Nina

So my brother went to college and then I went to college two years later.

And when I went to college my freshman year, my mom sold our childhood house and moved into like a high rise downtown.

So I would stay with her when I went back.

But since it's like a high rise downtown, it was, you know, close quarters.

And me and my mom love her, but I don't know, at that age, I feel like a lot of like mother, it just, we got on each other's nerves.

Like a lot of times when I would come back to visit, I would be staying at my mom's, but I would like hang out at my dad's because my dad was on tour a lot.

So he was never home.

So that house was just empty and I like wanted personal space.

So I would just go like hang out at my dad's, watch TV.

whatever, and then go back to my mom's to sleep because I wasn't going to sleep at my dad's alone because that place is fucking scary.

So I'm back from college for a weekend.

I think I was like 19 or 20, probably.

Like I said, my dad was on tour.

His house was empty.

So I was like, all right, I'm just going to go.

sit there and watch TV or do whatever I was going to do.

So I went over there during the day and it started to become like evening.

I think this is around like sun going down.

I'm sitting on the couch watching TV and like also on my laptop, like really just not paying attention.

And I look up and just like glance into the kitchen and I see this woman standing there in the kitchen just staring at me.