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19. 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨.

Chapter 19~ Clocks and parties.

"Is something wrong?" Robin turned to Nancy who was driving the car as they headed to the school to reluctantly find out what the other teens had found out, "nothing at all." Nancy pursed her lips, "I'd rather you just told me."

"Hey, you okay back there Zig?" Nancy called back, completely ignoring Robin but there was no answer, she looked back in the rear view mirror,  "Zig?" She repeated as Robin turned back to see her staring out the window, "you okay?" She clicked her finger in front of her sisters face, making her jump, "oh- yeah sorry." She shook her head, "I'm okay...just worried about why they're at the school."

"It's probably nothing, don't worry about it." Nancy tried to reassure her, even though she was just as worried, "we're here." She said slowly as she turned the car off.

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The girls ran into the school, going down one of the hallways near Ms. Kelley's office when Ziggy suddenly stopped, "hey, we have to go, come on." Robin looked back at her, "yeah, sorry." She took a deep breath and caught up with the two older girls.

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"We've got a problem." Dustin and Steve turned to the girls as they entered Ms. Kelley's office, Ziggy's eyes immediately went onto Max who was looking down at the ground, "Max?" She slowly approached her, "what happened?!"

"She was in...some sort of trance." Dustin explained, "like Chrissy and Fred." Steve added, "what?!" Ziggy's eyes widened as she crouched down in front of Max and cupped her face, "hey-" Max slowly looked at her with worry all over her face, "Max." Ziggy whispered gently, "I need to show you all something." She let out.

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"It was here. Right here." Max looked at the wall in confusion as everyone stood behind her in the hallway, "a grandfather clock?" Nancy questioned as Ziggy pursed her lips, "it was so real and then- then I got closer and I...I woke up." Tears escaped onto her cheek, prompting Ziggy to come to her side, "but the worst part..." she slowly turned around.

Suddenly Ziggy's breath hitched as she looked around with widened eyes, a clock ticking all around her, "it's just the clock over there." Steve stated to Max who was also looking around.

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"Fred and Chrissy, they both came to Ms. Kelley for help." Max explained once they were back in the office, "uh, they were both having headaches, bad headaches that just wouldn't go away and then- then the nightmares." Ziggy suddenly thought back to all the times Max had a headache, and the nightmares, it all made sense now.

"Trouble sleeping." She took a deep breath, "they'd wake up in a cold sweat...and then they started seeing things. Bad things. From their past, and these visions, they just kept on getting worse and worse until, eventually, everything ended."

"Vecna's curse." Robin said, "Chrissy's headaches started a week ago, Fred's six days ago, I've been having them for five days." Ziggy felt tears fall down her cheek, hearing Max's voice break, the guilt got worse with every word she said, "I don't know how long I have, all I know is that for Fred and Chrissy, they both died less than twenty four hours after their first vision. And I just saw that goddamn clock so..." she took a deep breath as Ziggy found herself stepping back, "looks like I'm gonna die tomorrow."

"Oh my god-" Ziggy let out in a shaky voice, she stepped back as they were all now looking at her, "I should've known, I knew something was wrong but...I just pushed it aside I-" She suddenly ran out of the office and Max didn't hesitate in running after her.

"Ziggy wait-" She shouted, running after her down the hall and into the bathroom.

"Ziggy." Max breathed out, Ziggy was stood in front of the mirror with her hands on the sink, looking down, "hey." Max said softly but she refused to look up, instead, she let out a loud sob.