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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.

I crossed over to my locker and put on my lab coat and goggles, then put on a pair of plastic gloves before pulling my cadaver out of the mortuary cabinet and

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to begin with… had I just imagined the whole thing?

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

the belly button, then began to shakily peel back the layers of

was nothing out

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human body, with regular human

I saw the

skeleton continued to lurch toward me, clacking its teeth while I screamed in terror. I scrambled to my feet and over to the door,

halfway across the room, on the floor where I fell. The skeleton was already past it now, and there was

to grab my

advance on me, I shut

isn’t real… This isn’t

the sound

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

“Who sent you?!”

that the dark figure was Enzo as soon as I heard

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did he get in here? I looked over to see that the window

on a chalkboard. I didn’t know how it

the rack where the skeleton previously hung and hung it back up. I watched in wonder as he whispered some strange incantation that I couldn’t

be a dream. There

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