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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.

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

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as though I had never cut into him to begin with… had I just imagined the whole thing? Had I passed out, or

the sound of something rattling. I took in a sharp breath and 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 making me overly sensitive to

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

nothing out of the

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human body, with regular human organs. I

direction of the sound and shrieked when I saw the skeleton that was used for osteology… moving!

lurch toward me, clacking its teeth while I screamed in terror. I scrambled to my feet and over to the door, but when I tried the handle,

where I fell. The skeleton was already past it now,

grab my phone. I

advance on me, I shut my eyes

real… This isn’t

sound of bones rattling toward me was replaced by the sound

over the skeleton as it writhed and kicked on the floor. It swiped a bony hand at the figure and slashed

“Who sent you?!”

realized that the dark figure was Enzo as soon

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did he get in here? I looked over to see that the window was open… but we were

a chalkboard.

hung it back up. I watched in wonder as he whispered some strange incantation that I couldn’t understand, and the skeleton went

I said, my voice shaking. This had to be a

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