96 Hours | Prologue

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"Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep!"
H-Huh?
I wake up.
I yawn.
I turn off the alarm clock.

Getting up from my bed I realised I was 30 minutes late for work. But how? I swear I set my alarm clock to the right time.

Turning around, I wanted to check if the alarm clock was set to wrong time but when my eyes met the nightstand, the alarm clock was gone.

In fact, my bed was gone?! What the fuck is going on. Maybe I'm sick?

I went to go outside my room. But when I took a step, I heard a loud crunch. And I look down. Is that a pill?

I bent down to grab it but when I got to the floor, it seemed to vanish. This is strange, but why don't I feel scared?

Maybe I should just walk out the room. I took a step, "Crunch", and another "Crunch".

Every step I took, I ignored the crunch. Even if I didn't, if I'd look down, they'd vanish.

I got to the door. But the door was bigger than usual. Like it could eat me whole.

I went to go grab the door handle, but when I touched it, my hands instantly were jolted back.

Why is it hot?

I took off my jacket, and used that as a cover since if I used my actual hands, my skin and flesh would probably be burned off.

I then opened the door, but the door didn't lead to the rest of my house. It led to some house which looked abandoned.

I took a step out, and fell over, there was a big drop from where the door ended and where the floor met.

I lifted my body up and felt weary. I shouldn't be out here so quickly, there's probably still some stuff in that room I haven't investigated yet.

This was my way of fighting fear, just cowarding back to the place everything started so nothing will be that much burden of me.

But when I turned aroun, the door was gone. So much for being a coward.
I turned around again, there's only two ways for me to go, right or left.

The right side seemed to have another door just like the one I came out of on it. And the left side seemed to have something, and that something was a vase which looked like it came straight from my house.
One way gives me something I've already owned, and the other way is a mystery.

My gut is telling me to go right as it seems to be the safest but...

No, I should trust my gut. I started to go to the right.

And after just a few steps I heard something.

"Click"

Huh? I turned around to see if it was something behind me. And just as I thought, it was.

The door on the left side opened to reveal a woman in a police uniform.

She turned to me, and ran the opposite way. I mean, I can't blame her, she probably thinks I'm someone who trapped her here.

Wait... There's a person?! Does that mean there's more people trapped here?! Maybe I should go to where the woman ran to.

I started to walk again, and that's when I really noticed my surroundings, the walls were covered in dry blood and there was misplaced furniture everywhere. But the worst thing there isn't any of that, it's not knowing why I'm here and what will happen to me.

Pushing that aside I finally got to where the door was meant to be, but just like the door I came through, it's gone.

I should keep going.

I turned around and what greeted me was a staircase leading down to the main entrance area. But that wasn't all. There was also about 4 other people there, including the girl that I saw.

Gaining courage, I walked down the steps, but that's when more was revealed to my eyes. The place where it looks as two doors that lead in and out of the house was replaced with a leather-like material covered in scratches and dried blood.

"Huh?" A girl in a red dress seemed to notice me. "There's a strange man in ripped clothes walking down the stairs;" The girl yelled.

Wait, the girls gaze isn't fixated on me... Her gaze is fixated on something beyond me-

Just then I was pushed. And I fell down the stairs. I only caught a glimpse of what was behind me. It has a tall figure dressed in all black, that's all I thought of. And then... Nothingness...

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