Photograph [4]

For a moment, I stopped breathing. 

The moment that I saw the old woman standing behind the TV, I momentarily froze before eventually snapping out of it and taking a step back. 

How in the world...!? 

'I swear I heard her go up the stairs!' 

I was quite certain about what I'd heard. How was this possible? 

It made absolutely no sense to me, but at the same time, I knew that this wasn't the time for me to dwell on the situation as I felt the old woman's empty gaze fall on me as she held onto a small candle lamp that flickered across the room. 

I slowly pulled the glasses away from my face. 

"...So it's the same young man from before." 

The old woman's voice was brittle, nearly a whisper, but it was that very fragility that sent a chill crawling up the back of my neck.

Creepy. 

It was so damn creepy! 

"What do we have here?" 

Her gaze eventually lowered towards the photo in my hand.