#Chapter 18: Hypnotherapy

Nina

Without removing my lab coat and goggles, I ran from the laboratory and down the hall. I didn’t know where I was going or what I was doing, but I had to tell someone.

As I ran down the hall, I nearly ran straight into none other than Jessica. She had her hair up in a bun and a stack of textbooks in her arms, which she dropped when I almost ran into her.

“Geez!” she said, clutching her chest with one hand as she looked at me. ” What the hell happened? You look like a crazed murderer.”

I caught a glimpse of myself in the reflection of a classroom window. Jessica was right; my lab coat had blood on it from opening up the cadaver, and my goggles only emphasized my wide eves But that wasn’t important right #Chapter 18 Hypnotherapy

now.

“Follow me,” I said. “I have to show you something.”

We returned to the lab, Jessica grumbling behind me about how gross cadavers were as we entered.

“There,” I said, pointing at the table with my cadaver on it. “Look.”

She walked over, clutching her books to her chest, and peered at the body with a scowl on her face. “What is it?” she asked, sounding confused.

I stomped over to show her the body, but the chest was completely healed and the fangs were no longer there. How?

“Someone switched the body,” I said, whirling around to see if someone had moved my cadaver elsewhere. Jessica only looked on in confusion.

“Um… Nina, are you alright?” she said,

putting a hand on my shoulder. “Are you overly tired or something?”

I shrugged her hand off and shook my head. “No,” I replied. “I’m fine. I swear my cadaver’s heart was massive… twice the size of a normal human’s. And I checked his teeth. He had fangs. Like a wolf.”

Jessica furrowed her brow and looked at me with concern drawn across her face. “Nina, that’s ridiculous,” she said. “I think maybe you should go home and get some rest.”

“I know what I saw!” I snapped. My hands were shaking and my eyes began to fill with tears. “That cadaver was no ordinary human, and someone switched it.”

Jessica didn’t say anything.

“I know you think I’m crazy,” I said, pulling off my goggles and my lab coat and putting them away in my locker. ”

Chapter 18 Hypnotherapy

saw

lying, but I didn’t say anything. “Let’s

bag out of my locker. “No,” I

stop me, I stormed out of the lab and

she looked up. at me

taking off her glasses and clasping her fingers together

on the desk. “Can

you?”

“I… uh…” I stammered.

haven’t got anything

office,”

something,” I blurted out,

anatomy lab. My

human.”

an eyebrow. “Oh?”

said. “Do explain.”

fangs. Like an animal… a…. a wolf.” Saying it out loud to the dean made me cringe

and looked down her nose at me. “Why come to me, and not

swallowed, unsure of how

I hadn’t thought

my

to

responding, she nodded and pulled out a notepad. She jotted something down on it and ripped the

sure you’re stressed,” she said. ” Please make an appointment with Edward Williams. He’s an

therapist.”

“I don’t need thera-”

stop talking. “It’s not so much a request as it is an order,”

nodded solemnly and

feet, blinking back tears.

anything else?” the

wanted to ask about my reassignment, but felt as though the dean wouldn’t allow it now;

home. “No,” I replied. “That was all.

you.”

me to. I called Edward and made an appointment. When Jessica asked what happened later, I simply told her that I was tired… No

sleepless night; I’m sure the dark circles under my eyes

me what

Edward, a portly, kind- looking

#Chapter 18. Hypnotherapy

I saw something yesterday when I was working with a cadaver on my anatomy project,” I replied as I fiddled with a loose

what happened after that?” Edward

replied. “And when I went back a few minutes later, it was gone. Like someone

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