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Chapter 61

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LAUREN

The hallway buzzed with lunchtime noise—shoes squeaking on polished tiles, lockers slamming, laughter bouncing off the walls. I moved through the crowd with a smile plastered on my face, nodding at classmates, blending in like I always did. No one looked twice. No one ever did.

But something was wrong.

Deep inside me, something itched beneath the surface—like pressure building under my skin, like a glass wall between me and… myself.

My hands were mine, but they moved with a practiced precision that didn’t feel like me. My voice said words I didn’t always choose. I blinked and sometimes forgot where I was looking.

And lately—more and more—I’d been hearing my voice in my head.

Panicked. Muffled.

Screaming.

Get out. Move. Run.

But my body didn’t respond.

I walked into the girls’ bathroom and gripped the edge of the sink. My reflection stared back—calm, composed, flawless.

Too flawless.

My fingers trembled. “Something’s… wrong,” I whispered.

Then—

Flash.

A gust of wind slammed into
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