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Immediately after slicing down my wrist I was no longer in room 5. 

I didn't die, I knew that for sure. The depression was gone, but I was by no means happy. Tears were still finding their way down my face. 

The room I was in was similar to the one previous, and again, it had no doors. There wasn't any lamps, but somehow I was still able to see everything clearly. The room was completely empty, but before I had time to think of what to do next it went dark, and the hum from before returned. I covered my ears in protest, it was louder than it ever was. 

But it was over in a moment, and the lights returned, only this time something was added to the room. And then I screamed. 

There in the middle of the room, strung up by chains and naked from the waist up was David. It looked like he was tortured, knife wounds littered his chest and arms.

"DAVID!" I ran up to him as fast as I could. He was conscious, I saw his chest move up and down, but he wasn't speaking. And that's when I noticed what was etched into his chest. I dropped to my knees as I saw it. 

The 7 stared at me as though it had eyes.

I heard David try and speak, and I got to my feet and got as close as I could to him.

"David! David, can you hear me?!"

"Maggie... what're you... what're you doing here?" His voice was slight, but he was talking and I was thankful for that.

"David, I'm trying to save you. How do I get you down?" There were large padlocks on the chains holding him in place. I looked around the room for any sort of key, but all I found was a small knife in one of the corners. The metal was way too thick for that knife to even dent it, so I disregarded it as useless. 

I went back to David, it looked like he was on the verge of death, and then I felt my pocket vibrate. It startled me something awful, I took the phone out of my pocket. As I suspected, one unread text. I flipped open the phone:

"That isn't me."

I didn't know what to think. David was right there in front of me, but that text was from the first number that contacted me. It as the first text I received from David that mentioned the NoEnd House.

"Maggie..." I heard his voice clearly with my ears and my mind. It seemed like his voice was coming from all sides. "Maggie... You have to go on."

"What are you talking about? How?" I was face to face with David, or whoever it was that was chained up here.

"That knife..." he made a slight movement of his head toward the corner. "Go get it." I ran and was immediately back with the knife clenched in hand within a few seconds. I had no idea what was going on, but I needed to save him and would do anythi-

"Now stab me in the chest."

"...what?" I was shocked. David hung there, staring directly into my eyes.

"You have to run that knife through the seven on my chest. It's the only way to save us both."

"No..." I stumbled backward. "No, you're not making any sense."

"Maggie!" He was screaming now, his eyes looked frantic. The side of his mouth curled into a twisted grin. "Maggie, stab me now, it's the only way!" I looked down at the knife in my hand, my head felt as though it was being struck with a bat. I was at a complete loss. I clenched my eyes shut tight and felt the knife in my hand.

"MAGGIE!" And with a scream and a thrust I stabbed the knife into David's chest. I don't know what came over me, I just knew it was the only way. 

I opened my eyes and saw his face. It was terrified. Tears slid down his cheeks and David looked me in the eyes.

"Why... did you... do that...?"

He couldn't fool me. I know that wasn't David. It couldn't have been, or else I wouldn't have been able to stab him. I know it wasn't I know it wasn't. His eyes rolled back as the life left him, but that's when it changed. 

The seven on his body was gone, the blood dripped down onto the ground into a pool below me. The crimson liquid stretched out in every direction, the circle nearly filled the room, and I began to sink. I tried to move but I couldn't. It was like quick sand. 

The blood was up to my knees now. As much as I tried to struggle I just sank deeper. Up to my chest now. I clawed and scratched at the wood around me. The lifeless body of David hung above, his head facing me, smiling. The blood reached my neck. I was beyond terrified. 

Before long I was full submerged, and fell into darkness.

Before long I was full submerged, and fell into darkness

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