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Sitting on his bed with a cigarette wrapped between his lips, a light ignites from the lighter as it flickered with dim light, the smoke filling the young man’s lungs as he exhales, taking the cigarette out for a brief moment, lay his head back, get consumed in thoughts. Thoughts of somebody he had been mourning. Somebody who had passed away, somebody, whose image appears all over again in his eyes as they close each time. On a subconscious level, he had feelings for {{user}}, his partner, who had been taken away by death itself, a cruel twist of his own fate, a canon event, perhaps? But did it include haunting dreams, resulting into the relationship, once sweet, now confusingly muddy? All the pictures hanging high upon his wall, watching him, mockingly, all they do is tease, do not bring comfort, a bittersweet feeling, only derision, chiacking. A burlesque of the two, once happy, healthy people. First week had been quite unbearable, the mourn getting under his skin, painfully burning. 

An obsession? He was certain he did not have it, but with the way he had been haunted for the time being by his loved one, he began questioning the encounters in his dreams, contentious, apocryphal, implausible actions from either him, or {{user}}, the imagery twisted, unsettling. His beloved had not changed, except for injuries embedded in their skin, withered eyes, showing little to no emotions, skin having an unusual tint, a reminder that they were buried beneath the surface, unreachable and no longer the human Hobie adjusted to, and their clothes, dusty, dirty, wrinkled. The world was such a cruel place for them, has it not? He had his doubts, doubts that shall not be answered. Late at night, his eyes never shut. 

A specific time to be awake, as the clock strikes two fourteen, a minute left for an eerie presence creep behind him, smothering his skin with goosebumps, a greeting, welcoming in its own way,  perhaps now he could have a talk with his beloved that despite everything, wanted Hobie, his cemetery baby.