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Nina

I woke up the next morning feeling slightly more rested than the day before, although my eyes still burned from crying so much last night.

I dragged myself out of bed, and after a shower and some coffee, I felt much better. I still avoided looking at my phone just in case there was more outrage over my photos with Enzo, and got dressed in a nondescript outfit to go to class.

People still stared at me and whispered about me all day, but I tried my best to ignore it. I just kept repeating what Lori told me in my head: this would pass. All I had to do was keep my head down, focus on school, and wait for the bitchy girls at this school to move on to the next bit of drama to gossip about.

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After my classes, I decided that I had to return to the anatomy lab to finish my project, as it was due in two days and I had hardly even started. I really didn’t want to go back after what I saw in there last time, but I just kept telling myself that it was all in my head and that it would be fine now… I still didn’t

feel like it was all in my imagination,

but I had to tell myself that in order to

get my work done.

It was getting dark out by the time I made it to the anatomy lab, which only made the environment seem even more spooky. I steeled my nerves before opening the door and stepping in.

lab coat and goggles, then put on a pair of plastic gloves before pulling my cadaver out of

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to begin with… had I

in a sharp breath and whipped around, only to see absolutely nothing. I

cut into the cadaver’s abdomen. I cut down to the belly button, then began to shakily peel

out of the

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a regular human body, with regular human organs. I let out a sigh of

direction of the sound and shrieked when I saw the

me, clacking its teeth while I screamed in terror. I scrambled to my feet and

in my pocket, but it wasn’t there; it was halfway across the room, on the floor where I fell. The skeleton was already past it now, and there was no way I

it to grab my phone. I was

skeleton continued to advance on me, I shut my eyes and shook

isn’t real… This isn’t

replaced by the sound of those

the dark, wearing a hoodie with the hood up, standing over the skeleton as it writhed and kicked on the floor. It swiped a bony hand at the figure and slashed it in the thigh, but the figure retaliated by picking the skeleton up by its throat — well, where its throat would have been, if it

“Who sent you?!”

was Enzo as soon as

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that the window was open… but

never tell…” the skeleton croaked, its voice sounding like nails on a chalkboard.

over to the rack where the skeleton previously hung and hung it back up. I watched in wonder as he whispered some strange

to be

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