All Chapters of Ear Phones On: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

They say that I am a completely different person when I am on my earphones. Walking back and forth, pretending I am performing in front of ten thousand individuals. When I hear my heart thump, I know already that he is watching me. It is even weirder that whenever I put my earphones on and, that scenario comes in. My eyes always witness how the walls cave in. Upon creating this whole new universe, I knew that it would be hard for me to identify which is real and which is not, but I want to escape reality and create my plot. My life right now is like pressing the ESC button one hundred times just to remove this unwanted program in my life. Maybe I have been programmed to be tethered in this surreal universe where I am the main character, and I can control everything, and I am just like, "Yeah, this is what I want." When in fact, I am the puppet. There is a resemblance between my life and earphones. One cable splits into two – one left one right. At first glance, my life is a straigh

  Fighting the temptation to use my earphones is not new to me while tutoring. The stress of making sure he gets the topic is a challenge. Theo’s parents did not hire me. I have been doing this for the rest of my 12th grade because of one incident. I called him a douchebag in the cafeteria last month when he cut the old earphones that I bought using the pennies that I collected. At that time, I wanted to earn money to satisfy my needs because my aunt stopped giving me allowances. Theo grabbed me by the arm and he brought me to the old bathroom. He made a deal and confessed that he did it because he wanted me to be his tutor due to my academic ranking here in Crestview. I asked him why he had to cut my earphones and his reply made me laugh. He said that it was the only way to get the attention of a psycho. To ruin things? He was wrong, if you ruin a property of a psycho, they would let your taste your own medicine. I did not accept the deal immediately and it took me

  Auggie let me stay in their house. He bought me some new clothes and shoes. I couldn't refuse because I don't want to go back to my aunt's house. He told me that I could stay for as long as I want, but I am planning to find a new place if I had enough money already. I couldn't believe that Auggie and I go to the same school. I have never seen him in Crestview before. The day when we wore the same earphones. I felt a strong connection. Upon hearing the instrumental music, the walls suddenly turned into trees. We were in the forest part of The Yarn. You could feel the serenity as the wind caresses your skin and the sunlight illuminates your face. He brought me to a willow tree, and we spent the whole day there. We talked about our lives and our experiences. He mentioned this tiny dot that acts as a black hole. It is tiny, but it has the maw of a voracious animal. The Dot seems like the antagonist in our universe. It gets bigger and bigger until it devours you and separ

  I made the wrong choice, leaving him all alone in that place, crying his pain out. I don't have a face to show, so I did not go to their house. I went to the abandoned children's park. They say the place is creepy and there is this ghost of a little girl swinging, appearing at the time of 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm. Legend says that she died around that time. She was killed by a serial killer. Upon arriving at that place, I felt a sudden rush of wind and the smell of wild berries piled up in my nose. I sat on the rusty swing, hoping that it wouldn’t break. I kept looking at the swing beside me, making sure that the little girl is not swinging with me. But if she appears, it would be great so that I could talk with her, telling her that everything will be okay. I just sat there for about an hour with my earphones on, listening to a podcast about life. What does life mean for me? I am in the cycle of falling to my rock-bottom to climbing the highest mountain and falling and c

  "Are you ready?" Auggie asked.  "Yes," I replied. We used the same earphones and entered The Yarn. "Did you notice something different?" I asked. Something was wrong, we were in the woods, and it was my first time to see a cliff. There was no cliff in that part of The Yarn before. "Maybe the Dot did it." We went near it, and it was not a cliff, but it was a sinkhole. "Oh my goodness," I muttered. I couldn’t believe it. The Yarn was untangling itself. "We have to go," Auggie uttered. You could clearly see the trees falling down across the hole. It was getting wider and wider, and it was devouring everything. "We have to stop it Auggie. This is my home and I don't want to let the Dot ruin everything." He pulled me away from the hole when a crack suddenly emerged. We stayed far from it. "Please," I begged. "We will stop the Dot together." He hugged me and tried to comfort me, but I was still worried that I won't be able to enter again. I feel wea