Someone raps on the door to my room. It can’t be Roanna because she would just barge right in. I open the door just enough. It’s Amelia. Since she and I aren’t exactly friends, I stare at her for a moment. She’s flushed and breathless.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuO4WY04El
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“It’s Roanna,” she says. “Something’s wrong with her.”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8W66e6FUp
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I grab my room key and follow Amelia without a second thought, a sick feeling burrowing into the pit of my stomach as I wonder what could have happened to Roanna.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzg2XrMnxv2
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Amelia opens the door to the dormitory and sticks her head outside, looking around for the security guards. When she signals to me that it’s safe, we dash across the grounds to the school, trying to keep low to the grass—as if that could make us invisible.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIPKfseGKw6
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Amelia hauls open the heavy ash doors, and we slip inside quietly. Jen is sitting off to the side with Roanna slumped against the wall.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI052H3cxeS
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“She just got up and ran out,” Jen says. “Then she came here and sat down. I didn’t know what else to do.”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbLZN0qzIL
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“Thanks for calling me,” I say, crouching down beside Roanna.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNKYB9y8ya
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Amelia and Jen glance at each other and leave. I resent a little that they’ve left me to deal with this on my own, but I’m also grateful that they came out of their way to bring me to Roanna.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJv1kXAj03
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Her eyes are glazed over, and she’s murmuring something. I press the back of my hand against her burning forehead before pulling it back.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9mfHRaQZqn
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“Is something wrong?” I jump at the voice but see Will standing over us, bending to get a better look at Roanna. When I don’t say anything for a moment, Will adds, “I saw you run across the grounds.”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1G76UCezw
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My surprise melts into gratitude. “I think she’s sick. Do you think you can get the nurse?”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4r38e1dzp2
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Hopefully we can’t get demerits for following a deliriously sick person out of her room.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1XMLQU4Xh7
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“Yes,” he says, straightening up. “Wait right here.”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH89FdLl6m5
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He’s no sooner turned the corner when Roanna rises slowly to her feet.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTu0M1Dv7R
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“Ro?” I say, but she walks past with me with her eyes blank and staring straight ahead.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMNCcec3DMy
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I try to keep a grip on her arm as she moves, but she’s walking too quickly. Our footsteps shuffle and echo in the quiet hallway. I hope Will and the nurse can find us when they come back.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnffgvLqtH0
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A light flashes down the hallway. I try to grab at Roanna’s arm, but she turns and walks into Mr. Kensington’s English classroom. I follow close behind and shut the door, leaning against it. His footsteps draw closer, and the light shines into the room. It fades away almost instantly.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWTZO1Xte3j
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As I release my breath, Roanna takes a step forward. I want to tell her stop, but I can’t move or speak.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFsWHKw4OM
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What should be Mr. Kensington’s English class is now a room with two rows of beds against the wall. Some people are just lumps of blankets but some toss and turn in their beds. Roanna keeps moving toward them.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1Fcez9xMH
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In unison, the people remove their blankets and sit up, staring at us. They walk toward us slowly and deliberately, their feet shuffling across the carpeted floor. They don’t blink, but they whisper over each other so I can’t pick apart what a single one is saying. Their voices are as soft as rustling leaves.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqvuDlDDQOt
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“R-Roanna,” I manage to squeak.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QbBRGjl2X
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Wrapping my arms around her shoulders—getting a mouthful of her curls—I throw myself back, pulling us into the door. Her specs clutter onto the floor. Still holding onto her, I slide the door open with one hand. I turn her, pushing her out into the hallway.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvqiIdFcz9u
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I slam the door shut and lean against it, my chest heaving. Roanna blinks at me.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJuYj76FbF
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“Cami? What’s going on? Where are my glasses?”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNw3JsUVzWh
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“You mean…you don’t remember?” My heart hasn’t returned to normal.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUT0dInQs8E
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She shakes her head, eyes wide. I turn slowly, hardly daring to peek through the window. But the room is back to normal. My heart, on the other hand, is pattering like a runner’s feet.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4WFPbNj20
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I tentatively push it open and run inside to grab her glasses off the floor and bring them back to her. The pattering of my heartbeat gets quicker as I do so, but there don’t seem to be any more ghosts.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlyeKHHNp78
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Roanna takes a shuddering breath as I hand her the specs and recount everything that just happened.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPfnQhoaMH0
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“I suppose now’s a good time as any to tell you,” she says. “I found out what Wolverhampton House was before it was a school. It was a psychiatric hospital—they called it a lunatic asylum—back in the early 1900s. It makes sense, doesn’t it? And there are rumors that Madame Pommier is a ghost hunter who was hired to get rid of the ghosts.”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91hH60OzkJ
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“Ro,” I say, unable to keep a tremor out of my voice. “I’m sorry, but I can’t do this right now.”777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpaazWkmLxq
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I wonder where Will is, and if he’s looking for us. The darkness begins to press upon me. It seems I can see more figures out of the corners of my eyes. I try not to whirl around, but even when I do, there’s nothing there.777Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7h9wlNQSy8
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