While I finished printing out the 
most recent ones, I realized that at   
least for today anyway, my lie wasn’t a
total lie anymore.                     
     I turned off the computer and     
greeted my co-workers. Some of them    
looked like they were still sleeping,  
and half were wearing mouse ears.      
     Alicia looked the best. Not only  
because she was wearing furry mouse    
ears, but because she also had a       
painted white nose, and whiskers.      
     When she wiggled her nose, it made
her look cute as hell, and when I told 
her, she blushed.                      
     She was like that.                
     I then said goodbye and ran off,  
well, walked away really fast. I didn't
want to make it obvious, but I also    
didn't want to just dwaddle around     
* either.                                  
     I turned the corner, and like the 
end of that bridge in my burlap bag    
story, the Oh Oh Room looked like it   
was miles away.                        
       As I got closer, and I don’t    
know how exactly, but I could tell the 
room was empty. I looked in the window 
before going in, and no one was        
standing guard in front of the door to 
the Secret Room anymore.               
     Had I imagined all that? Was I    
really going crazy? A talking Cat will 
get you thinking like that, believe me.
     Once inside, I listened for a     
minute. Nothing, I couldn’t hear a     
sound. I pulled the garbage bags out of
the cans, making as much noise as I    
possibly could and waited.             



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