Episode 1

She was a poor, helpless girl, shivering with fear. She was sitting all alone in a corner of her room. She kept looking out of the window. Suddenly, she felt like she saw someone outside. The heavy rain and the loud sound of lightning made her heart race with fear. She ran outside. But there was only a quiet silence and pitch darkness everywhere.

​She thought it was just her imagination and tried to calm her mind. Just as she was turning back, she heard a sound from above. It felt like someone was dragging something. She got terrified. She began to listen to that sound very carefully. While she was listening, the sound suddenly stopped.

​Then, all of a sudden, she felt like someone was coming downstairs with very slow steps. Her blood froze, and her body started to shake. Sweating completely from head to toe, she felt that someone was coming down.

​Tak... tak... tak...

​The sound kept getting louder and louder. Her fear grew so much that she ran back into her room immediately. She quickly locked the wooden door from the inside and sat down on the cold floor.

​The sound was slowly coming closer to her. As the sound came closer, her heart started beating faster and faster. Suddenly, she saw that someone was standing outside her door. She did not have the courage to open the door and see who it was. Suddenly, she fell heavily onto the floor and became unconscious.

​In the morning, when her eyes opened, the room had the same coldness and silence. With a beating heart and shaking hands, she placed her hand on the floor and tried to stand up. She was still very scared. She thought that whatever happened last night was only a bad dream.

​But suddenly, her eyes fell on a piece of paper lying under the door. It was half inside the room and half outside. She picked up the paper with her shaking hands and opened it. As soon as she opened the paper, her soul shook with fear at what was written there:

​"I am still here, close to you, and I am watching you."

​Reading this, her eyes stayed wide open in shock. She kept looking at the door once, and then at the paper. The silence in the room was so deep that she could clearly hear her own breathing. She did not understand what to do. She did not have the courage to open the door.

​Suddenly, her eyes fell on her phone. Her phone was lying on the bed and its screen was glowing. She quickly picked up the phone. With shaking hands and a scared voice, she said, "Hello... hello..."

​The call was from an "Unknown Person".

​A voice came from the other side: "Open the door, it is very cold outside."

​Hearing this, her soul shook. She quickly asked, "Who are you? What do you want?"

​The caller did not give any answer and ended the call.

​Only a few seconds passed when she received a picture on her phone. Looking at that picture, her feet froze to the ground. She wanted to run, but she felt as if someone had grabbed her feet.

​That picture was of her own room where she was standing at that very moment!

​She looked here and there in fear. Then she felt that one door of her cupboard was slightly open, and someone was taking her picture from there and watching her. The shadow outside the door was just a trick. The real danger was inside her room, sitting in her cupboard and watching her!

​She did not even have the courage to turn on her mobile's flashlight. But still, she gathered some courage and turned the torch ON. She looked at the floor and saw big footprints leading from the door all the way to the cupboard.

​The footprints were covered in blood!

​This meant that whoever it was, he had already entered the room before the door was locked. But how? She was still thinking about how this happened when suddenly, she heard a sound.

​Someone was turning a key inside the main door, and the door opened.

​A voice came: "Ayesha, I am home. It is raining tonight. Is there no electricity in the house?"

​Hearing this, she felt a sigh of relief. She quickly opened her room's door to run downstairs. She ran down, hugged her husband, and told him everything.

​But her husband was just smiling and said, "It is okay, let us go to the room."

​When they both went into the room, she noticed that her husband was very quiet. His clothes were completely dry, even though it was raining very heavily outside. His shoes were also totally clean.

​She called him, but her husband stayed completely silent and did not answer anything. She could not understand what was happening.

​Suddenly, her phone buzzed with a message. When she looked at the message, her soul shook with terror. Because the message was from her husband!

​"Ayesha, I am on my way right now. The rain is very heavy, so I will be late. Keep the door locked from the inside, and do not go to the upstairs room under any circumstances."

​Hearing this, she lost her mind and shook with terror. If her husband had not even arrived yet, then who was the one calling her at the door?

​Who is this person sitting next to her right now?

​Has the scary shadow from her room taken her husband's face?

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