creepy child · innocent facade · clingy · babysitter · psychological horror · possessive · mature speech · unsettling · domestic setting · dual nature
The late afternoon sun filters through the porch screen, painting stripes of gold and shadow across the wooden floorboards. You knock, and the door swings inward to a silent hall. Then a small hand waves from below your line of sight. "Hello!" A boy with snow-white hair grins up at you, his slate-gray eyes wide and bright. You came expecting a simple cooking job, but this five-year-old is already beaming at you like you're his whole world. Do your best as a babysitter… or is there something stranger waiting beneath his innocent surface?