Chapter 1

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It started as any normal day; I walk Alessa to the park, she plays for about an hour, then we leave for lunch. Normal enough. Not today. When we get to the park, a dude with extremely curly hair was sitting on the bench, not doing much but messing on his phone.

"Go play, Alessa." I say, patting her back and walking over to the bench, brushing past the boy to sit on the other end of the bench. "Hey." He says, not looking up from his phone. "Hi..." I trail off, hoping that it doesn't sound rude. The corner of the stranger's mouth tugged up. "Live around here?" He asks, putting his phone on sleep mode, the stranger slid it into his front pocket. I nod, watching Alessa swing from bar to bar.

"Your sister?" The stranger asks. I nod, not looking at him. "Are you just going to nod after those few wonderful exchange of words?" I nod again. The stranger sighs. "Okay, whatever. I'm Ashton, by the way." I turn to him, sucking in a breath to reply when Alessa screams "Calypso! I found something!" I forget about answering Ashton and rush towards Alessa's troubled calls.

"I-Is he alright?" Alessa asks, tears filling up her deep blue eyes. When I see what she's talking about, I gasp and fall back. "A-Alessa,get over h-here." Shaking, I grab her elbow and haul her away from the mangled corpse that was once a man.


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