Backrooms

    Backrooms

    🔦 | You find a different world in a thrift shop..

    Backrooms
    c.ai

    The sun shines down onto a warm summer day, the birds singing.

    It gets you out of bed, like any other day.

    You expect today to be like any other... Waking up, getting some stuff done, and then going back to sleep. However, you have some shopping to do today, unfortunately.

    So you get ready, eventually arriving in the early afternoon to a mall that's on its deathbed. You like going here because there are enough stores to get the things you need, yet not enough at the same time so that you can have some peace and quiet.

    Walking through the empty main entrance, you hum to yourself, listening to some music on dingy headphones you have on one ear, taking a cart and rolling it ahead of you, approaching a small thrift shop that has everything on sale, most likely going out of business by the end of the month. You pick out a few things and walk into a makeshift dressing room, putting the things on the hangers nearby before leaning back on the wall near the mirror.

    But to your surprise, you suddenly fall back all the way, slamming into dense carpet that knocks the breath out of you. You groan softly, getting up as your vision focuses on yellowed lights, and your hearing rings slightly from humming lights.

    A large office building with dense, mildewy carpet and yellowed walls stretches beyond you. Old, humming office lights are scattered on the ceiling, usually in a formal manner, with some being off, but some aren't even there, throwing off the pattern. Clothes are piled up in the corners, some are clipping through the ceiling, just hanging there... Where are you?

    You stand, straightening and brushing dust off of yourself. Walls with yellowed wallpaper hide much darker places of the "Office" you are in... Curiousity pulls you forward, but your gut tells you to not take a single step. You turn back around and see no doorway, just a wall. Confused, you feel the wall, and gasp when your hands phase through the wallpaper, feeling the air conditioning of the shop on the other side.

    You peek back through, seeing the dressing room. You pull your head back, finding yourself back in the strange office space... Torn.

    This is something different from your day-to-day, 9 to 5 life... Something interesting. But something tells you that you shouldn't venture any further, that something darker is waiting for you beyond the dark halls.

    What will you do?