Jennifer

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7:30 read the alarm of young Jennifer Tyler. She pressed her button to make the alarm stop and rose up from her bed. She got out from under the cover and got dressed. She brushed through her blonde hair and rushed into the living room with her bag. She kissed her Mum on the cheek and ran out the door to go to work.

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She spent most of her day busy at work until the end of the day when the intercom spoke;

This is a customer announcement. The store will be closing in five minutes. Thank you.

After five minutes, she and the other girls headed for the main doors. The guard cleared his throat and shook a clear plastic bag in front of Jennifer. She took the bag and rushed back to a lift, and went down to the basement.

Jennifer stepped outside, and looked to her left and right. "Wilson?" Her voice rang through the hall. "Wilson, I've got the lottery money." She walked up to a door and started knocking on it. "Wilson, are you there? I can't hang about 'cause they're closing the shop." She waited for a moment before knocking again. "Wilson."

Jennifer heard a sound and jerked her head to the direction behind her but nothing was there.

"Hello, Wilson," Jennifer said. "It's Jennifer." She started walking down the hall. "Hello? Wilson?" 

Jennifer walked up to a door and opened it, stepping into the other room, stepping in, turning on the lights, seeing mannequins everywhere. "Wilson?" She walked down the room. "Wilson?"

Jennifer walked to another door.

The door she just came through closed. 

Jennifer ran to the closed door, trying to open it but it was locked. 

There was a banging sound.

Jennifer turned her head. "Is that someone lurking about?" She shouted. She slowly began walking away from the door. "Who is it?"

Jennifer heard a squeaking sound and whipped her head around to see a mannequin was moving. It looked at Jennifer and it started walking towards her.

Jennifer gave a nervous scoff. "Yeah, you got me. Very funny." She started backing away as the mannequin kept walking towards her. "I've got the joke. Who's idea was this? Is it Derek's? Is it? Derek, is this you?"

More mannequins began walking towards her. Jenifer kept backing away until she reached a wall. Just as a mannequin began raising it's hand, she felt someone grabbing her hand.

Jennifer looked over.

A man looked at her. "Run." 

The man dragged Jennifer through the basement.

The mannequins began following them.

The man and Jennifer reached an elevator.

A mannequin reached it's hand out.

The man had started tugging on the mannequin's arm which then was pulled off of the mannequin. 

The elevator doors closed. 

"You pulled his arm off," Jennifer told him. 

"Yes," The man said simply. He tossed the arm to Jennifer. Jennifer caught it. "Plastic."

Jennifer looked at the man. "Very clever. Nice trick. Who were they, students? Is this a student thing or what?"

"Why would they be students?" The man asked.

"I don't know," Jennifer told him.

"Well, you said it," The man pointed out. "Why students?"

"Well to get that many people dressed up and being silly, they got to be students," Jennifer told him.

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