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A Mosquito Bit My Thumb

9/13/25

I woke up with a mosquito bite on my thumb, now to start.

It was Lise’s birthday and I hadn’t planned much, just that we would be together at my house. She left to go fall asleep since we were doing nothing. When she went up I started making her birthday presents since I hadn’t previously. I made Lise paper items, drawings, and crap knit objects. I went upstairs to wake her up. Not smoothly. It was a sorry excuse for presents but she took them and tried to seem fine with it.

(a blurry period we hear a glass break downstairs and go check it out)

I walk around my house and it’s filled with people, outside there are mostly adults, and inside, younger people. Lise and I walk past a group of boys all of them strong but thin and wearing a style foreign to me, that I haven’t seen. When Lise and I had passed by them, one boy made a comment on how I looked saying he liked it, followed by him saying maybe we would get together sometime. I told him maybe, and then asked for his phone to give him my number. Instead, I tried to type in my credit card information and took his phone with me since it was a long process. The next time I saw him I gave his phone back, he was obviously annoyed by how long I took. After I took the boy's phone, Lise and I went upstairs, but I forgot what happened. While upstairs we met a girl, a goth babe. She started making out with Lise and I, but Lise and I never touched, and the three of us never touched at the same time. After a while the goth babe said she couldn’t do things with both of us and that she had to pick one. Lise decided to leave and I would not see her for a while. The goth babe and I start having sex.

(a blurry period)

I realize I’m with someone else, a sexy hipster chick, and the goth babe was sitting in the corner. The sexy hipster chick and I stop having sex even though it was good and I go downstairs with the boy's phone. When I come downstairs I see him, some people, and Lise, all sitting around a table in the dining room. I give him his phone and learn Lise’s leg hurts and I assume it’s bruised (she told me it hurt). I go back upstairs and find the goth babe taking pictures of me, and the sexy hipster chick hiding an assortment of guns, bombs, and ninja stars. I take the lot of it and throw it down the stairs. The sexy hipster chick, goth babe, and I, are all very angry. I somehow learn that almost all guests unknown to me have ulterior motives and an ill will to me. I try explaining this to my parents, which I find in a dress and suit. They don’t understand or quite care but instead explain to me that a boy from my cross country team will now be living with us. I am quite distraught by this.

(a large blurry period but I find myself someplace else)

My family and I have gone on holiday and are staying in a sort of hotel, a tall building made from sand and patterned tile with a hollow center and a glass ceiling which let light in. I even see the boy again, and we’re on good terms. It's deja vu and I’ve been here before but with no recollection of my previous visits. These are time travel circumstances. I tell my family, or dad all about it, to which he explains that soon I will come close to a sort of confined deity. I think I remember it to be small and ominous for its regular appearance. It puts a spell on me, and for the remainder of my trip I will experience situations that increase in unpleasantness until I kill myself.

(there is a blurry period but I think I’ve killed myself a few times now but keep waking up in the hotel)

I am on a floor near the middle of the hotel where I’m watching my siblings fall from the top floor while a voice narrates their movement and I can only watch. Eventually the ninja turtles come in and save the day. I left my dream with some sort of relief that I won’t be hurt till I kill myself. I'm slightly relieved and happy with the ending, but I feel a lot and am quite sad and miss Lise more, also I’m upset that a mosquito just bit my thumb.

Text by Nico Ramirez Rosas

9/13/25 6-9PM

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