After the door closed, the whole house went quiet. All I heard was my quick heartbeat and breathing. I then sat there for quite a long time, because I was so scared. What is this creature I'm apparently living with now? And who is it? I then thought as I ran my fingers through my hair and closed my eyes while trying to calm down. And what helped me to calm down was the fact that the house was completely quiet. And then, as I had calmed down enough to be able to get up, I walked into the kitchen and got some water, because that's why I woke up in the first place. And then, I went back to bed, but didn't sleep properly for the rest of the night.
And so, when I finally woke up, I was really tired. And the second I opened my eyes, I saw that the smoke was there again, but this time the whole shape was visible. It looked exactly like a human, but there were no details at all. It was just a shape.
Then, as I sat up, the shape quickly turned to look at me. And after only a few seconds, it started to fade away.
"Hey! Don't go! Who are you?" I asked again, but the shape just got up and started to walk out from the room while fading away even faster than before. And then, before I could even get up from the bed, the shape opened the door and walked out and faded away completely. I stared after it for a while before I hurriedly got up and then went to get dressed. No matter how scared I was about the smoke creature I apparently lived with now, I wanted to find out who and what it was. It'd be nice to know more about it. And maybe I wouldn't be scared of it after that either.
After getting dressed, I went downstairs to get some breakfast and to go and look for the smoke creature. But I couldn't find it from anywhere. I didn't even have the feeling that someone was watching me, so the creature was probably hiding somewhere. I ate the breakfast in peace before going to look around, trying to find where the creature could be.
But after some time, as I got into the basement, I completely forgot that my mission for today was to find out that who and what I was living with, because the basement floor was almost full of all sorts of old junk. Broken tables and chairs, rusty tools, a lot of wooden and/or cardboard boxes and so on. And so, I started to clean the basement.
But then, after some time, just as I was about to lift the lid of one of the wooden boxes, I felt a cold breath on my neck and immediately froze.
"Don't...Touch...That..." A distant-sounding voice then said right into my ear and I jumped up and looked around while my heart was beating like crazy. But I saw no one.
"Where are you? Show yourself, please. I want to know what you look like, since I live with you in here." I then said softly while still looking around and trying to spot this smoke cloud creature.
"...No." The voice then said, not sounding so distant anymore. It was soft and gentle, but also a bit sad at the same time. And this time, the source of the voice was right in front of me.
"Why won't you do it?" I then asked as I slowly moved my hand to where I thought the creature would be. And soon, my fingers touched something solid and smoke appeared again. The creature gasped again as I pressed my hand softly against it's body.
"Why do you gasp every time I touch you? I'm not hurting you, am I?" I then asked and slowly moved my fingers up on the creature's body a bit.
"No.. You're not hurting me.. Your hands are just so warm against my cold skin..." The creature then said and it almost felt like it was leaning to my touch a bit.
"What are you? Why can't I see you? And who are you?" I asked, unable to keep all the questions inside anymore.
"I can't tell you yet, because you might run away.. And you cant, and won't see me, because I don't want you to..." The creature then whispered and started to back away. And as I couldn't feel it's body against my hand anymore, I tried to fid it again, but it was already gone.
"Where are you?!" I then yelled to make sure that the creature heard me.
"...Hiding..." Just echoed in the whole house as the creature answered me.