The Mathman
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The Mathman
When I was a kid, I had an imaginary friend named The Mathman.
He wasn’t like other imaginary friends—he wasn’t silly or playful. He was serious, always standing tall in his black graduation robes, his face hidden beneath the deep shadow of his cap. His voice was smooth, patient, and always just a little too close to my ear.
At first, he only helped me with math. I struggled with numbers, but he could solve anything instantly, whispering the answers before I even finished writing the problem. My parents thought it was cute, a sign of an overactive imagination. They had no idea how real he felt.
He stayed with me for ten years.
But as I got older, he changed.
He stopped caring about math. His voice grew colder, sharper. He whispered strange things, things I didn’t understand at first—until one day, he told me to hurt my family.
I laughed, thinking it was a joke. But he didn’t laugh back.
"Do it," he said. "Or I’ll do it for you."
I refused. And that’s when everything shifted.
The Mathman—who had always been my friend—turned against me. He no longer stood at my desk, guiding my hand. Now, he watched from dark corners, from behind doors that were cracked just an inch too wide. His presence filled my room at night, a suffocating weight pressing against my chest.
I told my parents. I begged them to help me. But they only looked at me with pity, telling me that no one was there.
"You don’t see him?" I whispered.
They shook their heads.
That was when The Mathman laughed—a deep, guttural sound that made my skin crawl.
"Of course they don't see me," he murmured. "They never could. But I’ve been here since the beginning. And I’ll be here until the end."
Desperate, I demanded to know who—what—he really was.
He finally answered.
"I am the one cast aside," he said. "The one they do not speak of. My brother rules the underworld, but I rule the mind. You invited me in. You let me teach you. And now… I will never leave."
That was the last night I saw The Mathman.
Or maybe, the last night I could see him.
Even now, I sometimes feel his presence—just behind me, just out of sight. And when I struggle with numbers, I swear I hear it—the faintest whisper of an answer, crawling its way into my brain.
I never write it down.
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