WARNING: SPOILER AHEAD.
This is part 8 of 9. As always, one should start reading a story at the beginning. So use the links to read the first parts...
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Stupid fucker forgot your pills again now you have to live with us for another day don’t you little bastard. They were back. Their voices seemed a lot more distant than they used to, because he’d only missed one day of the pills and apparently there was still a lot of the medicine running through his system. But they were there, alright. And they were pissed off, like they usually were on the rare occasions when they showed up anymore. God you’re a dumb shit you say you want to kill us but then you let us live for awhile.

He definitely saw the girl that day on the subway to work. He saw the back of her hair as she was getting off the subway, but he couldn’t yell in time to catch her before she was gone. He did know that he had actually seen her this time, though, instead of the last few times when it had just been something sort of floating through his mind.

It sort of made him angry, though. It had been about a month since she’d left, and he was just now getting to where he wasn’t thinking about her every waking minute of the day. Then she had to go and get on the subway and remind him that she still existed. It brought all the pain from the last month back up to the front of his mind, and he didn’t like it. Haha poor baby has a broken heart.

That night, as he was about to go to sleep, something weird happened… something that had never happened before, as far as he could remember. At exactly 11:17 that night, they made a mistake.

They let too much information slip. Even when they were very nearly dead from the pills, they were always very careful to tell him only what they thought he needed to know. But they’d slipped up.

And all of a sudden, everything made sense to him.

---Jamin