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THE PERFECT BOYFRIEND

“Did you not hear me calling you?” Her syllables are erratic and hard. “I need your help, Mary!”

I sit up in bed and rub my eyes. It’s ten o’clock. I squint at the missed calls. Five of them tonight, all from Victoria. “Hmmm, I have the sniffles.” I clear my throat. “What’s going on?”

“Paul broke up with me!”

He broke up with her at least once a month, for several months now. I don’t know how to say this to her face, but she’s an annoying, clingy, drama queen.

“I need you. What should I do?”

“Hold on.” I put the phone on speaker so I can tie my curly hair in a knot. My golden skin looks almond-toned in the faint lamplight. Mary is the opposite of me, a blue-eyed blonde. At our university, we’re called caramel and cream. We’re also different in other ways. She’s all roar, while I’m the calm one.

She cries ugly. I imagine her pale face all scrunched up, her button nose all red, and her bangs falling onto her forehead. “He told me… he tol

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About the author: Medeia Sharif was born in New York City and received her Master’s Degree in psychology from Florida Atlantic University. After becoming a voracious reader in high school and a relentless writer dabbling in many genres in college, she found her niche writing short stories, articles, and novels for all age groups. She has a special place in her heart for horror genre and loves diverse characters, settings and storylines that are found in scary stories of various media.

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