Final

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING! IT GETS A LITTLE INTENSE NEAR THE END AND MAY CAUSE CONTROVERSY! ⚠️

Giving in to temptation, I dug my spoon into its soft interior and brought it up to my lips. It singed my tongue but the burst of flavor was like nothing I had ever tasted. And as I ate more and more of it, I was thrown into a world of euphoria. Eyeing the cook book beside me, I decided to flip through more of it, ready to try more flavors. Stuffing my face, I flipped to the end of the book, noticing a note made out in big bold red letters.

DEAR COSTUMER, I HOPE YOU WERE PLEASED BY OUR BOOK AND IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU HAVE EITHER CHOSEN YOU’RE FATE OR HAVE READ THIS TOO LATE. BUT BY WILLINGLY CONSUMING MY CHILDREN, YOU HAVE ACCEPTED AND HAVE ALREADY BEGUN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A HOST AND ALLOWED FOR US TO TAKE OVER YOUR BODY. SINCE WE ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO TAKE THE HOST OF A WILLING PARTICIPANT, WE WHOLE HEARTEDLY THANK YOU AS YOU HAVE FORFEITED YOUR LIVES TO US, PLEASE ENJOY YOUR LAST MEAL!

I chocked on a piece of pie, stunned by what I had just read. My body went rigid and as I turned to look at the pie, I wasn’t expecting for it to return my gaze.

I watched with apprehension as it moved its lips and a voice so raspy, sounding like it was the first time it had ever spoke, filled the silent air around me. “E-Eat… m-me. ” It stumbled for a few more seconds, repeating the words until it came out more natural.

“Why?” My voice quivered and my hand shook as I tried to fight for control over my limbs, trying to stop it from shoving more pie into my mouth. I wanted to gag, puke, anything to keep from ingesting more.

“Simply because…” It continued, its voice becoming stronger with each bite I took. “…You h-humans are impaired and your thinking is chaotic. T~this world is the only one lavishing and all you d~do is stuff this beautiful world with unwanted ingredients.” It’s voice began to gain emotion, melting into that of hatred and disgust. “You’ve layered this world with red icing, adding hatred and racism as the cherry on top.”

As it spoke, my hand aggressively kept stuffing more of that thing into my mouth. No matter how sick I felt, I couldn’t stop. Please be a nightmare! Please be a nightmare! I begged, hoping and praying I’d wake up.

“N~Not all of us are like that, p-please… ” I begged through the mushy paste in my mouth, feeling that if this weren’t a dream, I could at least convince it to let me go.

“Even so, it’s too much of a hassle to find those diamonds in a rough, It’s much easier if we just took over…” It made an awkward smile as it watched me slowly devour it with a satisfied glint in its eye. “…When you’re done, the process will be complete and I will become you and we will be one. My people have watched and studied how you’re kind has tarnished this worlds value and how cruel and crooked you people become out of boredom and we can’t keep watching as you allow history to continue to repeat itself! The innocents will be screwed over anyways… so why not end it here?…” It paused, its eyes looked as if it were lost in thought. “You humans have a saying… don’t you?”

For some reason I nodded, as if knowing exactly what it was about to say. And I did, feeling myself slipping away and becoming apart of it. My lips moved on its own “…One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” A smile I couldn’t control spread across my face and an uncontrollable laughter borrowed deep within me, bellowed from my lungs as I took my last bite.