The Silent Girl

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The Silent Girl

When I was a child, we lived in a quiet neighborhood where everyone knew each other. A few houses down from us was a family with two children—a boy and a girl. I wasn’t particularly close with them, but I saw them often enough, playing in their yard or riding their bikes up and down the street.

But there was something strange about the girl.

She was always with someone. Not just her brother—there was another girl, always by her side. She was small, pale, with dark hair that hung limp around her face. She never spoke, never played, never even looked at anyone but the neighbor’s daughter.

I assumed she was just a friend from another street, maybe a cousin visiting. But something about her unsettled me. She never laughed or smiled, never seemed to belong. The way she moved—always just a step behind the neighbor’s daughter—felt unnatural, like a shadow that had taken on flesh.

I remember once, in the dead heat of summer, I was playing outside when I saw them sitting in the grass across the street. The daughter was talking animatedly, her hands waving as she told some story. The other girl sat beside her, motionless, staring blankly ahead. I watched for a long time, waiting for the second girl to react, to nod, to blink.

She never did.

As time went on, I realized something even stranger. No one else ever spoke to the silent girl. Not her parents. Not her brother. Not even other kids who came over to play. They would only talk to the daughter, as if the second girl wasn’t there at all.

One evening, I mentioned her to my mom.

“You know, the neighbors have another little girl who’s always hanging around their daughter.”

She frowned. “No, they don’t.”

“Yes, they do,” I insisted. “She’s always with her. She has dark hair and—”

My mother cut me off. “Sweetheart, they only have two kids. A boy and a girl.”

I felt my stomach twist. “But I see her all the time.”

Mom just shook her head and went back to what she was doing.

Years passed, and I mostly forgot about the silent girl. It wasn’t until I was a teenager, sitting around with some friends, that her name came up again.

Someone mentioned the old neighbors, and I casually brought up the other girl—the one who never spoke.

There was a pause. Then one of my friends, who had known the family better than I did, gave me a strange look.

“There was no other girl.”

I felt a cold chill creep up my spine. “What do you mean? I saw her all the time.”

My friend hesitated. “You’re not the first person to say that. A couple of other kids in the neighborhood asked about her too. But she wasn’t real. She was the daughter’s imaginary friend.”

I laughed, but the sound was hollow. “No, that’s impossible. I saw her with my own eyes.”

My friend shrugged. “Her parents used to freak out about it. She would talk to this ‘friend’ all the time, whispering to her at night, setting a place for her at the table. But whenever they tried to ask about the girl, she’d get upset—like really upset. She’d say things like, ‘She doesn’t like when you call her imaginary.’”

A sick feeling twisted in my gut.

Then my friend added one last thing.

“After they moved away, I overheard my mom talking about them. The daughter used to wake up with scratches down her arms. Deep ones. Almost like… like someone was holding her down in her sleep.”

I stared at her, my mouth dry.

No one spoke for a long time.

That night, as I lay in bed, I couldn’t stop thinking about the silent girl. The way she stood just a little too still. The way her blank eyes never blinked.

And the way, even after all these years, I couldn’t remember ever seeing her leave.

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