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When Jake told me he had something
to show me, I was curious,

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but also a little worried. It'd
been my best friend since junior high,

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and I loved and trusted him like
a brother. But I also couldn't forget

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that three months earlier he had been
in an institution instead of living across town.

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The story of that had ended up
with him being diagnosed with schizophreniform disorder

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and sent for impatient treatment. But
it started by Jake freaking out in a

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college algebra class. I wasn't there, but supposedly he was screaming in some

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language no one understood and attacked his
professor, And in the days that followed,

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he told the doctors that he'd been
dreaming for weeks about living in another

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part of the world, though he
wasn't sure where. According to his parents,

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he didn't remember screaming and biting his
man professor at all. With therapy

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and meds, he got better over
time, and if you asked him if

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any of that stuff had been real, other than the biting, of course,

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he'd look embarrassed and shake his head, tell you that it had all

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been crossed wires in his head,
and that who was better now? And

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I think most people believed him,
but I knew Jake well, maybe better

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than anyone, and I could see
it in his eyes when he looked my

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way he was lying, or at
least holding something back. We started hanging

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out again, fairly regularly as life
allowed, but I still felt tints around

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him, not because I thought he
was dangerous, but because I wanted him

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to be okay, and I felt
responsible for watching him closely for any sign

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that he still needed help. But
when he showed up at my apartment twenty

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minutes later, I could see he
was excited, and it actually made me

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relax a little. The meds made
him calmer and flatter in some ways,

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and while that was probably a good
thing, it also made him seem different.

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This was more like the old Jake, full of energy and ready to

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tell you or show you something funny
or awesome. He'd referenced the video on

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the phone, and when he came
in I saw he had his laptop under

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one arm. I raised an eye
brought him what we couldn't look it up

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on YouTube or something. He grinned
as he said, the laptop on the

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kitchen counter and opened it up.
Nope, not this, it's special.

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On his screen was a website showing
what looked like video from a camera perched

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high up on a pole or building
and pointed out over a multi lane freeway

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and part of some city on the
far side. There, the sun was

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bright and you could see steady streams
of cars going in both directions, and

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in the upper left part of the
camera's view you could see a long pedestrian

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bridge with people passing to and fro. Oblivious to our scrutiny, I glanced

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at him, is this live or
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It's Kuala Lumpa, Malaysia. I
glanced back at the video. That

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made sense. It was after ten
at night where we were, but it

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was probably the next morning there.
But still, I mean, that's neat

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and all. But I've seen city
cameras before, lots of places livestream.

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Now, is there some shut up? Here she comes? I followed where

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his finger was emphatically jabbing the screen. Coming towards the camera along the footbridge

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was a squat woman with black and
gray hair that looked to be in her

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late fifties. The image, while
good quality, wasn't clear enough to show

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a face in any real detail.
But a movement was stiff and strange,

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as though she were aching with every
step, or maybe had slip walked the

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entire way there. I looked back
over at Jake. Who is that?

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He gave a small laugh. I
don't know a name. It doesn't matter,

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but I know her. She's the
one I've been dreaming about for months.

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My stomach began to curl in on
itself. Jake, have you taken

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your meds today? He didn't look
at me, but I saw his jaw

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clench and jump before he spoke.
I did. But it doesn't make a

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difference. I'm not crazy, I
never was. Just shut up and listen

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to me. He tapped the screen
with the woman had come to a stop

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in the middle of the bridge.
This woman, I knew she was going

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to come to the bridge because I
made her do it. I spent half

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the afternoon picturing it until I knew
it had set in. My mind was

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racing with what I should do next. Do I call someone, try to

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get him to go to the doctor. What if he got weirder or even

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violent. Maybe I should just hear
him out and then go from there.

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I don't really understand what you're talking
about. Still looking at the screen,

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he let out a long breath.
Yeah, I know it sounds crazy.

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That's why I want to show you. Give me just the second I have

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to concentrate. Jake led his arms
hang down by his side as he stared

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intently at the video feed. After
over a minute of awkward silence, he

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started to raise his right hand,
first to his head, then above it,

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stretched up and straight, like he
wanted to answer a question in class.

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I was about to ask what he
was doing when I saw it.

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The woman on the bridge was raising
her hand to heart pounding. I looked

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between the video and Jake. He
was raising his other arm in the same

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way, and about three or four
seconds behind, the woman was doing the

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same thing. He turned to beam
at me, and to my horror,

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I saw the woman turning to smile
in our direction as well. What the

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hell is this some kind of internet
trick? He snorted, No trick,

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I'll show you. Ask me to
do something, something simple. I don't

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have good control yet, I started
shaking my head. Look, I don't

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know what this is, but it's
freaking me out. Jake scowled at me.

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Don't be a wasss tell me to
do something Simon says, taking a

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step back. I rolled my eyes
in irritation to hide my growing fear.

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Fine, jump up and down,
giggling. He nodded and began jumping up

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and down while keeping both arms up. After a brief delay, the woman

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started doing the same thing, and
when he stopped a few moments later,

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so did she Okay, So how
are you doing it? No? I

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can tell you still think it's fake. Pick something else, something harder.

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Look, I really don't want too. His face darkened into a scowl.

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Just do it, okay, gritting
my teeth, I nodded. Fine,

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slap yourself in the face hard.
I thought this would call his bluff.

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Either the video woman wouldn't have done
that, or if this was some elaborate

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hoax where he paid some stranger to
mimic him through a hidden camera he brought

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with him, or something she'd hesitate
to hurt herself one way or another,

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it might stop whatever weird nonsense he
was trying to pull. But no,

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he just smiled wider as he took
a step back and placed a hand on

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the counter for support. Now that's
more like it. The first slap across

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his face sounded loud as a gunshot
in the small kitchen, and he let

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out a gasp of pain as the
right side of his face immediate started to

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redden I was so focused on him
that it took me a moment to realize

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I was seeing her mimic him in
my peripheral vision, same spot, just

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as hard. Jeez what. He
hit himself a second time, even harder.

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She did the same, and this
time they were both bleeding from the

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nose when they straightened back up.
Stop, just stop. He gave a

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soft laugh and then struck himself a
third time, hard enough that he seemed

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unsteady on his feet. When I
looked at the woman, she was holding

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onto the bridge railing like it was
the only thing keeping her upright, I

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turned back to Jake and grabbed his
arm. Stop that right now, you're

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hurting yourself and her. When he
grinned at me, this time I could

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see a film of blood on his
teeth. So you believe me now,

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shuddering, I gave a nod.
I guess so, I mean, yes,

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I do, stop hitting her and
you. I just how And then

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he told me I started having strange
dreams a year ago. It was like

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falling asleep as myself and waking up
as another person. I've had dreams like

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that before, but not this long
and detailed and real. I could move

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around for several hours sometimes and I
remembered all of it. I'd go out

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and into the city. I figured
out it was Kuala Limpo, and when

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I was there, I could read
and understand the language, even though I

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don't know any of that stuff when
I'm awake. But the weirdest thing was

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I was always the same person when
I was over there, this woman on

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the bridge. It was like we
were swapping. Now, I'm not crazy,

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And for a time I just assumed
it was some kind of like lucid

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dreaming or something. I was dreaming
versions of the same dream and just fooling

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myself into thinking it was real.
This went on for months, and then

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one day I dozed off in algebra
class. I really don't remember what happened,

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because I wasn't there. I don't
know if this woman is normally asleep

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in my mind when I'm awake in
hers, but this time she's sure the

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hell knews something was going on and
freaked out. Thanks to her, I

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wound up in the looney bin,
and now I have everyone looking at me

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like I'm Jeffrey Dahmer. Even you, Nah, don't deny it. It's

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okay. I don't blame you,
but I hate it too. So I

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decided I needed to figure out what
this was and try to either get rid

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of it or control it. I
started trying different things in the hospital,

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reading books on meditation and self hypnosis, even astral projection. Most of it

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is hippy nonsense, but I got
a few ideas that helped me to focus.

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I started feeling like I could feel
her a little even when I was

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awake, and over time I started
thinking I could maybe make her do something

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if I could concentrate on it hard
enough. The first few tries, well,

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it's hard to say. It's not
just in your imagination, right,

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I mean, how the hell am
I going to know if some lady in

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Malaysia picks up a pencil because I
wanted her to. One night, when

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I was inside her in my dream, I went walking through the city.

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It was early afternoon there, and
I remember walking for miles until I got

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to this freeway and this bridge,
and it was then that I saw the

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camera up above. I asked the
teenager that was passing, what kind of

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camera that was, and that's when
he said the magic words. It's a

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streaming webcam. He gestured at the
woman on the bridge again as she started

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to wander off. I've been practicing
this for weeks now. This is only

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the third time I've gotten her to
the bridge, But once she's there,

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I can see that it works,
and when I'm done, I just kind

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of let go and she wanders on
back home. I just stared at him.

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Jeez, man, that's a person. Even if this works, like

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you're saying, that's messed up to
just take someone over and hurt them and

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stuff. Jake grimaced at me.
First off, saving moral judgments. You're

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the one that said slap in the
face, not me. I've never heard

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of for Oh really, what the
hell do you think she thinks when she

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wakes up halfway across the city and
doesn't know how she got there. He

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looked uncomfortable at that, but gave
a shrug. I don't know, and

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yeah, I have thought about that, but I don't know her, and

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I don't know that she's not responsible
for this in the first place. Whatever

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it is. What I do know
is that I'm not having people think I'm

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a nutter butter for the rest of
my life. And if I don't know

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how to turn it off, I'm
going to figure out how to prove to

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people that it's real. I let
out a sigh. Damn, I get

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that. Not that I think you're
crazy, Not really. I just thought

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you had like a breakdown or something, you know, But this, I

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don't know that it's even safe to
tell people about it. He frowned that,

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what do you mean, well,
even if you get people to leave

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you, does that really help you. How do you know somebody won't just

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snatch you up to experiment on you
or something. Shake's eyes widened. I

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hadn't really thought of that. I
nodded, Yeah, I mean, it

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sounds like a movie. But what
part of this doesn't sound like some horror

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movie sci fi nonsense. I reached
out and gripped his shoulder. Maybe just

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leave it alone. I know you
want to like vindicate yourself or whatever,

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but I know it now and in
time other people will forget and treat you

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normal. When he started to shake
his head, I gripped his shoulder harder.

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And if they don't, screw them. But you don't know what this

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is, You're messing with, and
you're messing with a stranger who either doesn't

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deserve it or is maybe causing it. Just close the door and see if

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it goes away over time. Tears
in his eyes, he began to nod

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as he leaned forward and gave me
a quick hug. Thanks, man,

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you're probably right. When we parted, I kept a smile on my face,

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despite the dark thoughts churning in my
head that the Jake I knew would

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never hurt some one else, even
to prove the point he was trying to

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make, and that when I looked
over his shoulder at the webcam feed the

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last time the woman had stopped wandering
away, she was standing further down the

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bridge, looking at the camera,
staring right at me. Two more weeks

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went by, and while I didn't
see Jake, he taxted most days and

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he seemed to be doing better.
Said the dreams were still there, but

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he could usually get out of them
after just an hour or two. We

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made plans to go hiking next weekend, but then two nights ago, he

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was banging my door in the middle
of the night. When I opened up,

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he came rushing in, covered in
sweat and clearly terrified someone's after me.

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Man I shut and locked the door
behind him, before turning to follow

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him into the living room. What
are you talking about. Who's following you?

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He shrugged. I don't know for
sure. I haven't seen them good

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enough. But it's the same red
car for the last two days, with

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heavy tint on the windows. Well, why don't you call the cops,

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Jake shook his head. They'd find
out. I just got locked up and

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think I'm being paranoid. You're the
only one who knows I'm not crazy.

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I nodded, Okay, Well,
did they follow you here? I think

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so. I tried to lose them, but I don't know if I did.

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Moving past him, I went to
the sliding doors leading out to the

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balcony, opening them, I stepped
out and looked down into the orange lit

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parking lot below. My heart sank
as I saw a red car parked next

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to my own, its windows too
dark to see inside. Damn, Oh,

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damn the damn. I looked over
at him, even as his face

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grew tight with fear. Oh God, HiT's her, She's here. He

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was right. I'd been focused on
the car at first, but directly underneath

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us was a short, older woman
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I'd never seen her clearly, but
I'd seen enough to know this looked like

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her. What was she doing all
the way over? She found me?

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I I need to go. I
don't know what she can do, what

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she's capable of. It's not safe
too, his legs kicking and his chest

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shuddering. I leaned over to help, but quickly realized I didn't know what

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to do. My first thought was
the corn nine one one, but then

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I realized how stupid I was being. This was all her fault, wasn't

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it. It was an a coincidence
that she came all this way and then

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he started having a seizure or whatever. This was anger burning in my chest.

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I stood up, ready to shout
down at her, for her to

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stop it, to get lost,
and to leave him alone, But the

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words died in my throat as I
saw her down there, staring up at

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me, tears streaming down her cheeks. She looked tight with tension as she

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murmured out just a full of words, No, please, don't, I'm

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sorry. Then I saw the flash
of a box cutter as she raised it

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to her throat and slashed it wet
and wide. Even as she was falling

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over, I saw Jake sitting up
and turning to look at me. His

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face split into a smile. Thanks
for having me over. I think I'm

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okay now. I reached out to
help him mop but when he met my

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eyes, I recoiled. I'm sure
I am. We need to call the

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police. She she's dead, he
nodded as he rose to his feet.

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Yeah, sure, we can call
the authorities. They should be made aware.

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Another glanced my way. Are you
okay too? I nodded and moved

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quickly off the balcony to get my
phone, Grabbing it up, I stepped

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out of the apartment to make the
call and waited in the breezeway until they

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arrived. Jake came out when the
ambulance and police pulled up, and after

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we both told them several times that
a strange woman we didn't know had hurt

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herself outside, they eventually left again
with her body. I guess I should

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be getting home too, he smiled
at me. Thanks again for your help.

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He sounded like I helped him with
his car or something. See you

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again soon. I forced myself to
meet her eyes for a moment. No,

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no, I don't think you will. I think it's better for both

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of us if you don't. A
smile widened then no, perhaps not.

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Still my thanks, have a good
night. I shut the door then and

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bolted it, and even after I
watched Jake's car drive away, I couldn't

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go to sleep. I didn't go
outside again until today. But then I

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didn't have a choice. I was
the only one there, a shabby funeral

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for an unknown foreigner that had inexplicably
flown half way around the world to die

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in front of a couple of strangers. Even the government paid chaplain that did

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the eulogy could only speak in vague
platitudes about the mysterious life and things unseen.

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He came over after to offer his
condolences, and after an awkward pause,

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he asked me how I knew the
departed, tears in my eyes,

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I lugged up and told him he
was my best friend.