The Old Phone
It was time to move
I wasn’t very excited about that but the time had come.
I lived alone in a small apartment, I had had this apartment since I turned nineteen.
Gazing around the empty living room and kitchen, I turned and grabbed the last of the boxes behind me.
The tape on one looked like it was going to come off by itself.
I turned back and set the box on the kitchen counter, then left and came back to see the box had opened.
Reaching in the box, I pulled out a phone. I turned it on.
It worked.
I pushed myself up onto the kitchen counter and began scrolling through it.
It seemed to be one of my old phones, so I went to see some of my old photos. As I tapped on the photos app, I froze.
The pictures were of someone else.
The last picture taken was of a girl with wolf ears on her head with a dark haired boy with his arm around a blonde girl at a party.
Was this a joke?
Did my friends steal my old phone then photoshop a bunch of pictures of random people?
I went farther and found a few videos of the same people.
I found out a little later that the girl with the wolf ears was Maddy, the dark haired boy was James, and the blonde girl was Summer.
But I still didn’t believe the videos were real.
People don’t have wolf ears!
And there was no way that someone else’s phone had gotten into my apartment.
I set the phone back in the box, put more tape on, picked it up, and turned away.
But what I didn’t notice was a shadowy figure standing in the center of the living room.