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Speaker 1: When things spiral, I've always resorted disputing my thoughts down

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on paper. Something about seeing everything laid out tends to

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clear my mind. Unfortunately, it also ends up making the

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mistakes made even more glaring. But little embarrassment and a

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handful of regrets aren't much to worry about At this point.

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I've been dealing with the situation. Yeah, most people have

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their fair share of problems that this one's gone from

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being a tad absurd to an outright train wreck in

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the stupidest way. It started months ago. Long story short,

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there's a squid monster that lives in the woods behind

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my house. I know how it sounds, but I swear

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there's a six foot tall, tentacled being that just hides

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along the trees out there. I still don't fully know

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why or how something that should live in waters survives

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out there, but I sure did. It's weird. Sometimes it

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spreads seemingly endless tendrils outwards, blending into the grass and dirt.

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Other Times it focuses more on height, twisting in on

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itself and stretching outwards and hiding in a mess of

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branches and leaves. Naturally, it has a slightly purple tone

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to its flesh. I guess you'd figure it'd stick out

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even if it is dark out there. Well, unfortunately, it's

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full of solutions. They've got this fun little hobby of

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changing the entire texture and color of its skin so

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as to better blend in wherever it's hiding. Meaning when

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pretending to be a tree, it is borderline impossible to notice,

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but sprawling out on the ground and elevation differences gets

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the better of it, since the head can never flatten

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out enough to fully mitigate its aspect. All this is stuff.

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It's just fun facts I've learned about it over time.

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It could be basically invisible if it wanted to. Unfortunately,

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it decided that it wanted to be noticed. And after

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it made that choice, it found out that it really

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enjoyed watching me react at the sight of it through

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my window. At least that's the only way I can

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make some sort of sense out of all this mess.

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I had no idea what to do back then, and

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was basically terrified ninety percent of the time. Doing nothing

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wasn't helping, so I picked off the problems I could,

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starting with figuring out if I was just crazy or

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if all this was actually real says, it seemed set

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on keeping its distance for the time being. I covered

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the house in a pretty crazy camera setup. That move

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that murdered my bank got results, but also making things

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significantly worse. While I quickly am asked footage of it

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and proof it was real, it was tied up with

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something far more bitter, the realization of just how often

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it was around. At first, I had a motion detector

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set to beep anytime something was picked up, but when

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it started going off every ten to fifteen minutes, it

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wasn't long before it got muted. Was that just ignoring

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the problem? Yeah, But the other option was making myself

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sick with anxiety and dropping a truckload of paranoia on

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my brain. Given that falling asleep was already enough of

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a problem even before all of this figured, I'd die

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of exhaustion long before I came up with an answer,

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or before the squid made its move. Ignorance was far

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from bliss, but it was enough to keep going day

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in day out. Well. I kept building up a stockpile

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of photos and videos of it, my so called undeniable

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proof and my ticket to getting the cops involved. I

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don't really know what I expected them to do, but

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I was convinced that getting armed help of any kind

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was my way out of this. It's just you get

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stuck in your head. After dealing with something like that

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for so long, it's easy to forget that what's now

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normal still isn't to the rest of the world. So

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when you lose that respective and you start a conversation

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with where it could be summarized as, oh, hey, there's

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a squid living in the woods and it's stalking me,

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people don't really take anything that follows seriously. I tried

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several times with more and more concrete footage, but all

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I ever got in return was a oh, it's probably

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some teen pulling a prank, or well, hey, if they

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don't cross the property line, there's nothing illegal here. It

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didn't make sense to me. How could they look at it,

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changing to blend in and still think that it was

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something a normal piece of tech or an idiot but

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a costume could pull off, not even touching on its

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unnatural movement. How each tentacle was capable of moving independently.

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Every time I tried, I left with the sound of

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them mocking and laughing at me, still ringing in my ears,

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At that point, I just wanted someone to see what

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I did, so I tried at least posting what evidence

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I had online, but either it was called AI or

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impressive special effect. Sure there was a guy or two

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that was convinced, but when their post histories involved mostly

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conspiracy ramblings or ratings of obscure porn, that didn't exactly

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feel like the kind of company I wanted to keep.

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For some reason, I had these standards like, at least

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I wasn't that crazy. Yeah, given my diminishing sanity at

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the time, Yeah, that was vastly overstating how I was doing.

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So I'd hit a wall. I'se a lot of options,

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stuck knowing that I was being stalked, but with nothing

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I could do about it. Every day could have been

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the day that I finally decided to do more than

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just watch. Instead, time just ticked away, days turns into months,

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and slowly I fell into a routine of ignoring the

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problem again. Really, it was only a matter of time

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before things got bad again, though I still don't have

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an answer as to why things changed when they finally did.

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One morning, I just woke up to rabbit corpses strung

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up along the back of my fence. It didn't take

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a genius to figure out what had done it. It

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wasn't an easy watch when I finally got the nerve

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to check the recordings. Even factoring in the distance and

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video quality, the brutality and cruelty is still burnt into

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my memories. Each of the animals had been alive at

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the time it was attached, left a hang wrapped in

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the part that made this somehow even worse. The squid

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had torn off its own tendrils, Unlike the ones I'd

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seen it used most of the time to move around.

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They were thin, hard to break, long enough to be

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a perfect replacement for rope, assuming you ignored how they bled, rotted,

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and how disgusting it looked and smelt. Not knowing where

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else to turn, I fell back on old habits. I

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managed to convince myself that the cops had to take

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this seriously. After that, and there were bodies involved, I mean,

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even yes, if they were just rodents, it's more than

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what I'd had up until this point. Well, I guess

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was right. It did end up getting them to do

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a single investigation, one that ended after an hour. When

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officers left, they seemed tense. I swear they saw something,

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but no matter how many times I asked, it got ignored.

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They just left, leaving me feeling more defeated than I

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ever had been. That was the breaking point in a

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lot of ways. I started looking into getting a gun,

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something that I avoided after the cops mentioned it could

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be some idiot in a costume. Of course, I knew

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that was obviously bullshit, but I lacked the nerve back

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then and wasn't ready to commit murder to get out

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of this, not that it mattered in the end. At

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some point, reporting to the cops like I had must

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have been put into a file. It came up when

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a background check was done, so I got flagged as

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a mental risk. When I pivoted from that, I considered

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moving quickly realized that it really wasn't an option financially, occupationally,

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or contractually. While getting out prioritizes not dying, there was

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the potential of never finding more work. The job market

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is a deeper hell than I was drowning, and I

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could be without a place to stay, no savings, no

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safety in that, starving out on the street, cold and alone.

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At least if the squid decided to finally get rid

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of me, it'd probably be quicker. I'd also die full

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and warm if given the choice. Delusional conclusions. Maybe, But

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after facing this problem for months, I can't say that

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my thoughts were in the best place. So after so

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long of that stupid game, I just got to a

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point where I reached acceptance, grew numb to it all.

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After all, even the scariest and loudest jump scares eventually

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stop hitting when you see it every day, I was

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just part of the routine. Since things didn't seem to

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get worse. Kind of started to feel like we had

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a quiet agreement. It got to watch me all at

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once as long as it stayed on that side of

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the fence, and I'd just have to get rid of

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the message make from time to time. Not that cleaning

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up was completely without experimentation. If I immediately removed the bodies,

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more showed up sooner. If I left them a hanging

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for too long, something living in the woods would eventually

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try eating them. The squid really seemed to really hate that,

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and I'd find larger animals like raccoons and foxes, a

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few birds of prey just left dead and left on

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the ground in front of the decorated fence. At some

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point I reached a state of me genius, and I

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got this hypothesis stuck in my head that maybe my

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clearing up approach was wrong from the start. I put

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on gloves, stuff everything in trash bags, throw it out

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like normal trash. From much perspective, that'd be like me

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accepting its gift that it had been leaving. So instead

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I tried sprang the bodies with a hose so they

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fell off where they were hanging from, and leaving them there,

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hoping that that make it clear I both saw it

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its offering and had no use for it. I can't

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explain how hyped I was to find out that my

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message did indeed get across, though the results were less

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than perfect. It made it change its habits. Yes, but

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instead of leaving me food, it started knocking over the

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trash and eating whatever scraps were left. So maybe instead

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of not seeming interested, I just told them I have

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too much food. Still, it was an improvement, even if

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I'd just replaced one type of mess with another. This

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one was only annoying and not an outright massacre. He

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wasn't a situation I wanted to deal with. But at

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least it became manageable. After everything that happened, I could

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live with that. Fortunately, though, just as some degree of

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understanding was being reached, I made a mistake I couldn't

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ever recover from one that wasn't due to the squid

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at all.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: Instead, their name was Jake. He lived near my house

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growing up. Was always a little strange, but I'd chalk

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that up to a weird sense of humor. It's not

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like we were best friends, but those days. Once every

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few months, the dude would randomly hit me up. It

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was the most basic of basic conversations. How could I

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have known what it would lead to? So, what's new

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with you? I could have talked about work or whatever

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I was playing, or how the weather had been. That

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was pretty awful. I'd made real progress the squid problem.

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I didn't need to talk about it. But I was

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stupid and didn't try treasure what I had going. I

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wanted to rant, to complain, feel like I wasn't crazy.

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For once in a blue moon, stupid, stupid, stupid. I

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caught him up in the bullship my forced squid, showed

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him the pictures and videos, and he just kept asking

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for details like an idiot, I answered, never questioning why

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he was so interested in it, though the signs were

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obviously there. It started with saying how pretty the color

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they were most of the time was, or how it

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was more of an octopus anatomically, which didn't make much

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sense after thinking about it for more than five seconds,

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the octa being the glitting problem given it has more

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than six tentacles. I think he was just trying to

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sound smart while talking out of his ass. His obsessions

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on strange details were uncomfortable, to say the least, like

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how he said it sways its hips when it moves,

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despite having none to speak of, if it had a

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beak hiding under all those limbs, or if it had

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one heart or two, what skin to sucker contact would

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feel like. Unfortunately, I answered like he was asking legitimate questions. Sure,

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it fell off, but that squid had been tossing in

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a dash of unending nightmares to my day to day

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life for so long. How could I ever imagine those

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strange little tangents of his were implying what they did.

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I mean, even after rereading the logs, I still don't

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fully understand when it happened, But somehow, Jake, this conversation

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had become about another thing entirely, and it turned out

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I'm dumb as a sack of bricks for not even

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fully processing everything until he bluntly made his tastes clear.

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He even included art he found relevant. You know that stuff. Yeah,

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I don't ever want to remember, much less write down

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the details. The visceral revulsion that hits lands significantly harder

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when you're faced with a subject in question waiting directly

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outside your window. The details don't need to be recorded

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beyond that, just know that it took me a long

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time to respond or even process that he could see

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that thing as a possibly a possible mate. Boyfriend or girlfriend.

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Doesn't feel like the right word to use when half

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the combo is more tentacle than body. Of course, I

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say the obvious things like it's going to kill you

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if you show up, or how it might get pissed

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at me and ruin this little cold war thing I've

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got going on for me. I even got desperate enough

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to try and argue that it wasn't even a recognizable gender,

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so it might not even be physically possible promoting a

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horrifying It's close enough for me, tentacles can fill a

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lot of gaps. I still remember wanting to crawl out

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of my skin after that. I hated it, And even

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after he made his intentions completely clear, I still tried

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to pretend like it was just it was just all

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a stupid joke and hoped that this had never come

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up again. He'd stopped talking after that, so I could

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still pray that maybe, just maybe he was just drunk,

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but he was messaging. I'm not that lucky, unfortunately, because

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two days later he was knocking like his life depended

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on it. When I eventually gave up and opened the

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door for him, he looked like a mass in. His

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hair was tangled and had leaves and sticks stuck in it,

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and he was covered and caked on dirt. This this

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is a joke, right, You expect me not to show

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up after all that? You stopped responding, So yeah, I

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had to prepare by rolling around in the dirt and

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diving into bushes. There's definitely a bush to dive into.

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But no, it's called blending in. Is that is that

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that supposed to be like a sex a sex thing?

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It's a squid. I actually don't think it details details

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please leave. No, come on, this is a once in

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a lifetime chance you got. You gotta show god. I

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still remember the manic look on his face, and I

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tried closing the door on his face, practically clawing at

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the doorframe before he forced his way in. He was

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dedicated to this in a way that I'd never seen before.

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This isn't like that weird anime thing you sent before, right, Jake.

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I mean it's been out there stalking me for months,

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lucky Bestard, I take anything being interested in me. At

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this point, I was a little knocked off guard by

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the depressing honesty of that, and unfortunately I was stupid

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enough to consider that maybe this was more complicated. You

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do it, okay, man? Like did you did you stop

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taking your meds or something? Let's not get into that.

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So have you gone back there looking for it yet? Jake?

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What you're aiming for here isn't gonna happen. Oh yit,

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Come on, sit down. You aren't thinking right, I'm fine.

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It was an obvious lie. But he went and sat

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down on the couch, and I had a real opportunity

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to at least try and steer the conversation away from

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his stupid degeneracy, be honest with me, how were things?

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Instead of looking in the eye, his attention was drawn

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to the table lamp beside me. It was made of

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metal and had a glass lamp shade, a real fancy

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antique that he immediately got to, pulling the small chain

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and turning on and off, stopping eventually to ask, have

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you got out looking for it? Jake? You can ask

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as many times as you want, but the answer still no.

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It's too dangerous. Again, he delayed his response, just letting

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the repeated click of the lamp turning on and off

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to fill the air. Has it ever done anything to

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you besides kill? Animals were in my sleep, knock over

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my trash and making me seem crazy. His eyes finally

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moved away from the lamp to me, it's not actually

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attacking you, just the wildlife, Just wildlife. Come on, Jake,

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you can't be that naive. You've never been out there.

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You don't know what they're like. It was like my

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words weren't even reaching him. He ignored so much of

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what I said, just to go back to the same

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thing over and over. He was so outrageous and stupid,

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but somehow sent off a sick feeling that kept boiling

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in my stomach. Still, I convinced myself that if I

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could just lure him away from this topic, maybe maybe

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it would save him. All Right, it's not going anywhere.

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How about we go out, we watch a flick or something. Right,

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I hear a bunch of stuff is reviewing really well

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lately the lamp clicked on and off again and again

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and again. You don't even know what's playing, do you?

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Has that ever stopped us before? Remember that one summer

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when we snuck into the theater and we hop from

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movie to movie? Did everything sucked worse than the last?

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You're trying to distract me. It doesn't come out till night, Jake,

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Then I'll wait here. I got so desperate then, not

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just to save him from himself, but to avoid him

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breaking what little stability I'd built up. Please stop, Either

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it eats you alive, or it doesn't show up and

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you get lost in the woods. The forest isn't even

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that big. I don't have to get lost in Pretty

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sure you could find a way, given that you've in

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an never camped. You barely leave your house. He avoid,

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you're looking at me, attention locked back on the metal, lamp.

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I'm going to go out and see her. You'll die.

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How many times do we have to repeat that before

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it sinks in? And that'd be fine by me? It

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excuse me. I'd rather go out doing what I loved

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and deal with the other crap going on. Jake, please

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breathe think this over. You're acting delusional. It's a monster

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looking for a meal, not a whatever you think it is.

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A meal is a date, regardless of the menu. How

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does a person even respond to something like that? It's

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a joke. I should have been able to play into it,

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make some retort about how terrible his tasted women is.

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But when everything's overshadowed by the reality of what he wants,

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how obviously messed up in the head he was. How

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I could wreck the fragile status quo I had going

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ended up presorting to a threat. If the only way

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to stop you is calling the cops for trespassing, I've

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got ample proof. There's cameras all over, and you forced

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your way in, go for it. I'll be in the

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forest by the time they show up. You'll get caught

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long before it gets dark, and I'll just have to

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show up at night. Once I get bailed out, Jake.

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No matter what you tell yourself, this is it worth it?

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It really is. Though You've got the hottest thing I've

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ever seen waiting for your dick, and you just act

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like a bitch about it. If you're not gonna hop

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on that, I will wanting my What I mean, really,

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how are you really this goddamn stupid I'm the one

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who will have to deal with the situation if anything

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happens to you, and come with me. You can introduce us.

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Make sure the introductions go buttery smooth. I'm not I'm

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not marching to my death just because you've got this

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stupid idea rammed in your head. You're gonna get yourself

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killed and I'll be the one left telling your parents

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you died trying to screw a squid. It'd be an

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improvement on there. And they haven't talked to each other

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without spiraling into an argument in three years. That's yeah,

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It's stupid, isn't it. They hate each other and they're

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actively fucking other people. But won't untie that knot because

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it's a sin fighting twenty four to seven, Though that's

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good in hindsight. This is miles above my piggride. My

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sanity has been battering again and again for months now.

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How was I supposed to talk someone down when my

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own brain was being held together with tape and copious

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months of ignoring every problem that came my way? Jake,

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come on, man, let's go out. Get a drink, pike

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your mind off everything. I don't need that. I rushed

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over the second you showed me everything, and I won't

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let you get in our way. Rushed over. Last time

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we talked was like two days ago. Before I could

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finish that final word, the lamp he'd been fiddling with

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came colliding into my skull. The details after that are

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foggy even now. There was a sickeningly loud cracking sound,

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some shattering glass too, but they seemed inconsequential now. It

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was Jake's completely expressionless face and his dead looking eyes

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that managed to cut through the damage the clearest looking back.

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Maybe it was strange that I got stuck on the

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time aspect before the nonsense about getting in the way.

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But was it because that problem felt real? Well, his

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obsession was just repeating nonsense. Clearly pointing the problem out

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triggered what came after. But why I don't know, and

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not that the answer to the puzzle would help me

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much now, much less back then. The blow to the

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head was bad enough that I should have died. Instead,

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I woke up being held together by a dozen arms.

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It was a sense of safety I hadn't felt since

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I was a child, a feeling quickly smashed to pieces.

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When I finally opened my eyes, the room was drenched

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in blood. There wasn't anything identifiable, just hunks of metals

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spread around randomly across the floor. The monster that had

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been stalking me for so long had wrapped itself all

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around me while I was out cold, prodding at my skull.

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Countless little appendages, some dug deep, others scratched the surface,

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but all of them broke something. Words couldn't come. My

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body couldn't move, and only my mind was left screaming,

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begging for it all to end. Each movement it made

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led to a pressure building within my brain and in

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my eyes, escalating to what seemed like the only possible endpoint.

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Just as I felt like my life was over, the

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prime tentacles pulled back and a voice filled my mind.

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Each phrase came with an unnatural tone, some whispers, while

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others battered every sense I understand. We have learned the

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source disgusting, harmful, unworthy, desperate. Yep, the corpse. He is useful.

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We misunderstood feelings, affection, admiration, and clarity through consumption and love.

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How awful it was, Yet you breathe, so we are happy.

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I drew my head upwards and locked, forcing me to

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stare up at its purple and orange eyes that are

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horizontal irises, moving ever so slightly. They were unnatural and unnerving.

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It breathtaking, lee beautiful. It was a moment that felt

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like it lasted in eternity, and hours seemed to meld

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and pass like seconds. That's how things ended up the

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way they have. So she hasn't left since then. Sometimes

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I give in to the peace and comfort she offered.

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We share meals and act like a screwed up couple

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and pretend nothing's wrong. Other times she seems on the

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edge of ripping me apart. That wakes me up enough

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to remind me that I need to run. No matter

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how far I travel, I'd always end up back home.

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And even resorted to praying for a while that maybe

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work or the police could figure out what happened. But

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like always, no matter how blatant the proof or how

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obviously wrong things were, problems always work out in her favor,

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leaving me ensnared in her loving embrace, her tentacles wrapped

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around my throat as an ever looming reminder, constantly dancing

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on a razor's edge. How did a simple what's new

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with you? Spiral into this? This wasn't something I wanted

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to deal with Hell, I actively did everything I could

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to avoid getting involved with her for months. That's not

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even the most frustrating part. What gets me is that

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I know Jake is a bastard, and I should be

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glad he's dead. Instead, there's just too many missing pieces

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muddying the water. Why did those real moments have to

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slip in between him wanting to screw the damn squid

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you tried to murder me? I've earned the right to

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hate that guy, haven't I? And then why won't that

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resentment stick? Am I convinced he's a victim in this too?

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Or Am I just just too used to that thought

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as a way of telling myself not the fall for

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the comfort that grows more and more tempting as the

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days pass. Even after writing all this down. I don't know.

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The fact remains that Jake opened the door for her,

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and instead of getting what he wanted, his dream.

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Speaker 2: Was was forced on me while his corpse went cold

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as it coated the floors and walls. Now the only

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way to survive is to keep her happy. This is

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my life now.

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Speaker 1: Hey, they're kids. It's me, mister Peppasta. And before we

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say good night, I just wanted to say thank you

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so much for watching tonight's video or for listening to

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tonight's episode or the podcast. I also want to say,

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if you guys like the stories you're hearing now, please

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They're available now on Amazon. They're available at Barnes and Noble.

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There's also an audiobook that I wasn't involved with. I

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listing the books, but you just don't want to hear me.

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for being here and as always, sweet dreams.