"Sorry, hon." She motioned down to the wrench on her hip. "That's the only other thing on me!"
Inside there was no ceiling, only more beams and pillars made from beer kegs so tall they vanished into the sky. Fluorescent lights flickered above, painting the room in an eerie blue. It looked less like an actual store, and more like a warped setting of some play.
Immediately stepping inside, Saki looked deeply uncomfortable. "...we need to get out of here. This is...this has got to be some kind of messed-up joke."
"Is that what this is, Saki? A joke?!"
Another voice cried out, this one a distinct male voice that made her flinch.
"You see our family struggling, and you get a job with our competitor?! How could you?!"
"D-Dad..."
For anyone listening, there seemed to be some sort of sobbing noise further in...
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Inside there was no ceiling, only more beams and pillars made from beer kegs so tall they vanished into the sky. Fluorescent lights flickered above, painting the room in an eerie blue. It looked less like an actual store, and more like a warped setting of some play.
Immediately stepping inside, Saki looked deeply uncomfortable. "...we need to get out of here. This is...this has got to be some kind of messed-up joke."
"Is that what this is, Saki? A joke?!"
Another voice cried out, this one a distinct male voice that made her flinch.
"You see our family struggling, and you get a job with our competitor?! How could you?!"
"D-Dad..."
For anyone listening, there seemed to be some sort of sobbing noise further in...
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“Sorry, hon. It has sentimental value for me.” She didn’t want to let the poor guy go in unprotected…instead of handing over her wrench she’d instead unbuckle the straps and handed over the automatic crossbow to him. “Y’all have better luck with this then Ah, that’s for sure. Ya clutch unto it there and press there to fire. It’s easy!”
"Oh, trust me...he did." Saki's voice echoed through the store as the sobbing soon turned to giggling. "Why wouldn't he? They all hate me, anyway..."
"Sugah, that's just crazy talk," Cindy replied flashing Saki a friendly smile. "Now ah don't know much about you, but ya don't seem like a gal ya could hate. If that really is ya father then ah suggest we'd have some face to face talkin' we'd need to get to." Leaving Saki with Adeleine as she took a few steps towards the giggling.
"Y'all think that's funny don't ya? Well, maybe ya should get out here instead of gigglin' in the shadows."
"But I didn't...!" It was too late though, as they had already left. She looked at Adeleine and anyone else nearby, more shocked than anything else. "I didn't say that..."
The giggling turned to full on laughter, before Saki spoke again. "I bet you all hate me, too! Hate me for being poor, hate me for just existing! No matter how you look at it, I'm screwed!"
"Stop it!" Saki ran to catch up to the others. "I don't think that at all!"
"Oh, PLEASE. Of course you do! Wanna know how I know?" The laughing figure stepped out into the light, and Saki gasped.View attachment 4845
"Because I AM you."
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Well this got weird…er. “Y’all got a twin, Saki?” Though Cindy figured that wasn’t the case. Instead, she turned to face the other Saki that emerged in front of them.
“Ya have to be crazy to think ah don’t like someone just because if they’re poor or not! Saki’s a sweet kid and y’all talkin’ about yourself? Herself? Like that is crazy.” She then turned back to the Saki that they had walked in with to the store. “It sounds like ya have somethin’ to get off ya chest.”
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Well this got weird…er. “Y’all got a twin, Saki?” Though Cindy figured that wasn’t the case. Instead, she turned to face the other Saki that emerged in front of them.
“Ya have to be crazy to think ah don’t like someone just because if they’re poor or not! Saki’s a sweet kid and y’all talkin’ about yourself? Herself? Like that is crazy.” She then turned back to the Saki that they had walked in with to the store. “It sounds like ya have somethin’ to get off ya chest.”
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"None of you GET it, do you?" Other Saki said. "No one gets it! No one understands me, and I hate it! I hate all of them, and I hate all of you!"
"Stop it..."
"You guys don't even know me. 'Oh, Saki is so mature!' 'What a sweet girl Saki is!' I'm so sick of it! Don't you get that it's all an act?!"
"N-No...!"
"I just do what I can to get by. I bear the gossip from the neighbors, the shame from my parents, the flirting from that slimy little Junes brat. No one REALLY likes me, and I don't really like anyone else!"
"SHUT UP!!!" Saki screamed, eyes shut tight as her hands covered her ears. "I can't take it!! Stop using my voice and my face and stop saying those things! YOU'RE NOT ME!!!"
There was a sudden silence that cut through the air. Then...
"...hee hee."
Other Saki began laughing again. "Hee hee hee...a ha...ahahaha! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Her voice became distorted, her body starting to morph. Soon she was no longer Saki...but something else entirely.
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All around, the fog was starting to slowly fade away, and cries of monsters grew louder and louder. If you didn't act now, staying here would likely guarantee death.
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