season 1 episode 2

After school, I grabbed some Ice cream and chips to cheer myself up. When I got home, I sat on the sofa to watch some TV with my mum, there was some typical soap playing and I told her about last night. “That’s weird” she frowned and said “There aren’t any insects in the rest of the house but I’ll ask your dad to spray some insect killer in your bathroom.” “Thanks mum, I’ll go and complete my assignment now.” I gave her a kiss and went to my room. I’d put my ice-cream in a bowl and now it was time to rewatch some old flick and munch on some chips. I browsed and decided to go with The Mummy. It had been a while and it was a classic, I remembered loving watching it as a kid and finding it scary, not so much now. The movie began with a priest, Imhotep, condemned to be buried alive under a heavy curse for betraying and murdering the king. Exciting stuff I thought as I stuffed my face with more chips. His casket was filled flesh eating bugs, ewww; at least those aren’t found here. Thirty minutes in and I was fantasizing what it would be like to live in Egypt, be able to read ancient hierographs and go treasure hunting.

Out of nowhere, a roach climbed up my hand and into the bowl of ice cream I was holding, it was all so sudden that I let out a shriek and the bowl went flying on the floor and shattered into tiny pieces. The roach was swimming in melted ice cream. My bad day turned into an even worse day, I went downstairs and told my parents what had happened, they came up to my room and my mom killed the cockroach still stuck and twitching in the melted ice cream. My ice cream. It was a mess. She helped me clean up and dad sprayed some insect killer in my bathroom. They assured me it would be okay and feeling a little low I went back to my movie. It wasn’t engaging anymore and I was just watching it for the sake of it. That magic and charm had vanished. I watched as the resurrected mummy of Imhotep brought plagues upon mankind and O’Connell, Eve and gang rushed around to save the day. It seemed like I was the one cursed with the plague of roaches. After finishing the movie, I started working on my assignment and from the corner of my eye I felt something move here and there but it was just my imagination. I was feeling a bit jumpy and with good reason too. I carefully checked my room for any hidden roaches and figured I could go to sleep peacefully.

I must have slept for an hour or so and I was awakened by something creeping on my face. I frantically started slapping my face and sure enough, I hit something. Another roach. It dropped on my pillow and I found myself on the verge of tears. I switched on the bathroom lights and in the mirror I could see something sticky left on my face after hitting the roach, its guts. Disgusted, I washed my face as well as I could, removed my pillow cover and sheets, examined the mattress for any hidden roach nest, I couldn’t find anything. I put on fresh sheets and sat there, afraid to go to sleep.

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