User blog:TheTremonster/Writing in Progess

Around 2012 I had visited my friend Ryan's house; he lived in Denver at the time. I brought my laptop as the battery was going down way faster than it should have, which meant I always had to keep it plugged in, which was becoming a problem. Ryan told me he could fix it so I'd figure I would let him give it a shot. As I pulled into his driveway I had noticed that his motorcycle was missing. I got out of my car and with the laptop and walked up to his front door. I knocked on it a few times, nothing. I remembered Ryan didn't have the best hearing so I rang the doorbell. No response. I have a bad habit of overreacting to people at the door so I began to bang as hard as I could.

Finally a voice came from inside. “Jesus Mark, I’m coming for Christ’s sake.” I proceeded to calm down and stand there waiting for him to open the door. Finally he opened the door. Ryan looked as though he had only just woken up; it was strange as I was talking to him that morning and he sounded fine. Ryan nodded his head inwards to indicate I should come in.

“Alright so that damn laptop, hand it over.” Ryan said motioning me to hand him the laptop. I handed it over and he carried it into his room. I tried to follow but he stopped me at the door of his room.

“What I can’t see you fix my laptop?” I asked Ryan sarcastically. Ryan was not pleased at all. It was starting to piss me off at this point.

“No, I got shit in here I don’t want you seeing.” Ryan said in a displeased tone. He entered his room and shut the door.

“Do you have a body in there or something?” I yelled at the door. I stepped back and tried to calm myself down again. I walked over to his couch and sat down. I was just as displeased at this point as he was. I decided that if he was going to be a dick at least I’d get a soda out of it. I headed over to the fridge, which only had two Cokes and a few odds and ends that I knew he would never eat or use. Now I became worried. I walked over to the door again and listened carefully. There were no sounds beyond the shuffling of computer parts.

“Hey, Ryan, everything okay with you?” I asked through the door.

Ryan took a few seconds to respond. “Yeah. Why?” He said in displeased tone.

“Well I just noticed your fridge is empty and you aren’t acting like yourself. I was just wondering if something had happened.” I yelled back through the door.

“Nothing has happened, it’ll be a few more minutes till I’m done, you can mess around on my computer if you want.” Ryan said through the door in response. I was a little bit weirded out; he seemed to be a lot more emotionless when he talked now. I decided to mess around on his computer and then leave the moment he was done with my laptop. I didn’t even know if I should take my laptop.

“Alright, thanks.” I said walking away from the door. I sat down at his computer desk and started messing around on his computer. I began just going on the Internet and not really doing anything. It had been about ten minutes and I began to get bored of that. I decided to see what he had on his computer. There was nothing on the desktop so I decided to check the common folders all computers have. I checked his videos folder, then his music folder, then his documents folder, and then finally his pictures folder.

As I opened up the pictures folder, I noticed that it only had two folders, the ‘Sample Pictures’ folder and a ‘Godsmile’ folder. I clicked on the Godsmile folder and there was only one thing inside. It was a program call ‘Godsmile.exe’. I had read that Sonic.exe folder and that this could mean nothing good. I closed out of the folder and walked away from the desk. After about five minutes of standing there Ryan came out with my laptop.

“Alright, should be good now.” Ryan said as he handed me my laptop. I stood there and inspected it to see if there was any damage.

“Alright, thanks man. I need to leave, something came up.” I said motioning towards the door. Ryan smiled and nodded his head. It was incredibly creepy.

“I understand Mark, hope your laptop works.” Ryan said still smiling. My eyes widened and I hurried towards the door.

“Thanks, see you later.” I said as I walked out the door and ran to my car. I threw the laptop to the passenger’s seat and put on my seatbelt and left. I was definitely going over the speed limit in the first few minutes driving away from his house. I knew that ‘Godsmile.exe’ had to be apart of why Ryan was acting so strange.

When I arrived home I sat on my couch with my laptop in my lap. I opened it up to find it was already on, in fact I was signed in and everything. It was just a black screen but when I shook the mouse around an image of a man smiling came up. He looked pretty normal. I tried to find some way to close out of it but nothing worked, not even Ctrl-Alt-Delete. I tried shutting the laptop down but even then it would do anything. It was stuck on the man smiling. I knew instantly what this was, this was that ‘Godsmile.exe’ I saw on his computer.

I freaked out, I moved as far away from that laptop as possible. But then, suddenly it just closed. The picture closed and everything was fine.

This story is not finished, I will actually post it when it is.