The Traps of the Black Swan

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Ruby Jane grumbled like a complaining child as she tried to pull Grace up and move her out of the bed, "Get ready..."

Grace was chuckling as she got up and she was about to step down, she slipped and fell on her face. The excruciating pain from her forehead brought her back to reality and jerked around to check on the bed.

"What!" Nobody was in her sight and she looked around to see she was all alone in her room.

"No No... It wasn't a dream, Jennie was right here, how can she disappear?" Asking herself, Grace ran out of the door to see if Jennie exited the room but saw the chief doctor reading a magazine.

"Chief Samar, did you see Jennie leaving just now?" She anxiously asked in fear.

'Jennie?' The chief frowned and stated, "Ms. Wells, Jennie is just your imagination."

Ruby Jane smirked hearing it standing at the door. Foreseeing, Grace might search every nook of the room, she picked her bag and exited through a French window.

Grace slapped her own forehead and re-questioned thinking how can chief know Jennie. "I mean, did any girl enter my room?... What are you doing here?"

Ruby Jane who stood next to the room dictated the doctor, "Repeat what I say, there is no girl. You were crying so I checked on you."

Chief Samar back straightened suddenly hearing a soft voice behind him. He didn't dare to disobey her, "Ms. Wells, don't you know we prohibit visitors? Rest assured, you are safe here." Ruby Jane was impressed hearing him formally speak that cut off any more doubts.

Chief Samar continued, "Ms. Wells, the cure to stop your illusions is by opening up and telling us what happened with you. Only pills don't work, please cooperate with the treatment." Grace Wells and Vance Hays had objected to hypnotism.

Grace decided to ignore the doctor and left without responding to him. She checked every corner in the room and the connected bathroom but found nothing but she was really frightened to go back to sleep.

Ruby Jane who was silently watching her saw her wearing shoes to go for walking so she improvised her plan. The rehab center was vast and each room was like an abode with a minimum fifty meters distance amidst trees.

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Grace saw a girl with a high ponytail intently writing in a book. Her speed lowered significantly watching her in suspicion. When the girl raised her head, she innocently smiled and waved her hand at Grace.

'Thump!' Grace tripped herself and fell on her butt. 'Ouch,' She turned around and ran away frantically to her room where Chief Samar's lips were twitching uncontrollably.

Why does Ruby Jane always work alone in her plan?

Because she could change, remold, add on as many tricks she wants without a bump. She couldn't have the same independence if another person is in the plan.

It isn't a mathematical problem to solve in the first or second way, she keeps on devising her plans as the results she gets so she never allows Jisoo or Mino or anybody else to accompany her in her schemes. Unfortunately, Chief Samar became the audience who could toughen her plan with just one erroneous disclosure.

Grace grabbed the chief's hand and pointed towards Ruby Jane, "She... She... Can you see her?"

If the chief doctor wasn't present, Ruby Jane could have hidden when Grace turns to her giving her an illusion that she imagined Jennie. Now if Ruby Jane hides aside and the doctor says 'NO' and Grace will see nobody, she wouldn't panic. Her plan to tangle her mind will delay.