The Shower Curtain

I need help. I need it fucking bad. Okay so right now I’m in the shower. Yes, I am naked but that’s not what this is about. What is about is this godforsaken thing currently standing right outside my shower.

It appeared right after I turned the water off. I don’t know what it is, how it got here, or where it came from but I know it definitely isn’t human. I don’t think it’s anything from this Earth or this dimension for that matter. I must sound like a lunatic right now but if you were in my position, you’d know exactly how I’m feeling. I know some of you may be thinking right now that I could just be hallucinating.

I want to dispel that notion so you understand I am being dead serious right now. For one, no human mind can create something so alien and horrifying. No matter how cruel the imagination can be, that is simply beyond its capacity. My other reason why this thing is real is that I saw it grab something. It snatched a cockroach off the wall.

I saw its…Hand? Claw? Part of it. I saw part of it snag the moving bug off my wall. I’ve never felt bad for a cockroach but hearing the crunch of it being eaten was hard to hear.

Maybe it’s because I know that I’m just as helpless as it was. If this thing discovers me I know I’ll go insane and then get eaten. I don’t know why it hasn’t pulled back the curtain and seen me yet. It might be because I’ve made a concerted effort to make as little noise as possible. I’ve even been careful about letting my breathing get too loud.

I hate this. I hate feeling so vulnerable. Why did it appear to me? Why won’t it leave? What the hell does it want? Maybe it’s messing with me and knows I’m here. If that’s the case, there’s not anything I can do about it.

My other fear is what if I fall asleep and wake up thinking this was all a dream, pull aside my curtain and see it? Hell, what if it leaves my bathroom but not my house? I’d be scared to round every corner of the place I’m supposed to feel safe in. By the way, I’m intentionally keeping my description of this thing vague. Mainly because I have no clue how to describe it.

The part of it I did see was enough to induce a mild panic attack. How in the fuck am I supposed to explain what the rest of it looks like? I can’t. I just can’t. Even describing its color is difficult. It hurts to look at.

My only silver lining is that I happened to have my phone in the shower. I use it to listen to music while showering. Now, it’s the only thing that might be able to get me help. Problem is, who could possibly help me?

I can’t call the police. It’ll hear me. Even if I could, what would they be able to do? Something tells me bullets won’t do any good against this thing. Not to mention any cops that I could get over here would go insane from seeing it.

I’ve thought some kind of ritual might work. However, those require certain supplies of which I don’t have. Right now my only alternative to facing it seems to be staying in my tub and dying of hunger and thirst. That is if it never leaves. I’m hoping someone, anyone can come up with a way to help me make this thing go away.

All I wanted was a nice shower after a long day. Now I’m dealing with this so please if there is any way to make it leave forever tell me. I just want to feel safe again. If it doesn’t leave I might have to…No. I haven’t entirely given up just yet.

I’m willing to hold on as long as possible for a solution so after this post I’ll sit here in my tub, waiting for either my end or a miracle.