November 5, 2017
yesterday morning, i awoke to the sound of a scream. it was a young womans scream coming from the building beside me. i ran down the stairwell as fast as i could. not only because it was the first time i've heard someone's voice in days but because the person sounded like she was in trouble.
as i ran outside, i saw a young girl sitting in the middle of the street crying. i ran up to her to see if everything was ok. apperently she followed someone into the next building and when she got inside, she saw a forty year old man lying on the ground dead. the girl said that it looked like he shot himself.
i went into the building to see the body, and i can honestly tell you, i searched in every room on the first floor and there wasn't a single body, dead or living, the building. come to think of it, i didn't hear a gun shot. it definitely would have woken me up. the girl, Jenny, said she didn't remember hearing anything either.
i took her back up to my apartment so that i could help clean her up. she took a pretty nasty fall when she ran out of the building scared half to fucking death.
for the past day we've been swapping stories on the past couple of weeks. i told her about my job, Lisa, how i'm having trouble remembering things.
speaking of which.
that's one of the things i'm having trouble remembering, i'm pretty sure i've never met her before but i've got the strangest feeling i have. probably just saw her walking downtown or something and happened to past by. but it doesn't feel like that.
she doesn't seem to remember meeting me either.
Jenny stayed the afternoon and the evening, i let her take my bed while i slept on the couch. not that we did much sleeping, a large portion of the night we just talked. it's amazing what you say when you haven't talked to someone in so long. its quite a relief. i felt like i hadn't seen anyone in months.
maybe it has, who knows.
as for now, i'm making lunch. pbandj sandwiches. yum. gotta eat it while the bread's still relatively fresh.
as i ran outside, i saw a young girl sitting in the middle of the street crying. i ran up to her to see if everything was ok. apperently she followed someone into the next building and when she got inside, she saw a forty year old man lying on the ground dead. the girl said that it looked like he shot himself.
i went into the building to see the body, and i can honestly tell you, i searched in every room on the first floor and there wasn't a single body, dead or living, the building. come to think of it, i didn't hear a gun shot. it definitely would have woken me up. the girl, Jenny, said she didn't remember hearing anything either.
i took her back up to my apartment so that i could help clean her up. she took a pretty nasty fall when she ran out of the building scared half to fucking death.
for the past day we've been swapping stories on the past couple of weeks. i told her about my job, Lisa, how i'm having trouble remembering things.
speaking of which.
that's one of the things i'm having trouble remembering, i'm pretty sure i've never met her before but i've got the strangest feeling i have. probably just saw her walking downtown or something and happened to past by. but it doesn't feel like that.
she doesn't seem to remember meeting me either.
Jenny stayed the afternoon and the evening, i let her take my bed while i slept on the couch. not that we did much sleeping, a large portion of the night we just talked. it's amazing what you say when you haven't talked to someone in so long. its quite a relief. i felt like i hadn't seen anyone in months.
maybe it has, who knows.
as for now, i'm making lunch. pbandj sandwiches. yum. gotta eat it while the bread's still relatively fresh.
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