Psycho

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Nurse Mandy smiled at the girl once she came into her office.

"Take a seat... er..."

The girl supplied her name, shifting a bit awkwardly from foot to foot, looking at everywhere and everything but Nurse Mandy, wondering why she had been called to her tiny office.

"Alright," Nurse Mandy sighed (she had done this hundreds of times earlier today), "you're going to have to take a test. It's to test you to see if you have a mental illness or not. It's issued by the school board, and you're required to take it. Answer honestly. This is to help you. There's no time limit, but you have to finish. Any questions before you start, sweetie?"

The girl shook her head, hair swishing around and nearly completely covering her face, and said in a voice rough and broken from lack of use, "No."

Nurse Mandy nodded and smiled, gesturing towards a chair in the corner of the room. The girl watched as Nurse Mandy tiredly got out the papers from her desk drawers. Nurse Mandy was oblivious. She didn't notice the way the girl watched her anxiously, analzying her every move, her every weakness.

Nurse Mandy handed the test over to the girl with a tired smile that the girl did not return.

Strange, Nurse Mandy thought to herself.

But she didn't think anything of it.

That was her first mistake.

Nurse Mandy went back to her desk, plopping down into the seat, and began scrolling through her emails and the spreadsheet of students who had tested and their results.

The girl numbly stared down at the papers in her hand, and sat down in a chair quietly. She looked at the first question.

She skipped it and went to the next.

And the next.

And the next.

She stared at the test for a long time, until all the words and number blurred together into an incoherent tangle of bold strikes and curves.

Until it was gibberish.

All she could hear was the pounding of her heart, the shaking of her hands. She sat like that for a while.

Then, she had a revelation.

An epiphany, a glorious moment of understanding in which she knew- in which she understood that Nurse Mandy was with them.

The monsters.

That's when she knew that Nurse Mandy was not all sugar and spice and everything nice. No, there was something behind those maliciously gleaming blue eyes.

She could see it. How her bright smile morphed into a leer with fangs, and how she grew horns out of her blonde head, and how her golden skin turned green.

Nurse Mandy was going to kill her.

Desperation came to the back of her throat, choking her, and creating a bitter taste in her mouth.

She couldn't let the monsters win.

The situation was bigger than her.

It was about all those other kids who had tested, and how Nurse Mandy was planning to kill them too.

And in that moment, she made a decision.

As quiet as a mouse, she got up from her chair and stalked up to Nurse Mandy, like a lion on the savannah stalking a weak gazelle. She stood behind Nurse Mandy, quietly, barely moving. Nurse Mandy wasn't paying any attention.

Her second mistake.

The girl could hear Nurse Mandy breathing and the new Justin Beiber song she was humming under her breath.

She could see the light hitting Nurse Mandy's blonde hair.

And slowly, but surely she inched closer.

And closer.

Now she could smell Nurse Mandy's Chanel perfume.

And closer.

And then, she wrapped her arms around Nurse Mandy's neck and squeezed.

Harder.

And harder.

Nurse Mandy's arms flopped around like a fish, trying to pry the girl's arms off. Nurse Mandy hurt her arms hitting on her metal filing cabinet, and everything but the girl. She couldn't.

That was her third and final mistake.

Her face turned blue, and soon enough she was limp.

The girl let go, Nurse Mandy slumping down in her seat, like a ragdoll. The girl double checked for a pulse.

She couldn't find any.

She looked at Nurse Mandy's computer. It was open to the spreadsheet. She marked all the names as negative, quickly and efficiently.

Nurse Mandy and her cronies weren't going to kill anybody today.

Not on her watch.

Smiling, she walked towards the camera and punched it. The camera broke and fell off of the wall.

The girl didn't even bat an eyelid.

She just kept walking.

And walking.

And walking.

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Hello my fellow psychos! :) 

This might seem a little confusing.

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