Owen stands at the entrance of the haunted house, he looks crestfallen and defeated.

His girlfriend is polishing her finger nails. She wants to look pretty for the Instagram photos of the before and after of the renovation of the haunted house. She fishes out her trusty smartphone from her pocket, taps on Tiktok and starts filming a Tiktok on the special promotion for the haunted house this coming weekend.

Owen stares into the distance in the abyss of the darkness. Deep within, monsters of all imagination come alive and haunt your very soul. Owen's girlfriend cannot care less about his depression. She tosses over the final checklist of the things needed to be completed to Owen and strides away. Owen catches the paper just barely, and looks over the information on the document.

They cannot come to a consensus together. Owen's girlfriend seems like she only cares for her own well-being while Owen is deep in his own thoughts on how to move forward.

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Owen's girlfriend stamps her feet on the ground and demands that Owen follows her lead or else. Owen disagree vehemently and refuses to budge. They argue over the tiniest of details which should not matter while the big picture is being disregarded.

Owen slaps her girlfriend across the face. She was completely taken aback.

Owen leaves for greener pastures while her girlfriend walks away crying.

They will break up the following day over text and no voice messages or even video calling that they did so often back while they were in their honeymoon phase. Owen's girlfriend ghosts him after sending a all the best to you message. Owen revenge texts back a couple few lines to try to win her back but it was to no avail. Owen tosses and turns while sleeping. The messages and his actions haunts him more than the haunted house ever could. He was in tears. The clock on the wall tick as time slowly seeps into the gears of life and the events surrounding Owen start to turn. His fortune is changing. He just did not know it yet.