August 28
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Stranger: 25M
You: Hello.
Stranger: F?
You: No.
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Stranger: Hi.
You: Hello.
Stranger: It’s hot lol.
You: Yeah, it is.
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Stranger: 22M looking for a master.
You: What’s a master?
Stranger: Hehehe, please give me orders.
You: I have something that’s been bothering me.
Stranger: Would you like to see my dick?
You: ……
You: Why would I want to look at something disgusting?
Stranger: Yes… Master, I’m getting arou—
You: ……
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Stranger: 27M.
You: What’s “M” mean?
Stranger: Male.
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Stranger: What’s your preference?
You: I’m passive.
Stranger: Oh.
You: What about you?
Stranger: I like the active side better hehe.
You: Instead of doing this here, maybe go outside and find yourself a boyfriend…
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Stranger: 27M.
You: 32M.
Stranger: Heh, I’m okay with guys too.
You: I had a boyfriend.
Stranger: Past tense.
Stranger: Did he dump you?
You: He died a year ago.
Stranger: Want me to comfort you? lol
You: I don’t do one-night stands.
Stranger: LOL, we’re both guys. That came out of nowhere.
Stranger: Let’s just grab a drink.
You: Actually, I have something that’s been bothering me.
Stranger: lol hmm.
Stranger: Instead of doing this here, let’s do a meetup.
Stranger: Where do you live?
You: G District, Seoul.
Stranger: Oh, I live around there too.
Stranger: I’m just bored. Wanna hit a bar?
You: Sure.
Stranger: Hehe.
Stranger: Contact info?
You: ?
Stranger: Give me your KakaoTalk ID or your number.
You: I’ll open an Open Chat room.
Stranger: Hmm.
Stranger: I’ll join. (link)
You: Oh.
Stranger: Oh.
Stranger: Is that really you in your profile picture?
You: Yeah; you had it set so only people with profile pictures could enter.
Stranger: LOOOOOOOOOOOL
Stranger: Wow, you’re handsome. Is it just the photo?
You: ……..
You: Sorry, I don’t think this is a good idea.
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You: ?
Stranger: ??
You: You weren’t saying anything.
Stranger: I was waiting to leave if some idiot started talking like an idiot.
Stranger: Waiting to see what you’d say.
You: I was actually about to say something that sounds like a crazy person’s story.
Stranger: What is it?
Stranger: Looking for a slave girl?
Stranger: Or a master?
Stranger: Does that turn you on if that’s the case?
You: No, it’s just…
You: I think I saw a ghost.
Stranger: Oh…
Stranger: That’s exactly the topic I was hoping for.
You: Is it?
Stranger: I come on here because I’m bored, but there are so damn many perverts. Fuck.
Stranger: Ghost stories.
Stranger: Perfect. Heh.
You: Um…
You: I’m not joking, though.
Stranger: Alright then.
Stranger: I’ll listen seriously too.
Stranger: Ready to listen attentively.
Stranger: Should I kneel as well?
You: No;
Stranger: You’re serious.
You: ;;
Stranger: That’s what I mean, I like it.
Stranger: Better a scholar than a pervert.
Stranger: You just need someone to listen, right?
Stranger: Go ahead.
You: It’s a long story.
Stranger: Three-line summary.
Stranger: ?
Stranger: Fell asleep?
You: My boyfriend died a year ago, but I keep getting emails from him.
You: I replied, and whoever it is started talking about things that only my boyfriend and I knew about, then said they were coming to see me.
You: Since that day, strange things have been happening around me.
Stranger: LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Stranger: Wait, were you seriously trying to fit that into three lines?
You: You told me to summarize it.
Stranger: OK, got the gist. Now explain it properly.
You: Can I just send you links?
Stranger: Yep.
You: (Link 1)
You: (Link 2)
Stranger: Oh…
Stranger: That is weird.
Stranger: How old are you?
Stranger: No particular reason, just wondering how I should address you.
You: Thirty-two.
Stranger: OK, just talk comfortably, hyung lol.
Stranger: I’m twenty-three.
You: This way is more comfortable for me.
Stranger: Sure, hyung, whatever you’re comfortable with.
Stranger: If you’re still here talking about it, that means even stranger things happened afterward, right?
You: Yes…
You: I was writing that post when another email arrived.
You: There was a photo attached that my boyfriend and I had taken together.
You: And it was kind of…
You: Kind of….
Stranger: A revealing photo?
You: Yes.
Stranger: Not to be rude, but are you sure your boyfriend didn’t share it somewhere?
You: No. I took it on my own phone in the first place.
You: The data was only transferred to my laptop.
You: Which is in my room.
Stranger: But if he was your boyfriend, wouldn’t he have had access?
You: I didn’t write this on the board, but we’d known each other for a really long time.
You: Since we were kids.
You: We started dating in high school.
You: This isn’t me making an emotional appeal saying, “He wasn’t that kind of person.”
You: It’s genuinely impossible.
You: Even three years before he died, we shared everything, including salary accounts, and could freely look through each other’s card statements.
You: He wasn’t the type to fool around.
You: And as for having some strange friend…
You: We went to kindergarten together, elementary school, middle school, and high school.
You: Even college… not the same one, but we still knew most of the same people.
You: We even enlisted in the military around the same time.
Stranger: No military stories. No no no no no no no.
You: Ah… did you just get discharged?
Stranger: A few months ago.
Stranger: I’m here because I dreamed I got sent back to the military.
Stranger: LOL.
Stranger: Anyway, that’s not important.
Stranger: If the photos weren’t leaked, then this is genuinely occult-level stuff.
Stranger: I guess ghosts travel through signals these days.
Stranger: Well, they’d evolve too, I suppose.
You: Yeah….
Stranger: What if I’m a ghost? LOL.
You: ;;
You: Don’t joke about that. It’s scary.
Stranger: Hyung, you’re cute lolololol.
You: Stop it.
Stranger: Yes, sir.
Stranger: So what happened?
You: I haven’t been able to sleep at night lately, so yesterday I fell asleep as soon as I got home from work.
You: I woke up around one in the morning.
You: But I couldn’t fall back asleep, so because I was scared… I just kept using my phone.
You: Then sometime after two…
You: I heard knocking on the window again.
You: More than fear, I was angry this time because I was already awake.
You: So I looked immediately.
You: And our eyes met clearly.
You: I couldn’t make out the features exactly, but it had a deathly white face.
You: And where the eyes should have been, there were black holes.
Stranger: Hold on.
Stranger: I’m gonna go change my underwear after shitting myself;
You: Are you okay?
Stranger: No, it was a joke….
You: Ah……
Stranger: LOL.
Stranger: This isn’t really the time to laugh.
Stranger: If that’s true, it’s actually pretty creepy lol.
Stranger: Then what?
You: I screamed without realizing it.
You: Then it grinned.
You: As it grinned, I could see rows and rows of sharp teeth covered in bright red blood.
You: And without moving its lips at all…
You: It said, “Let me in.”
You: In my boyfriend’s voice…
You: It spoke to me.
Stranger: Hmm….
Stranger: Please tell me it was a dream.
You: Maybe it was…
You: When I came to my senses, it was gone.
Stranger: That’s not very comforting.
You: And today, too…
Stranger: It happened again today?
You: It appeared at the window again.
Stranger: The fact that you slept there again…
Stranger: Impressive.
You: No—
Stranger: I’m going to start calling you boss.
You: ;;;
Stranger: Anyway, keep going.
You: Yes.
You: It appeared at the window again today.
You: And it called my name.
You: Maybe it was my imagination.
You: But I felt like its facial features were becoming clearer and clearer.
You: I was scared.
Stranger: So that’s why you opened this chat…
Stranger: It’s almost four in the morning now.
You: I’ve been on since around two-thirty.
Stranger: Don’t you have work tomorrow?
You: I can’t sleep…..
Stranger: Right.
Stranger: More importantly, boss.
Stranger: I feel bad saying this to someone who can’t sleep.
You: ?
Stranger: Do you know what time it usually happens?
You: Not exactly. I know it was after two.
You: By the time I came to my senses, it was around two-thirty.
Stranger: Um….
Stranger: Doesn’t it seem like…
Stranger: It keeps showing up at 2:22?
Stranger: Am I wrong?
Stranger: Boss?
Stranger: You didn’t faint, did you?
You: I nearly faint—
You: I think you’re right.
Stranger: Yeah, looking at the timestamps online too,
Stranger: It seems to show up around 2:22.
You: Ah.
You: Ah………….
Stranger: Hmm.
Stranger: Maybe you should sleep somewhere else next time?
You: I think I’ll do that.
Stranger: Yeah.
Stranger: It’s already four now, so it probably won’t come again tonight.
Stranger: You must be exhausted. Get some sleep.
You: Um.
You: I’m not asking this in a weird way.
Stranger: Want my contact info?
You: …Yes.
You: I really don’t mean it in a weird way.
Stranger: Sure. I’m curious what ends up happening to you too, hyung.
Stranger: Ah, how about an Open Chat room?
You: ….Uh….
You: Okay.
Stranger: (Link)
You: You didn’t make a profile picture mandatory.
Stranger: LOL. Did some lunatic mess with you using their profile picture?
You: ……
Stranger: Don’t worry. I had a girlfriend.
Stranger: Up until a year and a half ago, anyway.
You: I’m sorry.
Stranger: If you’re going to sympathize, give me money instead.
You: I’ll buy you a meal sometime.
Stranger: LOL, sure.
Stranger: Get some sleep then.
You: Okay. Good night.
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