WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:04.519 It was early in the night and the beach had 2 00:00:04.599 --> 00:00:07.599 just closed. I was standing up by the staircase that 3 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:10.640 led to the sand. The last car had just pulled 4 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:13.359 away from the lot, a red van that looked like 5 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:16.359 it was in its first time by the ocean. I 6 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.679 rarely came here. Plus, I wasn't supposed to be there 7 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:23.399 by myself that night, not because, as they say, girls 8 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.679 aren't supposed to be out in the middle of nowhere 9 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.920 by themselves, but because I thought someone was supposed to 10 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.039 be with me, and I was never going to be 11 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:35.759 alone again. And the sand called, and the ocean answered 12 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:39.159 in a haunting harmony. When that battled over keeping things 13 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:43.200 where they were, or letting the darkness take over, inviting 14 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:45.159 me to float out there, to the place where the 15 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:49.600 depth and the surface were the same color emptiness. That 16 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:53.159 was a feeling. My eyes tried to figure out what 17 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:56.000 was in front of them once the headlights disappeared behind me, 18 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:59.439 And that's when the ocean even began to blend with 19 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.280 the sky in one single infinite painting right across from me. 20 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:08.159 It was then that I heard it, a voice coming 21 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:14.439 from the darkness. Come back. It said, please don't leave me. 22 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:33.480 My name is Edwin, and here is a scary story. 23 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:35.439 It's a long story that I didn't want to bother 24 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:38.959 anyone with that night, even when my friends called asking 25 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.719 if I was okay and if I had seen the 26 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:44.760 pictures on Instagram. He wasn't doing anything wrong, per se. 27 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:48.200 It was just like him, but only I blamed him 28 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.640 for half the outcome. Anyway, we see, we were sitting 29 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:53.680 around the living room, each one of us on our 30 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.799 own phones when I noticed that he was looking my 31 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.159 way like he had something to say. I ignored it 32 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.400 and kept scrolling, But then he suddenly put his phone 33 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:04.920 down and told me that Abby had just texted him 34 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.560 that her mom was in the hospital. I asked what 35 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:10.520 was wrong and if she was going to be all right, 36 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.000 but he ignored the question and instead started with one 37 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.439 of his philosophical I want the best relationship for both 38 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:21.400 of us speech, the same old stuff about how he 39 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:25.719 wanted to be honest, how he valued transparency, and I 40 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:27.520 tried not to roll my eyes as I looked in 41 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.960 his direction waiting for him to continue. I knew what 42 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:32.919 he was going to say, that he was going to 43 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:35.560 go see Abby's mom, that they had been asking about 44 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.080 him and all that that knot was twisting even tighter 45 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.879 in my stomach. What I finally closed off the knot 46 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:46.039 was when he spoke. He said that Abby had just 47 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.759 asked him if he wanted to grab a coffee. Value 48 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.560 your honesty, go have that coffee. I thought to myself, 49 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:56.680 I didn't want to be that girlfriend. You know, my 50 00:02:56.759 --> 00:02:59.439 body felt a little cold when he said that. Some 51 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:03.479 may call that intuition, that soft, nauseating feeling that tells 52 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.759 you that something isn't right. But I nodded and turned 53 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.280 my head back on my phone, even scrolled a little 54 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:12.199 bit without looking at it. His eyes went back to 55 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:15.960 his phone too. He got up after a little while 56 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.520 and went to the room. He changed even put on 57 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:21.199 the perfume that I gave him for his birthday, the 58 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:24.439 bottle still full from how little he used it. Then 59 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.080 he walked out of the room, a hint of excitement 60 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.960 in his eyes as he said goodbye to me, saying 61 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:32.879 that he was going to call. I should have yelled 62 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:36.400 right then, demanded that he stay home, maybe even tell 63 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.439 him that it bothered me and let him decide. And 64 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.080 the moment kept spinning in my head like that, blending 65 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:46.560 with the sounds of these growing waves. Did I encourage him? 66 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.479 It was the beginning of the end, And just when 67 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.479 I wanted to wash myself from everything, the van in 68 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:56.080 the parking op all the way and heard the voice 69 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:01.919 come back. I heard that looked in all directions. That 70 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.039 parking lot had no lights except for the ones on 71 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:08.039 a highway even higher up the hill. Please don't leave me, 72 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:10.560 I heard it say again. Realizing I hadn't heard the 73 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:14.439 full statement the first time, I turned around and saw 74 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:17.160 a young woman around my age sitting somewhere in the 75 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:20.759 middle of the stairs. She was thin, with dark hair, 76 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.040 a dirty white T shirt and jean shorts that still 77 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.160 seemed to glow in the same color of the crashing 78 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.879 waves in that darkness, the van, I asked, looking back 79 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.920 toward the road of the hill. I looked back and shrugged. 80 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.319 There was no more car in sight. Now did they leave? 81 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:41.600 She asked, standing up and wiping sand off herself. Coming 82 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.199 a little bit closer, she finally reached the last step, 83 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.639 just to the left of where I was standing. She 84 00:04:48.680 --> 00:04:51.680 hadn't look too concerned by this point, like I would 85 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:53.519 be if my ride had just stranded me on a 86 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:56.759 dark beach. She looked up the hill and saw the 87 00:04:56.759 --> 00:05:01.759 same thing. I did nothing. We stood there in silence 88 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:04.680 for a few seconds. My mind wasn't ready to talk 89 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:06.839 to a stranger, and I kind of wish she would 90 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:09.480 walk out into the darkness and disappear like that Van 91 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:13.040 had done. Then she said something that made me shiver, 92 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:15.680 and it still does when I think of that night. 93 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:21.560 Just leave him, she said. She found my eyes in 94 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:25.360 the dark faster than I found hers. What I asked, 95 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.399 how did you? That's why you would be out here 96 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:31.199 by yourself at this hour? How did you even get here? 97 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:34.199 The bus stop around the hill by the Starbucks On second? 98 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.439 You walked here with the sunset? Didn't you some type 99 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:42.000 of romantic scene walking along with the setting sun? You 100 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.319 got here just as it was setting, right. I couldn't 101 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:49.120 say anything, But then she continued, it was getting dark, 102 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.360 too dark when you got here, and everyone was leaving. 103 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:59.040 Not so romantic anymore, huh, kind of eerie. She locked 104 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.600 eyes with mine when she said that. All I could 105 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:05.439 do was stare the something about this girl that didn't 106 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:09.279 quite feel right. She was by herself, completely comfortable there. 107 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:11.800 I had I not been there, she would have been 108 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:14.879 sitting in the middle of the stairs still at the moment, 109 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:19.279 though I couldn't quite process everything. I needed my time alone, 110 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.199 and now this girl had gotten in the way. So 111 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.160 I know how you got here, but I don't know 112 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:28.959 why you're here, she said. I don't know why you're 113 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.519 here either, I said, bluntly, Tired of these guessing games. 114 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:35.600 Like all the prior frustration I felt, just reached this 115 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:38.040 tipping point where I could have slapped her right there 116 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:42.120 and felt nothing. It wasn't exactly anger or hate toward anyone. 117 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.959 I was just done. There was nothing to be done 118 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.639 in the relationship. Now choices had been made. I walked away, 119 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.560 and this girl, well, I didn't know her and didn't 120 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:54.360 care how she ended up there or she was going 121 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.600 to be able to leave on her own. So I 122 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:01.759 simply stared out into the ocean for few seconds. Then 123 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.839 I turned to look at her, dead in the eye. 124 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.720 I killed someone today, I said, both to myself and 125 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:14.360 to this girl. I didn't care for her reaction. I 126 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:16.680 simply took a deep breath and kept looking out into 127 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:20.800 the darkness. She said a few things, but I didn't 128 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.160 hear her through the crashing waves at that moment. From 129 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:27.480 what I could tell, she wasn't shocked. She smiled after 130 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:29.519 the words came out of my mouth, until the shore 131 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.600 finally went quiet. It wasn't calm. It was a kind 132 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:36.800 of quiet that felt uneasy, like shutting off the radio 133 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.959 mid song. The waves were moving, I could see them 134 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.240 folding over themselves in the dim light, but no sound 135 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:49.720 came out of them. That's better, the girl said. I 136 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:51.480 turned to look at her, and then I noticed for 137 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:54.920 the first time that her clothes weren't only dirty, but 138 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.319 they were also wet. And the dirtiness I had seen, 139 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.040 in part was from the slimy green stuff that sticks 140 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.399 to your clothes, the kind that floats around in the 141 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.519 ocean when you're there for a really long time and 142 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.480 sticks to you, strands of it coming out of her 143 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:13.120 hair and over her shoulders. So you said you killed someone, 144 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.360 she continued, Her head was now tilting a little bit, 145 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.199 studying me, like if she was trying to remember something 146 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.920 or only waiting for me to say it. I took 147 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:27.399 a step back. I didn't mean it. Yes, you did. 148 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:32.039 You killed someone today, That's what you said. Her voice 149 00:08:32.080 --> 00:08:34.240 was still correcting me. Have a thought that I had 150 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:36.279 already gotten out of my head and into the wind. 151 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.840 The girl stayed quiet. I just told him to go, 152 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:43.919 I said, trying to stop myself. I knew what he 153 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:47.440 was doing, I knew what he meant. I just didn't 154 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:51.759 stop him. She smiled, but not in the friendly way. 155 00:08:52.279 --> 00:08:56.519 It was as though she was relieved. Yeah, she said quietly, 156 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:01.440 that's how it starts. I could feel a cold wind 157 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.600 coming from the ocean. Now it was sudden and fast, 158 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:08.679 sliding down my back. I hugged myself without realizing it. 159 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:14.320 How it starts, I asked, and she kept looking at me. 160 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:19.200 She then turned her head backed over the water. Do 161 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.679 you know what happens when a guy does that, Like 162 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:24.360 when he leaves you and gets all excited over some girl. 163 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:28.440 They already decided what they want. You're the last one'll 164 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:33.480 find out. He's just trying to justify everything. I didn't 165 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:38.559 say anything back. Well, that's how it happens sometimes, she continued. 166 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.559 Might not be your case. But you, on the other hand, 167 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:47.759 you start to disappear, she said. Little by little, you 168 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.919 say things that you don't mean. You let things happen 169 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.720 that your friends will call you dumb for things that 170 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:57.360 you'll regret taking from him. Next thing, you know, you'll 171 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:01.720 stop feeling like yourself, making little worlds out of everything. 172 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:06.000 She paused, her eyes getting smaller to over the darkness 173 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:11.679 of the sky. And then one day I felt my 174 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:19.879 chest tightening. Then you're not really there anymore, poof gone. 175 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:23.600 But I'm still here, I said, not expecting to get 176 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:26.759 so defensive. She looked at me, but her expression had 177 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.559 it changed. It was more serious, but generally the same. 178 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:37.279 Are you Are you still here? She asked? It was 179 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:40.559 quiet again. I opened my mouth to say something, but 180 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:45.799 suddenly up the hill I saw something, headlights, a car. 181 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.080 It came down to the parking lot like it was 182 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.200 trying to figure out where to turn from, and my 183 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:55.759 heart jumped. That could be I started turning back to her, 184 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:59.159 but she wasn't looking at the car. She was looking 185 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:04.440 at me. You should go, she said. The way she 186 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:06.919 said it, it sounded like a final thing, like a goodbye, 187 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.240 and add a piece of advice. Well, I can't just 188 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:14.320 leave you here, I said, glancing between her and the road, 189 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:16.840 Surprised by how my lack of a single care in 190 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.559 the world suddenly flipped. She let out a small breath. 191 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:24.759 I thought that she was about to laugh. That's what 192 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.679 makes us different. I want you to see this, she said, 193 00:11:28.080 --> 00:11:30.480 as she was stepping past me and down towards the stairs, 194 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.879 toward the sand. Wait, I said, reaching out by stopping 195 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:39.639 myself just before my hand touched her arm, and she 196 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.600 just kept walking. Did they leave you, I asked, my 197 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:47.159 voice echoing a little bit in that strange silence. But 198 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:52.960 she kept walking. They always do, she said. Her feet 199 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:55.720 had reached the sand, leaving footprints that were filled back 200 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:59.159 in right away with the dark water. I watched her 201 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.679 move closer to the shoreline, the hands of the ocean 202 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:08.600 reaching out like a flat, endless surface. Hey, I called out, 203 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:12.240 louder than before. You don't have to go in there, 204 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.320 don't go that way, Just come back. Everything is gonna 205 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.399 be fine. Just come back. But that's when she stopped. 206 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:22.879 For a second, I thought that she might turn around 207 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.159 and run back up, but instead she spoke just loud 208 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:31.120 enough for me to hear I can't and everything paused. 209 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:39.600 He didn't come back, she said. My stomach dropped. What 210 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.480 do you mean, I asked, my voice about to fall apart. 211 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:45.480 She slowly turned her head just enough for me to 212 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:49.159 see the side of her face. You saw the van, 213 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:53.240 she said, and then she stepped forward into the water. 214 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.840 I rushed down a few steps, automatically, yelling at her 215 00:12:57.879 --> 00:13:02.559 to stop, but she didn't really act. The water reached 216 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:05.559 her ankles, and then her knees, and then her waist. 217 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:10.360 The water had gone silent again. There was no sound 218 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:14.399 of the crashing waves, no splashing, just that same unnatural 219 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:20.240 silence come back. I shouted, and the words hit me. 220 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:23.120 Then the voice that was the one I heard before, 221 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:29.200 same volume, everything, It was me, and she kept going. 222 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:34.000 Her shoulders had disappeared, and then her neck, and just 223 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:37.480 before her head went under, she looked back at me 224 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:43.320 completely for the first time. Her face wasn't panicked, she 225 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.639 wasn't scared. It was empty. My feeling I knew a 226 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.320 little too well, that same feeling I had just experience 227 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.480 before she showed up from those stairs, and then she 228 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:01.159 was gone. The sound came back all at once, the 229 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.919 waves crashing violently against the sand, louder than before, but 230 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:08.759 they had been building up, just to explode all at once. 231 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:14.960 I stumbled back a step, covering my ears. I stood there, 232 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.919 staring at the spot where she had disappeared, waiting for something, anything, 233 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.799 to give me a sign of her. But nothing did. 234 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:27.360 After a while, I forced myself to turn around. There 235 00:14:27.399 --> 00:14:31.200 were no more headlights up the hill. The lot was empty. 236 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.519 For the first time that night, I felt completely alone 237 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.000 as I stood there at the edge of darkness. So 238 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.200 I walked up the stairs slowly, each step heavier than 239 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.720 the last, and then when I reached the top, I 240 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.240 couldn't help but look at one more time. She was 241 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:54.320 still there. The ocean had stretched out the same way 242 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:59.279 and had done before. It was endless, dark and waiting 243 00:14:59.320 --> 00:15:03.840 for something. I don't know how long I stood there, 244 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:08.440 but I do know one thing. When my phone finally rang, 245 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.399 I almost didn't answer. It was his name on the 246 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:15.039 screen and a picture that we took outside of the 247 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.440 train station on our way to Mellows, where we had 248 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.759 our first date. For a second I thought about letting 249 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.360 it ring, just to see what would happen, just to 250 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:25.840 see who I would turn into if I didn't pick up. 251 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.559 But I answered the entire world in my mind out 252 00:15:31.559 --> 00:15:37.000 of a silly little outing with someone, and vanished. But still, 253 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:44.039 when it's quiet enough, sometimes I still hear it. Not 254 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:50.440 from the ocean anymore, from somewhere closer. Come back, it says, 255 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.399 And I don't know if it's the darkness behind me, 256 00:15:54.519 --> 00:16:13.600 calling me again to that edge where people disappear. This 257 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.799 story was written and produced by me Edwin Kowar Rubez. 258 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:18.799 Now I want to hear your thoughts on the story 259 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:21.799 or ideas for upcoming ones. 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