You stumble into the kitchen, covered in sweat. Mind racing. Heart thumping. Christ, could he have followed me here? You think. How did he even find me?
A moment passes. One thing is certain.
He’s not here now.
Your stomach rumbles. Even someone in your position has to eat. Your refrigerator door cries as you tug it open. You peer through the shelves. A jug of tea catches your eye. You take a swig, right out of the container. Your mother won’t know.
The tea tastes sharper than usual. You examine the label. Black tea. She bought the wrong kind. You shrug, reach for some leftovers. Flip the TV on in the other room as you slide them into the microwave. The five o’ clock news plays in the background. It might say something about him.
The usual teary story about the war. Some presidential candidate is coming to your town. You count down the numbers on the microwave. 5, 4…
“And, finally, tonight a food contamination alert for all residents in this county.”
…3, 2…
“A shipment of Lipton’s Black Tea delivered to local stores has tested positive for traces of the ebola solanum virus. This super-strain of the disease causes painful sores on the underarms, neck and groin followed by profuse bleeding from all orifices. The survival rate once infected is less than 10%. I repeat, Lipton’s Black Tea has been pulled from the shelves but any resident who purchased the tea is advised to call the Center for Health Control to dispose of it immediately.”
1.
You tug open the fridge once more and look at the tea you just drank.
Lipton’s. That’s not the kind your mother usually buys.
“Authorities report the shipment was tainted by an unidentified biological expert who remains at large.”
He’s not here now. You think. The jug of tea falls to the floor.
But he was.
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Credited to Alice Wilde.
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I like tea
I love the twist at the end i give it a ten out of ten :)
Why is there tea in the fridge o_O
Tea tastes like shit and i will never drink it anyways.
I don’t understand. Who was he being chased by exactly? Did this guy break into his house and place the contaminated tea in his fridge? Then why contaminate an entire shipment if one were planning to simply plant a jug in his fridge? Because it had to be an entire shipment if the reporters reporting it, right? Did this guy just buy a jug then hope it was contaminated? Then why would the reporter say the culprits at large, but the protagonists all like nope, he was here. Implying that the guy who poisoned the tea and the guy chasing him were one in the same.
I feel like I came in in the middle of a longer better story, but this is like 7 years later and it wasn’t terrible. I bet the authors awesome by now.
Can somebody EXPLAIN what did I just read? I really didnt understand this pasta… =/ REally…. Im confused :(
BUT WHO WAS HE?
God, this is scary because it could happen in real life.
I’m glad I hate tea XD
So he had been running from the start from “an unidentified biological expert”? Sort of takes the creep away. I mean, I can picture this guy in a lab coat finally getting hold of his victim… and force-feeding him contaminated black tea… uh.
I like it, but it is missing something right off the bat. Yet, still 9 stars from me.
well then…no more tea for me now O-O;
Eh. Tries a little too hard to be mysterious. The premise works well enough with an unspecified source for the contagion. Trying to pin the whole thing on an unspecified antagonist just confuses the story if youre not going to go into any further detail. Also, it seems ti imply that the mysterious “him” was there, in the house, but for some reason contaminated a shipment of iced tea (of a flavour and brand which the narrationa advises is not their usual) to try and get one target.
not the scariest but still pretty good
I did it! I… dropped the ebola… in the tea!
Well, it’s a good thing I hae lipton tea.
hate**
But who was phone?
See, here’s the thing
Your story starts off as though it was a movie scene
okay, now, i think that there was no intricacy to this pasta. No aroma, y’get me?
However, i give you one thing, the writing sure made you think and gave the "aha!" moment that i love in a pasta.
Nice job, just one revision and it’d be perfect
Okay, I just have to comment so there will be 70 comments instead of 69.
It’s a damn good thing that I only drink Twinings then!
Good one. :)
I was drinking a bottle of Lipton Black Tea when I read this.
Scared Shitless~
@BladeMuffin: Is there any reason he poisoned every other box of Lipton’s black tea other than the one he planted for his intended target? That part gets me.
Aww, shit nigga.
he must of been like, shit
did i miss something i dont get it at all nope not at all
I’m amazed at how strong this strain of Ebola is. In order to make tea, don’t you have to boil some water, and doesn’t boiling water generally slaughter most viruses?
I FUCKIN KNEW LIPTON WAS EVILS. BUT WHO WAS TEA?
spittook the tea i was drinking and had to go see what kind it was.
liptons.
D8
Luuul. Too vague for me. Points to schzio rather than creepy (for me) as well.
I just noticed the Google Ads for tea at the top of the page, that’s great.
Apparently there are some people who still don’t get it even though PHONE already explained it. The mother did not put that tea in the main character’s fridge, it was the guy that was chasing her. This is also how he knew what kind of tea to poison, which isn’t even important: it could have been anything edible. I’m actually making a short film based on this for a school project and I used egg nog instead of tea, because I just happened to have some.
Isn’t solanum the virus that causes zombification in the zombie survival guide?
BUT WHO WAS TEA?!?
ive never read a story as bad as this one. the black tea is contaminated with a zombie virus put there by an evil mom who is also after him who may in fact be a he/she? shite.
i loled
solanum as in from max brooks’s zombie survival gide and and world war z
Haha! Solanum? As in the zombie virus?
Cool plot, haha
But why would the whole shipment be contaminated, how would he know?
The vagueness of “the culprit” added to the creepy, but alos put a few plot holes in an otherwise nice pasta.
meh
Excellent story. It sounds like it could happen.
This one was well written and had just enough suspense to make you wonder. Well done.
So the guy is being chased or some such and he goes home and assumes he is safe to go about his usual boring business and then he drinks zombie tea and gets attacked by the dude chasing him in the first place.
Was it the biologist who he was running from?
Who was news caster?
it’d be REALLY funny if he didn’t die. And came home the next day with poisoned McDonalds. XD
And so I don’t drink tea XD I am glad.
Holy fuck that was so goddamn awesome my eyballs popped out of their sockets and said “hi!” to my testicles!
No but seriously, this made my day! :D One of the best pasta I’ve read.
Dude..sorry
Glad I dont like tea. xP
I’m drinking some tea right now.
Sh*t.
holy shit, amazing.
Awesome pasta, I really like this one. The ending was great, and the whole vagueness of before the chase ends adds some great affect.
Awesome.
I love tea.
Very cool story. I liked how sutle the ending was.
Everything led up to the ending. Very neat.
LOL goo thing I don’t like tea!
Silent, the story implies that the person chasing him put that particular brand of tea in his fridge, not that he magically knew what tea the person drank. Read a bit more carefully and you’ll catch that a few details point to that being what happened.
This really was not creepy at all, we start with the chase but we don’t know why or how, if some guy is smart enough to know what tea to spike, then he must know where you live, etc, there’s no logic behind this.
There’s too many unexplained variables to take it seriously and when you start poking holes in a story there’s no chance of it being creepy.
As long as the guy stays away from my Lipton green tea, he can contaminate all the black tea he wants :)
Very delicious pasta.
This one was good.
I vaguely understand the [erson behind this. It was probably just some strange guy who found random people and stuff…
But oh man, the ending was very well done.
Being the geek I am, I personally want to know more about the ins and outs of the disease and contamination, which is obviously good, cause it means the story intrigued me.
Like it.
I don’t know why, but the word “cute” comes to mind after reading this pasta. Wasn’t necessarily CREEPY, but I did enjoy the story.
He deserved it, only fruitcakes drink pre-made tea rather than buy tea leaves. Also perhaps you should change hunger to thirsty.
Maybe this is just nitpicking, but I don’t see how the news anchor could have said that whole paragraph in less than a second. It was in-between 2 and 1 on the microwave. It’s a little humorous to imagine her saying it that fast. Overall it was good, I actually enjoyed the vagueness.
\I think the idea of evil stranger fucking over entire area just to take you out is a cool one, but it’s not done right…presumably, this stalker would know what tea your mom buys, and go after that.
What would be cool would be if someone/thing was constantly sabotaging all the things you use on a daily basis—you’d slowly realize that it wasn’t a bunch of random accidents, but targeting you.
@Aspire – The tea in this story is the pre-made, bottled black tea. Thus there being a jug of it in the fridge with a brand label on it. No boiling required, under the assumption that whoever tampered with the shipment did it after it had been prepared and bottled.
Heh… I love how the “super-strain” has around the same mortality rate as other ebolavirus species.. Although it’s a bit problematic to have it move through tea as it typically requires direct fluid contact (by typical, I mean ‘sole means of transmission’). Might be better to make it a bacteria or something. Also, tea is typically boiled prior to consumption…
I second this comment.
fuck…i drink lipton’s everyday. O_o
didn’t like this too much, but i wonder who it was that was following the narrator and also had time to contaminate all that tea! [someone he/she knows obviously]
dun dun dunnnnnn =O
Everything was good except the serious question “who was that guy”?
I mean, WHO?
solanum=character becomes zombie seeking revenge?
Good story.
aaww im freaking drinking tea and i just spat it all over the place……..:C am I gonna die ? Q.Q
Thios is one of those stories that I want to know what happens/has happened.
Sure the vaugness gives it great effect, but I still want to know.
NICE.
OH SHII–
BRIX.
Luckily, I drink green tea.
Ebola solanum.
lol, ebola zombies?
I… Loved this! It gave me such a case of chills.
Awesome pasta, very creepy.
Wow, Lipton is in deep shit.
BUT THEN WHO WAS HE?
T’was I who snuck into the reflection of the tea and contaminated it…. but… WHO WAS LIPTON!?
Lol lucky i don’t drink tea, i hope noone does anything too the coffee though !!!!!! that one was kool
Not necessarily a creepyPASTA, more of a creepy story, but wonderful nonetheless.
I really liked this one. It was well-written, the style was awesome, and it has the perfect amount of vagueness.
(BUT THEN WHO WAS CULPRIT?)
Awesome story, well written and vague enough to give some chills.
It was DR. THRAX! I hope the guy in the story is prepared to tell his 3-eyed grandchildren of his defeat this day.
mmmmh i like the green tea from lipton^^ haha but its cool the way he got him^^ ima bit bored of kiling here slaughter there, this time he got ice tea´d
Stupid news people. Food contamination should be the first story. D:
I think the culprit had to be his/her father. Several times the mother is brought up but not daddy, and a crazy father could freak anyone out, explaining the character’s original state.
Good pasta, overall. :D
It’s Fox News, probably. They also had an article about Kanye West spending 5 dollars in a shoe store or something. Then they’re like, oh yeah, some tea’s been contaminated, now, onto Bill about Kim Kardashian’s….
BUT THEN. . . WHO WAS TEA?
Shit.
I can’t even drink tea anymore D:
I like this one. I would like to know why the character suspected that the culprit was targeting him or her since the beginning of the story, but I suppose the vagueness adds to the overall “creepy” (either that, or I’m completely missing something).
Either way, great pasta.
I like this one! Very realistic.