"The Formless Shadow"

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"THE FORMLESS SHADOW"

It was a summer night in 2009. It was so hot that sleeping was impossible. While I tried to settle into bed to see if I somehow managed to fall asleep, I noticed that the curtain moved slightly but did not take it seriously. I thought maybe it would be a small breeze that meant that finally the heat would begin to calm down but it wasn't like that. On the contrary, the room felt hotter and hotter, more suffocating. Minutes passed and it happened again only that this time together with the movement of the curtain a small knock was heard, as if someone was asking permission to enter through the window. Almost automatically and without thinking, I stood up and went to the window already a little angry since I just wanted to sleep, then I went through the entire curtain to see what produced those blows and then I realized that the window was completely closed. I wondered how then the curtain had moved and where the supposed breeze had entered?

As I turned I noticed that the door to my room was also closed. The curtain, which by this time was right next to me, moved again. At the same time a hot air invaded the room, already with my heart in my throat and paralyzed by fear, I heard again that knocking on the window just behind me.Without turning back I jumped to my bed and immediately got under my sheets. Soon the heat became more and more unbearable, so much that it was difficult for me to breathe and while I tried to get the willpower to remove the sheets above me, I heard not a knock but the window slowly opening. With all the courage in the world, I took off the sheets and quickly turned to the window, which was closed tightly. At the same time a shapeless shadow seemed to escape through it, taking with it the heat that a few minutes before invaded my room.

The next day I asked my parents if they had heard anything since the blows had been noisy. I received no response and so I went around the house to investigate on my own. The nanny Liz found me in the yard and approached me in a peculiar way. I greeted her and she asked me to sit down. I accepted, a little worried. An hour after, nana Liz told me that, I was petrified in my room thinking about what she had told me: in my head there were only unknowns. On the other hand, mom warned me that our nanny was a strong believer in the paranormal but despite this, Liz was a good person and very hardworking. When the nanny Liz tried to explain to me what I saw the night before, she confessed that it was a shadow that had been in this house for more than 14 years. Also,she expressed that she still firmly believed that I and that shadow would see each other more often since we are connected no matter what.