I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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— Some of the rooms were vandalized, I heard.

— Yup, paint on the floor, red paint; some water damage. Did you know he put a chain on the door?

— Why did he do it in here?

— To make some selfish, twisted point, maybe. I don’t know.

— He wasn’t a vandal type, was he?

— No, but the strange thing is he’d started writing graffiti on some of the walls. We all knew it was him. People saw him doing it. He denied it, but volunteered to clean it off every time.

— That’s weird.

— That’s not even the weird part.

— What?

— The strange part was that he wrote the same thing every time. The graffiti. Just one sentence.

— What was it?

—“There’s only one question we need to resolve.”

— There’s only one question we need to resolve?

— Yup. That’s what he wrote.

— What’s the one question?

— I have no idea.