Jenny's POV

I heard the door open and someone approach the bed, but I remained motionless. I didn't want to move and give away my presence. If they found me they'd question me... I wasn't ready to answer them quite yet. I didn't want to face my fears, to face...Julian even if he was only in my thoughts. I prayed silently to myself that whoever it was searching for me would give up their quest. But the footsteps were getting louder...closer; I knew they would find me at any moment now. I silently screamed for them to go away.

I felt something connect with my back but it didn't hurt like it was supposed to, it was like I was cushioned with numbness, all I could feel was the pain deep down inside of me. I didn't bother looking at the object that had crashed into me, it didn't matter. If it was a Shadow Man, they could kill me or worse...I had nothing to live for anymore. Julian was gone, Tom was in some sort of coma and probably hated my guts, Audrey had Michael, Zach had Summer, Dee had Abba and my parents had each other. Everyone would be fine without me and I would be with Julian...I hope. I owed that to him at the very least.

I smiled inwardly as I thought. I could be with Julian; all I needed to do was wait for death to come for me.

Audrey's POV

I tried to think of what to say to her, the girl that was a ghost of my friend. But all my words got stuck in my throat. She looked so...dead inside. I didn't know what to do with myself. After an uncomfortable silence, Jenny finally turned to face me. Her green eyes were dark with pain and longing; whatever she knew, it wasn't good.

"Hi," I whispered, feeling uncomfortable breaking the silence.

She smiled tentatively, "Hi," her voice was rough, broken as if she had been crying.

"Are you ok?" I asked quietly, "You didn't come down and I was worried."

Jenny nodded slowly and sat up, "I'm fine, I just wanted to stay up here for a while," she said, putting a smile on her face.

But I saw the hint of sadness on her face, the darkness lurking in her eyes, she was lying. I frowned slightly but decided to let it pass, if what she knew was important, she'd tell us when she was ready...right? I suddenly felt unsure of myself. Jenny wasn't the same girl she was six months ago, she wasn't the untroubled girl with one love and a life everyone was jealous of. She wasn't the girl who had let me join her circle of friends when I knew no one. She'd found another love, who'd turned her world upside down and then died shortly after, and as a result Jenny was not the same person. Jenny had hid things from us throughout the games, her passion for Julian being one of them.

If she could hide that from us, surely she could hide a lot of other things too. I stared at her for a minute as she watched Tom. Then after a while I got up and headed to the door.

"How about we go downstairs for a bit?" I whispered, breaking Jenny out of her reverie.

She nodded earnestly eager to break away from her train of thoughts. I led her out of the room pretending not to notice the way Jenny stared at Tom as if she'd seen a ghost, or the way she backed away from him as if he was one of the Shadow Men. I acted oblivious, desperately hoping that when she was ready Jenny would tell me, but at the same time I knew that if Jenny wasn't going to tell me tonight she wasn't planning to.

My stomach twisted as I considered what she knew that was so awful that she had slipped back into a state where she wasn't herself anymore. I closed my eyes for a second at the bottom of the stairs. I really hoped that Jenny would tell me what was wrong, but if she didn't then I wasn't going to pry.

Tom's POV

I woke up with a pounding headache. What had happened? All I remember was feeling this darkness pressing down on me, cutting off my air supply, making me lose consciousness slowly. The darkness hunted down the weak when they weren't looking and went in for the kill before you had the chance to scream. The darkness was lethal. It found the darkness inside of you, found it in places that you didn't even know you had. Julian had done that, but then again Julian was a part of the darkness. He was a Shadow Man.

I squinted, the sun was just peeping over the horizon, creating the most extraordinary shade of blue.

Jenny always loved this colour, it reminded her of my eyes, a voice whispered in my head.

I had only heard that voice once before and never here. I was struck by how similar the voice sounded to the one I was thinking of, they were identical. But it couldn't be the same voice, it was impossible. I'd paid in blood so that, that cat-like purr could never be heard again, the voice that, when he wanted, could sound like rocks running over water. For me to hear that voice meant that they had gone back on their word, or that I was hallucinating, because otherwise everything had gone horribly wrong and my life was seconds away from falling apart.

The voice belonged to Julian.

You made me feel like the one

Made me feel like the one

The one

I don't know where we are going now

I don't know where we are going now

So take a look at me now.

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