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Testing, investing in ra-ra birds

One day, jeremy had just woken up, he looked out the window and saw a bird.

A crazy bird.

Funnily, those birds were the reason, humanity was full on lockdown at the moment.

They were called ra-ra, because they always made those noses when they attacked.

They were violent and disgusting when they ate. Actually, watching a ra-ra bird eat, could curse you for life.

Scientist never knew what made the ra-ra birds so powerful. They had a theory that one time, in Middle Ages, witches always had a ra-ra bird.

They used their magic on them, because they enjoyed cursing people.

That's why knights were odered to kill all witches because, scientists guessed, they must've been the source of the ra-ra birds.

Anyway.

Jeremy usually got into the bright kitchen, the only good thing about it, was the sunlight, that was allowed to fly over the carpet every morning. Except from that, the kitchen was white and boring.

It had a coffee machine, since that was all, jeremy needed, and a chair and a desk.

After one massive incident, where suddenly the ra-ra birds made their first attack, they stormed down onto the humans and picked at their skin and since then, for five years already, there had been a lockdown and a new system was invented, so humans never had to leave their houses again.

Now, for a family that might seem amazing, bit for a lonely man, only cuffed to his work, no pets, no relationship, his days were all the same.

Jeremy worked from home, like every other person on the whole planet. Every morning, he made a cup of coffee and sat on his chair to look out the window.

Sometimes, a swarm of ra-ra birds flew against his window, trying to enter, wanting to curse him, as their natural instinct told them to do, and Jeremy always shuddered a bit, as they broke their skulls, flying at the super safe glass of his window.

By now, at least 30.000 dead ra-ra birds were already laying on the ground in jeremy's garden, which he hadn't been in, in years. It looked that way too.

Actually the earth underneath the dead ra-ra birds was full of worms, and they were eating the ra-ra birds from the inside out. Jeremy sometimes watched that happen.

Fortunately worms eating ra-ra birds did not curse the humans.

One time, jeremy had watched a ra-ra bird eat another ra-ra bird. It was a mess. Everything was bloody and jeremy threw up when he saw it.

That's when the curse started.

Since then he had thrown up every morning. And later on, he discovered, he was not pregnant. So it must've been the ra-ra bird curse.

The ra-ra bird curse can be anything and everything at the same time.

There once had been a young girl, who saw a ra-ra bird eating and she died on the spot. It had been on the news and on the radio all the time.

So jeremy was rather thankful to have caught such a harmless curse.

This morning, right after he had done his normalish throwing-up-concept and drank some coffee, the first ra-ra bird that morning had already watched him.

It didn't look nice. It looked as if it wanted to eat him.

Mysteriously, Jeremy was sure, one of those birds could indeed eat a human. As violent and shameless as they were.. nothing would surprise him anymore.

The ra-ra bird in front of his face, on the other side of his window, looked him right in the eye. Its eyes were black, just.

No spark, no sign of life, nothing.

Jeremy was not surprised.

And then- poof - the ra-ra bird exploded and  the just black eyes hit the window. They were pearls. Hard, unbreakable black pearls.

Jeremy opened the window, picked the two pearls up and immediately closed it again.

That was the mistake of his life.

The two pearls seemed too interesting for him to pay attention to notice all of the 30.000 dead ra-ra birds transforming into a woman.

As he finally looked up, the woman was standing inside his kitchen.

Dead.

Worms sliding out of her mouth, she walked towards him, held out her hand and jeremy felt his bodies energy trembling.

He felt too weak, too vulnerable, to interact.

Then he woke up.

The woman was gone, all the dead ra-ra birds on the ground of his garden too.

There was only one ra-ra bird sitting in front of his window. She looked at him, curiously.

He got up from the floor, made a cup of coffee, and looked back at her.

He saw its dark eyes again and passed out, his body falling limp to the floor.

A sudden sound caught him from his deep sleep.

He turned the radio on.

The government was talking about ra-ra birds that had taken over the world and changed everything. Did jeremy hear that right?

The man just said that all ra-ra birds had disappeared.

Disappeared? Forever? Jeremy was still suspicious.

He jumped out of bed and ran outside.

It was the first time in years that he breathed fresh air.

Then, a swarm of crows peacefully flew above him through the sky, from one side to another.

Butterflies, bees and ladybugs were following.

Was that it?

Five years of total lockdown over in one day?

A crow landed on his head looked down on him.

The other crows screamed their usual crow sound.

It seemed as if they were asking the crow to let jeremy alone.

As the crow answered its conspecifics.

It said "ra-ra".

The last thing, jeremy saw, was all of the just peaceful crows flying towards him, picking his skin off, before his view got black.

The ra-ra birds, once again, had manipulated Jeremy's mind. And now they had eaten him, until not a cell was left.

That's how smart ra-ra birds are. Do not trust anything. Don't even trust yourself.

That's the true ra-ra bird curse.

Jeremy trusted his state of head and look where he is now.

-The end-

Anyway, hi what's up, idk what this is, uh have fun, bye.