#Chapter 22 Osteology 101

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.

to my locker and put on my lab coat and goggles, then put on a pair

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into him to begin

whipped around, only to see absolutely nothing. I shook my head and returned to my work. Surely my ner novelxo.com fast updateves were just

got my tools ready and started to cut into the cadaver’s abdomen. I cut down to the belly button, then began to shakily peel back the layers of skin and muscle as I prepared myself for potentially seeing more

nothing out

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human organs. I let out a

again. It sounded like… bones? I turned around toward the direction of the sound and shrieked when I saw the skeleton that was used for osteology… moving! It was off of its stand and staggering directly toward me with its bony hands outstretched toward my

the floor. The skeleton continued to lurch toward me, clacking its teeth while I screamed in terror. I

was halfway across the room, on the floor where I fell. The skeleton

grab my

me, I

real… This

the sound

figure in 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

“Who sent you?!”

was Enzo as soon as I heard his

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looked over to see that the window

voice sounding like nails on a chalkboard. I didn’t

back up. I watched

had to be a dream. There was no way this

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