Chapter 3

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(Ignore the dates)
The next day
Lauren's POV

"Ugh! Another day." I thought as I woke up in my small bed that centered in the middle of the room. I looked over to grab my phone, but I instead saw the mysterious phone that ended up in my bag. I reached over to see if the phone had charged and thankfully it was at 100%.

To my surprise, when I looked at the lock screen it was a picture of Anna and her dog Fluffy. Could this be Anna's phone? Why would Anna's phone not be with her? There were 7 miss calls from Greg and 13 messages from Sadie. Of course like most phones it needed a password. My first guess was Anna's birthday which I surprisingly remembered, but it was incorrect.

After trying a few times it gave me a hint. The hint was Toby's birthday and before I could guess again the phone started to glitch. It scared me so much that I started to shake with fear. It started to put in letters and to my surprise it started to put in numbers as well.

The numbers were actually forming the correct password and the phone opened right away. I didn't think much of it, because sometimes phones are glitchy, but I did feel it was weird.

I knew I shouldn't be going through Anna's phone so I don't understand why I went any further. I decided to read the text messages from Greg and maybe it could help find them both.

As soon as I went to read her text messages, Greg called surprisingly. I didn't know if should answer or what I should tell him. "Hey it's Lauren, and I found Anna's phone even though she hates me." I instead decided not to answer. As soon as I declined, messages started to pop up like crazy.

I didn't know how to respond so I decided to tell him the truth

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I didn't know how to respond so I decided to tell him the truth.

  Lauren
Im not Anna. It's me Lauren from school.

Greg
Where the hell is Anna? Why do you have her phone?

Lauren
I don't know and it ended up in my bag.
Why haven't you been at school?

Greg
I've been looking for Anna.

I decided to stop texting Greg, because I didn't know if I could fully trust him. Why would he be looking for Anna if she was at his party last? Where is he? Where is Anna? Why do I have Anna's phone? So many questions were in my head all at once.

After thinking about where Anna might have gone the phone started to glitch once more, but sending me a message from iris (kind of like Siri) saying "find Anna". I thought it was completely strange that Anna's phone knew she was missing.

I next decided to check her camera roll for some clues. The camera roll was sadly corrupted and needed re storing, but there was only one video that was duplicated almost 100 times.

When I clicked on the video it seemed to be Anna. She was crying and although it was glitching I could still understand what she was saying.

"Hello? My name is Anna

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"Hello? My name is Anna." It begins glitching even more than before. "If you look closely you can see it in my eyes. Please I don't wanna take anyone else!" She screamed looking up as if she was talking to someone else. "My name is Anna and whoever you are, please do not come and find me!" And the video swiftly ends with her screaming.

Now I felt more than ever that Anna really was in trouble. I felt that even though I didn't like I had to help find her, but I had so many questions. Who was she talking to? Can I trust Greg? How did I end up with her phone?, but most of all: Where is Anna?

Before I could go any further into her phone, I heard my mom yelling from downstairs "YOU'RE LATE FOR SCHOOL!" I groaned and got out of bed even though I wanted to know more.

I decided it would be better to go to school and let the phone reboot fully. I got out of my bed and got ready for another boring day of school, but wondering the whole day what had happened to Anna.

A/N: Another chapter coming soon ❤️

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