It all started with the hallucination.

It was a Friday, and I was fucking stoked for the weekend. I had plans with a couple of my friends, I had just got home and I was excited to just relax for an hour or so. I had recently gotten hired at a new law firm, and work was crazy tough. It's hard to impress the big leagues when you're.. not. Even worse, I had a crazy headache, and I was intensely hungry. For that reason, I went to the bathroom for some Advil, because that and Tylenol, Buckley's and NyQuil are an adult person's godsend. As I swallowed my Advil pill, I saw it. 

It looked like Slender man but completely black and much taller. And it was standing in my hallway. 

My immediate reaction was to stare at it. This cannot be real, right? I stared at it for what seemed like forever. At this point, I was thinking "Is my Advil fucking laced? Can I sue them if it's laced? How much legal compensation can I get?" Until it just.. left. It vanished. I started walking out to my living room again. Gone. It's just.. gone. 

So I must've hallucinatied, right? But that's not right. I've never hallucinatied ever. 

Because I'm stupid, I ignored this occurrence and just thought "Oh well, if it gets worse, I'll just go to a physiatrist"

I should have listened to the signs, but I didn't. And I moved on. Maybe my friends would know more about it. 

And so I put that to rest and later, I was on my way to the local bar.