TWEAKEN
OKAY I KNOW THIS IS GONNA SOUND DRAMATIC BUT I’M BEING 100% SERIOUS.I LIVE NEAR ONE OF THE PARKS IN SURPRISE, AZ AND I WALK MY DOG THERE PRETTY LATE AT NIGHT SOMETIMES BECAUSE IT’S QUIET AND THERE’S USUALLY NOBODY THERE EXCEPT A FEW PEOPLE JOGGING OR SITTING AROUND. LAST NIGHT AROUND 11 PM I SAW SOMETHING THAT GENUINELY MADE MY STOMACH DROP. I WAS WALKING PAST THE LITTLE RAMADA AREA AND THE PLAYGROUND WHEN I SAW A GIRL STANDING UNDER ONE OF THE PATH LIGHTS NEAR THE GRASS. SHE WASN’T DOING ANYTHING WEIRD AT FIRST, JUST KIND OF SLOW DANCING BY HERSELF. LIKE THE WAY SOMEONE MOVES WHEN THEY HAVE HEADPHONES IN. I FIGURED SHE WAS JUST RECORDING A TIKTOK OR SOMETHING UNTIL I WALKED PAST HER THERE WERE DEAD ROSES ALL OVER THE GROUND AROUND HER. AND I DON’T MEAN A FEW PETALS. I MEAN FULL WILTED ROSE PETALS EVERYWHERE. SOME LOOKED CRUSHED LIKE THEY’D BEEN STEPPED ON. EVERY TIME SHE MOVED, ANOTHER ONE WOULD FALL OUT OF HER SLEEVES OR OFF HER CLOTHES. I SWEAR ONE EVEN FELL OUT OF HER MOUTH WHEN SHE STARTED SINGING. ·ࡇ· MY DOG STARTED BARKING THE SECOND HE SAW HER. NOT HIS NORMAL 'PERSON WALKING BY' BARK EITHER. HE WAS PULLING AGAINST THE LEASH AND WOULD NOT CALM DOWN. THE WEIRDEST PART WAS SHE COMPLETELY IGNORED US AT FIRST. SHE JUST KEPT SPINNING SLOWLY UNDER THE LIGHT LIKE SHE DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE WE WERE THERE. AND THE PARK FELT REALLY OFF AND SCARY AND REALLY QUIET. LIKE TOO QUIET. THE RINGING IN YOUR EARS TYPE QUIET. AND YOU KNOW HOW PARKS USUALLY HAVE SOME KIND OF NOISE AT NIGHT? CARS, CRICKETS, PEOPLE TALKING, SOMETHING. THERE WAS NOTHING.THEN SHE STOPPED MOVING AND LOOKED RIGHT AT ME. SHE ASKED, “AM I WORTHY TO MARRY?" AND AT THAT POINT SHIT WAS VISIBLE ON MY PANTS, LIKE HOLY SHIVER ME TIMBER TYPE SHIT BUT I DIDN’T ANSWER HER. I JUST ACTED LIKE I DIDN’T HEAR ANYTHING AND KEPT WALKING BECAUSE I WANNA LIVE BRO WHEN I LOOKED OVER MY SHOULDER AGAIN SHE WAS DANCING UNDER THE LIGHT LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. I KNOW THIS SOUNDS FAKE. I KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE SOME BAD HORROR STORY. BUT HAS ANYONE ELSE IN SURPRISE SEEN SOMEONE LIKE THIS AT THE PARKS LATE AT NIGHT? EVEN IF IT WAS PROBABLY JUST SOME REALLY WEIRD PERSON, I HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO STOP THINKING ABOUT IT. CAUSE I THINK MY PANTS ARE STAINED