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"It was the night Karen and Kelly and I stopped being friends." Imogen stated. "Wait, I think I was at this party, randomly, fully tryna be one of those cool kids in that '80s rom-com kind of way." Tabby told them.
"Oh, yeah, I saw you with your boyfriend." Noa smiled. "Who, Chip?" Tabby looked confused. "No, Chip is not my boyfriend. He's more like my gay best friend, who happens to be straight."
"Well, I was there with my boyfriend right, right before he became my boyfriend." Noa said with a smile "I heard about the party... after the fact." Mouse said before looking down "People live streamed it. That's how i saw it." Josie said with a shrug. "Karen invited me to that party, but I chose not to go." Faran stated.
"There's a video from that night..." Imogen began. "that someone made on their phone of Karen, which, if people saw it... would destroy her."
"Destroy Karen?" Noa sat forward. "Like, embarrass Karen?" "If we posted it somewhere?" Faran suggested.
"Exactly. She is messy as fuck in it." Imogen informed them. "The internet is... for eternity." Mouse stated. "I'm just going to ask what we're all thinking." Faran sighed. "Is it a sex video?"
"No! I would never." Imogen turned to her, shocked, "Not a sex video." "Well, if we didn't want to post it and it's not a sex video, I could screen it." Tabby suggested.
"How?" Josie asked.
"I work at the Orpheum." She stated. "Depending on what kind of file it is, I could project it right before my Jordan Peele double feature. By the way, you all have to come. Kids would see it, but it wouldn't be on the internet... forever."
"Unless they record it." Noa reminded her. "Maybe I could edit the video?" Tabby looked at Imogen. "Make it short enough so people don't even have enough time to pull out their phones."
"Okay, where's the video?" Faran asked. "Can we see it?" "I have it... on a phone... at my house." Imogen told the girls.
"Your... old house?" Mouse questioned.
•••
After detention, the girls walked to Imogen's old house. Imogen ran off upstairs to find the phone, leaving the others downstairs
"My mom's a real estate agent." Tabby said. "She says bad things have happened in most houses... but, this is an Amityville level of weird, right? Like I'm getting some serious Poltergeist vibes right now."
"Tabs, you're not helping." Josie told the girl, who smiled awkwardly. Tabby stepped forward, calling up the stairs. "Imogen? Everything okay?"
The rest of the girls all stepped forward when no response was heard, "Maybe one of us should go up there?" Noa suggested. "Yeah... maybe you should." Faran said looking at Noa.
"Hey, Imogen? Is everything-" Tabby tried to call for her once more.
"Hey." All of the girls let out screams when Imogen came from the living room, Josie jumped, grabbing onto Noa's hand. "Oh, my god! No jump scares ever." Tabby said seriously "Success!" Imogen smiled, holding a phone and a charger. "But we need to charge it."
