My Heart, Their Secret

essica and I walked back to her dorm in sile

sat down in her now half-empty room. "What could you have possibly done

over everything a hundred times. Our last texts were normal. We were exc

disappearance was the start of everything. If I could figure out why

trated. "Their numbers are gone, their soc

be I can talk to her. Without you there. Ma

ot," I sighed. "

room, trying to study, but the words on the page just swam in front of

"I'm outside the library. I saw Karen go in, but she has

you talking about, Jess? I'm

're walking across the quad, heading towards your old d

t-shirt and jeans. "Jess, I am in the room. I'm

ght at you! You just walked past the big oak tree. Y

d the oak tree she was talking about. My old dorm, East Hall, was visible in the distance. I l

I said, my voice shaking. "There's no one in a gray hoodie

other end of the line. I cou

ed with a new kind of dread. "That's not possible.

nst my chest. "Jess, w

ry," she said. "The 'you' I see is alm

phone, Jess.

her red backpack, suddenly came into view near the library entrance. She was sta

rm, was another figure. A girl wearing my gray hoodie. From this distance, I couldn'

t light. It was impossible.

to the phone. "She just went i

rol the panic in my voice. "The person you a

eyes must be playing tricks on me. I think I

n her voice. The same fear

s, w

om East Hall, as if her life depended on it. She was running so fast that her phone slipped from her hand, cla

ne wen

y eyes drifted back to East Hall. The other me was gone, swallowed by the building.