It really seemed like ages since the last time he threw up. It always took so long. Bending over and waiting for at least 10 minutes just before his knees became all sore, he threw up as if it was all he could do. Actually it was.

Maybe the clean up wasn’t too bad. Just press on the lever and it automatically flushes for you. But the sight of seeing all his works being turned and twisted and finally sucked under an unimaginable hole killed his interest. Was it interesting though? The light-headedness from getting up also helps.

Ted’s apartment was filled with aggressive neighbours. One day you leave your glove outside and the next day it’s gone. There were rules behind it though. Ted just never figured them out. Or even tried to. It didn’t make sense.

His CD collections had been just about his favourite possession in his room. He played them over and over again, every day. It probably didn’t seem like much. But who knows nowadays. No one buys CD’s anymore. All the mp3’s you can download for free are there waiting for you. Yet he treasured those precious disks. No body would probably take them. Not that they seemed cheap, but even the aggressive ones empasized with him.

Yet someone took them. Ted’s obsession with them diluted his mind. He could barely count, move, or listen properly. He found out about his missing CD’s. That jackass took the best ones. In fact, all that he cared. He went through his building, checking each apartment closely when no one was home. He couldn’t find his darlings. The normally straight-forward hallways of the three-story building now seemed like a messy spiral highway full of speed bumps.

Frustration. Madness. Despair.

He could imagine his CD’s playing his old-fashioned 90’s CD player that took a stand in the center of his room. He could imagine putting them in, pushing down the disk covers, and click the play button. He could imagine the music, the original soundtracks that had never felt so alive. Yet it was only imagination. And after that, it only seemed to push him lower.

To be continued.