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Chapter Seven

I stand up.
Limping to the door I reach down to pull out the knife and it's gone. Nothing is there. I continue to the door. I step through the purple light and vanish.

I appear in Tom's house. Lights all off and everyone is gone. All cleaned up. No beer cans or paper plates. Just clean. I leave.

It's dark outside. I walk home in the cold.

I finally make it home. My mother is in the foyer waiting for me.. She has the phone in her left hand and a smoke in the right. I pull open the door and she yells. Yells till she can't yell no more. I cry. I cry until she throws the phone at the wall. I then start yelling at her. Yelling the loudest I can. I go to my room and sleep.

Time passes. I continue to keep this all a secret, for the next day my body is perfectly fine. I suppose I dreamed that all up. But it hurt.. Still, I am fine. Right?