True enough, after a few days, the electricity and internet went off.

Oh, but!

cellular internet connection worked perfectly fine.

No news on the internet about an epidemic either.

And certainly no undead.

Which really proves that my parent’s worse scheme yet, the ‘undead are attacking’ was nothing but a lie.

They cut off my electricity and internet, and yet cell phones still work.

Oh, you’re wondering if I checked the news?

Of course not. Who watches TV now a days?

Either way, I kept on writing and posting while playing a few games I had.

.....What, I can’t watch anime with my phone’s internet y’know?

Either way, it was all going great for a few months....And my parent’s haven’t even bothered me since.

It would’ve been pretty believable if not for my cell phone’s being open!

And the internet hasn’t reported, anything yet out of the ordinary.

Also, have I mentioned it has been a few months since then?

As far as I’m concerned, it’s all an elaborated trick in order to get me out of my room.

Hehe, unknowing to them....I like my current peace and quiet.

But then again, if water didn’t exist....then I could have been in a very deep trouble.

Well, since the water is running, and is clean.....then is that not proof enough that nothing happened?

My only worry is that my canned food stock finished a few days ago, and I was forced to eat instant raw.

What, I can’t soak that thing in cold water...

And there aren’t any electricity to pull off a boiler in order to boil the water.

“But that’s when it happened......My precious water.....stopped running.....!”

I woke up this morning, pretty thirsty, and NO WATER!!!

“Dammit, those fuckers finally did it! They cut off my source of life, my water!”

‘Why not drink some water from your stack of water bottles?’

Well, I’m sorry!

I thought I was safe with my tap water, alright?

“Shit....Now I have to leave my room in order to quench my thirst!”

And here I thought those damn couples were idiots, cutting off the electricity and internet and yet not the water!

‘Oh, right....how the hell did you use your phone and laptop without electricity?’

Solar power, Duh.

I have a few solar batteries for phone, PsV (Handheld console), and my laptop.

Well, that’s aside from the subject we’re going into.

What the hell should I do?

Give up my couple of months worth of struggle and stubbornness and admit that I can’t live by myself, and face their judgment and discrimination for water? Or let my stubbornness prevail and die of dehydration?

Of course, I’ll be lowering my head.

I don’t want to die yet.

“God dammit....”

I approach the dusty door, and I slowly unlocked it.

Creeeeeek

“Woah, this thing.....so rusty.”

Well, it hasn’t been opened in months....

At least I was able to open it with no difficulty what so ever.

Oh, how do I look like?

An ordinary glasses wearing otaku I guess.

If the otaku were to be put into two categories, with one being fat and the other being super thin, then I belong to the latter.

I have the common hair color of the Japanese population, which is black.

My eyes are also black.

What about a beard or a mustache?

I’ve been getting rid of that shit in my room’s bathroom, so I don’t have any facial hair.

Yes, my room is equipped with everything I need to survive the day!

........Well, everything aside from a kitchen.

But my instant and canned food can make up for that.

“Hmm? This place is awfully dusty as well.....”

The brown walls are really, really dusty.

To the point where I can hardly recognize the color.

The floor is dusty as well, way more than the walls.

The picture frames hand of my step-dad and mum.....are also all covered in dust, where I can’t even make out their figures at all.

This is a really excessive amount of dust....

“Ahaha, I think I read somewhere that dust is made up from dead skin cells....If there was a zombie apocalypse, then won’t all their dead, rotten skin transform into dust? Now this joke isn’t even funny. Hey, Mum! Mum!! MUM!!!”

You can’t tell me that this is all a joke they were preparing for a while now...

I mean, they cut the water off, and they spray the whole place with dust.

This is one hell of an expensive prank....

“Shoot, the sink doesn’t work either...”

“What, nor the guest’s bathroom?”

“Ehh....even my parents room’s tap water.....”

What the hell?

All the water in the house has been cut off.....

Should I go check the water-tank on the roof?

“Even if I go there...It’s not like I can fix it....”

But should I still give it a shot?

“Then again, they might be waiting for me there, expecting me to try and fix it. Sure, why not. I’m super thirsty right now because of all this dust....so let’s hurry up and end this stupid prank.”

I can’t believe they did all of this just to get me out of my room.

The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

Zombies? Pfft.

Almost too laughable.

“I bet some random fraud of a consultant recommended this method to my parents.”

I quickly climbed the stairs to the roof, and walked toward the dusty, white water-tank.

“But shit, the sure is hot...”

Well, whatever.

This heat is making me even more thirsty.

Let’s just quickly open the tank, and finish with it.

I walked to the tank’s round door(Lid), and grabbed the handle, then tried to move it counterclockwise.

“Hmm? God dammit, this thing is heavy......And dirty!”

Dammit! Open, open, open, open!

Let me drink some waaatteeerrrr!!

“..........! Alright, got it open!”

Now to removed the lid~

“Hmm......?”

Weird, the tank is at least half full.

Then why are there no water down stairs, inside the house?

“Well, now that I’m here.....why don’t you all appear?”

I tried to shout, yet appear calm at the same time.

“.....................”

After a few minutes of silence, I judged that my current location isn’t their so called ‘Surprise’ point.

Hrm....

Well, whatever.

“I guess I’ll scoop some water and then return back to my room.”

I lower my body, and dip both of my hands inside the water.

“Eww, the water is warm....”

Also.....

I feel something cold, yet wet.

It’s also.....soft?

“Is that a leaf I scooped out?”

Well, whatever.

I’ll just remove it when i lift up my hands in order to drink.

“...........! P-phew, it was just a leaf.....”

For a second, I thought I triggered my own jump scare flag...

“Fuaaaaaaaah! That was good~! I finally drank some water~!!”

Alright, time to head back to my room.

As long as they see that their plan failed, I bet they’ll return our water back.

“.............! Shit, I feel someone’s gaze behind me.................!!”

Well not really, but my back did break in a cold sweat!

Shit, I do feel like someone is behind me!!

Alright, I’ll look on three.....

“One.....Two....Three..........!”

I looked behind to the stairs, and to my relief, it was just a rat.

“Phew.....it was just a rat......Well, let’s close the lid before he get’s inside the tank~”

But still, that rat can give out such a horrifying stare huh.

That silver furred rat, with his scalp somehow removed and his rotten, green brains showing....out..............

“OH MY FUCKING GOD, WHAT THE FUCK?!”

Eh, eh, eh? What the fuck?!

“I-it can’t be real....right........?”

But the cold stare it gave off earlier felt like the real thing!

Even though I never felt a cold stare before, that stupid thing is reall!!

No doll can emit such presence after all!!!!

“Forget the fucking lid, I’m going back to my room......!!!”

Just as I let go of the handle to make a run for it, something cold reached out to me from the inside and took a hold of my arm.

“Grrrroaaaah.....”

“E-eh....? I-isn’t this....a.....a growl......?”

And this cold hand........i....isn’t it........gripping a bit too strongly........?

W-well, I might just be weak.....

............Well, isn’t this far too much for a prank by my parents.......?

“...................OWWWWWWWW!!!! T-THE GRIP, IT’S TOO STRONG!!!!!”

IT’S CRUSHING MY ARM!!!

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!!!!

I DON’T CARE ANYMORE, I’M SLAMMING THIS SHIT ON THE EDGE OF THE TANK!!!!!

“Gough! let! go! you! are! crushing! me!!!!”

“Grrooooaaaaah....”

The thing let out another growl, right after it let go of my arm.

“Phew, now I should make a run fo----------AHHHHHHHH!?”

There is a severed hand gripping my own!!!

D-don’t tell me......

“You got to be fucking kidding me!?”

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!

THERE IS NO BLOOOD BUT SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!

THIS IS, THIS IS, THIS IS.....................!

“This is a fake hand, right? Like hell there could be a real one like this!”

I quickly remove the cold hand from my wrist, and throw it away.

“I, it felt real.....but, there’s simply no way.....”

I quickly turned my feet around, and ran back to my room.

I ran through down the stairs, on to the dusty hallway and inside my room.

I quickly closed the door shut, and locked it.

“Alright, this is all a joke. This is all a horrible joke by that horrible step-father. Just go to bed, they’ll wake you up soon. Just....go back to bed.”

I quickly walked to my bed, lowered the laptop that was on top of it to the floor, and then laid down to sleep.

Unknowingly that I left all the water faucet I opened earlier......open.

Pshhhhh~

Green, disgusting water began to come out of all the water pipes.

From the sink to the one in the bathroom to the one in my room....and yet, how could I have slept so peacefully?