Is this too long to read for you?
Question by Sanders: Is this too long to read for you?
You are a killer. I am a killer. We are all killers in this world.
Every summer it’s the same thing. As soon as it starts to get hot enough to sweat outside, the time comes when you have to stop being lazy and open your pool if you have one. Now I understand that before you can open a pool to swim in it, you have to clean and disinfect it. Makes sense. But when I look in the water, I don’t just see bugs and pond scum: I see them. Everyday for the last week, I’ve been adding chemicals to the pool and everything’s been dying and disintegrating just as it should except them. They linger, completely unaffected by anything I put into the pool. I want them gone, I’ll do what I can to get rid of them.
The one thing I hate about them is the messages they leave me using water-marks on the deck. And by leaving messages that way, I know they left the messages recently. Every morning it’s the same thing, like some stupid horror movie, they ask me to stop putting the chemicals into their world. But it’s not like a horror movie actually, because they’re too damn polite about it, and there’s no “or else!” stigma attached. I don’t know what to do. I haven’t told my family, because obviously they’re not going to believe me. So, I’m not going to do anything. I don’t care, let them die. If they’re smart enough to leave behind messages, then they can deal with the problem themselves.
It’s the last day of the chemical regiment to clean up the pool, and the water looks free of all its scum and unwanted creatures. Except, there’s another message this morning too, and it’s a lot different than the other one’s they used to leave me. “You’ve forgotten about us, but not us in return. In the shadows of the world, we leave empty souls to burn.” I have no clue what that means, but I’m not going to worry about it. The message was a lot more faded and harder to read than the others though. Hmm…that’s odd. The water looks a little dark today. I wonder what that’s about. These stupid chemicals are ruining the water.
I can’t believe this: the water is very dark and murky now. This is ridiculous, I’m not opening the pool ever again. How do people deal with this? It’s so much easier to swim in other people’s pools because they’ve gotten rid of all of their unwanted guests. I looked all over the deck but there’s no message this morning. I guess they finally left for good. I should have cleaned all of the leaves from the bottom before the water got so damn hard to see through. Now I have to clean the leaves off the bottom by going into the pool and using the net. I have a bad feeling about this though, kind of like on TV shows when people have bad premonitions, but this is real so I’m just making things up in my head I’m sure. This water sure feels gross; it’s so dirty, it’s unbelievable.
The water’s not only gross, but the chemicals made the water heavy. I know that sounds strange but I’m feeling weaker just walking across the pool. And the bottom is extremely slippery because of all the scum. I slipped, and my whole body went under. But when under the water, I could see! Who would have thought? Despite how murky it looked from the surface, I could see when underwater. But then, I got that bad feeling again, so I decided to return to the surface. I tried standing up straight but smashed my head against the underwater ceiling. I can’t get out from under the water, I’m trapped! That’s what I was thinking when: I saw them.
The borders of the pool stretched away and I was swimming in an ocean soon, with no land or pool deck or anything in sight. I tried to struggle desperately to the surface, but to no avail. They’re gone, where’d they go? I have to think of something quick because I’m running out of breath. But then, I could see something coming toward me from above the surface. A bright red, fiery circle; the sun. But it couldn’t be the sun, it’s moving toward me very fast now, and it is huge. It’s taking up my entire vision and about to hit the surface.
Oh no…it’s going to burn everything! And them, they’ve returned, but…they look like me. What has become of everything? I don’t know.
I am now another empty soul burning in the ember ocean.
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Answer by Just Let Me Say This (fix Y!A)
I got as far as “you are a killer”…..
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