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Several weeks passed since the night of Mushnik's disappearance and Helen and Seymour's argument. The shop had gained even more popularity, not to mention publicity. And, on top of that, Helen hadn't spoken to Seymour since the argument and was going out of her way to avoid him. Audrey had noticed the tension and had offered to let Helen stay at her apartment, to which Helen readily agreed.
And it was here in Audrey's apartment that Helen woke up from another nightmare about Audrey II, screaming. The nightmare had started out as it always did, Seymour leaving her alone in the shop with Audrey II, her getting lured out from the counter by the singing voice, discovering it was from the plant, the conversation with the plant trying to coax her into giving it a drink of water, and ending as it always did, the plant saying, "AND NOW IT'S SUPPERTIME!" and wrapping its vine around Helen and pulling her into its maw, except that Seymour had come in just as the plant was eating her and saved her. But by the time he had, she was already dead.
Even when she wasn't under the same roof with the plant, she still had nightmares about the plant.
"No more," Helen whimpered, hugging her legs and rocking like a mental patient in a mental hospital, while glancing out her bedroom window at the flower shop where Audrey II was. "Let it end."
With that, she pulled out her diary and began writing.
October 29, 1960
My hand trembles even as I write this new entry after having one of my nightmares about the Audrey II, diary. My brother's been acting weird ever since he first brought that plant into the shop and that plant began growing (you should see it now, it's so big it's almost touching the ceiling). My nightmares about the Audrey II haven't let up. They've been growing increasingly worse and even more realistic ever since Mr. Mushnik disappeared and the shop gained more attention from the media. And I can't help but wonder what the nightmares are trying to tell me. One of the last nightmares I had of the Audrey II was about Audrey II eating Mr. Mushnik and Seymour just standing by and watching. Seymour hasn't been telling me something and I'm starting to wonder if...
Helen stopped herself from writing anything further and shuddered, before she glanced out her window when she had the feeling that something was watching her. Her eyes landed back on the flower shop and the enormous plant. There was no way that plant could have been watching her…could it? Shaking her head, she went back to writing in her diary.
Diary, I'm scared, no, afraid. Something is off about that plant, but I don't know what. I can only hope that I will find out, yet I shudder to think about what will happen when and if I do.