Part 3: The Shadow in the Woods

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Grim opens his eyes to see another strange sight, he saw a gold ball room, masked people dancing around, in front of him there was a man in a skull mask dancing with a girl in a white bird mask. He didn't know why, but everything seemed so familiar to him, the gold hair of the girl in front of him seemed so majestic, and the boy in the fancy looking skull mask made him think of himself. Grim turned around and was startled by a extremely tall woman, who looked a tiny bit like the girl he was just watching, and next to her stood a man slightly taller than Grim, the muscular man punched Grim, sending him through the room, Grim looked up seeing the room had went dark. He slowly stood up as the room had started to fade away, "what the hell was that..." he thought to himself, he slowly started to wake up next to Tiana.

Grim had woke up from that strange dream of his, whatever it could have meant was beyond him, all he knew was it confused him. He slowly got out of bed and did his same daily routine, go to the bathroom, make a cup of coffee, lay down on the couch, and wait for Tiana. While he was laying down he had that feeling again, the same one he did yesterday, he felt like he was being told to go outside, since he had a bit till Tiana woke up, he decided he'd go outside. Since Grim lives up in the mountains of Alaska, and the fact that it's winter, he'd obviously need to gear up a little, he put on his long trench coat and giant winter boots, he slowly opened the door and stepped outside, it felt like he hadn't been outside in months, it was oddly dark outside for the morning, and it was snowing like a blizzard outside.

As he slowly moved across his front yard, he saw a shadowy figure looming in the woods, he looked at the figure and said "Hello!? What are you doing up here!?", as he spoke the figure quickly ran deeper into the woods. Once Grim saw the shadow run into the woods he decided it was an animal, then he thought to himself "it can't be an animal, it looked so much like a human..." . Grim decided to travel into the woods and find the creature, he eventually came across what looked like an old destroyed campfire, it looked frozen, as if it was there long before the winter started, while he was looking at the mysterious fireplace, he heard a snap in front of him, as he looked up, he saw the human looking shadow, peeking at him behind the tree. Once Grim saw this, the first thing to come to his head was "Fuck this shit I'm out!", he began to run back home, he realized it was like it was getting darker outside, this was like another fucked up dream to him, but he decided not to think, all he wanted to do was get home, he eventually got home and rushed inside.

When Grim ran into his house he saw Tiana crying on the couch, she looked up at Grim and ran to hug him, before he could say anything Tiana said "Where were you?! Why did you disappear!?", Grim looked her and said "T I was only out there for 10 minutes?", she cried more and said "More like 10 hours!", she began to cry more into his arms. One thing to remember about Tiana is how paranoid and afraid she gets, especially with Grim, one of her biggest fears is loosing Grim. Tiana cried more into Grims arms as he tried to explain everything, she eventually began to calm down, but was still skeptical about everything Grim said, but she decided to believe him, they soon went to their bedroom and laid down together, Grim looked at the clock which read 11:34 pm, "how did everything go so fast" he thought to himself. As they laid together cuddling each other while getting ready to sleep Grim thought "what was that outside, and was that what caused me to skip in time....?", he decided not to think about it and he just cuddled Tiana, soon falling asleep.

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