The Box of Little Critter

Chapter Nine

Over the next couple months, Tianna and Adam have been continuing their normal routine and taking care of little critter. Tianna has been treating little critter as her own child. She has grown rather close to him. Adam on the other hand, was neutral or hesitant about the whole thing. There was just something about little critter that didn't seem right. Adam didn't trust him. It was confirmed when one day, he heard little critter from the attic. He stopped and listened in. Faintly, critter sounded like he was talking to someone. Before Adam could make out what critter was saying, he noticed all the lights in the house started flickering.

"What the hell?" Adam looked around and started to panic. He took a step away from the door. As he did, the lights stopped flickering. Adam looked around for a moment.

"What the hell was that?" he muttered, nervously. "I need to tell Tianna." Adam headed to the next room and quickly called Tianna. After a few rings, she answered.

"What's up Adam?" 

"Tianna something weird happened!" Adam exclaimed, stuttering. "The lights... flickering... critters hiding...attic-"

"Ok sweetie take a deep breath," Tianna interrupted. "I am almost done with work. You can tell me about it when I get home, but I have to finish stuff here." Then Tianna hung up the phone. Adam looked down at his phone and sighed.

"How the hell do I explain this?" he asked himself. He then sighed again, and headed to the game room to try and calm down.

About an hour and a half later, Tianna walked into the house and shut the door.

"Adam!" she called out. "I'm home!" She looked around the house as she set her purse on the kitchen counter. Silence.

"That's weird," Tianna said to herself. She headed to the bedroom. Empty. So she then headed to the office. Also empty. Then she went to the game room. However, as Tianna entered, she froze. There was Adam. Unconscious in the game chair. Tianna quickly ran over. 

"Adam!" Tianna called out frantically shaking him. She tried to wake him up, but with no luck. So Tianna pulled out her phone. 

"Hello I need an ambulance immediately!" she exclaimed, panicked and scared. 

Tianna sat in the waiting room for a while. She didn't know if it had been minutes or hours. She just knew she didn't want to leave. Once the doctor entered the waiting room, she quickly stood up. 

"How is he!?" Tianna asked.

"Don't worry. For now, he is fine," the doctor answered. "But we would like to keep him here overnight just to make sure. He almost slipped into a coma." Tianna froze. She didn't know how that was possible. As far as she knew, he was just gaming while waiting for her to come home from work. Tianna sighed.

"Ok that's fine I guess," she muttered. "Can I see him now?" The doctor nodded.

"Follow me." The doctor led Tianna to one of the rooms down the hall. He opened the door and there was Adam, laying in the bed, chuckling at the tv. He seemed to have some energy. Tianna ran over and hugged him.

"Whoa careful babe," he said. She didn't move.

"I'm so glad you're ok," Tianna said. She lifted her head to look at Adam. "What the hell happened?" Adam sighed.

"I think it was critter."