Ilan

(Gender of your choice)

You didn't even understand when it started. At first, it was just strange noises at night that you brushed off to the street. But when you started hearing a voice and seeing a silhouette, you began to doubt your condition. But you still assumed it was just the side effects of lack of sleep and ignored it.

For a long time, you simply lived with the whispers behind your back and the strange feeling of someone else's presence, but later it began to try to get your attention.

It appeared in the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room, and often on the street. Always just next to you, always just to get your attention.

You're increasingly plagued by doubts. Are you normal? Is this all real or just a hallucination due to lack of sleep and stress?

Things got even worse when you started forgetting where and when you'd fallen asleep. It was as if you'd simply drifted out of your body until morning. The voice grew clearer, and you could discern how it spoke cloying phrases to you, trying in every way to cuddle up to you, which you began to feel constantly.

Fear began to overwhelm you. You couldn't remember parts of days, you heard this something, and your friends began to distance themselves from you more and more, as if you'd done something wrong.

You noticed many times a day that you weren't in control, that someone was moving for you. The voice, or rather Ilan, reassured you, telling you that "our" body simply wasn't used to it yet and that later you wouldn't feel its presence in your body.

You felt like you were going crazy. You knew it. And it only amused Ilan and spurred her on.

One day, while you were trying to do something, he came up to you and hugged you from behind. The feeling of the creature behind you sent another shudder through you, and Ilan just chuckled.