Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-30891328-20170903003758

What you are about to read are entries in my journal about the strange things happening around my town. I don't want any of this to go public, because none of this would be believed. But, I need to tell someone. One more thing before we begin: I won't reveal where we are. I don't want people to come here, and face the possibility of dying   Part 1   A couple of nights ago, my daughter woke me up, I looked at the clock and told her that it was two in the morning. She told me that she heard some weird tapping on her window. She was scared crazy. I told her that it was probably a bad dream but she begged me to check it out. I walked outside and scanned the whole perimeter, nothing. I came back in and comforted my daughter, telling her again that it was all a dream. However, she still didn't want to sleep in her room, so I had our dog, who was a German shepherd, to watch her for the rest of the night. I had nothing to worry about for the rest of the night.   <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">The next day, while I was on break at work, I was talking with one of my coworkers, Jeff, and he told me about his son waking up to the sound of tapping on his window last night. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">"Strange," I said, "my daughter said she heard the same thing last night.", "That is strange." Jeff said. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">I then asked Jeff what time it was when he woke him up and he said, "Two in the morning, can you believe that?" I felt a slight chill climb up my spine, but I considered it as a coincidence. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">Part 2 <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">My daughter doesn't hear tapping on her window at night anymore. But I couldn't stop thinking about how weird the things that happened that night, so one day I went on a walk around town asking people if they're kids had been hearing tapping on their windows at night. Some parents said that they have been, others said they have themselves, and the rest wondered why I asked. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">One morning, I read the newspaper and read about a kid who committed suicide. It started when his father walked into his bathroom last night, to see his son... vomiting an eyeball into the toilet. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">According to the boy, it was connected to voices in his head telling him to extinguish himself, "They're getting angry, that's why I vomited that eye." he said. A few days later, he jumped off his house roof. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">A couple months later, I got home from work and heard a loud, ear-piercing bang coming from inside the house. I rushed to the door and swung it open. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">On the living room floor was my wife, with her head blown to smithereens, and a shotgun in her hands. I noticed a small piece of paper in her back pocket. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">I took it out and saw that it was a note saying, "Sorry honey, but they told me to do this." <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">Part 3 <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">I need to get this out  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">quick <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">! Now, things are getting weird and annoying. I woke up one day, got ready for work, and found my daughter in the living room staring at the turned-off TV. She wasn't even watching anything, it was just, dull and black. I noticed that she had a frightened look on her face, like she was about to be eaten by a bear or something. I tapped her on the shoulder and asked her if she was alright. She broke out of whatever trance she was memorized in and she looked at me and said she was alright. Now, if nothing creepy was going on lately I would have thought she was in the imaginary world she loves so much. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US">I kissed her on the forehead and said, "I love you." I need to work overtime now that I'm a single father. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">Today, when Jeff got to work he seemed a bit different. <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">Whenever <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;"> he was talking to someone he'd have that kind look on his face he always have, but as he got done and left the conversation, he'd have an  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">unpleasant <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;"> look  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">on <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;"> his  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">face, like he wasn't  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">satisfied with something <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">. I even noticed something that I'm surprised that nobody else did, and ashamed that I didn't point this out to them. You see, the Jeff I knew had  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">bodybuilder <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;"> arms, that were big, sacks of meat. But, the man in question's arms were  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">skinnier, like someone had cut the skin open and replaced them with  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">smaller <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;"> ones. I don't know why I kept quiet about this. <span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;font-size:11pt;line-height:18px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;"> <p class="Paragraph SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:normal;color:windowtext;" lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXO77236108" lang="EN-US" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;line-height:18px;font-variant-ligatures:none!important;" lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">A few  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">seconds <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;"> ago, I had woken up to the sound of tapping on the  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">window, when the  <span class="NormalTextRun SCXO77236108" style="user-select:text;-webkit-user-drag:none;-webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent;">second tap came, I snapped out of it. I don't know what have been going on, but I'm at my computer copying this in from my journal. I don't know what will happen to me, or how long this have been going on. But I don't wanna die. <ac_metadata title="How do I survive in this damn town?"> </ac_metadata>