Darren:
It's been months since that incident, and the cops dropped by my house. After that, everyone told me I was crazy. My parents tried to get me help, insisting that no one named Kay or his mother had ever come over. They said I had imagined everything. I was in disbelief that I imagined someone so real.
I confided in Hilla, who was shocked when I told her about someone in the basement, but besides me, no one else had seen them. Hilla told me that she never saw anyone. She does remember me telling her about someone in the basement, but she said she didn't know those were imaginary people until my parents and her mother took her to the basement to show her there was actually no one there.
The counselor I saw suggested that I had been so lonely that I conjured up these people in my mi
