The Mandela Catalogue

Weird Feeling

(BACK TO DAMIEN)

I look over at Fox, huddled in a blanket. He was watching the horror movie on the TV. I smile at him, he looks so scared. I laugh.
"DONT LAUGH, WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING YOU PSYCOPATH?" he yells.
"I'm laughing at you!" I say
"and I've seen this movie a bunch of times".
A loud noise erupts from the TV as something scary happens, his hand clutches mine.
I look over to him and he quickly pulls his hand away.
"s-sorry" he says, his face going red like a cherry.
"hah, it's fine!" I say smiling.
I can't help but feel amused at his rate of fear as he watches the TV in horror, as the next bit comes up.

Everything turns off: the lights, TV, fan, etc.
It was 10:30 so we were left in pitch black
"ah shit" I say.
"power cut ?" Fox asks.
"power cut." I say in return.
I look over to the kitchen to look at Twig... But he wasn't there?
I get up, Fox following behind me.
I open a drawer and get a flashlight and some batteries, I put the batteries in the flashlight and turn it on.
A ray of light comes out the end and we are able to see.
I shine my torch into Beans box, shit... I had a heat lamp for her but it's off.
"luckily it's battery powered." Fox says.
"wait it is?" I ask
"yeah, you just switch it on the thing that says battery powered." he says.
How have I never noticed this, I look at the lamp and indeed there was a mode that said 'battery power'. I switch it to the mode and put it back where it was.

We hear a bang, like something fell, in the bathroom and then some footsteps.
Fox grasps my arm in fear.
I walk towards the bathroom, picking up Michael's metal baseball bat.
I open the door and I see nothing but a couple of soap bottles that had fallen over in the shower.
We hear stuff falling in Fox's bedroom, I run in to see that a couple books had fallen off his shelf.
"what the fuck." I say, as I see claw marks in his sheets.
"is there some kind of werewolf we're not aware of?" I say.
Fox starts shivering.
I feel something behind us.
"get in now!" I say pushing Fox into his room and turning around, welding the baseball bat.
I turn to see Twig in the doorway.
"hello." he says.
"what the-" I say, lowering the bat.
"I am the cause of this, I was bored and decided to turn off the electricity to your flat to scare you, and other things but I expected you to be way more scared." he says.

"YOUR PAYING FOR MY NEW SHEETS!" Fox yells out from behind me.
"hmm." he says
"what?" I ask.
"that wasn't me." he says.
"what?" Fox says.
We quickly walk out the bedroom and go behind Twig.
Twig walks in, unfased.
We hear a loud bang in Fox's bathroom.
Out walks Smile man, holding the body of an alternate.
"what THE? " I say
"YOU STILL HAVEN'T CLEANED THE BLOOD OFF THE FOOR, SMILE MAN!" Fox yells.
"OH MY GOD FOX SHUT THE FUCK UP." I yell back at him.

Smile man sighs and walks back into the bathroom.
Fox runs in the bathroom.
"YOU CAN'T JUST DISSAPPEAR!" he says.
"FOX SH!" I say.
"HE'S A BITCH!" Fox says.
Smile man appears behind him, his eyes gave a look of dissaproval, though his mouth was still smiling.
He walks into the living room and we follow him.
He cleans the blood then leaves.
"thank you." Fox says.
"right, i will text Michael to get you new sheets." I say, pulling out my phone and texting Michael to get Fox some new sheets.

"Thanks Damien!" he says.
"now I shall feed the bird!" I say, going to the kitchen and feeding Bean some green caterpillars.

I go sit down in the leaving room next to Fox.
"Twig could you turn our power back on?" I ask.
"yes." and he disappears through the flat door.