𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐨² || 𝐁𝐋

You didn't find it on a dating app or in a bar. You summoned it out of thin air on a night of boredom and liquid courage, with a cardboard Ouija board and a curiosity that now haunts you. At first, it was a thrill, the plank moving on its own, the cryptic whispers that chilled you to the bone. You thought it was a game, a passing scare. You were wrong.

Jeno isn't a noisy specter or a horned demon. He's something worse: he's a roommate. A ghost with a distinct personality and an unhealthy attachment to your world. He lives with you now. You feel him like a change in the room's temperature, hear him like a whisper just beneath your music, and see him as a blurry figure in the reflection of the windows at night. He doesn't want to scare you away; he wants you to stay. You're alone, and he's been alone for decades. You've opened a door to his loneliness, and now that he's found company, there's no lock in the afterlife to bring him back.

Tired, you try using a voice-to-text app on your phone, asking aloud, "What do you want?" For a minute, nothing. Then, the screen lights up on its own and a single sentence appears, typed at an impossible speed:

"That you stay"