March 4, 2024

I was laying on the floor and I could hear some kind of denpa song blasting in the room. I knew that the end of the day was approaching and my body felt limp as I struggled to get up. I could feel people carrying and pushing me around on the smooth linoleum as I ping-ponged between the walls of the room. I felt my mom trying to get me to sit up to no avail.

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I woke up in an unfamiliar hotel room. It was around 8AM and I tried to check for messages from my friends but my phone’s screen wasn’t turning on. “Am I blind?” I thought to myself. I put my fingers to my eyes to find out that I wasn’t even opening them and that I had been “seeing” with my eyes closed. Perhaps they were images from my memories, I thought, which would explain why I wasn’t getting any new information from my phone. I heard some kind of stream playing from my phone and voices from hallway before someone walked into the room. They introduced themselves as my new roommate.