Don't Forget to Sleep
Don't Forget to Sleep 2

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Nb: The groove is backwards. This is the story before the bloody tragedy at a theater on an unnamed island.

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Close Your Mirror's

My tears flowed down both of my cheeks. Yeah, that fatal accident, made me lose my Dad, my brother, and my aunt. They are my beloved. Their deaths hit me and Mom very badly. Today, the funeral procession has ended it feels reluctant to move on from there.

The people who were always beside me were taken for granted. There will be no laughter, jokes, quarrels, cries between us.I will surely miss you one day.

"Rulby..it's getting dark for a while let's go home" said Mom with a puffy face.

"Mom, do we have to go there now?"

"It's your dream, baby. We should appreciate his efforts. The house, built with affection. After all, all of our goods are already there" Mom said. Yes, before the fateful incident occurred.one day before, we had indeed moved our items as necessary to our new home.

Today, we will occupy the house but an accident leaves Dad unable to enjoy the fruits of his labor with the family. I just nodded and got into the rental car. The long, tiring journey put me to sleep for how long.

"Rulby..wake us up" Mom's soft voice woke me up. Beautiful luxury house but somehow I was reluctant to occupy it. The previous owner of the house was a mirror collector. From antique mirrors, to unique shaped mirrors. I don't know what Dad thought why he wanted to buy a house full of mirrors in various corners of the house.

I got out of the car, and walked through the courtyard of our house greeted with a fairly large swimming pool. We walked deeper and deeper, and we arrived at the glass door. Mom took the door lock from her tote bag and opened it wide.

"Welcome to our new home" Mom said glancing at me. I also just smiled blandly. We walked inside while Mom locked the door, and I started walking through the living room. What the fuck? Why are the mirrors increasing? Why is there a glass next to the TV on both sides of the TV!!

"Mom! Do you know anything about this?" call me. Mom who heard my call approached and noticed the two mirrors I showed her.

"No. When is this glass here?" Mom asked back. The phone sounds ringing. Mom gave me the code to discuss it later. So I decided to go into my room. That's all I can think about this time so my drowsiness is so unbearable again.

I opened my door knob to look inside.

I'm looking for a switch to turn on the lights. One word. The room is spacious, very spacious to be used alone but, only this room is the smallest in size compared to the other rooms. My hair bristled when I felt something behind me. I turned my body around, and I just found a glass in the back.

Aaargh seemed to be surrounded by glass and mirrors. I closed my window with the ground brown curtains. Again I felt like I was being watched from behind. The closet!! There was a large antique cabinet, and in the second part of the door was attached a large mirror.

I stared at the closet. Nah! Staring, in the mirror. My eyes were too glare with the mirror's reflection I felt very uncomfortable. I closed my eyes with both hands so bright. I felt the cold snap at my cheek.

"Rulby, what are you doing?" ask someone whose voice I know very well.

"Rulby, did you find my hairpin?" another voice I heard also I knew him very well.

"Rulby, why is it so cold in here?! Can you borrow me a blanket?" again a different voice sounded I did know, whose voice it was! I was shaking in fear. Afraid of not being able to see, and afraid of not being able to run away because of my eyes, now closed.

No.no. Dad, Brother and Aunt are in heaven. They can't be in this world anymore. Rulby it's your hallucination let's open your eyes! Openup! When I opened my eyes, I jumped and fell to the floor.

"Hey, what's going on? Why are you so scared, baby?" ask Mom who surprised me.

"Mom...can you knock on the door first?!" pekiku. But my fear was beginning to diminish. I hugged Mom's cold body.

Thank you.you came in time Mom. Something is strange, it's weird. Why...I don't see the image of Mom I'm hugging in the mirror? Her body was cold as ice!! I let go of my embrace, but Mom held me so firmly that it was hard for me to just breathe.

"Mom..s-sa-kit.." I groaned.

"Mom's embrace is longer, son," said Mom stroking my hair with her next hand. Shortness of breath, difficulty moving. Why did Mom do this to me? Why isn't his shadow in the mirror?!

Krieeeet

"Rulby!!" yelled Mom who opened my bedroom door and looked at me in panic. Whahuh? If it was Mom, who hugged me? I fell on the floor limp for a moment. I could hear Mom screaming in panic, lifting up my body, then hugging me. Yeah, this is Mom's warm hug...

Tik

Tak

Tik

Tak

The sound of the clock ticking, clearly heard in my ears brought my consciousness to a full recovery. I looked at my bedroom ceiling. Well, since my ceiling is made of special glass, which can be opened or closed, then I can clearly see the beautiful moon and stars in the dark sky.

My eyes blinked in remembrance of what happened before. Mom, where is she? I turned my face to the side, and saw the figure of Mom sitting beside my bed with a wooden chair, falling asleep at my side. Is she really my mom? I touched her cold cheeks because of the cold air of AC.

Ah, I should have checked his nose if he was breathing, that means...Real mom, right? Yeah, I did that and I'm really relieved to know that this one beside me is my real mom.

"You're all human?" that hoarse voice caught my attention.

"Mom, go to sleep, I'm fine" I replied calmly.

"Why could you be as breathless as before and look into the mirror so frightened?" ask Mom full search of course, obviously Mom will ask so there is no history of asthma in our family.

"I..feel very fascinated with the closet" I said origin it even makes Momku blinked in disbelief with a gawking expression.

"Yes, what else? Come on, Mom looks really tired. Go to sleep" I said weakly. Mom smiled with relief and then kissed my forehead this is the strangest thing in my life. Usually, in my neighborhood, the kiss on the forehead is only for the biggest kid as well as 10 years old and you know how old I am?

Hello...., 20 years old enough to be treated like that. But to my Mom, I'm still her little daughter. I saw Mom shut the door to my room and here I am now, alone. I spread my eyes all over the room. Uuuh, why does the feeling of wanting to urinate? So forced, I walked towards the bathroom inside.

The previous owner was strange. Very quaint. How could he make the bathroom so much wider than his own room huh? It's very broad. I rubbed my eyes many times, but what I saw remained so. Early I visited this house, the bathroom in my room the walls were made of brick entirely.

But what I saw this time, why..the walls are made of glass? Hufst...., am I in the wrong room? No ah, this is the third room and I yesterday chose the third room as well. Never mind, I went into a special closet room and I closed it with a light pink bathroom curtain in the form of foliage. When I started to feel relieved, and finished cleaning myself I also intended to push the button to flutter.

After I reached out, I caught a shadow flashing outside my toilet. I looked at it faintly as it blocked the bathroom curtain. I took a deep breath, then I quickly opened the curtain.

"Mom's? You're that?" ah, stupid me!! How could you get out there without opening my bathroom door first? Whatever it was, I decided to ignore assuming it, since I just woke up, I was still affected by my subconscious. I came out of the bathroom and closed the door.

Bresssssssh

Sssssssshhhhhhhhh

My footsteps stopped towards my bed. What else is this? Obviously I didn't turn on the shower I never had a shower this late. I ventured to reopen the bathroom door. The sound of a shower clearly rang out rushing to the bathroom floor. No one, all right, I'm gonna turn that off and go to bed. I turned off the shower and turned around.

"Yahoo!!" pekiku.

Bresssssssssshhhh

Ssssssssshhhhhhhh

The shower soaked my body instantly making me drenched. I was cold, shocked, panicked. What the fuck? We are still just occupying this house, and...have there been damage?! Aaargh sucks a lot. I came out of the bathroom and changed my clothes. Uh, why silence?

I didn't hear a drop of water in the bathroom. I went back to my bathroom and, really, didn't turn on! The shower's not on! I slammed the bathroom door super pissed off. I walked up to my wet shirt to put it in my dirty basket.

But after I clasped my wet clothes, I did not feel the cold in my palm, nor did any water drip from my nightgown, not even the damp. I ruffled my hair. Am I really in a state of instability due to the death of my three beloved families until I constantly hallucinate?!

I don't want depression to even go crazy over it. No. I don't want to tell anyone about this even Mom, maybe I'll take her to a psychiatrist. If I sleep, I will no longer have hallucinations. So I quickly went to my bed laying down, on my back, sleeping on my back was my favorite position. I closed my eyes slowly while counting how many sheep jumped.

My closed eyes felt a warm light. As I sat down, it turned out that the light came from the sunlight. Fyuuuh, thank goodness I had a long night. Immediately I opened my closet and took the swimsuit. It would be great to swim in the morning.

I also came out of the room and immediately jumped into a fresh pond once the water. When I swam with breaststroke, I saw something black just stooped in the corner of my front yard which was squeezed by shady trees. I decided to get out of the pool, and approach the dark black thing.

There's a padlock sealing the thing. Did I get the treasure? I finally checked if there was a key around. But I didn't find anything. Wait up!! I've seen such a small key hanging on a keychain! I also took the thing with me, then brought it into the room not forgetting to bring the key chain of the house.

Sure enough, I was finally able to open the black box. But I don't understand one thing, why is it just a map, and some paintings? Ah, it's worth it lying just out there, the contents inside the dark black box don't matter. What the fuck? Time contains only a few paintings as well as a map? Is this a treasure map? Can make?

People as weird and rich as Uncle the previous owner of the house must have a lot of secrets, right? Curious.I ended up observing every painting. The first painting, is a thorny red rose whose duri pierced the head of a human skull. Wow, is this a puzzle or just a crazy idea?!

If it's a riddle, what does that mean in the painting? What message to send? The second painting looks convoluted. Whatdoes thatmean? Do any of you know what the second painting means? In the second painting, there is a box, which surrounds a Girl oh yes, her feet are also resting on a box under the box where the Girl stands, there is a blazing fire that licks.

While above his head, there was a hand that pierced through the box above his head. Strange, if the hand was someone who wanted to help him, why didn't the girl try to? He put both his hands behind his back. On his right was a light, but on his left was only a dark black pastel color. Actually there's still another painting, but I'm reluctant to see it.

I sat down and glanced at the map. I took the map, tried to digest everything in it. Why is there no direction? Don't all maps have that? Aaaargh!! It's dizzying I just put all those worthless things back in a dark black box.

Tok

Tok

Mom knocked on the door of my room that opened from outside. He looked at me astonished as well as glanced towards the dark black box.

"Where did you get that thing?” tanya Mom felt her son had never owned it before.

"I just found it on the front page. There's nothing special in it. O yes, what's up?"

"Mom think we need grocery shopping for a month. Do you want to come?" haggard Mom. Instead of me just staying at home, as well as remembering the night full of hallucinations that breathe the air outside will make me refreshed thanks if my brain is normal again.

Arriving at the super market, we split up looking for goods needs. We did not forget, split the task. Well, I'm looking for things like laundry soap, bath soap, etc. My steps came to a halt as I felt my hand being held by someone from behind me. I turned my head back, and found an emerald green-eyed man watching my two beads.

I don't know him, really, but I just kept waiting for him to say something.

"Are you the one who lives in that glass house? Elzaedar Abd 156?" his face was very serious when he asked this. I wrinkled my forehead, then looked at him full of question marks.

"Oh, I'm Loyfrender. Just call me Loy, and you?" oh, so this is just a casual introduction not an important thing huh, I thought as I shook hands with Loy.

"I'm Rulby. Rulby Corner" I tried to introduce myself in a friendly tone.

"You better move house. Don't stay there too long. The previous owner repeatedly sold the house but eventually, after the new owner disappeared somewhere, the old owner bought the house back. And it's been happening for years" Loy warned. Did he warn me, threaten me, or scare me?

"wait. Why are you, knowing so well about the history of the house I live in now?" I asked like this. Also so I know he's freaking out just so I can go back to selling my new house, or what he's telling me is real.

"I live right on the left side of your house. Rumors of many families missing there have been very frenzied spread throughout our housing complex" Loy said carefully.

"My time is not much anymore. Sorry, I have to get somewhere. Nice to meet you, Rulby" said Loy, glancing at his watch and running out of the supermarket.