Someone had definitely been following you for the last ten minutes. It wasn’t really debatable anymore. They had made all the same turns as you were walking home from work. It was getting hard trying to subtly look behind yourself to check. All you could see out of the corner of your eye was a dark figure.

After taking a deep breath, you stopped walking and turned to find… nothing. Just an empty sidewalk lit by streetlights. Goosebumps prickled your skin. There had been someone there. There had.

A low chuckle to your left caught your attention and you whipped your head over to see a man walking towards you from some shadows. As he approached, he said in an amused tone “Looking for someone?”