Episode 1

It’s in the middle of the night when I wake up to a figure of a clown standing in front of my foot board, my eyes widen when he comes closer to me, he stretches out his hand into the moonlight and touches my forehead. I start to scream and wiggle in my bed when he comes into the moonlight and takes a huge bite of my neck. I struggle to get away from him but I pass out before anything else happens.

The sun hits my eyes and I turn my head the other way to block the sunlight out of them. I realized last night was just a nightmare until I leaned up to see around my light grey room with haunting pictures of dead deer everywhere, then saw claw marks on my foot board, I looked at my sheets and they’re torn up. Quickly I feel my neck to feel anything different. It stings when I feel it and when I pull my hand away there’s blood all over my hand.

I get up, put shorts on, and run to the bathroom to look at my neck. My brown eyes widen and I turn white as a ghost. I get a bunch of towels and put them over huge teeth marks on my neck. I rush to get a pair of blue jeans and a black t-shirt to put on before I go to the doctor to see what’s going on with my neck. While I’m rushing around to get ready I wonder how in the world did a clown get into my house and why would he bite me.

I start my truck and when I look in the mirror to look in the back I see a red balloon floating out of nowhere, I get skittish and start to back up the truck then I was on my way to the doctors. I hold the towel close to my neck to stop the bleeding but even pressure won’t hold it that good like I was told. The hospital comes into sight and I drive to find a parking space for me. I feel dizzy, but I shake it off. I find a parking spot and turn off the ignition and walk towards the door of the hospital.

One glance around the room and I feel hot and sweaty; I go to the front desk where a skinny lady with her hair in a ponytail and glasses is reading an article from a book. I clear my throat and she looks up, her eyes grow big and quickly calls the doctor into the room. She looked at the guards, looked back at me, and shook her head. They rushed up to grab both of my arms and the towel dropped to the ground. A guy with brown hair, big stomach, and tiny glasses came running at me with a long needle, I started to panic and tried to pull away.

The needle jabbed into my skin and everything went black. A clown comes into sight, as he starts walking towards me and I take a step backwards. The clown starts to glitch then disappears. I look around to see where he went and not even ten minutes later he appears in front of me and it makes me jump. The clown screams and hollers in my face and has his mouth wide open like a shark's mouth filled with sharp teeth. The sight of this clown makes me fall to the ground, then the clown falls towards me and he’s gone again.

A bright light appears when I open my eyes; I look around and I’m in the hospital bed but with chains around my wrists. I tug on one of my arms pulling at the thick silver chains and start to panic. My head is still spinning in circles so I try to relax and calm my nerves. I slowly shut my eyes when I realized my clothes aren't actual clothes, not even hospital clothes. I quickly look at my hopeless body that's chained up to the hospital bed, in a white suit with blue and red polka dots. I lick my lips and it tastes like cherry lipstick, I pass out when I hear someone coming.

Sharp needles, bright lights, hard cushions, people talking too loud, and funky smells. My eyes reopen and I lift my head, it starts to rock back and forth. “Ohhhhhh…” I pause then look around the room to see a lot of doctors, or scientists, looking at me. “What’s going on?” My voice cracks as I say the words. “Please sir, relax.” A nice young woman, around twenty, speaks to me in a soft tone, I smirk at her and lay my head back. “How are you feeling sir?” I turn my head to look at her.

Her blue eyes sparkle, beautiful long black hair covers her shoulder. “Caddell. Cameron Caddell ma’am.” I smile brightly at her and she frowns, nods her head, and starts writing on her clipboard. Everyone has one in their hands. She walks to a desk by me and picks up a small mirror with a long handle, then shows me what I look like. My smile fades away and I see a clown face with a huge red nose, I stare at myself in disbelief, then she puts down the mirror on the table. “You’re not so bad.” She speaks while writing something down on her clipboard again.

I nod my head yes, still in shock of what I look like. Everyone starts to walk out the door except the female doctor. Once everyone is out, she comes closer to me, “I tell you what.” My head turns toward her. “I’ll let you stay with me as long as you don’t kill me.” My eyes go wide and I get confused on why she would say the word ‘kill’ to me. “I would never kill anyone! I’m not that kind of person to do that! I promise you.” I say to her in a scared and confused tone. Her head lifted up in defiance, “My name is Sparrow.” Her tone is sharp but calming. “Deal or no?” Sparrow stares at me.

The thoughts of her saying that I will kill her just floods through my head but I take the deal to get out of this horrid place. She hesitates for a second then puts down her clipboard. I stare at her while she hurries to get a key from the wooden table on the other side of me. “Thank you ma’am.” I say to her while she is taking off the chains from my wrist with the silver key. Once she is done I sit up and rub my wrists one at a time. She throws a blue robe with black polka dots and a large white lace collar. “Follow me and put this on quickly.”

I put it on while standing up, she looks at me for a second then starts walking towards the door. I start heading towards her; she puts her finger up to her mouth like she’s shushing me and I roll my eyes. Sparrow is a lot shorter than me when she's right beside me. She leads me out of the hospital room and suddenly Sparrow gasps loudly. I stick my head out the door to see what’s going on. The lights start flickering in the hallways and my head starts spinning around again so I put my hand on the door frame and lean forward where my head is about to touch Sparrow's shoulder.

Sparrow turns her head slowly and her brown irris are now green with red streaks in the sclera of the eye. I quickly get away from her shoulder and back up fast with my hands out towards her, her eyes staying on me. “A-are you okay Sparrow?” Her head spins around and you could hear her neck crack from all the bones, she smiles like normal but then it gets wide and wider every second she stares at me. The lights still flickering, her lips that are smiling as wide as they can, start to rip, the skin spreads apart on each side of the mouth like a zipper being opened, bright red blood rolls down her face.

My breath hitches and I started to walk backwards till I touched half of the hospital bed. She starts laughing a ridiculously horrid laugh, it startles me so much I fall to the ground. The floor feels wet and slimy, but I keep my eyes on this thing in front of me. It starts walking towards me slowly, I guess this is how I’m going to die right? A very slow death. She comes so close her foot touches mine, her hands touch the bed and her head bows down to look into my eyes. I can hear her back popping out of place. She opens her mouth so wide that a child could fit in there.

I’m so terrified that I didn't realize how bad she smelt. A long black slimy tongue came out and touched half of my face making it wet. I feel tears coming down my face and my body starts to shake in fear. Closing my eyes, I feel her hot breath on my face then I hear the door open and I pass out. One sting turns into a burn and that turns into me screaming bloody murder, A soft palm lands on my shoulder and I gasp then my eyes shot open. Sparrow stares at me deeply then I realize I’m at a house on a couch that's pretty comfortable.

“What happened?” The words slip out of my mouth like vomit. “Something turned into me and when you blinked or looked away it got behind me and acted like me, does that make sense to you?” I look at her for a minute then shake my head no because I honestly don’t have a clue what she’s talking about. I take a deep breath and sit up where I can see her properly, she sits in a rocking chair in front of me. “I’m still in this suit I see.” She smiles and nods her head. “I’ll look into that soon, right now you need to get more rest and I’ll tell you everything tomorrow. It’s past two in the morning.” I’m shocked that I slept that long. “What’s today?” She stands up and walks towards me. “Good night Cameron.” She heads to a room, opens the door, and walks in then closes the door again. Probably to keep me away from her.

When I fell asleep the same dream popped up again, the clown and the bed frame oh also the bloody sharp teeth that frightened me half to death. The sun hits my eyes, I move my arm over my head then I smell something cooking in the kitchen. “Good morning clown head!” I sigh. “Great It’s not a dream then.” She laughs but I sigh and try to sink into the couch. “Ohhh get up lazy butt! We got work to do after breakfast. Do you like pancakes or eggs?” I sigh again and sit up. I look at her with disgust. “I don’t eat that stuff.” She doesn't believe me, I can tell from the look on her face. “Alright alright I’ll have some eggs.” She smiles “Ok come to the table Mr. Lazy Pants. I roll my eyes and smile back then get up to go to the table then find myself a spot to sit at.

She brings me my plate, then sits by me with her sweet pancakes that have butter on the top of the stack and hot syrup running down the sides. “So…” I say after we already ate half of our food, “Why am I a clown?” she gulps her last bite and grabs a napkin to wipe her face. “We are going to a lab at noon today.” I nod my head and scarf down the rest of the eggs. Sparrow starts to say something then someone knocks on the door. “Stay here.” She stands up and walks to the front door. I grab the last napkin and wipe my face to see if the makeup will come off then I hear a loud gasp and half of a scream.

Thumping comes through the door, I start to panic and drop to the ground then carefully and quietly go under the table. “Come out! Come out! Wherever you are! Twit!” A man with a ruff voice speaks loudly and doesn’t look so pleased when I take a couple seconds to look out from under the table. He turns his head quickly to see if anyone comes out of a hiding place, possibly me, I stay quiet.

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