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Charlotte let me know.”
    I looked at him. My thoughts were miles away and I am sure it showed on my face.
    He added, “and if you need someone to talk to about going crazy, I’m here. But don’t expect me to try and fix you. I like you just the way you are, you crazy hoe.” He winked. Nicholas left as he came, out the window.
    I got up and hit play on my stereo, laid back down on my bed and stared up at the ceiling. Good thing Nicholas didn’t see crazy as a bad thing, because I was sure I was on my way to a straight jacket and a padded white room.
    I laid there for awhile, not moving, just thinking. Staring off into oblivion. I shut my eyes, trying to collect my thoughts. Trying to make some sense of all the weird things that were happening to me lately. The ring, the mirror, and now the camera. I was almost one hundred percent sure that they all were somehow related to my new neighbor, Elliott.
    I felt what I thought was Theory jumping up onto my bed and opened my eyes to see what she was up to. My eyes mimicked golf balls when I saw it was Elliott sitting beside me.

Chapter 4. The Ghost

    “ I didn’t hear you come in!” I was going to have a heart attack. All of these jolts to my system couldn’t be good for me.
    He sat there silent. How dare he materialize in my room and not speak to me. Rude. “Elliott, what are you doing here?”
    He looked at me as though it surprised him that I could see him. He cocked his head to the side and his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
    “ Elliott, did you hear me? What are you doing here?”
    His eyes got wide and his expression was frightened. Like something was terribly wrong.
    The anger that colored my voice before was gone, all that was left was concern. “Are you okay?” I reached out to comfort him. I reached out to touch him.
    He jumped up off the bed and practically teleported himself out the window. I sat there stunned and a little hurt. What on earth had just happened? He was the one that showed up unexpectedly in my room. Why did he freak out?
    I lay back down on my bed in a daze from all the confusion clouding my brain. I hadn’t even had time to get comfortable when Charlotte pranced in through the window.
    “ Did you see Elliott?” I asked, quickly sitting up.
    “ When?”
    “ Now, he just barely left.”
    “ No. I didn’t see anyone, Lil.”
    “ Are you sure? He seriously hasn’t been gone more than a minute. You two should have crossed paths.”
    Charlotte looked back out the window. “There was nobody there, Lil. Now I’m really beginning to think you made him up,” she laughed, teasing.
    I was starting to question that myself, but I wasn’t about to tell that to Charlotte. So I changed the subject.
    “ You and Nicholas make up yet?”
    “ Kinda. He apologized for being a jerk earlier today, but I think I should pretend to be angry a little longer. You know, to sweeten the moment.”
    “ What moment are you trying to sweeten?”
    “ The one where Nicholas realizes how much he likes me.” And she was off. There was no stopping her once she got going. I pushed myself back on the bed so that I could lean against the wall and zone while Charlotte talked to herself. She was practically bouncing around the room, playing out her romantic fantasies on how she hoped Nicholas will proclaim his love for her and how she will pretend to be surprised. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes, and unfortunately she saw it.
    “ What?” she scoffed.
    “ Harlet, you think I live in a fantasy world. Listen to yourself.”
    “ You do live in a fantasy world. And anyways, I am not fantasizing but foreseeing the natural future of things.”
    “ What! We have been friends for years, and only now you tell me you have psychic abilities,” I teased. “Tell me what’s going to happen next, oh great and powerful Oz.”
    “ Very funny, Lil. You know what I mean. That’s how it always happens in the movies. Boy and girl are friends for years, then one day the boy