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I woke up today with the disc still looping. I had a headache so I took the headphones off and went to the window to make sure no light could get in to make my headache worse. I was hungry. Around my room were a few empty boxes of microwave noodles from the past few days, but no leftovers, so I ate some of the snacks I had bought at the shops. NES and Max spat their hateful static at me and threatened the burning and grinding.

Max told me I should just get it over with before someone interrupted me again, like yesterday. I was sick of him. I went to the drawer with the knife and locked it, then hurled the key under my bed. I told Max that I didn’t need him and that I would smash him to bits if he didn’t shut up. He buzzed and whirred at me angrily for a while. He didn’t try to convince me to kill myself again, but he kept making threats every so often and so did NES. I worked on my music for the rest of the day and went to bed with my latest track playing in my headphones.

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