season 1 episode 1

I wasn’t always like this, I used to go to school like a normal person- complaining and crying. Those were the easier times and perhaps, I’ll never understand what happened or what is happening. You know, I really detest all kinds of creepy crawly creatures- bugs, roaches, mosquitoes, lizards and toads, to name a few. I don’t want anything to do with them but I often end up being unlucky and find myself ticking off one of these suckers climbing on my leg or my arm.

On the third of last month or maybe couple of months ago I remember waking up with bright red marks on my arm and my leg, they caused an itch I couldn’t resist scratching and they just turned redder but nothing an antiseptic couldn’t solve and I made sure I kept putting on my ointment. Two days later they had turned light purple and didn’t bother much.

A couple of days after that incident, I was sitting in my room and studying, it was then when I saw a big roach crawl very fast out into the balcony. I was startled and got up to shut that door tightly so it didn’t come back in. I decided to check where it had come from; I needed to know if there were others. I looked under my bed, behind my drawers and even ruffled the curtains, there was nothing. Relieved, I went back to working and when I was done it was very late, the clock read 2 AM. I switched off my laptop and went to bed, I was tired and found myself drifting off.

It must have been just a couple of minutes that I felt something in my hand and suddenly my eyes opened wide and I violently jerked my arm and quickly switched on the lights. A giant cockroach running all over my bed in frenzy. I grabbed my slipper and pushed it off the bed and crushed it, I saw it move again slightly and I heaved another blow, white liquid started oozing out of it and after that it didn’t move. My heart was pounding, I hate insects. I browsed my phone for a while as any sleep I had left was gone but soon after, the adrenaline wore off and I slept.

Something stirred me in my sleep again, something was crawling on me. As soon as the realisation hit me, I was wide awake and wasted no time in switching on the lights. There it was, a cockroach, again. I felt furious and killed it right away. It was 3:28 AM, I had to get up soon and I’d barely gotten any sleep. As I lay there, I felt something creeping on my face, which turned out to be hair and sometimes, something brushing past my legs but there was nothing. I needed to sleep, real bad.

The next I opened my eyes it was time to go to school. I dragged my body out to brush my teeth and take shower. My whole body felt like there was something there on it. The shower did make me feel better and I dressed up and went my way. My brain felt like it was lagging and it took me a while to process what was happening and what my teachers were talking about. There was this fog that just wouldn’t go away.

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