From the Corner of Your Eye
I'm not sure how to start this so I am going to dive right in. My name is Michelle, and I live in Ottawa. A couple of months ago, I started to notice something odd. To be honest I don't know how long ago it started, but that is when I really started to pay attention. No matter where I looked, or where I was... there was this black thing in the corner of my eye. At first it was just when I was alone, I could vaguely see something but when I checked behind me... there was nothing there. Soon the blob got bigger and so I went to the eye doctor to see if maybe there was something wrong with my eyes. But when he checked and told me my eyes were fine, I just chalked it up to an overactive imagination. Hoping it would go away, you know.
It didn't, and now that I knew that it wasn't an eye problem, it was everywhere. When I passed by a window, or a mirror, out of the corner of my eye, it looked as though someone was behind me. Or when I was in the shower it would feel as though someone was watching me. The fifth time it happened, I was rinsing shampoo out of my hair and had rubbed my eyes to make sure that none got in my eyes or that my contacts hadn't fallen out. I opened my eyes, for a split second, something was there. Then I blinked and it was gone, like it had never been there in the first place. I will never forget that face, you may have noticed I put "thing" instead of someone, that's because it was a "thing".
Its skin was torn and blackened, just like paper that wasn't saved from the fire in time. Its eyes had no lids, and before you get the wrong idea, I don't mean it never had lids. I mean it looked like someone had torn off Its eyelids, crudely and recently. Its was taller than me, and thin. It looked like a person who had been so brutalised that he had forgotten that It was human. But the worst part was Its eyes, those eyes... they could have belonged to anyone.
Now I couldn't ignore it all, and every time I slept, I had nightmares from seeing it. A week ago after waking from another nightmare, you know when you wake up and your breathing is so loud that for a bit its like someone else is in the room with you? Yeah, that's what I heard when I woke up, so because I was freaking out I held my breath to calm myself. The heavy breathing continued, right in my ear, all I could imagine was those eyes. Those eyes that will never stop watching, that can't stop watching. Somehow though, I fell back asleep.
The next few days at work, and at home, the Thing was becoming clearer and closer. Until yesterday out of nowhere I felt a hand touch my back. It was cold as ice. Thinking it was a coworker, because I was at work, I turned around to tell them off. But the room was empty. That's when I knew, that Thing could touch me, it was closer than ever. And one day I will turn around, or open my eyes... and it will be right there.
Because that day I noticed it, it became real and no one will be able to save me.
Credited to Arctic chan
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