so to begin, the internet has been awful lately so this story is a little late. However I emplore you to believe that it is a true story.

It began when I walked through the door to the flat, I noticed a rather large snake lying in front of Dave's room...*weird, must be a toy to scare Dave*

I continued on to the kitchen and found Dave sitting at the table, 'What's with the toy snake in the hall?' I asked innocently. 'What snake?', was Dave's confused reply. That right there should have sparked some worry but no. We both went to the kitchen door and looked into the hall, the snake was still lying in front of Dave's door. Dave hates all animals so I offered to put it in the bin, as he walked back into the kitchen I bent down and picked up the snake...

It was only when I was standing at the kitchen door I realised with a horror I have never experienced, that the snake in my hand was real. I screamed and threw the snake in panic. I barely remember what I was doing at that moment but I do recall screaming, 'it's real I'm not taking the piss!', and hyperventilating. I hadn't moved but Dave had recoilled to the back window in the kitchen, the snake now lying upside down on the kitchen floor, rolled and turned it's head towards Dave. We were both screaming and somehow Dave climbed out the window and I had basically flown out of the flat towards the main office.

After that came the hour or more of running around the Old brewery looking for someone to help us, we rang the buzzer of the warden and almost put a hole through his door but he wasn't in.

We went to check on the snake and through the front window we could see it had slithered to the centre of the kitchen. *It was only then that Dave truly believed it was real...men*

As we couldn't find anyone to help us we went to flat one were we found Lucy, Lucy couldn't wait to see the snake and ran into our flat while we stood outside. She couldn't get into the kitchen as the snake had slithered back and was blocking the door.

After Lucy returned to flat one, I and Dave were left to wait inside the main office. After a hysterical phone call to my mother, toria, a girl from my class, came in and was bombarded with the entire story to that point. She suggested we just wait for the Warden and we went back to his building. After a long wait, he pulled up in his car...he had been shopping!

We told him what had happened and he said he would meet us at our flat, he did so swiftly and he bravely went on in without us. He went straight for the kitchen and pulled a face I should have seen comming. It had gone.

We now HAD to go back into the flat and the three of us began frantically searching for the elusive snake. It was only after searching every room, tipping the kitchen upside down and the warden leaving to phone the RSPCA that I and Dave tried to leave the flat again, *this is when he screams again*.

Behind the main door to our flat the snake was hiding, Dave ran out and left me frozen inside the Hall. He called from the front window and asked for my keys...I was stuck. I grabbed the brush and stood in the hall as the snake slowly slithered across the hall towards Steph's room.

*I actuallt recorded this but it's not very clear and I'm screaming*

Finally Dave and the warden reappeared with a bin. I told them where the snake was and the warden took the brush off me and tried to coax the snake into the bin. It wasn't happy. Eventually it was in, and the warden took off.

That was the last we heard of it. As Dave and I sat in the kitchen drinink the last of the vodka that had been left we knew it would not be an easy nights sleep.

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