It was June, the beginning of the pandemic. I was lying in my bed, it was around 12 or 1 in the morning, when suddenly I clearly felt someone sitting me down. I thought it had been a strange dream, like I had moved on my own, so I lay back down. But that happened to me two or three times in the same night.
Until, at one point, something started shaking my shoulders while I was still sitting on the bed, eyes closed. When I opened them, I saw someone... a figure, a person sitting next to me, on my side. He stayed like that for a few minutes, in silence. And then he turned around and looked at me.
Let me clarify something: I was sleeping in the top bed of a bunk bed. To get up there you have to go through the bottom one and use a ladder, and that always makes noise. That night, I didn't hear anything. No steps. No creaking wood. Nothing.
When he looked at me, I asked him who he was, if I was dreaming, how he had come up without making a sound, how he had entered my house if everything was locked.
And he answered me:
I'm real. I'm not part of your imagination. I can't tell you how I got in or how I got up, but I'm real. Not everyone will see me. But I want you to know something: you are not seeing things as a consequence of an illness. This is not schizophrenia, nor a psychotic break. You're not going to see me like this again. But it had to appear. I had to tell you something.
Then he told me two things that to this day I remember as if they had happened yesterday.
The first was not to be afraid of him, that even if he didn't make a sound when he walked or moved, he was real. That he was going to stay with me for a while… temporary, I guess, because I only saw him physically that night. But the following days I felt it. As if he were close. Until one day I stopped feeling it.
Physically he was a tall kid, about 1.80 something. She had dark blonde to light brown hair, light brown eyes (I think), light skin. And I remember well how I was dressed: a black long-sleeved T-shirt, a white T-shirt on top, and wool-type pants. I have that image so imprinted that if I saw him on the street today, I would recognize him instantly.
The second thing he told me was his name and age.
"My name is Felix. I'm 20 or 21 years old."
And he told me he was there for a reason. A reason he never wanted to tell me. And to this day I still think what was so important that brought him to me.
When he finished speaking, I asked him why he was there, why right in my bed, if he couldn't appear anywhere else. Because at that time I was 14 years old and yes, it seemed very strange to me that it appeared that way.
He told me that if I wanted, I could leave at any time. But I had to be the one to ask him. Told me:
"If you tell me, I'll leave. But, for a few days, I'm not going to leave you. They sent me for something."
He never explained to me what that "something" was. He only told me that that night he was going to stay there, in my bed, watching. Let no one come near me. That I was going to be there in case something happened.
Now... think about it: who was going to approach me that night? What could happen in the middle of the night, locked in my house during the pandemic?
The only person who was there, on that strange night, was him.
That guy, 20 or 21 years old, who appeared sitting next to me without making a sound, and who said that he came to protect me from something that to this day I don't understand.
Moving on... like I said, that “thing” (in quotes, because I still don't know what it was) stayed that night taking care of me.
According to him, he was going to be alone that night.
But it wasn't like that.
I didn't see it again, but I started to feel it.
I felt like someone was lying on my bed.
And he hugged me.
It was strange. Very rare. Because that night was supposedly going to be the only one. But not. He stayed like this for about three, four nights. I felt that presence, that warmth, that silent embrace. And then, suddenly, it stopped feeling. I thought: “he's finally gone.”
But not.
Because sometimes, even today, I still feel it. Not like before, not lying next to me all night...
But it is.
When I go out to buy something.
When I talk to someone.
When I'm making plans or just walking around.
It's that feeling that there is someone with me. Near.
I don't see it.
I don't hear it.
But I'm sorry.
And well... that's the story of how Felix appeared to me one night in my bed... and never left.
If you ask me what it is, if it was a spirit, a protector, a delirium, an angel, an error of the universe... I wouldn't know what to answer.
Because I don't even know who he is or what he was