Waiting in the Dark

I yanked the power cord. My room went dark. Silence. Relief.

But when I restarted the PC, Fortnite booted up automatically. My locker was empty.

Every skin I had collected for years… gone. In its place was that default skin,

staring. Waiting. Then my phone buzzed. A notification from Fortnite: “Your

Locker is Full.” I picked it up. The screen flickered. My reflection stared back at me — but

the reflection smiled first. It wasn’t me. It was the skin. I tried to delete

the game, uninstall Epic, even wipe my system. Nothing worked. That night,

I swore I heard footsteps in my room. Clicking. Shuffling.