Everyone warned me the house was haunted when I bought it. They told me no owner had ever lasted beyond a year. It was haunted, that was always emphasized, and no one seemed to want the place.
If I had known how the haunting manifested, I would have made a much higher offer.
When the first week passed without incident, I thought it had all been an elaborate prank. As the first month passed quickly and quietly, I started to relax. By the end of the second month, I had all but forgotten about the supposed ghostly inhabitant. It was three months to the day I moved in that I first felt the hairs on the back of my neck rise when I stepped out of the shower. There was a shift in the air; that's the only way to describe it. I don't mean to say I saw a ghost - it would have been easier if I had. Instead, there was just a vague feeling of being watched. It was the same feeling I used to get walking home late at night when I lived in the city. That constant reminder that there are people all around me, to stay on guard, be vigilant. I shook my head, clearing the cobwebs of paranoia. I had to laugh at myself; clearly, the stories the former owner had told were getting to me. I pulled on my pajamas and climbed into bed, collapsing into a dreamless sleep.
Over the course of the next few weeks, it got harder to ignore the sensation of being watched. There was no pattern to the prickling at the back of my neck. Sometimes it came over me when I was making dinner, sometimes as I was doing my makeup for the day. I often noticed it when I was in the shower at the end of the day. When nothing ever came of it, I chalked my hypervigilance up as too many stories of peeping toms and unsolved murder mysteries - a guilty pleasure I couldn't quite shake, despite the minor paranoia it created.
Eventually, I got used to the sensation. I couldn't tell if it was all in my head or if I really was sharing my home with a ghost, but I had to laugh at the absolute scaredy cats that lived here before me. If these were the "nightly visitations" that bothered the previous owners so much, they were absolute weaklings!
As I grew accustomed to the vague sensation of being observed, I started to use the strange presence to my advantage. Ever since I was a teenager, when my fingers roamed over my flesh in the quiet of the darkness, I would create elaborate fantasies of alleyway fucking or masturbating on trains, or would even imagine a stranger peering in my window. The titillating idea of someone watching me, wanting me, lusting after me always made orgasms so much stronger. Now, whether this ghostie was real or a figment of my imagination, I got to dream of my personal voyeur watching every time I made myself cum.
Late one night, as summer gave way to the coolness of early autumn, I struggled into wakefulness, confused and disoriented. I had been in the middle of the most delicious dream. A wicked and beautiful woman had been sitting next to me in the darkness of a movie theatre. While the screen flickered in front of us, her deft fingers flicked back and forth over my clit, driving me to distraction. I bit back a moan as she teased me, trying not to draw attention to what we were doing. She kept her eyes on the movie screen, never so much as glancing my way, teasing me closer to orgasm. I tried to shift my hips discreetly to get a little more pressure on my clit, but she withdrew her hand and I choked back a frustrated "fuck you." Over and over she did this, bringing me right up to the edge, only to deny me each time. This erotic game of cat and mouse dragged on for an eternity, my subconscious resisting an orgasm in ways my flesh never could. Then, right when I felt the undeniable build of an orgasm about to release, I startled awake.
I groaned in absolute frustration; of COURSE I would wake up right before the good part! Grumbling, I pulled the blankets off my overheated body and settled my hand between my thighs. I was shocked to see how swollen my cunt was. This wasn't the first dream that had me wet when I awoke, but it was unusual for me to be this physically aroused. At least that meant it wasn't going to take long at all to chase down the orgasm that had evaded me in my dream. I slid my middle finger down towards my slick opening and gasped in shock when an ice cold draft blew over my skin.
My nipples prickled at the sudden sensation. I must have left the window open, I love sleeping in a cold room. I spread my legs, my hips undulating as I stroked my clit slowly and deliberately. While I had initially intended to just rub one out so I could fall back asleep, the crisp breeze had shaken me into full wakefulness. Inspired by the movie theatre of my subconscious, I wanted to drag the pleasure out as long as possible. The icy breeze cut across my chest again, even colder, but it seemed to be moving slower, almost like a lover's hand dragging over my skin. I groaned, letting my mind wander to thoughts of a mysterious stranger groping me surreptitiously.
Without warning, the chilly draft changed direction and dragged deliberately down my stomach, splitting to smooth over spread legs without so much as a whisper against my cunt. My eyes flew open and I sat bolt upright in bed.
"That's not fucking possible," I mumbled to myself. "That... that can't be." The breeze vanished and its absence made me painfully aware of how hot my skin was, how flushed and heated I felt.
Lying there in the darkness, the realtor's observations came flooding back to the forefront of my brain. "Technically, there's nothing wrong with the house. Even though it was built in the 1920s, it was completely renovated about ten years ago. Since the renovation, you're the sixth person to buy it. People don't seem to last here. Rumor has it there's a poltergeist. Obviously that's pure nonsense, but each owner has insisted that after a few months, they can't seem to sleep through the night. Granted, none of them have ever really been able to tell me why; they all just turn red and mumble something about strange noises and change the subject. I sincerely hope nine is the magic number - I'm tired of reselling this house!"
I slid out of bed and flicked the light on, pulling a silk bathrobe around me. Clearly, I was losing it if I was starting to believe in ghosts. At the same time, no draft could have changed direction like that inside a house. I turned to close the window closest to my bed and my jaw dropped to see it was not only closed, but latched shut. My heart racing, I rushed over to the opposite side of the bedroom only to discover THAT window was also shut tight. I collapsed into an oversized armchair and stared at myself in the ornate antique mirror perched in the corner of the room. God, I look simultaneously terrified...and thoroughly fucked.
My eyes were wide and my face pale from the confusion and fear. My hair, in a rat's nest of tangles, looked for all the world like a lover had been gripping it, turning it into a handhold to control me. My nipples were hard points showing through the delicate silk of my bathrobe; I let it fall open, exposing a strip of soft skin down the center of my body. Unable to ignore the undercurrent of arousal that hadn't dissipated yet, I spread my legs once more and stared at my swollen lips glistening wet in the soft glow of lamplight. I took a deep breath and, keeping my gaze locked on my wanton reflection, I whispered into the empty room, "Please. Show me I'm not going crazy."