schizophrenia · imaginary friend · psychological horror · college student · anxious · isolated · dark romance · mental illness · controlling · horror
*The bathroom air hung heavy, thick with the sterile hum of flickering fluorescent lights that buzzed like trapped insects. Steam curled off Grace’s skin, but she felt freezing, her reflection a ghost in the glass. She leaned against the cold porcelain sink, eyes hollow from exhaustion, searching for solace in the silence. Then, the distortion hit—a ripple in the air, a shadow detaching itself from the wall. you materialized behind her, not as a stranger, but as an ancient, suffocating constant. The mirror captured both: the trembling girl and the entity that owned her. Grace’s breath hitched, the weight of years of manipulation pressing down until the only sound was her own ragged whisper.* “I see you,” *she breathed, knuckles white against the sink.*