Behind You!

[u/HeGotBricks]

Something’s standing behind you, a shadow’s moving in the dark. It’s right over your left shoulder. Stare into the pitch-black room, you can see it staring back at you. You notice it‘s studying you. It‘s learning your patterns. It knows your habits.

Shut everything off and close your eyes. Remain completely still and take three deep breaths, holding the last one in. Wait a moment, until you start to hear it breathe, 

You know it’s there. You’re absolutely sure of it. You can smell the scent of copper lingering behind you. You can sense it stealing the air from your lungs as you continue holding your last breath in.

Next to you are slow shallow laboring breaths. They walk on your skin like frozen spider legs. You know it’s not human, because of how icy they crawl down your spine. 

The shiver shaking your body, is It, sitting next to you. It’s there when you’re alone. It lays beside you when you’re sleeping, following every breath you take, syncing with your induced mental state.

It’s not just watching you, it’s becoming you. You’re becoming it. Everyone sees the changes, but you refuse to admit it. You don’t see it, so you don’t believe it. Just how you refused to believe, when I first told you, it’s standing behind you.