Chapter 11

Mr. Osgood clapped me on the shoulder, his eyes going red at the rims. "You really weren't going to tell us, were you? If I hadn't gone to the registrar's office and looked up your train time, you would've just slipped away on your own."A few of my classmates crowded around."Seriously! That's cold!""Don't forget to send us a postcard when you get there!"In the middle of the warm send-off, a strange rustling came from the thick hedgerow beside us.The next second, a dark figure reeking of something sour and rotten launched out of the bushes. It moved fast and with terrifying focus."Mine! He's mine!"The figure lunged straight at me with outstretched hands, blackened and calloused, and latched onto my silver suitcase with an iron grip.The travelers nearby screamed and scattered, their faces twisting with disgust as they backed away.It was Mom.She looked worse than she had in the video. Her eye sockets had sunk deep, her cheekbones jutted out sharply, and a thread of dro

Chapter 12

He checked my acceptance letter and ID with brisk efficiency and handed me a brand new campus card."Your full-ride scholarship was deposited into this account yesterday. Just take it to Building 5 and check in at the front desk."I took the card and thanked him. Then, I found a quiet bench by a fountain and sat down.I pulled the old phone out of my pocket and lit up the screen. The local news feed from my hometown had pushed one final bulletin right on schedule. I tapped it open.The couple who had once lorded over that city had become its most infamous cautionary tale. The article read with the cold, clipped tone of an official report.'Yesterday, the mentally unstable woman known as Pam L., who had been accosting pedestrians and grabbing young men on the street for weeks, was forcibly committed to Greymont Psychiatric Hospital by police for involuntary treatment.'According to medical staff, the patient's condition is severe. She refuses to sleep in her bed, choosing instead

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