Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24911945-20140507035855/@comment-24911945-20140507234301

That’s Right…

    I woke up up in the middle of the night, to the sound of my water heater rattling. It had been doing this for the last week or so, and I had been meaning to fix it. There was a bolt loose, and whenever it turned on the bolt would rattle and make a really annoying sound. The sound was so annoying that it had even been influencing my dreams.

     I kept having the same dream every night. I would be in my room, and when I looked around, there was this one of the most horrifying...things coming down from my ceiling on a web. From the neck up, it was somewhat human, but below that, it was a giant spider. It's joints bent the wrong way, and it twisted and skittered as I watched. It's bloodless, pale face watched me with glittering black eyes, staring down at me from behind a mess of long, greasy black hair. In the dream, it would reach down with one of its legs and caress my face, while whispering “That’s  right” over and over again. Then it would reach over with another leg and give me a small laceration on the back of my shoulder. I would hear the rattling of the water heater, growing louder and louder, then bolt upright in a cold sweat.

    Well I was done with that stupid dream and that annoying rattling. I got out of bed and flipped on the lights. I walked to the closet to get a wrench to tighten the bolt. Right as my hand closed around the handle of the door, the circuit blew and the lights went out. I felt the hairs on the back of my rise, and I got the creeping suspicion that I was being watched. I turned around and heard “That’s right, That’s right.” It was barely audible, but I jolted all the same and ran to my bed to get the baseball bat I keep under it.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I lay on my bed and reached my hand behind the bed to get the bat. As I reached my hand behind the bed, the back started itching horribly. I stuck my hand under my shirt and felt a thin scab on the back of my shoulder. I froze. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“That’s right That’s right!” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It kept saying it with increasing volume and intensity. I squeezed my eyes shut and jammed my fingers in my ears. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Its just a dream, its just a dream. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I kept telling myself, I’m <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> about to wake up, then ill go to work, and it will all be okay. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It wasn't. I heard skittering everywhere, but my eyes told me there was no one in the room. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I'm just dreaming right? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I tried my best to go to sleep with the rattling in my mind.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In the morning I woke up feeling fresher. I took a shower, and got on my clothes for work, I felt like a new man, nothing like the shivering wretch I was last night. Work helped to calm my nerves, and went over to my girlfriend Claire's house, where she was making chicken. We had a relaxing dinner and she sent me off with a kiss. At this point, I was confident the events of last night were only a dream. The only doubt in my mind was the scratch, but I dismissed it, telling myself it was from my mattress, whose springs were starting to poke through. I went home, and immediately fixed the water heater. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That should fix those dreams <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> I thought. That night I slept like a log.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The next week was as normal as ever. Work was lame, but I made it through, and I went out with Claire on Wednesday. By Friday, I had forgotten anything had even happened, and went out with the boys for a couple of drinks. I got home and went directly to bed, but I had forgotten to tighten the bolt which was rattling again, on the water heater. The dream came

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">but it was different than usual. This time never touched me. It smiled an inhuman smile, exposing a mouth full of sharp, rotten teeth. It skittered down the wall and slipped through the water heater, folding and contorting to fit into the narrow space. I heard a scream and woke up to the rattling as normal. Except this time, when I went to tighten it, the bolt was tight. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Strange <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I thought, <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">that's always what has caused it. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> I crawled back into bed, and hoped I could fall back asleep.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I couldn’t. I decide to call my mom and tell her what happened.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I patiently waited as the phone rang.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Hello?” I heard the kind voice of my mom on the other end

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Mom, can I talk to you?” I asked

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“ At four-o’clock in the morning?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Yes…” I said, “I just need someone to talk to”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I told her About my recurring dream and how it was different last night.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Simon?” She asked

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Yes?” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Go to bed, You’re drunk.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“No, Im not!” I exclaimed “This is real!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“ <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thats RIght” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I heard from the other end  of the phone

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Then the phone beeped electronically and i heard the dial tone.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I quickly called Paul to console me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Dude, it’s too early,” he answered

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“I know, but something really freaky is happening to me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I quickly explained my dreams, and what had happened with my mom

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“You have to get out! It’s coming for you!” I screamed at him

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“ <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thats Right”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">the beeping of the dial tone played again. I called more of my friends, but each time the phone call would end the same way.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Why was  it doing this to me? What had I done to deserve this? I threw down the phone in anger, shattering it’s plastic case. There’s only one person left who could possibly listen to me, and only one person left who it could take. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Claire! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> I thought. It was then I heard a knock.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I opened the door to be met by two policemen. One was a handsome young man with chiseled features and close cropped hair. The other had a rounder face and kind eyes peeking from behind long black hair. “What's happened?” I asked

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Hello I'm Officer Silage and this is Officer Jacobs,” the man with the blond hair said, “We’re with the LAPD. Your girlfriend was found dead earlier this morning from unknown causes. We thought you might like to pay your final respects before the autopsy.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Th-thank you” I said, with tears welling in my eyes. It was then I realized what had happened. It had taken her. That's why it hadn't touched me in the dream. It wanted them. It wanted to isolate me from my friends and family  so I had no one.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">On the car ride to the hospital, I tried not to cry. Claire had been my best friend and my only love. she had meant the world to me, and now that thing had taken her. It knew she was  the most important and so it took her when I most needed her. There was no doubt in my mind as to what happened, but I had to be sure.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The scratch on her shoulder merely confirmed what I already knew.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“No!” I screamed “It took her!”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“ <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That's right <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">” I heard from behind me

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Did you hear that!” I yelled, pointing at the empty corner behind me

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“That's what it says, That's what it says” I sobbed

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“ <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That's right.... <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">” it said, mocking me

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Sir, remain calm!” Officer Jacobs yelled

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I looked up at him to see those unmistakable black eyes staring back at me.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“You're him, you’re him!” I screamed, lashing out

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The last thing I felt before it went black was ten thousand volts of electricity shooting through my veins.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I was admitted to the psychiatric ward on January eighth, and have been put on probation until my sleeping returns to normal. At least there's no way he can get in in my nice padded room. Ha, nothing to crawl through here! But what about when I go back? When I go back, how can I escape! HOW? HOW? HOW? <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:line-through;vertical-align:baseline;"> I’ll run away   <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">I...am out of options. It visits me every day, in that Jacobs  man. How do they not notice it? Its so obvious in the way we twists his limbs and peers with those dripping black eyes. But the worst part is the smile. a horrible, bloody, rotten smile so wide it could swallow a mountain.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">How does he blend? Why don’t they notice! WHY!

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Afterword:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">    <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hello, I am Officer Jacobs. This diary was written by patient #9163. He was incarcerated for several months, but he disappeared the night we released him. We suspect he ran away due to his mental instability. While investigating, we found his apartment had never had a water heater, nor had any of the others, so his story could never prove accurate. The only evidence we found was a long lock of black hair. We suspect it is his, but lab tests proved inconclusive. Strangely all of his friends were found missing or dead shortly after the death of his girlfriend. I wonder what could drive a man to kill. Oh, <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#f3f3f3;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thats Right