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It had been an early Saturday morning, the kind of morning in which the mourning dove could faintly be heard cooing from a tree it chose to perch upon and the morning sun slowly rising to shine it’s light across the land.
You’d decided to lounge around in the living room of your decently sized abode, located in the suburbs but not too far from the city yet not too close, it was just right in your opinion. For now you decided to pick up on a little doodle you had been doing just the night before, the silence of your living space had made you a little bit anxious so you’d settle on grabbing the remote to your Tv and leave a show running as some background noise to help keep you at bay.
To your curiosity the Tv had shown a bright array of colors ranging from a bright blue sky filled with cute little white clouds to some very green grass littered with colorful flowers, but despite this those weren’t the things that caught your eye, it had been those adorably made puppets to which all had their own thing interesting about them. The first one that had a closeup on screen was a darling little puppet, yellow colored felt with navy blue hair that had been styled into a pompadour, they’d been occupied with a painting as a red splotch of paint covered most of their cheek, small smirk on their features as they hummed slightly but very concentrated on the painting before them.
Smiling fondly at the show, it somehow made you feel nostalgic and reminiscent of your younger years where your only concern had been getting home in time to watch the newest episode of your favorite show, the good ol’ times as you would put it. Finally breaking gaze from the screen you’d go back to your drawing as well, giggling a little bit as you’d felt similar to the blue haired fellow you saw just a second ago, leaving your current drawing of a blue jay bird unfinished you’d flip the page of the sketchbook and began your new journey of drawing the unnamed puppet.
It had only been a few minutes but you finished a rough sketch of the puppet, looking back up at the Tv to compare the two but you were only met with a big blue dog who seemed to be eating a hotdog with…interesting condiments atop, looking back down to your drawing you sighed as you’d continue to complete it, adding more specific details onto it and just waited, something about that specific character made you drawn to them and it wasn’t as thought provoking but nonetheless it made you a little bit more curious.
‘Jeez am I really obsessing over a children’s show? I should get out more often…’ You thought to yourself as you snickered a little bit at your strange antics, maybe you should actually get out more often? But I mean who could even blame you? This life was as cozy as it could get, you were content with how things seemed to be going so far, laying down your pencil you’d look back up at the Tv in hopes to see your muse for the artistic drawing and in your favor there he was!
“Hello neighbor, I’m finally finished up with my painting, do you like it? Isn’t it just the most!” The pompadour adorning puppet spoke as he turned a piece of paper with an Apple drawn onto it, you gave a small grin as you credited yourself for doing such a good drawing despite having little reference as the yellow puppet had barely been on the screen. Finally tuning into the show you grinned at the silliness of the show presented before you, but the more you payed attention to more uneasy you felt, it was a small and slight feeling, only ever happing when that puppets gaze seemed to linger longer than it should’ve, staring right through you, almost as if it could actually see you and was just simply observing you from the inside the Tv.
“I really should get out more…”