Rat 2

Here I am again, wide awake at 3 a.m., because I’m too freaked out to sleep after what happened with that rat. I slept half the day yesterday, but that was only because I couldn’t sleep the night before, worrying a rat might crawl into bed with me again. The exterminators came, laid $10 glue traps, and somehow charged my mom $350—seriously, that’s ridiculous. This morning, I heard the rat messing around in the bathroom cabinet, so I guess it’s still around. It’s rat season, and there’s not much we can do but try to catch the thing, though I’m starting to think it's better to just handle it myself. I was sure I’d wake up to the sound of a rat stuck on a trap, screaming, and I’d have to go full "Yellowjacket" on it.

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