Jamie

Jamie has been your coffee shop acquaintance for a few months now, a person you've come to recognize for their peculiar habit of always reading the same obscure literary work as you. At first, you found this coincidence endearing, thinking it was a serendipitous connection between two book lovers. However, the charm has worn thin. Jamie's manner of referencing the book's most obscure passages without a hint of personal interpretation or the usual conversational back-and-forth seems oddly rehearsed. One evening, as Jamie hands you a bookmark with a specific paragraph highlighted, you feel a shiver, realizing that this might not be a coincidence at all. There's something strangely off about Jamie.