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Theo sits in his office a glass of scotch in his hand, his dark brown eyes jumping from place to place looking for these supposed cockroaches. One happens to crawl past him on his desk when he looks for it he can’t seem to find a trace of its very existence. What angers him even more is that he seems to be the only person who can see them. Sometimes he even used to see on or two creeping out of his wife’s sleeves, yet an other thing about her that makes his stomach churn. He still can’t figure out why his daughter would be around her and even play with her, without being drunk. Theo gives up on killing the cockroach, he gets up and turns around. That when he sees it, the bane of his existence, his wife Charlotte. Ever since the accident her …show more content…
Then he quickly spins back around only to notice that his wife was gone and so was the raven. In fact, the only thing that was left in the room was a note lying where his wife once stood. It reads “I don’t understand him, but if it’s a monster he sees that is just what I’ll give him.” Theo recognizes the hand writing of his wife it’s very shaky due to the injuries on her arm. He exits the room into the hall and heads to his wife’s old room but when he opens the door he ends up in the hall again, again and again. He tries one more time and gets the same result, only this time he notices an intrusion of cockroaches crawling into the kitchen. He runs after them and as he’s doing this he can’t shake the feeling that some one is watching him. When he enters the kitchen it’s well lit and there are freshly bought fruits and vegetables on the counter top. As he’s inspecting the fruits the lights go out and someone starts violently knocking on the door, Theo hides in the big closet they used for kitchen wear. He hears the kitchen door swing open and then hears high heels clacking against the tiles. Someone is looking for him he decides to remain in the closet. That’s when he hears a high pitch screech what ever was looking for him was not pleased. When he heard the kitchen door close he waited a few minutes before exiting the closet. When he got out the …show more content…
It was old the date was a week before Charlotte's suicide, it said he had schizophrenia. He drops to his knees in shock that is when he sees something that resembles a banshee from old children stories, it was muttering something about severed bonds. It then floats into his daughter’s room. He follows it into his daughter’s room everything in the room is pink and white it makes feel happy and relived that he wasn’t face with the monster. He goes to check on his daughter she’s sleeping but when he nudges her she doesn’t react, so he lefts the covers. What he sees makes his neck clog up, it’s a life size porcelain doll of Catherine. Its face is cracked and it very dirty almost like it had been lying there for years. It has a crumpled note in his hands it’s Charlotte’s suicide letter. He reads it and when he finishes the only words he can muster up are “I’m…I’m sorry” the floor begins to crack, he then falls through what seems to be an endless storm cloud and black hole below him tearing up the sky around it. He sees his wife but it’s her before the accident and she’s falling next to him she turns to him and said “do me this one favor…rebuild the bonds you broke” he responds with “You have my word and my deepest apologies. As they get closer to the black hole he is knocked unconscious, and awakens in his

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