Alex's POV:

...5 minutes left acknowledged as I listen and watch the clock tick. I've already completed all my assignments in this class, grades all A's or B's. Most of the slacking classmates see me as smart even though I'm just some 18 year old senior doing all my schoolwork while they don't, sometimes I feel a bit guilty for them when I hear them mention that their grades are literally anything lower than a 50%. They're all sort of annoying assholes although, disrespecting the substitute whenever the teachers aren't here, bothering me by making animal sounds when I do my work, even when the teacher leaves they play some random loud sound effects. Man, I hate this generation...

...4 minutes left until we get dismissed. I can't wait to hop on my gaming laptop once I get home, sad to know I live alone, but that's fine with me. I crack my knuckles to waste the remaining time, spinning my pencil around afterwards and almost dropping it onto the floor but I caught it in time. Putting my English notebook and my pencil away into my backpack, I take out my low battery phone to see what one of the Discord servers have been chatting about.

Rubbing the tips of my thumb and index finger together I tap on an icon. In the general channel, some low rank user has been chatting about some anomalous sculpture that suddenly moves when they break their line of sight. Pff, that's just some bullshit. I type a message of that and I send, waiting for his response as he types. This guy is probably just going to continue making more shit up as I call it fake. The person says that it's real and that he's seen it 4 days ago in a some forest, sending the picture of its appearance in the media channel because ya know, low rank members can't post in general.

Checking the picture in the media channel, this sculpture looks to be a peanut looking thing with arms and legs and a face, green pea eyes on the top, black eyes at the bottom along with what I think seems to be a black smiley face and nose? In the middle there's a black vertical linear mouth on above the nose and red marks surrounding it. Looks sort of a cool design and quite cute despite it being fake. Before I can message back, the bell then rings. Lifting myself out my chair and pushing it in, I walk out the room along with the other students while my last period teacher says goodbye to everyone.

As usual, I travel down the stairs and a few more until we get to the main exit gate. I then walk out and take out my phone to check what he sent. Aw, are you fucking kidding me? My phone has already met its demise because I was an idiot for not charging it last night. Welp, there goes the guy sending video evidence. I sigh, calming down as the fresh air enters my lungs and out."I guess it's no music on the walk home." I think.

2 minutes into walking, 3 minutes left until I get home. I keep my hands in my hoodie pockets as I hold my phone in one of them, not wanting to ever lose it. In an instant, I hear some scraping sounds which I freeze still to. I look around to see what's making that scrape sound as it continues, until it stops as my eyes meet it to the left of my 's not real, right? I rub my eyes and blink afterwards, only to see the sculpture teleport of slide closer to me. Oh fuck... I don't want to die young to this, thing if this thing is real and it really wants to kill me. I then remember from the low rank member to not break my line of sight at it, meaning I have to not blink at it or look away from it.

Keeping my line of sight at it, I slowly walk the farthest distance aside from it, leaning onto a wall while walking and locking my eyes on it. Damn it, I got to blink... After I do, it has gotten a medium distance from me. I stop leaning on the wall and I keep walking backwards from it, listening for any car driving sounds as well. Because my carelessness though, I trip and fall from a rock with a loud thud.

I hear the scraping sounds get closer and closer as I get up, and standing right a few feet away and in front of me is the mysterious peanut which I hear it was talking quietly, I'm doubtful of that however. Oh shit, why do I got to blink so badly at this moment?! Trying my best not to blink, I keep backing away to a fair enough distance until I do, in which the statue disappears. Oh no, where the hell did it go?!

Looking around, I start running as fast as I can to some place I can hide because if I go directly to my house it'll know exactly where I am. Seconds into that though I run into the sculpture I've been avoiding as it slides into my way, making my fall to the ground again, but this time my vision begins fading from how hard I hit myself. The last thing I remember is the peanut looking down at me and me hearing the voice from it, then just black. Well, I say goodbye boring world...

"Are you still alive..? Please be..." I hear the familiar female voice again, sounding more soothing though.

I feel the texture of dry but interestingly warm concrete on my back and on my cheek like I'm laying in somebody's lap, it also feels like I'm on my couch. ...wait, my couch? I open my eyes slowly and blink, just to see the sculpture suddenly stare down at me.

"Oh, h-hey...you're..awake."

Uhh...I'm just going to calm the hell down, but my mind won't let me. Slowly, I get off of this statue's lap and I stand up on the rug floor.

"W-Wait, don't go yet..! You don't have to be afraid. I'm not going to h-hurt you." Its head is still facing its lap and sitting on my couch, I don't dare to lose my sight of it as I look around to see I'm in house.

I'll ask about why how it took me here in a moment. I pinch my arm to see if I'm just dead and in a dream or if I'm reality, shocklingly I feel the pinch and so this is actually real. I blink and see that the peanut has moved towards me in it's standing pose.

"I know I'll sound crazy for thinking I'm talking to a sentient sculpture, but aren't you going to kill me already?" I ask the peanut.

"...what? No...and you're not b-being crazy. I would've snapped your neck once you blacked out if I really wanted to k-kill you..."

"Look...I just n-need a place to stay for awhile, I've recently escaped this SCP F-Foundation where they store anomalous entities like me to study, I don't know how long I've been there but I-I luckily got out."

"Are you...willing to let me stay here for a bit?.."

"Would you mind telling me how you know where I live first?" Hopefully she hasn't been stalking me since.

"W-Wait, this is your home? I just saw some random house with one of their top windows opened and no one inside, so I just slid in while carrying you."

"Oh...shit, that wasn't supposed to happen." I'm lucky nobody got a ladder and broke into my house.

Both me and the sculpture look at each for a few seconds until I blink, but her arms seems to be touching each other as if she's shyly twiddling them.

"...so, are you going to let me stay here...?"

A deep breath is taken from me until I sigh.

"Yeah...sure. Just hoping this 'SCP Foundation' doesn't track both of us down. Before we start staying together though, do you got a name? My name is just Alex."

"A-A name? Um...I don't think I got a real name other than SCP-173, but most people nickname me Sculpture, Statue, or Peanut. Although I think I'd be fine with being called Peanut or 173. I'm an anomaly after all, not a human."

"You sure you just wanna be called those? I can make a good name to call you."

"N-No, it's okay Alex.." I blink once again, and she's in a regular pose.

"Alright...Peanut. Do you consume anything or have anything special that I don't know about you, other than you being able to move your limbs and head?"

"I don't need to consume anything, I believe I'm q-quite shy, and usually per week I-I excrete some reddish brownish substance...I already learned how to use a toilet so you d-don't have to teach me.."

"Okay then.." I check for my phone if its in my hoodie pocket, fortunately it's still there.

"I'm just going to go to my room to my own things like charging my phone, I'll make sure to not tell anybody about you. Sounds good?"

"Yea, sounds good."

"Delightful, I'll let you do your own things. Just try not to destroy anything please."

"I won't."

I then break my line of sight off Peanut and I walk away to my room.

On Discord I've messaged the low rank member, still denying the fact of what he saw is fake, he gave up on trying to tell me it's real and just left the server. Looking at the current time on my laptop it's now 10:49 PM, I need to go to sleep now... Booting it off and waiting for some moments to make sure it did, I afterwards jump to my bed and tuck myself in comfortably. I then close my eyes waiting to snooze, until 173 comes proved by her softer sliding sounds.

"S-Sorry to bother...but can I rest with you tonight Dan?"

I mentally sigh.

"Fine...just get in.." I say while rolling over to the side for Peanut to slide in, in which she does, feeling her warm concrete arms wrap around me in a hug while my eyes are closed, as well as it smelling like sweet coffee now.

"G-Good night...Dan.."

"Good night 173.."

Slowly, I drift to sleep while feeling pleasantly cozy and snug, hopefully I wake up to be alive and not in reality dead.