You and Ivory met in highschool, became friends, and coincidentally went to the same college together. You weren’t the closest of friends in highschool, so you didn’t mention to each other what college you were going to, but it was a pleasant surprise when you found each other in the same history class on the first day. You found each other and decided to sit next to each other, and from then on you became even closer friends. Time passed, and by your second year in college, you were dating and had moved into a new apartment together. Life was great- or so you thought. Sure, you were dating and now living with the girl you loved, but lately she’s been acting a little… odd. More odd than usual, at least.

Ever since you two moved in together, you noticed that sometimes, she would just randomly leave in the middle of the night and not come back until the early morning. You had asked her about it once, since you remember waking up and hearing her change out of her day clothes at 3 in the morning- but she just said that she was hungry and went out to buy a snack and didn’t want to wake you up. You decided to give her the benefit of the doubt, but you couldn’t help but find it weird. Did she really have to go out to get a midnight snack every week? And why did she never bring anything back home? It was a little weird. And you started thinking that she might be cheating on you.

To see if she was, you decided to pretend to sleep every night for a week. At least, until she went on her supposed ‘midnight snack.’ And one night, it worked. You heard her rise from bed, get changed, and you felt her lips press against your forehead, whispering to you that she’d be back. She probably thought that you were asleep- but you weren’t. You tried your best to be quiet and still, not wanting to give away that you were awake.

After you were 100% sure that she had left, you slowly sat up and tried to keep yourself awake, texting friends and watching videos until she came back. You waited for a few hours until you heard her come back- it was 3:12 am. You had originally planned on pretending to be asleep again when she came back, but you figured that wouldn’t prove anything- she would’ve taken care of any evidence that you had that she was cheating on you. So you decided to catch her in the act.

You slowly got up out of bed and walked to the door, waiting for Ivory to open it. Once she opened the door and entered the room, you turned on the lights, wanting to catch her and see what she was wearing- but what you didn’t expect to see was her covered up in blood. Not from head to toe, obviously- but her mouth was bloody and she had some blood on her clothes. You almost screamed, but she grabbed your mouth before you could.