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Shadows.

Something.

My heart started beating harder.

Come on.

I’d waited a year.

Someone grabs my arm, and I look to see its Charlie. I forgot he was even beside me.

I look back to the crowd.

Nothing.

Someone runs across the grass.

Wrong mask.

I kept looking.

Charlie says something to me, but I didn’t hear him.

Because, suddenly-

Tap.

I froze.

It hadn’t come from behind me.

I looked towards the attractions.

Another tap.

My pulse jumped.

My eyes kept searching around.

Tap.

The sound came from the glass wall of the game booth across the midway.

I turned.

Nothing.

Only my reflection beneath the red lights.

Then the fog shifted.

A figure stood on the other side of the glass.

Black clothes.

Mask.

My breath caught.