Sophie sat nervously at the restaurant, checking her watch every few minutes. She had been set up on a blind date with a man named David, and she was already regretting it. He was over an hour late, and she was starting to feel foolish for sitting there alone.
Just as she was about to get up and leave, David arrived. He looked disheveled, with wild hair and dark circles under his eyes. He apologized profusely and explained that he had been caught up in a work emergency.
As they began to talk, Sophie started to feel a connection with David. He was funny and charming, and she found herself forgetting about his tardiness. They talked about their interests, their families, and their dreams for the future.
As they ate their entrees, David excused himself to go to the bathroom. When he returned, he looked even more frazzled than before.
"Sophie, we have to leave," he said urgently. "I'll explain on the way."
Sophie was confused but followed David out of the restaurant. They got into his car, and he sped off without explanation.
"David, what's going on?" Sophie asked, growing increasingly alarmed.
David didn't answer but kept driving, weaving through traffic and running red lights. Sophie felt a pit in her stomach, wondering if she was in danger.
Finally, they pulled up to a dilapidated old house on the outskirts of town. David rushed Sophie inside and locked the door behind them.
"Sophie, I need your help," he said, his voice shaking. "I've been working on a project, and I think it's gone wrong. I need someone to help me fix it before it's too late."
Sophie was confused but felt a surge of compassion for David. She followed him into a back room, where he had set up a makeshift laboratory.
As David began to explain his experiment, Sophie's head started to spin. She couldn't follow most of what he was saying, but she could tell that he was deeply invested in it.
Suddenly, there was a loud explosion, and the room was filled with smoke. Sophie coughed and stumbled to her feet, looking for David. She found him lying on the ground, unconscious.
Sophie panicked, not knowing what to do. She fumbled for her phone, but it was dead. She realized that they were completely alone, with no way to call for help.
As she knelt beside David, she noticed something strange. He had a strange, otherworldly aura about him, and his body was changing shape before her eyes. It was like nothing she had ever seen before.
Sophie was terrified but knew she had to act fast. She dragged David's body out of the house and into his car, speeding to the nearest hospital.
The doctors worked on David for hours, but it was no use. He had suffered fatal injuries in the explosion, and there was nothing they could do to save him.
Sophie was devastated. She couldn't believe that the man she had just met had been taken from her so suddenly.
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As she sat in the hospital waiting room, she couldn't help but wonder what David had been working on. She had seen things that defied explanation, things that seemed impossible.
Sophie knew that she would never find the answers she was looking for, but she couldn't shake the feeling that David's experiment had been far more sinister than he had let on. She felt like she had stumbled into something she was never meant to see, and it had cost her dearly.
In the end, Sophie never found out what David had been working on, but the memory of that tragic date haunted her for the rest of her life. She became broken.
Sophie didn't go into a hole she didn't emerge from for three whole years. When she finally decided to return to civilization, she decided to start at her favorite park.
She had been sitting on the bench for 15mins, staring into the nothingness of the vast blue sky when a shadow seems to loom over her. She didn't want to care. That didn't stop this fellow from breaking her from her trance state. "Hello miss, aren't you looking good?" he asked.
Without so much as a word, she responded, 'Don't see how it is your business.' "Are you so sure about that? Because I don't think you are. I mean, I know you are not for a fact, despite your best effort at that face.... Daisy".
The world started spinning at the speed of light as she was feeling lightheaded. The only person who had ever called her that was David. She slowly guided her eyes toward this frame of a man, and there he was; David or something like that. She wouldn't know for sure, because she woke up in the hospital two weeks later.