I can still see it, just there in the crowd. It's been a week and I can still see it, I can't see it's eyes but I know, I know that it's watching, and staring at me. It doesn't matter where I go, whether it's the busy streets of the city or my own home, it's there and it just stares at me. That damned hooded and cloaked figure will not leave me, and it seems like nobody else can see it. This thing doesn't even move, it just… appears wherever I am, never close, but never very far. I thought about asking a stranger if they could see it, but the moment that someone walked straight through it, not flinching in the slightest as that damn thing's unwavering gaze continued. It was at that moment I knew I was truly alone in this.
Two weeks, two long weeks, and it is still there! I don't know what it wants, I don't know if it's even real and if I'm just going crazy. I can barely handle going outside anymore, looking at it and seeing it just standing there, not budging an inch, not a breath taken, and just so clearly inhuman. It terrifies me, just standing in the crowd as I'm the only one who can see or feel its presence. Seeing it ignored so clearly like it doesn't exist to anyone but me is what I would say almost terrifies me the most.
Three weeks now and I've simply been on break from my college for the past few days, I just can't handle it anymore, sticking to my room and only going outside for the most basic of needs. I swear the wind now sounds like a whisper. It feels like the creature is mocking me now. I still haven't gone to it. The idea is just far too terrifying with no idea what it is. I haven't even seen under the hood. The only consolation I've gotten now is that it seems to be getting closer to me. Whatever it wants, I think it's coming to get now.
I don't know what's happening anymore for almost four weeks now, and the creature is closer than ever. It still just appears whenever I look away for a moment, always appearing just within my line of sight, almost like it's forcing me to look at it and see it. I think I'm at my limit, I just can't handle this creature's game anymore.
The fourth week has just started, ever since this creature has thrown my life into chaos, and now more than ever, I can feel its presence, and the feeling is more painful than ever before. The constant pressure and fear before that had been mindbreaking is now almost pure pain in my body. It finally decided to take whatever the hell it wanted. It's in my house now, not a door opened, not a footstep heard, but it's in front of me anyway, staring at me, and despite being so close I still can't see anything under that hood. With my back now to the wall, I have no other choice than to confront this creature.
Before I could even make a movement as I finally found the resolve to confront it, it appeared right in front of me making me stumble to the ground as the hood fell back and I could finally see the creature. Nothing, there was nothing, no eyes or mouth and no nose or face, truly nothing there. I could feel that there was a presence there still, and the moment that I looked at it truly, and my eyes made full contact now, white pure white light, nothing but the color white.
Before I knew it, I was back in the streets of the city confused and panting like a damn dog in fear. I didn't know what was going on anymore, and the creature wasn't there anymore. I felt relieved before I looked around, not regonizing the area I was in and trying to tap a stranger on the shoulder to ask, but the moment I did, my hand went straight through. Panicking now as I kept trying to tap, grab or get someone's attention and being unable to, all my actions going straight through them before I yelled at the top of my lungs to zero response as I realized I couldn't even hear myself scream.
Not a soul could see, hear, or feel me. I was invisible and intangible and only able to feel and see everything around me, not a single sound to be heard. In the midst of this realization, I simply didn't know what to think. I didn't understand how this happened, I can only imagine this is the work of that damn creature. Despite knowing this, I could only think about the irony of this in my own sick way. Before all of this terrifying and horrible mess with the creature, I had wanted to be alone and to be left by myself at the time. But now I.. the only thing I want now is connection.
I had no idea what to do. So I just sat down in the middle of the street, as people passed straight through me like a ghost. I didn't think about the amount of time anymore, just by myself as what could have been hours, days, weeks, months, I truly don't know. Suddenly, though, I could hear almost a whistle like before, the sound that terrified me but now being almost welcome as a semblance of normality to me. Looking around again before seeing the creature once more, but the same fear and anger before being gone. Not a damn thing I could do here anyway, but in that moment as I locked my eyes on the creature I heard the sound of something ringing, almost like my phone, before I was surprised by the same blast of white into my eyes.
When I could see again, I was back in my room. The creature was gone, nowhere to be seen as my phone rang some more, glancing at the clock to see that almost no time had truly passed before I scrambled and grabbed at it desperately seeing it was from a good friend of mine. Answering it quickly before speaking. "Hello?"
"Oh there you are, disappeared on me for a bit didn't ya!" He said.