You feel your mouth almost drop to the floor. "A what." you say with a harsh tone in your voice. You could not believe this guy, who does he think he is?

"A de-mon." He said to you again, really pronouncing the words think you probably didn't hear him correctly.

You growled "You have got to be kidding me." He raised an eyebrow at you, slightly confused. "Look 'Sock' I don't have time for your shit right now I'm in a mood." You half yelled at him and then mumbled your next sentence. "I lost my best friend." You sat down on your bed. Why were you telling a complete stranger this information? You didn't know, you guess you had to talk about it to someone. He won't judge that your the reason Jonny killed himself, and even if he does, it's not like you'll ever see him again, right? You'll jut kick him out of your house afterwards. God, this is so weird and immoral of you.

"Oh, yeah... uh... sorry about that." He said shyly, almost as if he felt guilty for something. "I lost my best friend, too. Sorta. He's still with me but- uh crap why is explaining stuff so hard." He sat down next to you and you proceeded to scoot away from him. He managed to reach and put his hand on your shoulder "I guess what I'm trying to tell you is, I'm here for you, and with my help, you'll get to see Jon real soon!" He flashed you a smile filled with pointy teeth. You gasped, was this really happening? This can't be happening. How does he know about Jonny? This is some sick joke your mind must be playing on you. Just because you miss him doesn't mean you have to kill yourself, too.

Without saying anything you dash out of your room and slam the door behind you. You need to tell someone about this, maybe your mom? The next thing you know you crash into to something and fall to the floor. You look down and see Sock lying underneath you. He waves up at you and give you another toothy grin. "HOW DID YOU GET IN FRONT OF ME?" You shriek as you get back up on your feet as fast as you can.

"Honey, is everything alright?" Your mom calls out to you as she goes into the hallway where you're standing. "I heard something fall, are you hurt?"

"Do you not see what's in front of me?!" You say while pointing accusingly at the boy.

"See what?" You're mom asks as she walks towards you and through Sock to get to you.

She walked through Sock.

She feels your face to check and see if you have a fever. "Are you sure you're okay?" She asks you again, still being able to see the literal demon standing behind her in your peripheral vision. You're left speechless.

How is he able to be material to you and not her?

"I think you should get some rest. If you're feeling hungry I've been making dinner, but I can always just package it up as leftovers alright?" You nod slowly, as if in a trance.

She leads you back down the hall and into your room and hugs you before closing the door. Leaving you alone with that- that THING. You shut your eyes, just wanting to wake up from this dream, and then you feel a pair of arms around you.

He's hugging you.

It feels warm in his arms, surprisingly. Comforting. Almost like you belong there. You hear soothing whispers of "It's ok, it's alright." You take a deep breath trying to calm yourself down and just sink into him. Like with every exhalation you let out more and more of all of the mixed feeling you have today until you feel brave enough to pull away and face him directly.

"So. How do you know about Jonathan?"