It wouldn’t cease.

The buzzing, buzzing, buzzing!!!

That freaking buzzing in my ear!!!

It wouldn’t stop, it was right inside my head.

I clutched my head between my hands and screamed into my silent room.

“LEAVE ME ALONE!!!”

But the buzzing wouldn’t stop, it was right there.

Relentless.

I climbed out of bed and ran to to the bathroom, turned on the light as I blinked several times to see clearer.

I looked right into the mirror, mouth breathing on glass.

I studied my face, but there was nothing and yet the buzzing wouldn’t stop.

It was still there.

I pushed my finger into my ear, just to see if I could block it out, but then I felt something.

Something hot, really hot.

I burned my finger and yelped.

I ran it under cold water and then pinched a washcloth between my fingers.

I pushed that into my ear and felt the shape of a round object.

I pinched it and began to pull it out my ear.

As it left my ear I could see it more clearly.

A silver metal ball no bigger than a piece of polystyrene. A tiny little ball.

It came out with difficulty and I realised it was attatched to something long and stringy.

It was attratched to wires.

The buzzing turned into a screech now.

As if the ball was telling me to leave it be.

But I can’t!!!

It shouldn’t be there!!!

I yank it out with extreme force and…

My eyes slowly open to a dark red light.

I look around but I can’t move.

My body is stiff, heavy like someone is sitting on it.

I blink and a million different dots appear in my line of vision.

They turn to dashes, then to lines, and then to letters.

The letters become words and I can read them.

•System Compromised - - Commencing Power Saving Mode - - Directive 011010100110•

They make no sense, but it’s all I can see.

I read them over and over as I notice my eye beginning twitch and then my fingers.

Before I know it my eyes are closing again and the sound of the buzzing is gone now, instead it’s replaced with a long deep bleep. A ringing in my ear.