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THE LAST VOICE
<p>There are things people do warn you about.</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't answer knocks at midnight.</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't whistle after dark.</p><p><br/></p><p>Don't look back when someone calls your name from an empty road.</p><p><br/></p><p>But no one ever tells you this...</p><p><br/></p><p>Never trust the last voice you hear before you fall asleep.</p><p><br/></p><p>I used to think those few seconds between being awake and dreaming belonged to silence.</p><p><br/></p><p>Turns out I was wrong.</p><p>Then it started......</p><p><br/></p><p>The first night...</p><p>It whispered my name.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not loudly.</p><p>Not like someone trying to wake me.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just enough for me to wonder if I imagined it.</p><p><br/></p><p>The second night...</p><p><br/></p><p>It finished my sentence before I did.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then the third...</p><p><br/></p><p>It answered a question I had only asked in my head.</p><p><br/></p><p>That's when I stopped sleeping with the lights off.</p><p><br/></p><p>Though people say loneliness can make you hear things.</p><p><br/></p><p>Stress can too.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe.</p><p><br/></p><p>But stress doesn't know your childhood nickname.</p><p><br/></p><p>Loneliness doesn't laugh exactly the way your late grandmother did.</p><p><br/></p><p>And imagination...</p><p><br/></p><p>Imagination shouldn't know what someone is about to say before they say it.</p><p><br/></p><p>So I started asking around.</p><p><br/></p><p>Carefully.</p><p><br/></p><p>Without sounding insane.</p><p><br/></p><p>An old woman looked at me for a long time before asking,</p><p><br/></p><p>"Has it started talking before you sleep... or after you wake?"</p><p><br/></p><p>I didn't answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because I didn't know.</p><p><br/></p><p>Some mornings I couldn't remember where the dream ended...</p><p><br/></p><p>...and where the voice began.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then yesterday, it said something different.</p><p><br/></p><p>It didn't call my name.</p><p><br/></p><p>It didn't whisper.</p><p><br/></p><p>It simply said—</p><p><br/></p><p>"You're almost ready to hear the last one."</p><p><br/></p><p>So lost right now......</p><p><br/></p><p>I don't know what "the last one" means.</p><p><br/></p><p>I don't know whose voice I've been hearing.</p><p><br/></p><p>But tonight...</p><p><br/></p><p>For the first time...</p><p><br/></p><p>I'm afraid to fall asleep.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because what if the last voice...</p><p><br/></p><p>...isn't trying to wake me?</p><p><br/></p><p>Just what if ......</p><p><br/></p><p>What if it's waiting for everyone else to stop hearing me?</p>
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