I woke up to the sound of the alarm I set for 7:30PM. It was dark in my room, but my eyes hurt for some reason so I managed to open just my right eye. My right arm was groggily searching for the source of the sound beside my bed. I was thinking, make it stop... make it stop... But I knew it won't until I shut it off myself.
My hands found my phone, which was on my laptop. Deep in my subconscious, I knew it was my phone making the sound, but right at that moment, it felt like the alarm was a living, breathing, horrible thing that it seems possible the sound was coming from my laptop. So I opened my laptop, knocking off a lot of things in the dark doing so, and I started to feverishly press any key my fingers managed to land on, hoping one would kill the ringing in my ears.
By this time I was already whimpering, why won't it stop? Why won't it stop?! And it was so dark, and it was so loud, and very, very scary.
With my left hand, I managed to snag my phone from where it fell on the floor. I pressed a key to make it light up and turned it towards my laptop's keyboard. Instead of seeing the usual letters, it was filled with odd contortions of symbols which were scarier than the sound which I was continuously hearing. I was desperate to make it stop and I was crying so very intensely, and so very silently.
My phone fell on the keyboard and it was then I realized it was my phone making the sound. Breathing heavily, I pressed the key to make it stop. It did. But the ringing in my ears was still there. It made me sick to my stomach. (And then I realized I haven't eaten the whole day, and I haven't gotten out of my room since coming home this morning, and I haven't taken a bath, and I was fading... fading...)
And, like a train to an unknown place slowly accelerating, I fell asleep with the cold and lifeless sensation of the keyboard on my cheek...
