The Guilt Within

An alarm sounds. You wake up in a cold sweat, you breathe heavily as you pick up your phone to check the time, you ignore the missed calls and messages as you set off your alarms. You feel like collapsing back in bed, but you have to get ready for work. [[Get ready for work?->You go to the bathroom to freshen up]] [[Go back to sleep?->Go back to sleep]]

You sleep for what feels like only minutes once you close your eyes but what was once daylight outside is now pitched black. You get out from bed, take a shower and while in the shower you recieve a call from your boss. Once you leave the shower you see the missed call. What do you do? [[Answer the Phone->Exposition]] [[Leave it be->You are Fired]]

You brush your teeth, you take a shower, and get dressed. The life within you is dull but you put on a face as you reach your office. You sit down in your little cubicle, and time starts to feel like it slowed down, even though everything it's going at the same pace. Ever ysecond feels like hell. After an hour at the office, your coworker comes by and asks you to go talk to your boss, apparently they are requesting you for a chat. What do you do? [[Refuse and keep wasting time->Fired]] [[Go talk to your boss->Exposition]]

You don't call back and decide to stay in for the rest of the day. Later on you recieve an email with the subject title being labeled "TERMINATION", you don't bother to look at the email, and decide to grab a drink, then another, then another until you pass out on your couch. You start to open your eyes and you see nothing. You see your body but your within this void of absoulute darkness. Then your surroundings become clear. You are still breathing heavily after being in this void and you check your phone to see a missed call from a friend. What do you do? [[Call Back->Call Back]] [[Don't do anything->Don't do Anything]]

You talk to your boss, and they express concerns over your behavior of recently, they recommend maybe taking time off and when you tried to say that's not needed, your boss insits and ends the conversation there. Later on in the day you decide to look at the old things they had, and toss them into a box. But then you take them out of the box and put them back where they were. You just can't get rid of them, it was theirs, it's the only things you have left of them. All of the sudden a darkness starts to emerge from the box, you fall to the ground, head first. Your vision becomes blurry as you see your apartment becoming apart of this void. Then the darkness crept back inside this box and you hear your phone ring. It went to voicemail but it's from your friend what do you do? [[Call Back->Call Back]] [[Don't do anything->Don't do Anything]]

You decide not to go see your boss and leave early. Later on while you are looking at a photo of you and someone else, you recieve an email with the subject title being labeled "TERMINATION", you don't bother to look at the email, and decide to grab a drink, then another, then another until you pass out on your couch. You start to open your eyes and you see nothing. You see your body but your within this void of absoulute darkness. Then your surroundings become clear. You are still breathing heavily after being in this void and you check your phone to see a missed call from a friend. What do you do? [[Call Back->Call Back]] [[Don't do anything->Don't do Anything]]

You call back your friend. And they start talking to you with a tone of concern and worried. They heard about your terimination, they also tried bringing up someone that isn't in the world with you anymore, and you don't have much time to really process what's being said and you hang up the phone. But you understand their worries. You look at the bottles of alcohol around your room and the full bottle of pills perscibed by your therapist. You either can take these pills and possibly feel better even with this tremoundous guilt in your life even though you have no reason to be guilty or you can choose to keep living like this where you push everyone away from you no matter what. It's your choice. [[Take the Pills->You got help]] [[Don't do Anything->Don't do Anything]]

Suddenly your whole enviornment goes dark again. Just like how it was when you woke up. There was no light, no nothing it's like you had gone blind. But you could still see your hands and feet. You tried calling out for help but there was no response. You try anyway. You being to curl up into a ball and ask yourself why is this happening. You hear an echo of a voice suddenly. What do you do? [[Go to it?->Discovery]] [[Stay where you are->A loop forms]]

You take the pills, it releases some of these emotions you were feeling, it didn't make it better but it helped. You called back your friend and talked to them. You told them you've been struggling and you didn't know how to cope without your partner in your life, you talked about how you were just pushing everyone away and that you didn't know what to do. You just didn't want to lose anyone else. You begin to cry and your friend on the other end just listened and waited for you to open up if that's what you wanted. You were on the phone for hours, and when the call ended you called your therapist to schedule a session. [[Next Page->Best Ending]]

After a few months you've been able to live your life, while you haven't moved on you certainly have been able to be happy once more, you still have your moments but you have others you can depend on as you know you aren't alone. You no longer feel like the grief has this tight grip upon you and it's now something you have a hold of. You have a new job, a better enviornment, and haven't drunk a single drop of alchohol since you reached out for help. Something you always ponder is what would of happened if you chose not to get help. But you always end up back to the same answer, which is that doesn't matter, because I'm glad I did. ''(align:"=><=")[You've unlocked an ending if you would like you can replay from the beginning to find a different outcome!]'' ''(align:"=><=")[[[Replay->Your story begins]]]''

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You go to the voice and as you go to the voice the void slowly turns into this old home, torn baby blue wallpaper engulfed the walls forming around you. You knew exactly where you were. You were home. You realize the voice you heard was them. You tried to look around the house for them but there was noone to be found. But you did find a note written on the counter. It was THE note. The last thing ever wrote by them, before they had took their own... you couldn't bare to read it again. You look for anyway to leave this fucked up nightmare and you find a door that wasn't orginally in your house. You open the door to find your house once again but the walls were no longer blue and rather dull and grayed out. There were writings on the wall, saying to get out, to leave me alone, that I don't want to be here anymore. You stray your eyes away from signs on the walls and look for any differences in the house. You find a phone with a note. "Call them" the note read. What do you choose to do? [[Call them?->A Final Farewell]] [[You ignore the note->A Loop Forms]]

You stay where you are, the voices start to become less of an echo to distant voices and whispers. Saying you are a disappointment, a disgrace and more. You try to ignore the voices but they all have their voice. The voice you use to love hearing but now it's just a memory of the past something of once can never be again. And it's being used against me. All you wish you had was more time but as the voices persit you start to see something emerge from the darkness, they came out of the darkness from the floor like if they were arising from water. It looked like them, but twisted and disfigured. They approach you, you try to crawl away but you can't, you are frozen, you are in terror that you are seeing them again but also can't believe they are right in front of you. They reach their hand out, you hesitantly offer your hand in return. The figure snags your hand towards them and throws you further into the abyss. You can no longer see anything or hear anything. Your thoughts begin to become clouded and then you hear a familiar sound. [[Next->The Loop]]

An alarm sounds. You wake up in a cold sweat, you breathe heavily as you pick up your phone to check the time, you ignore the missed calls and messages as you set off your alarms. You feel like collapsing back in bed, but you have to get ready for work. You feel this sense of deja vu like this has happened before but you persist. And you do the same thing over and over again. A loop that never ends, as the days all become the same as you refuse the help from loved ones and slowly decent into complete isolation and eventually those calls stop coming and the thoughts the cloud your mind stop as you no longer you, you are just a husk of a person. ''(align:"=><=")[You've unlocked an ending if you would like you can replay from the beginning to find a different outcome!]'' ''(align:"=><=")[[[Replay->Your story begins]]]''

You pick up the phone and call the number. You start to regret your choice until you hear their voice. It was them, at least what you were hearing was them. They began to talk to you like it was like any other day, like nothing was wrong. You take the chance to talk to them one last time. They were confused by some of the things you were saying and asked you to slow down and if you were okay. You told them you loved them, and they returned the sentiment. Tears began to form around your eyes and you say goodbye, something you never got to do. As you put the phone down the surroundings of your room begin to form, of your actual room. While you are still mentally trying to process what just happened you decide to call your friend back, because you realize you need someone to talk to and you could no longer take all that grief anymore. [[Next->A Journey reaches it's end]]

You don't pick up the phone and decide to backtrack but the door was no longer there. You start to see something emerge from the floorboards, tthe boards started to break away as wood shards began to scatter around the room and your braced yourself. But you lower your guard because it was them. Well it looked like them, but twisted and disfigured. They approach you, you try to crawl away but you can't, you are frozen, you are in terror that you are seeing them again but also can't believe they are right in front of you. They reach their hand out, you hesitantly offer your hand in return. The figure snags your hand towards them and throws you further into the abyss. You can no longer see anything or hear anything. Your thoughts begin to become clouded and then you hear a familiar sound. [[Next->The Loop]]

After a few weeks, you were able to clean yourself up and come back into work, you began to hang out with friends once more, and you were starting to have less nightmares and more dreams. You miss them still, that will never change but this is the road to being able to leave that grief behind you rather than leaving it all within. You actually are seeing a friend tonight to see the new Marvel movie. You get prepared for your movie night and notice that their stuff is still on displace. You gently grab the trinkets and items and put them in a box, except for the photo of you two together. You keep that on your counter and leave ytour apartment to head to the movies. ''(align:"=><=")[You've unlocked an ending if you would like you can replay from the beginning to find a different outcome!]'' ''(align:"=><=")[[[Replay->Your story begins]]]''