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Ghost roomate

Another old one so, again, pardon the writing

{A demon writes a message on a mirror but instead of being ominous and menacing, it's kind and genuinely supportive.}

In your childhood home there were always strange occurances that no one knew the reason behind, or at least would admit to know. So you and your siblings got the idea to name the occurances. A light flickers? 'Hey, Jimmy. Could you not? I need that' A door slams shut? 'Jimmy! That was very rude!' A terrifying groan echos through the house? 'Jimmy! Your snoring again!' It made the creepy unexplained things less scary as a kid and you kept the habit when you moved.

Deciding to name your 'house ghost' Billy, you carried on with your new life away from home. At first there were alot of cliché horror movie spooks. The 'get out of my house' type haunting stuff. But after a while of you calmly talking to the 'house ghost' or making small comments whenever you heard something, they calmed down. Now every once-in-a-while you'll just talk to Billy to feel like there was someone else there when you got lonely at night since there weren't very many unexplained things anymore.

That was until your breakup. You had been dating this guy for a few years. Looking back it probably wasn't the healthiest relationship, but you didn't see it at the time. After you worked up the courage to break up with him he said some very hurtful stuff that hurt you more then you let on. You locked yourself in your room for days and just cried. You missed him and didn't know why. You shouldn't, he wasn't a good guy but you couldnt help it and it only made you feel worse. When you couldnt cry anymore you got up and went to the bathroom connected to your room to clean yourself up. Thats when you saw it.

On the mirror in scratchy crude writing: 'Its ok to be sad. You'll find someone better. If you need to talk I'm willing to listen. Feel better soon, I miss your sarcastic remarks.
     -Billy :)'

You laugh to yourself and wipe your leftover tears. "You're such a softie, Billy." You smile to yourself as you continued with your day, though you didn't take the writing off the mirror for days afterwards.