The Pills

"Thank God, I don't have any homework today!" Kevin was happy that after a long, monotonous day of school, he didn't have any mindnumbing work that existed outside of the four walls of prison for three more evenings.

He walked home, it was just a five-minute trip from school to his apartment complex. However, today was different. Kevin remembered a disturbing nightmare from several nights ago and decided to visit the park to convince himself that it really was just a dream.

He walked in a circle around the playground five times, slid down the slide, and used the rusty swings for ten minutes. He then walked to where he had been in the dream, looking around to see where he would've been running to. But the park ended after twenty feet in the direction he had walked.

He sighed. It truly had all been a dream.

The sun had started to dip on the horizon, so Kevin went home. He dropped his bags the minute he got in. As his left hand reached for the TV remote, he spotted a bag of pills on the kitchen table. He took the bag from it position, gazing at it at eye level to get a better sight of the small cylinders.

A note was in the bag. Kevin took it out to read it, which had the "Excedrin" logo on the front and the message "Take these, you'll feel better." on the back. Excedrin was headache medication, so someone had known about the headaches he had been having over the past few days. It was weird, though, because he had never told anyone about his headaches or the dream.

He looked at the pills, which seemed to tempt him into swallowing them.

"Well, this is a nice gesture, but it doesn't say how many to take. And how did they get here in the first place? I'm the only person with the keys to my apartment!"

He tossed the pills back to where he had found them, and watched the TV for a few hours. After watching his favorite shows with new episodes, the weather, the news, and ate some dinner, he yawned.

"Ow!" Another headache had come to torment him. He looked back to the table, where the pills sat.

"Well, I have a headache. I doubt one pill will kill me."

He grabbed some water, put the pill in his mouth, and drank the glass of water.

"Hm, that pill kinda tasted - ?"

He fell to the floor.

"Whoa, I didn't think they'd make me this drowsy."

He hobbled to his bedroom. It took the rest of his might to get into bed. As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was fast asleep.

His skin began to soften while he dreamed, becoming flabby and tender. Kevin didn't notice, though. He was still fast asleep . . .

"Unh. Oh, my headache's gone!" Kevin woke up at an odd time. His clock read 6:66 AM before it corrected itself to read 7:06 AM.

"I wonder who left me those pills, I'm the only person with-?" He looked around the room. He was sitting in bed. So why could he see himself from the mirror on his wall while looking straight up? He didn't need to put on his glasses, he had been too tired to take them off. He stood up, looking to where he was seeing himself, from a point of view that didn't seem to be his own eyes. He looked at the wall, gazing at an odd symbol which looked like two eyes intersecting. He poked it.

"Ow! What the hell?!" He could now see out of his own eyes again. He got a wet washcloth and wiped the image away, his eyes watering as he did so. He didn't understand why his eyes and the symbol on the wall seemed connected, but he didn't care. The symbol was creepy, so he wiped it off his bedroom wall . . .

"Hey, Kevin, has anything strange been happening to you lately?" Noah asked.

"Oh, well, I had a weird dream a few weeks ago, and some pills and a strange symbol appeared in my apartment last Friday. I changed the locks on my windows and doors because it really scared me, man. What about you?"

"I've been haunted by this creepy jerk, he calls himself 'the Observer'. How much more stupid and annoying can this get?"

-ding dong ding dong-

"Class, please take your seats."

Noah went back to his desk, and Kevin decided to get out a pencil to take down notes.

"?"

He reached into his pockets, and pulled out a bags of pills with a piece of paper that said "YOU ONLY SAW THE SHADOW".