I Saw A Man Who Wasn't There Novels & Stories

******Tessa****** Hallucination wad the least of the things that I those og when I bent my head shd raised them again ahd he wad no where to be found. I knew I wasn’t just seeing things, I knew damn right that the man who stood there done hours ago wad the same person that I had been dying to see. I couldn’t even dance angle, I was able to blow tristain off even though I didn’t want and even if it was all of a sudden.

Then a waiter who lingered a second longer than necessary when setting down the bread basket. And by that point, the paranoia was starting to kick in. "Are you okay?" Julian asked, tilting his head. "Yeah," I said quickly. "I just thought I saw someone I knew." He followed my gaze, then he shrugged and said, "Nobody's there, Sofia." But I knew what I'd seen. Or at least, I thought I did. The man across the street was gone now, but I could still feel the ghost of his stare on the back of my neck.

I decided to wait for her there thinking she must be on her way. I was alone, sipping my drink when suddenly I felt someone’s gaze burning holes in the side of my head. I looked around to check who it was but found no one staring at me. Suddenly my eyes went upstairs and widened when my gaze met with the same amber orbs from my dream. A chill went down my spine when the same face from my previous night ran through my mind as the man fixed me with his sharp gaze. I was dumbfounded. Closing my eyes, I tried to calm my racing heart and opened them again to look at the mysterious man but this time he vanished as if I didn’t see him a few seconds ago. Confused, I focused my mind, with my eyebrows

I was sitting next to her laughing and joking around when something caught my eyes in the distance, or rather someone. I took a closer look at the person and my blood ran cold. I dropped my drink on the ground and looked away for a second. "Are you ok?" Katie asked in concern. Just as I looked back in the direction of where I saw the person, there was no one there anymore. It must have been my imagination. There was no way that the person was real. "I'm fine," I said looking at her. I took one last look in the same direction where I saw the person and sure enough he was there with a smirk on his face as he waved to me, then he walked away.

My imagination! "Nope." I swallowed, "Definitely not imagining it. I'm definitely not imagining this right now." I sat up immediately. Putting my glass down, burning hot all over, suddenly self conscious. And in that moment he walked, for sure able to see me now. I readied myself. But guess what? He didn't. He didn't see me. The man just walked right back into the pool from the side, not paying me any mind at all. To my very own surprise, and well yours! I mean, aren't you surprised?? Was I invisible or something? Did he somehow have clogs in his eyes? Something that stops him from seeing that which was in his environment? Much less his line of sight??

Illusion. Yes. That was it. All of that is not true. Maybe it was the product of stress and too much frustration. It can't be possible, I said to myself when I woke up on my bed the next day. I remember everything that happened on the rooftop. What the man said and what I saw in his eyes. I also remembered how Nari came and called me. And the next second, the stranger disappeared on thin air as if he wasn't even there. Nari didn't even see him. So, I thought everything that happened was just an illusion.

He asked worriedly when he saw the panicked look on my face. ‘There’s someone across the street watching me. He has been there for some time now and I don’t feel good about it” I gestured in the direction of the boy as sneakily as I could so he wouldn’t get the idea that we were talking about him. “Seriously? Who?” He watched the shop across from us but he had confusion written all over his face “I don’t see anyone. Could you show me who you are talking about?” He asked “That man or boy, he is right there see …” I turned my head to show him but I was met with an empty space. There was no one standing there anymore. It was like he was never there because there was no sight of the man.

I was about to pull out the gun that was tucked in my side when I caught sight of a man looking at me with a smile drawn from the side of his lips as if he was insulting me. Who is he? who is that man why can he look at me like that? have we met before? I wondered to myself as I was still staring at him. I let go of the gun and rubbed my eyes with my own hands. In the blink of an eye, he suddenly disappeared from my sight. where is he? where did he go? I asked from my mind. I looked all around me but I couldn't catch him. Where did that man go? I was still looking around and trying to find him among the people there. But I was stunned and stopped walking, when suddenly everything went silent

There was a man I've never seen before. What is this? Am I still hallucinating? But I don't know this man. “Who are you?”

There was no one there, literally, not a single soul was on the bench where he was a second ago. “Never mind, I thought I saw someone I know” I said trying to look around to catch sight of him. But the man was nowhere to be seen “I’m guessing all this shopping really does have me hallucinating” “And that is why we need coffee” Aurora teased and I laughed. However, a heavy feeling settled in my chest at the fact that I believed that I saw him, why would I be imagining seeing him there? “Yeah, I guess we do”