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Wait, static from my TV?

I slowly rolled over and looked at ht at the bottom left was lit, but the picture was near black and the faint fuzz of static warped around the corners of the screen

That was odd Why was the TV on? I had only watched TV downstairs withup here for days

I was reaching over for the remote on the bedside table when the TV suddenly lit up with the grey and black static of a lost signal

It reeist My heart hammered loudly in my chest

I aimed the remote at the TV and quickly pressed the off button

Nothing happened

I pressed it again, ai happened The static grew louder and the outline of a wo, jagged black, white and grey lines

I couldn’t rey tubes that were lips They

This…was not good

I got out of bed and approached the TV as if it were a skittish deer, keeping the remote aimed precisely at the off/on button I pressed it repeatedly as I approached the screen, but to no avail I was going to have to turn it off by hand

I was right up against the screen,for the physical button on the bottom left corner when the facescreen The lips opened

"Perry!" the face on the TV screamed

I screa

The TV screa out of the speakers

I quickly lunged for the back of the unit, taking the power cord init out of the wal

"Help ain, in a voice not unlike ed in anymore But it stil screa it open, taking off down the dark hal way that was only lit by the nightlight by the bathrooht for Ada’s room, ripped open her half-shut door and jumped into bed with her

"Ada!" I cried out in the darkness, putting my arms around her "My television is possessed!"

I paused after I said that Ada didn’t feel like Ada She felt… leathery Beneath the sheets, so hard and cold and pointed flicked s

"Ada?" I whispered in horror, an unbearable feeling rising up inshuddered, as if it were laughing

The rough protrusion stroked ht went on and I was blinded into a sea of yel ohite

"What the hel ?"

I squinted at the direction of the voice and saw the blurry shape of Ada standing by her door, one hand on the light switch, the other at her chest, clutching her pajama shirt

"Oh ?"

I looked down at where I was on her bed I was holding her pil ows in my arms

"I don’t know I…my TV…it came on…"

"So did the TV downstairs"

I sat up straight as she caner pajales,that just happened

"I woke up because I heard the TV turn on from downstairs I don’t know if it was always on or what You turned it off when you and ht?"

I nodded "Yeah, I remember But my TV just turned on now too"

She calmed down as we rehashed our stories I wish I could say the same about me I was fixated on the fact that I had, very clearly, not been holding onto her pil ows a few e in the house," she said, lowering her voice so she wouldn’t wake my parents

"Wel how does that explain the TV staying on after I unplugged it?" I pointed out fearful y

"I don’t know I’ out of her bed and tugging at her sleeve "I’l show you"

We went to ed as I had left it, there was no power flowing through it