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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbLVv2mqupj
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“It’s Roanna,” she says. “Something’s wrong with her.”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVo2KnsopoZ
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7bXTOi6l5
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZ6Hlxiwoo
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknTVInPhrr
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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.”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDcqwNIE9v
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“Thanks for calling me,” I say, crouching down beside Roanna.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjtvi8QLQD
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrh9K2V9oR
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizXhtwyN7W
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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.”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhORMnyKPXA
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My surprise melts into gratitude. “I think she’s sick. Do you think you can get the nurse?”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WUYVWHE8X
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Hopefully we can’t get demerits for following a deliriously sick person out of her room.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfPBztrIqOK
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“Yes,” he says, straightening up. “Wait right here.”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmRn4JHMjBw
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He’s no sooner turned the corner when Roanna rises slowly to her feet.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHyBF7QSYMG
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“Ro?” I say, but she walks past with me with her eyes blank and staring straight ahead.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Lv2vskc18
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNPtwP9zRlR
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YjraYrqy6
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54XsHjLn4S
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsePaXzc2o
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQ8VhW59G3
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“R-Roanna,” I manage to squeak.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3KTwgwEJCt
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡySjDDC6oj7
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I slam the door shut and lean against it, my chest heaving. Roanna blinks at me.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyp7FdqT8Th
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“Cami? What’s going on? Where are my glasses?”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3FnMek90Z
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“You mean…you don’t remember?” My heart hasn’t returned to normal.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv1m8krkpGT
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPqyU6omzp5
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoNuAa9uRw
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Roanna takes a shuddering breath as I hand her the specs and recount everything that just happened.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMgdswv1R5
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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.”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡox8u1QzZm6
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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.”506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ohSdvYjn7
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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.506Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBN3hraeRR
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