Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25681121-20141224205254

"I was never too fond of outside."

My name is Derek. I spend most of my time on the internet and hardly ever go outside, I have a very poor social life. Most of my day I just browse the internet, In fact all I do is browse the internet, I search a new site everyday maybe even more than once and I really don't know the reason why. But there is one thing I don't do often on the internet but sometimes I am forced to, I search deeper in the web, I get bored of the same websites and find more unknown ones. Sometimes I find goofy joke sites. Other times I find horrible images. People cutting there fingers off, heads being sliced in pieces with a black knife, Sometimes the images stick in my head. Preventing me from eating for several days until the image is out of my memory. But my mind seems to forget more then the images, once the image is out of my head I often check for more images in the dark parts of the internet. Even if I have no reason to i still do either way. That is when i stopped, I didn't search the dark parts of the internet for a long time, But my computer and my mind had betrayed me.

I woke up from a long night of browsing the internet. I was tired and could hardly get up, My eyes had bags under them. The air smelt like sweat. i stood my body up and wiped my eyes. I got out of bed and went to get breakfast, but in this case it would be lunch. I open the fridge and pulled out the butter. I buttered a bagel and walked to the table. I quickly ate my bagel as i wanted to get to the computer. I turned on the computer, the startup sound gave me a warm feeling and I was ready to begin browsing. I was greeted with my homescreen and typed in my password. I started by browsing Youtube. I checked my subscriptions and my recommended channels. Then I went to my "what to watch" page. I realised i hadn't checked it in a while. I clicked on the page and found usual stuff I would find. Stuff from my channels. stuff from other channels and music. But one thing stuck out. This one video with no thumbnail, it was from a channel I had never heard of. The channel name was "17why17". I clicked on the channel. I couldn't make out what the channels profile picture was, it was blurry and distorted. The channel had the video i saw before. It was the only video on the channel. it was called "where" I decided to click the video out of curiousity. I put on my headphones, the video was buffering and i sat back and watched.

The video started with 4 people sitting on some wooden steps. They were at a old house. I could see moss on the old looking house. The first person opened his mouth to talk.

"it sure has been long hasn't it." He was speaking to the person next to him

The second person began singing Silent Night and the others soon followed. Music began playing along. But it wasn't music. Instead of the tune of Silent Night playing along with their singing all I could hear was a loud scratching sound, like nails on a chalkboard. One of the people singing started singing in a raspy voice. the 4th person was visibly getting angry. I realised i had been silent the entire time. Then the 4th person hit one of them in the jaw. They all began fighting each other, except for the raspy voiced one. He was crouching and covering his head while the others fought each other. Then the video ended.

I took off my earphones and exited the video. The video was strange. It wasnt gory at all though. It was just eerily creepy. I got up to get a drink, I could barely walk, I was shivering furiously. I got a bottle of water and went back to the computer. I put the bottle on the floor and searched the internet. I did this for 3 hours straight until i checked Youtube again for new videos. I checked my What to watch page again. Another video was posted by "17why17" this one was titled "who". The thumbnail was a picture of a room. The room had peeling wallpaper and had a shelf and a bed. I clicked the video. I put my headphones back on and turned down the volume. I didn't want to listen to loud scratching again. The video was buffering and I waited for it to start.

The video began with a teen sitting on a bed. He was wiping his eyes and was just getting up. He walked over to his kitchen and got a bagel. The video suddenly cut to the room I saw in the thumbnail. A different person was sitting on a bed. he got up and went to his kitchen. His kitchen was decaying. The wallpaper peeling off. He got out a bagel. The bagel was green and molding. He took a bite out of it. I looked away from the screen. It cut back to the teen. I realised. The teen was me. I got a bagel and went to the computer like I did this morning. I shut the video off and looked I room. There was a camera in the corner of my ceiling as I suspected. I went outside and looked around. There was no one there. I went back to my computer. "17why17" had post another video. The name was "now" and the thumbnail was a picture of me. I clicked on the video. The video was only a few seconds. There was a man standing in front of the screen.

"I thought you weren't fond of going outside" He said. 