Script 7: Paranoia

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"Stop! Stop stop!" exclaimed Julie, ripping something out of Juzira's mouth, "Stop eating the tea bags!"

"Huh?" asked Juzira in confusion, "Then what're they supposed to be used for?"

"Look!" said Julie as she demonstrated, placing her tea bag in her water, "Tea bags are used to flavor the water into tea."

"Why did we order tea at a coffee place?"

"Just drink your tea, Toni.."

Juzira was helping Julie out with the things she didn't understand at school at a café on Saturday. In return, she was telling him what to do and what not to do in social places. While Juzira taught Julie, something had caught his eye.

"Hey Julie," asked Juzira, "Can you hand me that newspaper over there?"

"Sure thing," replied Julie as she took the newspaper from a bin and gave it to Juzira, return8ng back to the homework that she began to do.

"This smiling clown guy is getting popular by the second," he said as he read the newspaper article, "It's not just our school, but now it's circulating around the social joints. Look at this, it says that the smiling clown guy has even killed a member of the Batty Baseball Gang. Woah..! And his mom too!"

"Wait, seriously? The smiling clown is even targeting family members? I hope I don't run into him.. Do you think he's another Horyo just like Diama?"

"Doubt it. There were bullet wounds in the gang member's chest. A single bullet in the forehead of the mom too. This is probably some murderer."

"Like Jack the Ripper!"

"Like what?"

"You know, Jack the Ripper! He would go out at night and kill women on the streets of London. Everyone was afraid of him because they didn't know when he would attack, or who he even was!"

Juzira sipped his tea and placed the newspaper back in the bin. They continued to work on the homework once again, making sure Julie thoroughly understood the material.

Juzira stood near the bus stop. He would usually walk home, but Julie had paid for his bus fees for helping her earlier. As he waited for the bus, he took in the time to notice a lot about Silver Leaf High School. Some soccer players were still outside at the back of the school, trying out for events. They must've really liked soccer. A really good hobby, Juzira had thought. Juzira wished he had a hobby. Actually, he wished he kinda had more friends. The dude was pretty lonely.

The bus arrived, and the doors began to open. Juzira paid the cash that Julie had gave him and sat at an empty seat. A little chubby man sat next to him, despite there clearly being other empty seats away from Juzira in the bus. Juzira was uncomfortable. He didn't like bus transportation at all, and just wanted to go home.

"This.. this is a hellhole.." thought Juzira, "I should tell Julie that I didn't like the bus."

Finally, he arrived at his apartment place, where he would quickly rush out of the bus. As he went inside his apartment, he laid his bag on the couch and just rest on it for a while. He turned on his television to watch his favorite show that aired on Mondays. However, it didn't happen this time.

Confused, Juzira checked the schedule of his show on his phone, "It didn't reschedule did it? Yeah.. it's all the same here."

Yet, that's when Juzira noticed that it was a Wednesday.

"Was.. that's why there wasn't a test today that I studied for?" thought Juzira to himself, "I did receive a test that I did particularly well on, but I didn't even remember taking the test.. Did I forget that it was Wednesday?"

Juzira thoroughly checked to see if it was Monday, but he was always hit with the fact that it was definitely Wednesday today. Two days ago he was just talking to Julie, but now it seems like he has forgotten an entire two days of school? Something was definitely wrong here.

...

"It's.. definitely Wednesday," replied Julie on her cellphone.

"I thought it was Monday.." asked Juzira on his cellphone, "Was that why I had no test today?"

"You told me on Monday that you thought you did well on your test.. Is something wrong?"

"I don't know.. It seems like I remember memories up to the end of Sunday. Suddenly it's Wednesday and I have no clue what happened in Monday or Tuesday."

"Come to me tomorrow morning. We can try to see if we can figure out about this time gap. For the meantime, get some sleep. Maybe it has something to do with being tired, or the stress you had from fighting Diama last week."

"Alright, thanks Julie,"

"No problem."

Juzira hung up on the cellphone and laid in his bed. He couldn't have forgotten two entire days, could he? Juzira looked behind him and saw King Nothing, still staring at Juzira.

"Do.. you know anything about this?" asked Juzira.

King Nothing did not reply, just like he always did. His red glowing eyes kept staring straight at Juzira. Juzira grumbled at the guardian demon beside of him.

"Guardian demon my ass," he said.

Juzira played a few video games before falling asleep, ready for the next day. He knew for sure was going to be a Thursday. The schedule on his phone wouldn't lie to him.

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