The thought of something paranormal bringing Eddie to this cursed town made him shiver. He had hoped that by his own stupid mistake he ended up in Silent Hill, but now it looks like he was lead straight into hell. "What brought you here?" he asked Raleigh.

"A Silent Hill vacation resort pamphlet." Raleigh said, with a disturbed look on his face. "It was the weirdest thing. It was just lying on my bed, and I asked my roommates if they'd left it there. They said they hadn't, so I threw it away because I didn't care to go. But the next week it was in my room again, like someone dug it out of the trash. I thought my roommates were trying to mind-screw me, so I called them jerk-offs and threw it away at work, so they couldn't find it."

Raleigh's face fell, as if he just remembered something that made him sick. "When I was driving home that night," he continued. "Some little girl ran out in front of my car. I tried to stop, but I hit her. I got out of the car, and she looked pretty bad. So I put a blanket around her and put her back onto the sidewalk under a streetlight. Then I drove home."

"Why the hell didn't you take her to the hospital?!" Eddied yelled, disgusted. He had always liked kids.

"I shouldn't have to go to jail just because some brat kid decided to dart across the street when a car is coming!" Raleigh exclaimed.

"You wouldn't have gone to jail! Accidents like that happen everyday!"

"You don't understand!" Raleigh said, as he walked toward the kitchen. "I live in Pleasant River! Everyone over there is extra paranoid ever since Walter Sullivan chopped up those two kids and all those other people. The would've hung me just to make a point!"

"That's not true!" Eddie insisted.

"Oh, what do you know?" Raleigh said, annoyed.

Eddie watched as Raleigh pulls something out of the fridge and starts munching on it. "What are you eating?" He asks.

"Pizza."

"Can I have some?"

"Sure. Come and get it."

Eddie half runs to the kitchen and takes a slice from Raleigh. Instantly he notices the bread is hard, and the cheese is moldy. "We can't eat this!" he exclaims, trying to keep from retching.

"Why not?"

"Because it's rotten! Can't you see that?"

"Well Eddie, I can order out for a fresh one, but I don't think the delivery guy will make it past the acid spitting zombies in the hall!" Raleigh replies in that same condescending tone. "Most likely, all of the food in this place is going to be like this. You might as well eat something to keep your strength."

Eddie hadn't eaten anything since yesterday, and he was pretty hungry. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and began eating. He could still smell and taste the putrid pizza as it slid down his throat. By the time he finished eating, he felt more sick than full, and Raleigh had gone back to his place in the room and sat down. "Are you finished?" he asked, grinning.

"I guess," Eddied said, as he staggered back to his place on the floor.

"Can I finish my story?"

"I don't care."

"Fine. When I got home, my roommates told me that the cops had just called and they were coming over to ask me some questions about a hit and run earlier that evening. I knew it was only a matter of time before the cops figured out that I had hit the little girl, and since I really didn't feel like going to jail and becoming some big guy's girlfriend…"

Why did he look at me like that when he said "Big guy's girlfriend"? Eddie thought.

"…I decided to run. When I went into my room to pack, the very same Silent Hill pamphlet I had thrown away at work was sitting on my bed."

"How do you know it was the same pamphlet?" Eddie asked, still seething about Raleigh's "Big guy" remark. "How do you know your friends didn't just put another one on your bed?"

"Because," Raleigh answered. "Inside there was the cheesy picture of an elderly couple standing in front of the Lakeview Hotel. Before I threw it away, I drew eyelashes and lipstick on the old man and a mustache on the old woman. I also stuck my chewed up piece of gum inside on of the pages. There's no way my roommates could've known I did that. But there it was…the exact same one I threw away, sitting on my bed."

Raleigh sighed. "I know Silent Hill is just the next town over from Pleasant River, but I thought it was a sign. I thought something was telling me to move here, sip margaritas by the lake, hang out with some chicks and work at a hotel or something. Instead, I find I was really being told by some supernatural force to go to hell." Raleigh chuckles. "It figures."

"Well, you deserved it!" Eddie scowled. "The people I hurt were actually jerks. You ran over a little girl!"

"Why are you so pissy all of the sudden?" Raleigh snapped back. "If what you did was so justifiable, you wouldn't be in this place."

"I don't think I'm in hell." Eddie retorted.

"Oh, suddenly you're not in hell? Where are you then?"

Eddie felt his stomach churn and twist, and he doubled over. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Raleigh asked.

"I don't feel so good," Eddie moaned. "I think I'm gonna barf."

"You shouldn't have eaten that pizza."

Eddie looked up at Raleigh in shock. The grin on Raleigh's face was too familiar. It was the same face he got from everyone at home when they just tricked Eddie into doing something.

"But…but you ate the pizza too!" Eddie exclaimed.

Raleigh laughed. "No I didn't! What do you think I am, crazy? I just took a bite, and I spit it out while you had your eyes clenched shit like a little girl. I can't believe you fell for it!"

"You son of a bitch!!" Eddie yelled, trying his best not to vomit in the process. "You could kill me! I could get botoxolism or something!"

"It's botcholism, you moron." Raleigh quipped, while going to the fridge. "Chill out. I have some food in here that I bought before I got here."

Gagging, Eddie rose to his feet. "The moment I walked in the door, you decided to use me for your own idiot amusement!"

"Jesus Christ!" Raleigh laughed, sticking his head in the fridge. "You sound bitchier than that Angie chick."

"You're just like him!" Eddie growled. "You're just like all of them!"

"Oh, please."

Still partially doubled over, Eddie stomps up to Raleigh. "What do you think?" Eddie growled, still fighting to keep whatever was in his stomach from coming up. "That I came all this way to be treated like shit again? I'm not a bad guy! I don't deserved to be laughed at! I deserve respect just like everyone else! I told you I wasn't gonna put up with it anymore! Didn't you hear me? Huh? I'm talking to you Raleigh!! Don't be a jerk off by ignoring me! ANSWER ME!!!"