Saturday, July 28, 2012

Uncertainty

I think that everything has spiraled into a situation that I can barely understand. Terri spit in Negative's face, which caused him to whip her again with one of his tentacles. Terri dropped to the ground. She looked angry, steel blade claws grew out of her fingers out of the blue. She jumped and scratched his face. Negative didn't bleed, instead a black sludge dropped out of the wound. Negative began to get frustrated from the looks of it.I tried the ash tray again. It hit Negative this time.
He started to sprout even more tentacles, he seemed mad. He attacked Terri & jumped with her out. I have not seen them since. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Prey

Negative found us. Of course he did, how could he not have? We were barely two blocks away.Terri had passed out during all the commotion earlier. Negative burst throughout the window.

Me: Why don't you leave us alone!
Negative: Savage may not eliminate me. It's either him or me.
Me: You've got the wrong person. If she was Savage I would know as I've been stalking her for the past few months.
Negative: Really? I think you've just been avoiding it.
Me: No...if she would've been some entity, then she wouldn't act like this.
Negative: You said it yourself that she behaves strangely.
Me: I...I don't know why...

Negative took Terri up with his tentacle. The pressure against her wounds caused her to wake up. She looked at Negative with fear in her eyes.

Negative: Your time has come Savage!
It appeared as Terri was able to receive his message now too, because she reacted to it.
Terri: What do you want from me.
Negative: I want you to tell me what plan you had in mind for me.
Terri: I don't know what you are talking about.
He started to squeeze around her body even harder.
Negative: I know it's you Savage, don't lie to me.
Me: Stop this!

I picked up an ashtray that lay on the table and threw it and Negative. I instead hit Terri in the head. Instead of reacting at all to the hit, she calmed down.
For a moment everything was quiet as if the world around us didn't exist.
Terri closed her eyes for a while.
That little while felt like forever, it was if time slowed down just for this moment.
She opened her eyes, looked directly at Negative with the same look she had given me when she discovered me stalking her.

Terri: Quotations of a negative mind are a easy prey, don't you think?


Whip

I walked in on something that one might label unpleasant. I went over to Terri's house to bring her some chicken soup so she could relax a bit better. I knocked on the door, nobody answered, but I knew she was home. I let myself in since the door was unlocked.
In the living room I saw Terri being on the floor covered in whip wounds. Over her was Negative facing his head towards me as I entered.

Negative: What are you doing here Proximity?
Me: I could ask you the same question, what are you doing to Terri?
Negative: I can no longer rest in the shadows knowing that Savage is up to something.
Me: Who the hell is Savage?
Negative: Savage is the blood covered being that lies here on the ground.
Me: Terri is Savage? The being that you think is out to get you?

Terri was scared, in a hurdled position crying her eyes out. From her perspective I was just yelling, since she had no idea what Negative was saying.

Negative: I've had enough of its pathetic attempts to throw me off course.
Me: Will you look at Terri? I doubt a being out to get you would cry and hurdle up like this.
Negative: Perhaps, but I know it's Savage. Savage disappeared a few years ago and I had been unable to trace him until she moved into town.
Me: That could just be a coincidence.
Negative: I don't think so.

He prepared to whip Terri again with his tentacle. I threw myself in front of her making Negative hit me instead in the back.

Negative: What are you doing? Taking Savage's side?!
Me: It's not Savage!
Negative: Ungrateful human! Move away!

I threw my jacket in the air, to momentarily distract him. I know it was a dumb move, but it worked. I managed to at least flee with Terri behind the house.
We ran across several gardens. At one point I even had to carry her, because she didn't have strength to carry on. We managed to get to Dan's place.
He wasn't home. No one was home and we seem to be safe from The Negative, at least for a little while.

Savage

I confronted the Negative today. I went up to him, having built up some courage beforehand.
My tone was not by any means annoyed, angry or threatening. I just simply wanted some questions answered.

Me: Negative?
Negative: Hmm...?
Me: Sorry if I'm being a bit of a pest, but I am really curious why you wish to continue this investigation. I mean from what I've gathered there's nothing out of the ordinary about Terri.
Negative: Well...let's just say that Savage has yet to reveal his plan. I'm suspicious.
Me: Savage?
Negative: Yes, Savage.

Is it just me or can I never get a straight answer out of Negative. It's like he's talking in riddles without giving a hint at what the answer might be. Who the hell is Savage?

Insomnia

Today at the school that I visit, but don't go to I had lunch with my friends. As per usual we had conversations during our meal. Terri started randomly a discussion about her insomnia she has been having as of late.

Me: Perhaps you need to just get some sleep medication or something.
Dan: Yeah...worked for my uncle when he had trouble sleeping.
Terri: I don't know. Whenever I manage to get sleep, I seem to be plagued with nightmares.

That's right, I nearly forgot that she had a problem with nightmares.

Dan: On a unrelated note, why are you eating meat? I thought you were a vegetarian.
Terri: I don't know, I just want meat. I haven't slept in like 50 hours and I'm stressed over finals, so don't I deserve a break?
Dan: You do-you do...

Terri has been a bit of a nervous train wreck lately. Perhaps its all caused by stress.

Me: Why don't you go to a spa or something. Try to relax.

She shrugged and kept eating her cheeseburger.

Girlfriend

The Negative likes my new way of doing things, I'm pleased. For a while there I thought I'd have to kiss my kidneys goodbye. Anyway today Terri, Dan & I went out for ice cream. I think that they were celebrating being friends. Terri & Dan have a unstable on-again-off-again relationship, sort of like Ross & Rachel.
I like it better when they are not together, since otherwise I always feel like a third wheel. 

Dan asked me if I had a girlfriend. When on earth would I have time for a girlfriend with my crazy lifestyle of stalking people and working for a faceless humanoid tentacle entity. I had a girlfriend once, ended badly.

Childhood

I'm starting to love hanging out with Terri & her friends. I have not forgotten my mission, but I think it's nice to have a shred of a normal life for a change. I've never had friends or such so I like to enjoy myself a little. When I was 5 I was taken under the wing or tentacle in this case of the Negative. I owe him my life, so I never complain directly to him about anything. I'm just glad to have even lived for seventeen years.

Friendship

I've stopped stalking Terri. I approached her & began talking to her. She seems to be back to her old self. I thought finding a weak spot would be easier if I'm friends with her. She's nice in person. I introduced myself as Proximity. Negative doesn't like me using my real name outside of my blog. She introduced me to Dan, who I'm sure is a nice guy, but he has the intelligence level of a armadillo. Still it was nice to have human contact for a change. I'm their age so I fit right in. Terri told me that she was adopted at the age of 9. She has no memory of it, which her current parents explained is the result of the trauma of loosing ones parents. See..one day of being friendly with her & I've already found a weak spot.

Meeting

I didn't stalk Terri at all today. I had a meeting with the Negative.

Negative: Have you found her weak point yet?

The Negative doesn't talk, it's more of a telepathic thing, because of his lack of a face. His mental voice reminds me of a booming post-Zardoz Sean Connery.

Me: I have not found anything that would be considered a weak spot, but I have lots of information on her.
Negative: What do you think I keep you alive for?
Me: Why do you need to know all this anyway?
Negative: None of your concern, Proximity. Do you have anything else of note?
Me: Well...She has been a bit different lately and has been having nightmares a lot.
The Negative tilted his head a bit.
Me: Interesting...So Savage has decided to play dumb.

I'm not sure what exactly was accomplished here today.

Conversation

Terri spotted me. We had a brief, yet twisted encounter. I was following her home as I am used to do, when she turned around. She had never turned around before.

"Quotations of a negative mind are a easy prey, don't you think? "

She then chuckled and turned around acting as she had never discovered me. What the hell does that even mean. Is she deliberately trying to freak me out?

Mood

Terri has been a bit moody lately. It's like she is a cynical & sarcastic middle child. She has stopped hanging out with her friends & now only sees her boyfriend from time to time.It makes me wonder if the Negative had something to do with it.

Nightmare

I don't care about Terri that much anymore. My reports to the Negative so far have looked less like status reports and more like episode guides to Clarissa explains it all. I would think a powerful being would not waste its power on a girl like Terri, so what is Negative's name is so special about her? The only thing in the past few days that I found of note was that she tends to have nightmares and talks in her sleep.

Rake

Today she spent the day raking up some leaves, because her mother told her to. Not her real mother, from what I can gather she is with some foster family or something. The fact that a teenage girl actually does what her parental guardian tells her to is rather mind screwy.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Prison

I don't get why the Negative even cares about this girl. I would think if he really wanted to eat her or mentally torture here he'd do it himself and be far better at it than me watching her from a far in the library. I don't think she even knows I exist so it can't be having any impact on her. Negative is an odd boss, but I guess I have to do what it wishes or else I'm going to be hanging from a radio tower with the antenna plunged into my stomach. I don't want that. I wonder if the Negative had any plans regarding if I'd get caught stalking her, since last time I checked it is a crime. I could go to jail, would that mean that I failed the mission. I'm gonna go on a limb here and say that if I get caught prison is going to be the last of my worries.

Dan

Today Terri went to school as she always did. She had lunch, talked to her friends and made out with her boyfriend. She then went into the library to read. How a bookworm could be this popular is anyone's guess. Perhaps we've stumbled into the 90s where everyone is awesome without any effort because of the shear awesomeness of the decade, perhaps. She read a book called Perish. What lazy author name's their book Perish? Sorry...I know I'm being a bit unprofessional, but I find myself bored. You know how boring it is to stalk a high school girl? Very...I know that the Negative wanted me to do this, but she is so ordinary and I can barely keep up the serious narrator charade without laughing like a maniac, which makes me come off as really creepy when I'm looking at Terry through binoculars.

Terri

Whether Terri knew it or not, her life was going to change. She would most likely just go around her business, walking the malls trying to find a decent outfit to wear. I guess that is normal for a seventeen year old girl to be doing on a Saturday night. She lives a normal life. She goes to school, she likes music, she has a boyfriend named Dan. Everything about Terri screams "Hey I'm a normal high school girl". But of course if she was would I be making a blog about her? Of course not, I've been given orders to pseudo-narrate her life in the form of this blog. Perhaps it may seem a bit stalkerish and it probably is.