Revenge After Death

Under the projector, Stephanie Carlson... AKA "me" stood, well and alive.

She flashed us a smile and opened her mouth.

"Michael... will you marry me?"

I glanced at Michael. He was influenced as well and started making his way forward.

Afraid that he'd also be affected, I held onto Steven anxiously.

Thankfully, he was immune.

He held me in his arms and whispered, "It must be a fake if the first person you call out to is Michael. If it were actually you, you'd definitely call out my name first."

I leaned against his shoulder in resignation. "How could you be jealous at a time like this?"

"Rachel..."

Zion pulled her back, but she was adamant about moving forward.

She walked toward the hologram and reached out to touch "Stephanie".

"I'm sorry, Stephie," she choked out the words. "I should've brought you away sooner."

The floor abruptly opened up again with a loud snap. Rachel fell down as well.

There was the sound of machinery.

Everyone could hear it. They could hear the screams. Afterward, they smelled the blood.

Then, blood started oozing out from the tiles where Joel and Rachel fell.

I tried to hold onto Steven's collar. My heart was beating rapidly, and my entire body was shaking.

It was that feeling again...

from

numb yet aching at the same time. I wanted to cry, scream,

It felt suffocating, but I had no energy to fight back. I was desperately trying to hold

out and helped me

his senses. His

be influenced and tried

and yelled solemnly, "Get a

mad and tried to go over as well. He only regained his senses after Eason punched

Everyone was in despair.

to watch the people you cared about-your friends, the ones you loved-fall into an abyss and die a horrific death in front of you? "Can you feel it? This is despair. It's suffocation, sadness, pain, struggle,

laughed eerily, as though she was provoking us. "And the lot

tightly. My entire body was shaking, but I

anger?

kind of feeling was

She was your best friend," the

up, and she held up a bloody

It was Rachel's head...

Zion struggled against Eason's

was crying

Zion was going mad.

was holding him with all

in Michael's

was looking at

was as though Steven's heartbeat was all I could

monster! An emotionless

felt like it was about to split open from

onto my

and accusations the children used to throw at

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her kill

my