The Windows 98 Laptop

***Brain Rot***

*Inspired by GAMEBOY ADVANCE SP BLUE EDITION CREEPYPASTA by OneyPlays*

It all started around October of 1998, back when I was a fully grown little boy...

One day, while I was jumping through the street, I happened upon a large vehicle, which clobbered me violently into a nearby window. After getting my bearings, I looked up to see a young boy with a Windows 98 Laptop in his tiny little hands. I had always dreamed of owning a Windows 98 Laptop, but my family could barely even afford money...

He looked up at me with those big, vibrating eyes. His two lower teeth quivered in confusion. "Duh, dahda," he said softly.

This was my chance! I ran at him screaming and stomping my feet, scrambling his brain in sheer confusion. I shoved him as hard as I could and grabbed his Windows 98 Laptop, and I ran out the door. I leaped back down the street towards my home. I pulled open the door by its big, smelly handle and I let myself in quietly. I snuck past my many parents and shut myself into my room. I had made it. Finally, a Windows 98 to call my own. I will have to keep it hidden from my family. I shouldn't ever allow them to know...

I took the Windows 98 in my big, beautiful hands, and proceeded to turn on the laptop. I will never forget that wonderful startup sound it made the first time I turned it on. And that wonderful Windows 98 logo splashed my screen in sheer delight. I blew out my candle, and I pulled my curtain shut tight. I wanted absolutely nothing to get in the way of my first Windows 98 Laptop experience.

Suddenly, a man appeared on-screen. Shortly after, the word "Le Billy" started flashing behind him. I assume this man is the man known as "Le Billy". He doesn’t exist until August 27, 2018 as a Baldi's Basics mod or an alternative to Baldi's Basics. The title of the screen slowly lowered itself in from the top of the screen.

"Billy's Basics... and the legend of the Stolen Windows 98 Laptop"?!

My hart sank... as I noticed a dead pixel in the lower left region of the screen.

"Winners can't be loose," I thought to myself, however, and I pressed the start button with my mouse.

A vast room with blue walls, carpet & floor, and ceilling appeared before my very eye. And there he was. The familiar "Le Billy" man to enjoy.

I pushed up on the up key. The player himself dashed to the forward. Amazed by this speed, I quickly pushed down to test it turning abilities. I was not disappointed, as the player changed direction in a matter of seconds. I learned the other button functions as I played...

'Left' allowed player to go left, similar to my own. 'Right' allowed the player to go right. I quickly grasped the concepts of getting 7 gloves/objects and answering math problems.

I got the forth glove without much problems. I looked into a nearby mirror and smiled at myself with one eyebrow raised and I said loudly, "Does this game think I am not awesome? I can handle anything it throws my way! Haaa haaaaaaa! Auuhhh..."

Suddenly, the screen turned black... And I don't just mean black skin color or pitch black, I mean so black... The screen looked like a big, deep, deep hole.

I said out loud, "Is this a hole I seen before?" and it echoed, like a hole.....

I wiped a large chunk of sweat from my flopping brow. "That was crazy," I thought in a big bubble next to my head.

The game loaded, but this time it took a lot longer. Billy stood in place so I pushed up key and the player began running. I noticed the graphics were getting all jumbly. Also, the music was becoming less like the Billy's Basic theme, DA DA DAH DUH DA DAH DUH!, and more garbled, like BRRPP BRPP BRUPP BRR BRUM BRADDAH!!!.

I was nearing the first gap of the glove to collect. As I drew closer, I readied my sweating, pink thumb over the 'Left' key. The gap was here! I pushed the button, but Billy got on the player... He just screamed.

Billy: NO!

I pushed up as far as I could and the player grounded to a halt, right at the edge of the gap. I pushed 'Left' frantically and repeatedly to try and make him go left, but Billy just screamed and screamed.

Billy: HA NO!

The camera zoomed in on my face as I pummel that 'Left' key, trying to make the player left, but all that filled the air were Billy's screams of fear.

I said, "No more!"

I pulled the disc from the Windows 98 laptop and I threw it out my window. It landed in some mud outside and I laughed and I closed my window. I turned around.... And I saw that the disc was back in my laptop... Mud oozed from it's disc drive.

I gasped and I said to myself, "Why... It can not be!"

The window opened itself back up. Billy's face appeared with black eyes and his chest has a big silver gong (Similar to Billy's Basic House - 11 Years Later which it doesn’t exist).

He spoke softly, "You stole me from my nikka... Now I, Billy for Microsoft Windows 98 Operating System, curse you for years....!"

I screamed aloud, louder than an eagle of the night, "There must be someway to stop this curse!"

I decided the only way to end myself from this curse was to beat the game. I ran up to the gap of the game. I pushed 'left' and Billy just screamed again.

Billy: NO!

The player died and the game restarted. This is when I noticed my skin began to rot and turn slightly green.

"What’s happening to me, Billy?" I asked Billy.

"Every time you die, I will make you rot! Haah haah huah!"

I asked, "How can I beat the game with only your screams? I cannot make the player go left by you screaming!"

"Fuck off....." Billy said quietly.

I screamed.

W O A H !

I decided NOT to beat the game in fear of me rotting! I decided that I was going to do the right thing. I ran out of my room pushing my mother out of my way in the hallway. I ran down the street to the kid's house. Thunder bellowed and rain pitter-pattered on my crying face. Finally, I reached the house. I leaped up to the kid's window and let myself in. The room was dark.

"Kid?!" I cried out. "Kid, where are you?"

I turned on the light switch. As the room lit up, I saw many people dressed in white... They all cried softly.

"Who the hell are you people," I asked with tears running down my chin.

"We are this kid's family," a woman replied, "I was his mother....."

She pointed into the center of the room where a small, black coffin was suspended over a hole. My heart sank.

"Is your kid inside that box?" I asked with an eyebrow raised and a finger on my chin.

"Yes, an insane person broke into our home, ravaged our son and stole his childhood by killing him."

Everything went slow. I dropped to my knees. I held the laptop tightly in my clenched fist. "Could this be MY fault?" I asked myself politely.

His mother walked over to me with a big, fat tear in her eye. She told me, "it really means a lot that a stranger would let himself into our home to pay respects to a kid he didn't know. I'm sure you two would've gotten along great." She then pointed to the priest and said, "Please lower our son into the Earth NOW."

The priest did just that. He pulled on a lever with a shiny blue ball on it. The coffin started going down!

I shoved the mother from my and I run toward the coffin. I jumped on that coffin and the ropes snapped. I began falling into the Earth with the boy inside. I heard the screams from his family echoing above.

I pried open the coffin as we fell and I shoved the Windows 98 Laptop into his tiny, cold mouth. "Escape me of this curse, boy!" I screamed at the top of my... head.

I noticed that we weren't hitting the bottom, and that the darkness in this hole reminded me of the dark I saw in the laptop. Could this be what I saw before?

From the darkness, a floating, black and white head of Billy appeared. He said to me, "In this hole, you shall fall with the dead body of a kid! Nooooooooo..." and then he Gaussian blurred away..

"This is what I get for stealing, I think," I said as I shrugged.

Suddenly, Billy appeared again. He said, "Well.... It sounds like you learned your lesson. You n-now be free.. Goodbye." He snapped his fingers and I was back in my room!

I looked over on my bed and the Windows 98 Laptop was gone!

My mother opened the door and she said, "My son! My beautiful son! I made you jelly toast," and she threw it on my bed and left with a smile on her face.

I-I-r... I realized.... maybe stealing not cool. I looked to the sky and I said, "Thank you, Billy inside Windows 98.."

Everything would be alright. And though the child remained forever dead, his mother could always play his Windows 98 Laptop to remember him by.

Thanks... to me.