The Alarm

The Alarm

         By: Drake Basile

“Beep,Beep Beep!” His alarm went off.

Desmond looked at his phone. The time was  3:30 am, the alarm name was “Take”

Desmond was too tired to care, so he just ignored it and went to sleep. He woke up and looked at his phone again and it was 7:00 am, he made breakfast and went to school. When he got home he put his bag down and turned on the TV, all the sudden a news report said “Breaking news! A very dangerous serial killer escaped from Dr. Harrison’s correctional treatment mental asylum center, if you see this man (Picture of person) report to local police station”

“Better stay on the watch for that.” Desmond said to himself

But Desmond was not that worried about it, so he moved on and focused on his priorities. Later, Desmond made a turkey dinner for himself, he only ate half of it so he wrapped up the other half and put it in the fridge for later. He finished all of his work so he went on his phone for awhile, then turned it on silent and fell asleep. “Beep, Beep, Beep!” His alarm went off.

“Again?” he said to himself.

The time was 3:00am and the alarm name was “A.”

After Desmond woke up he looked at his phone and opened the alarm app. A sense of creepiness trickled through his body, because he had never set an alarm on his phone and there were no recent alarms set. He went to school that day very on edge, when he got home he took a shower and noticed that some of his shampoo was gone. “I'm probably just running out, i'll just buy some more” he thought to himself.

Desmond went to the store, and bought some more things. On his way home from the grocery store he saw the apple store and wanted to stop there because his phone alarm is glitching. He talked to an employee and they told him “Sir, your phone is completely fine, there is nothing wrong with it.”

 

He was very confused on his way home. He ate dinner then went to bed. Before he fell asleep he powered his phone down so an alarm could not go off. “Beep, Beep, Beep!” Desmond's alarm went off.

It was 3 am and the alarm kept going off, he took a screenshot of the alarm. The name of the alarm was “Peak.”

That morning after Desmond woke up he looked in his camera roll, there was no screenshot of the alarm from that morning. He knew something was wrong, but he tried to ignore it. He turned his TV on to try to help him ignore everything, but suddenly another news broadcast popped up. It was about the insane killer that escaped, they said “Traces of the killer have been found and he may be hiding in The town of Maywin”

“Holy crap, I live in Maywin!” Desmond said nervously to himself

He locked all of his doors, turned a light on, then he went to his room and he peaked out of his window for extra precaution. He couldn't sleep well that night, he was very nervous. After he fell asleep, and the next thing he heard was “Beep, Beep, Beep!”

Desmond's alarm clock went off, It was 3:00am and the name of the alarm clock was “Under”

Desmond didn’t even try to get a screenshot this time because he knew it was pointless. That morning desmond was late to school. When he was in class he was spacing out because he could not stop thinking about the phone, the crazy person who escaped, the name of the alarms, and many other weird things that were crossing his mind. After class, he left and was on his way home, there was lots of traffic. Desmond was very creeped out about the recent weird activities that are happening to him. He stopped at MCdonalds because he was very hungry, but he didn't finish it so he decided to put it in the fridge for later. After his long stressful day he was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to sleep. Before Desmond went to sleep, he placed his phone in is kitchen so if it went off it could not wake him. Then he went to sleep, “Beep,Beep,Beep!” Desmond woke up.

Right next to Desmond was his phone, not only has it moved but it was 3:00am and the alarm name was “Your.”

Desmond was mad. So mad that he went downstairs and threw his phone in his basement. He went back to sleep, very annoyed. He woke up without his phone going off, then went downstairs and found that the phone is still there but with no sign of an alarm going off. Desmond started to think a lot more about the alarms and then was shocked. He quickly grabbed a piece of paper and a pen and started to write out all of the alarms in order, “Take, A, peek, Under, Your” he kept saying “Take a peek under your” he has never been that scared before.

He kept writing down ideas of what could be next and filled up the page, He was going to be late to school so he left everything hoping to get back to it. He was not focusing on his class work because he was very paranoid and he got behind on it. Desmond got home after his boring day and remembered about the paper so he walked towards it. He looked at it and saw that one of them was circled. “Bed” he said

“Take a peek under your bed” Desmond said to himself.

He grabbed a knife and had 911 ready to call, He started walking up the stairs to his room and he yelled “I have the cops on their way and i have a knife and i would come out with peace if i were you!” Nothing happened.

He slowly and cautiously opened his door, he checked his surroundings and it looked clear, He slowly bent down to look under his bed. Desmond's heart was pounding out of his chest. Nothing was there, he just thinks this whole thing is a joke, “somebody's just messing with me!” He said to himself.

He took 3 sleeping pills because he knew he would not be able to sleep, “Beep, Beep,Beep!” is all he hears.

Desmond sprints down stairs and doesn't even think twice about it. He calls the cops and get a knife, He turned the lights on and yells “I got the cops coming!”

But suddenly “BAM!” the power goes out.

Desmond is hearing footsteps and crazy laughing, he sprints out of his house as fast as he can. He runs into the street and saw the cops coming. He waved his arms for them to come, they got there and quickly got into the house. Desmond chose to stay outside even tho it's very cold out. Suddenly he heard gunshots in his house. “Officer down, i repeat officer down” he heard on the radio

He terrifyingly waited outside for a couple of more minutes. His front door opens and 3 cops come outside with someone handcuffed. They got into the light and Desmond recognized he handcuffed person from something. “Missing Fugitive found, send backup in” he heard from the police radio.

Desmond was talking to one of the police officers and they told him that the insane criminal has done this 5 times to different people, and that he has gotten charged over 4 times. Desmond felt safer when they left, so he went back to sleep. The next day he got everything back to normal so he had no trouble falling asleep. “Beep, Beep, Beep!” Desmond woke up

He looked at his phone and it said “Goodbye”

“There has been a murder reported in Maywin on 530 sharlin view, time of incident “ 3:00 am” The police microphone then shut off.