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BUZZ She noticed that whenever she was focused intently on a task, the Gnat appeared. It was small, black, and dreadfully annoyingly. It never did anything, just buzzed around her face. She’d swat it away, but seconds later she’d hear it next to her ear again. She never paid much attention to the phenomenon, just brushing it off as a coincidence. One day, as she worked on a school project the Gnat wouldn't leave her alone. It buzzed in front of her computer screen and around her face until she could stand it no longer. Slowly, she stood up. She grabbed a magazine and rolled it up into a tight cylinder. She sat back down and waited patiently for the Gnat. Moments later she heard the buzzing near her hand. Trying not to draw too much attention …show more content…

There was a teenage boy there, and something told her she had to warn him. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she wondered what she was protecting him from. She’d buzz near his ear & he’d swat her away. She continued to try and warn him of some unknown danger, but to no avail. The boy would look up at her eventually, they’d make eye contact, and she’d wake up. Things like this had happened to her before. When she was younger she’d always be the one to hear voices, or to see things others didn’t. Early in life she’d learned that talking about what she saw or heard got her labeled “Freak”, so she always kept to herself. This lesson would be her downfall. She had this dream for weeks, each night a little different. Sometimes they’d be in a different location or the boy would be involved in a different task. She began receding into herself, not doing the things she used to enjoy. She had this dream for weeks, and slowly it became harder to wake up from. One day she didn’t. She was at the part of her dream where she’d always jerk awake, but it didn’t happen now. Instead, the boy reached over and grabbed a book. Before she knew it, she was being crushed into the desk the boy sat at. Without a reason, rage overcame her and she blacked out. When she came to, she was a Person

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