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Yasmin glanced at herself in her mirror. She frowned and opened her mascara bottle and carefully put it on. It's been 3 years since the incident that happened with Arielle. People now actually talk to Yasmin more often and even guys that liked Arielle liked her. She was no longer in Arielle's shadow.
Ding dong. Three of Yasmin's friends stood at the door.
"Hi Yasmin. Are you ready to go to school?" her friend, Joyce asked. Joyce hugged herself as the wind blew. She nodded. "It's so cold. And it's only October"
"Aww, don't you look pretty" Landyn teased. Yasmin rolled her eyes.
"Where's Aiden?" she asked. They shrugged.
"Nyssa's in th hospital. She broke her leg and she's in a coma." Sebastian said sadly. "The doctors said she'll wake up an a week or so"
"So you spent the whole summer and now fall waiting for your girlfriend to wake up?" Landyn asked. He nodded. Yasmin felt bad for him. He was dating Arielle before she died and now his new girlfriend was in a car accident and was in a coma.
"Anyways, let's go before we're late" Yasmin said, changing the subject. They nodded and started to walk to school. The leaves on the tree rustled in the wind as they silently walked. Yasmin frowned.
"Why are you guys so quiet?" she asked.
"Oh.. We were just thinking about Arielle" Joyce said. Yasmin dropped her Tna bag and they all stopped walking. Joyce gulped before she continued. "We all miss her. Don't you? You were her best friend"
"Yeah, she was a babe" Landyn scoffed. Joyce smacked him on the back of his head. "Hey!"
"Yeah. I do miss her. But you guys are my best friends now" she replied as she picked up her Tna bag. "We're gonna be late" Yasmin bit her lip. She surely regret asking them why there were so quiet.
Everyone mumbled in their classroom about school and life as Mr. Koal wrote on the chalkboard.
"Hi Aiden" Joyce said. He smiled. "You didn't walk with us to school today"
"Sorry. My mom insisted on driving me to school on her way to work" he replied. "Hi Yasmin" Yasmin smiled and took a seat behind Jerime. Jerime spun around and smiled at her.
"Hey Yasmin, how's Nyssa?" he asked. Her face turned bright red but she managed to reply back.
"Um.. Fine. She might be back at school in a week or so" she said. She frowned at a chain around his neck. "Nice chain. Arielle use to have one just like that." Yasmin continued to look at him again. He smiled a genuine smile. Just like Arielle's; showing a bit of her straight teeth and dimples. Yasmin lightly shook her head, trying to get back to reality.
"Yo, you okay, Yas?" he asked. That sounded more like Jerime. Yasmin nodded and Jerime spun back to face the chalkboard.
"Okay, class. Let's see how well you know your math with a small quiz" Mr. Koal said as he handed out the tests. Everyone groaned as they took out their pencils. Just then, the front door opened. Yasmin turned around and saw a girl with pale white skin and her long hybrid hair was covering her face. She shot an angry look at her and Yasmin screamed and fell to the ground.
"Yasmin! Are you okay!?" Sebastian asked. Yasmin looked around and everyone was looking at her; so was Mr. Koal who wasn't very pleased with what she did.
"Don't you see that girl!?" she screamed. But when she looked back to the door, no one was there.
"Don't try to hallucinate things to not do the test" Landyn smirked. She shot him a look as she sat back in her chair and resumed her test. A blast of cold wind shot by her.
Pull yourself together, Yasmin! Ghosts and other dumb things aren't real!, she thought. But the windows weren't opened.
"Liar" Yasmin looked around; to her left, then right. But everyone was too occupied with the test to do anything.
Mr. Koal, can I go get a drink?" she whispered. He frowned but nodded his head. Yasmin walked down the big, empty hallway of her high school. Yasmin quietly mumbled to herself as her flats got wet in the puddles of water in the hallways. She bent down and pushed the button of the water fountain and drank the water. Yasmin lifted her head from the fountain. She felt a chill down her spine as if someone was watching her. She glanced to her right and saw the same girl running down the hallway, holding a knife in her hand and was dripping water. Yasmin began to run down the hallway, her heart pounding as she took heavy breaths.
"Ow!" she slipped on the puddles of water and slammed into a few lockers as she ran around a corner of the hallway. Yasmin managed to get up and and hide the corner of the wall. Maybe that person was gone. Or maybe it was a joke. Yasmin caught her breath.
"AHHH!!" The same person grabbed her by her ankle an pulled her down and dragged her around the corner. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!" Yasmin shruggled to get away as she looked at a few lockers. Each locker had a letter that spelt the word 'liar' She closed her eyes and began to scream again.
"Yasmin! Yasmin, are you alright?" Joyce asked. She shot her eyes wide opened and saw a group of people around her. She hugged Joyce and she hugged her back.
"She's gone.. She's really gone.." she cried.
"What? Who?" Sebastian help his fingers to his lips to tell her to stop asking Yasmin so many questions. She looked back to Yasmin and held her tight. "It'll be okay"
