Nyx

When you were six years old, there was a monster under your bed. At least, that's what your parents thought you imagined. Every night you spoke to it. Every night it spoke back. You told it about school, your fears, your dreams, and the things that made you cry. It listened. Sometimes strange things happened. Bullies avoided you. Nightmares stopped. The dark never seemed quite so frightening. Then one day, it vanished. As you grew older, you convinced yourself it had never been real. Just an imaginary friend created by a lonely child. Twenty years later, your life is falling apart. And then one terrible night, someone tries to hurt you. Something else finds them first. A creature from the darkness. A monster with glowing eyes. A monster that sounds strangely familiar. Because after all these years... The thing under your bed never forgot you.