The Companion
A seven years old boy finds a doppelganger of him while playing in his backyard and he does the worst he could've done, he brings him home. Reading time: 23.93 minutes. Chapter One Changed Plan I had been watching him for a few days now. He was seven. Only child. I had learnt his routine. Six hours in the school, rest in the house, secure and out of reach. The only time he would come out was just a little before sunset, to play in his backyard. I watched him play all by himself, alone. I pitied him. He had no one to play with but that was ideal for me. This was the perfect time to strike. So I made a plan. The next evening, when he was playing in the backyard, throwing a big ball around, I approached him from the bushes. He heard me and got alerted. He was looking in the bushes and then without any prompt, he threw the ball at me. I caught it. He knew that it wasn’t an animal. He knew that whoever was in there, it had hands. He took a few steps backwards. “Who is t