1 A Strange Cat and Hole

Kring kring kring!!!!!!!

An alarm sound ringing in a small but nice apartment. One long arm picking up the alarm to shut it down.

No further movement from this long arm guy after shut down the alarm, he did open his eyes but they're slowly closed again as he back to sleeping state.

Oh ma ma my....!!! Oh ma ma my....!!!!

This time, it is his phone's ringing.

"Hewo..."

"Oh, goodness...Jio!!! You have a photoshoot today!!!"a shouting voice can be heard from across, it his manager.

"Emm...I know....I will be there soon," he sleepily answers.

Jio is a freelance model, his careers is actually very smooth in modelling. Compare with those who work hard to be able to set their foot on the modelling world, Jio is a lucky guy.

Well, he is a hardworking guy too but combined with his luck, it's became a combo.

"Jio. Hello there...JIO!!! I WILL HIT YOUR PHONE UP IF YOU DIDN'T SHOW YOU FACE HERE IN 15 MINUTES!!!"

tut.....tut....tut..... the end of the call.

Not even those shouting can wakes Jio up from his bed but to think about his new phone being hit by his manager is hurting him.

Slowly get down from the bed and walks to the bathroom and get prepared to go to the photoshoot location.

Walking to his car on the parking lot, he saw a cat, a white cat disappeared behind the wall that separated the apartment building and the empty building next to the apartments.

Not only the cat stealing his attention but also a small circle hole which appears like new on that wall.

"Since when is that hole there? Are they going to have any construction work on that empty building now? that will be a pain in ass if they'd" Jio speeding his car away from the apartment.

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arriving at the location, Jio almost get scold by his manager. Luckily there's no much time left for the preparation so the manager just handing him out to the stylish on the set.

During the shoot, Jio catches a furry white cat looking up from outside the window.

"Wait... that's the cat I saw this morning right? But no way, this is the way too far for a cat to walks, but it does looks similar" Jio gathered back his focus on the work and ignore that cat.

The photoshoot end earlier than it scheduled, the manager is no longer mad at Jio because Jio and other models look really tired after almost 6 hours.

"Want to grab some food before going home?" the manager man asking as Jio comes out from changing room

"Sure, let's go with other" Jio just agreed with the offering, and they are heading to the nearby restaurants to eat. 

While waiting for their foods, some playing games on their phone, some just having chit-chatting

"Oh, do you guys saw a white cat outside the window during our photoshoot?" Jio remembered the cat again.

"What cat? I only see a spider on the corner of the room today" one of his friends answer.

"hm... or maybe you guys couldn't see it from where you stood, you know, my position is the closest to the window" Jio touching his blue coloured hair

"That's also possible but why are you talking about the cat now?" 

"No...just...I think I saw the same type of cat near my apartment this morning. Just forget it...our foods are coming," Jio end the talks.

Everyone enjoyed the foods and leaving one by one. Jio and the manager are the last to leave, bid their goodbyes to each other and going separately.

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Jio takes his belongings on the back seat and get out of his car. Locking the car doors with an automatic key while walking to the apartment big door.

Meow! 

The cat sound coming from the top of the wall, Jio spontaneously looking at the direction and spot that white cat

"Hi there...You surely make me believe that I saw you in different place today...kind like magic huh? Go...Have a rest" Jio talks to the cat before entering the apartments building but then he steps pausing?

"Huh? Where the hole now?" Jio checks on the wall from a far. He searching on where he spotted the hole this morning but like a magic, it not there anymore.

"What happened with me today..." Jio takes off his shoes and lay down as soon as reach the couch.

Need only 5 minutes for Jio to fall asleep.

Brukkk!!! 

Jio fell from the couch but suddenly he realised that he is not in the living room of his apartment anymore and that's confusing him.

"It must be in my dream," he thought.

just right after he monologues, a cat jump from the inside hole he saw today and clawing on Jio's left arm and it cause a little bleeding.

"Eh? Why it hurt like it a real one?"he touches the wound and it still stings

Jio look at the cat and the cat is staring back at him. 

Just now, Jio couldn't remember that is the same cat he saw near his apartment today.

"You're hurting me?!" Jio talks to the cat

"Why are you so stupid?" the cat talks back.

Jio step back in flash after hearing the cat talking. Not over the shocking state, Jio brace himself to ask again

"You...you can talk? Are you even real? I know this is just a dream right?" 

the cat walk away and say "Just watch your back...Those monsters will come again." 

Unconsciously Jio follows the cat.

"What monsters? Can I just let them kill me so that I can wake up from this dream?

the cat stops and turn around to Jio

"That's why I call you stupid...well then...you can do whatever you want, just stop following me now!" 

that warning makes Jio stopped his steps and just watching the cat walk away.

"It's not even a human but why it voice sound so manly" Jio murmuring and look around.

The view he sees is totally far from word normal, the sky colour gray and there are strange clouds hanging on the sky, those clouds colour is darker than usual ones you see during rainy or cloudy weather and therefore, he didn't see a single person yet.

Continuing his walk, Jio started to get stress. It's almost a half day he walked and nobody can be seen on the street.

"it just a normal city, well except for those dark strange clouds but where is the people? I hate this kind of dream...how to wake me up from this" Jio sits on an empty bench 

from far away, someone is coming to his way, running.

"Oh hi. Finally, a person" Jio gets up and waving to that person.

just then Jio realised it, there are something behind that person chasing after him.

"RUNNNN!!!!! YOU STUPID DUMB!!! RUNN!!!!"that person shouting while running away from those creatures behind him.

All those creatures height is around 2 meters and their bulky dark bodies with flaming eyes and sharp teeth is ready to kill anything with living soul inside them. 

Their big build makes them unable to move freely but once they caught you, they'll never let you go before you die. 

Jio can feel that running guy hand reaching his wounded arm and pulling him to run together.

"Hey... don't drag me like this...hey!"Jio tried to shake off his arm from this guy clutch but he kept running fast until they reach a big house.

"Uncle Ho!! It's me Yoka!! Open the door faster!!"this guy shouting in front of the big door

krekkk! the door open

"faster!! Come in!!" Uncle Ho pulling them in and hurriedly closes the door again.

Unstable breathing can be heard from both Jio and Yoka.

While catching his breathe, Jio wandering his eyes around this big house and his eyes catches that one furry white cat sleeping in the basket.

"That's the talking cat I met before right?" Jio monologue in his head "Why is he here? Where the hell I'm I actually?".

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