i saw, it was a woman, or girl, she ran back and fourth a few times, from one pillar to the next. i saw a flash of red hair and squinted. "adeline?" i asked to the nothingness but an empty mall in front of me.

the red haired girl came out from behind the pillar, the lights began to flicker and jumped back. i looked around, and the panic started to set in. "where are you going,? where did you come from?" i asked, confused out of my skull, she looked at me, and i realized that, her face was dark. i couldn't make out any of her features. she quickly spun around and began to run.

"wait!" i yelled after her, "come back." i started to run after her, before i slipped on the old linoleum floors. i hit the ground, but i couldn't surprisingly feel anything. i quickly stood up and looked around, the girl was gone.

i decided to walk around the mall and examine everything. suddenly, the silence was broken, as a familiar song started to play through the old mall speakers.

although it's the end of the world
don't blame yourself

my head started to pound vigorously as i made my way around.

i looked in a mirror, and gasped as i tried to notice the many things going on. on the mirror, in red writing, it said-

"have you been here before?" a familiar voice said from behind me, however, it's wasn't trist,

i forcefully turned myself and felt my eyes shift back and fourth, looking for some sort of threat. "i'm not afraid anymore!" i yelled, wanting to just make it all stop.

from the distorted, troubled voice, i low chuckle was heard.

i remembered the voice, lazurus.

"what makes you sure?" the voice replied. i jumped back, and the panic started to become stronger and stronger, like a rope around my neck getting tighter and tighter, and i was still struggling to remove it.

"i'm not lazurus, i am zuul." my brows furrowed with confusion.

what? there were more of them? and they can read thoughts? i decided to just ignore it and keep running, eventually i would find a way out, there had to be-

"there's no way out, you would have to search for hours, and you still wouldn't find anything."

i rolled my eyes. what did they know? after all, it was just a stupid dog. my legs kept going, but it seemed like nothing around me was changing, but then, there she was! the girl!

"stop running!" i yelled over to her. she wouldn't stop, and all i wanted was to catch her and ask what was going on. please.

i followed her all around what seemed like this endless mall. the click clack of out feet and the music were the only sounds we could hear. It seemed as though, zuul, had stopped his yapping. i followed red haired girl into one of the mall shops, but, there was nothing but an empty, white room.

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Hi everyone! My name is ally! I was not expecting this story to get this many reads but thank you so much! i'm so sorry that the first chapter took so long! i hope you all enjoyed it! happy reading!