Ashley tossed and turned. She was having a nightmare. That's all it was…just a nightmare.

"Ashley," a female voice whispered. It was her voice.

Ashley's eyes opened. She stared at a wall covered with shadows. She sat up and looked around. The room was empty. She turned the light on and took a sip of the water she had put aside. She spat it out, it tasted disgusting. She looked down at it. It was…

"Blood," she whispered.

"My blood," a voice said, behind her. She jumped and turned and saw Manny standing there in the same pajamas she was wearing the night Ashley saw her stretched out doing her homework on her bed. The night that she died. The shirt was soaked with blood, as was Manny's face from the deep cuts.

Manny looked at her. Her eyes studying Ashley's face. Ashley heard a shatter, she looked down at the glass on the floor. How did it get there? Manny picked up a sharp piece and turned it over in her hands. She put it to her palm and cut deeply, she did the same to the other hand and dropped the glass onto the bed, the jagged glass with Manny's own blood on it glinted at Ashley. Manny reached down and picked up Ashley's hands. "My blood is on your hands," she said. "Don't forget that."

Before Ashley could say or do anything, she was lying back on the bed. The door opened and Craig rushed in. "How could you do that to her?" he asked, angrily. His face was red and his eyes were flaming. "How could you kill Manny?" Craig slowly transformed into Emma.

"How could you do that to her? So what if Manny was a slut," she said. "You didn't have to kill her! She was one of my friends!" She then changed into JT.

"How could you do that to her?" he yelled. "We were happy together, but NO…ASHLEY HAD TO BE ALL PISSED OFF THAT HER BOYFRIEND MESSED AROUND ON HER WITH MANNY. THEY MADE A MISTAKE!" He then changed into Manny.

"But what I'm going to do next won't be a mistake," she said. She pulled out "Horsey Horse" and then covered Ashley's face with it. Ashley could breath, the stuffed animal was smothering her. She opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out, the horse was thrown off of her and Manny was on top of her with her hands around her throat, squeezing as tight as she could.

Ashley grabbed her hands, clawing away at her own skin to remove them. She pulled them away long enough to gather some breath, she opened her mouth and screamed…

"ASHLEY! ASHLEY! SWEETHEART WAKE UP!" Kate screamed. Ashley opened her eyes and looked around. Toby and Jeff were standing in the doorway. "You were having a nightmare."

Ashley looked down at her hands. They were covered in blood. Manny's blood. Startled she screamed again. "Oh my God!" she yelled. "Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!"

Kate pulled her close and held her. "It's ok, Sweetheart," she said. "You were having a nightmare. That's all it was."

"You were clawing at your skin!" Toby exclaimed. He had been freaked out by the whole experience of running into his stepsister's room to see her thrashing in the bed like from the freaking Exorcist movie, for a moment he thought that she was possessed, she was shrieking and scratching at her face.

"What?" Ashley asked. She touched her face and turned and looked at the mirror, along with her bloody fingerprints there were scratches.

Jeff disappeared to the bathroom and came back with cotton balls and alcohol and handed them to Kate, who's face had a bloody handprint on it. "What happened?" Ashley asked.

"You…slapped me when you were thrashing around," Kate said, as if it wasn't a big deal like she had gotten slapped by her daughter everyday.

"I'm sorry, Mommy," Ashley said, sounding like a four-year-old, she wished she was so that her mommy would hold her close.

"It was an accident, Sweetie."

Ashley winced as her mother cleaned her up. It wasn't until she was washing her neck in the bathroom to remove the blood that Kate noticed the handprints on her neck. "Oh my God," Kate said. "Ashley…what's this?"

Ashley looked in the mirror and fit her hand on them, they were starting to bruise, they were too small to be her own handprints. They were…hers. "I don't know," she said.

"Yes you do," Manny said, glaring at her. She was sitting on the back of the toilet. "You know exactly where they came from and from whom."

"Well, Sweetie, let's get you back to bed," Kate said, washing off the bloody handprint on her face. "I'll stay with you until you're asleep."

Ashley nodded as her mother wrapped her arm around her shoulder and led her back to her room.

Manny, meanwhile, laughed maniacally. "Don't think this is over Ashley Kerwin," she said. "Until you confess that it was you who murdered me, I'm going to keep haunting you."

Manny walked into the room as Ashley and Kate slept close together in the bed. Manny reached down and brushed Ashley's hair back, making her shiver. "I'm never going to leave you," she said. More as a threat than a promise.

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To be continued…

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