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SPOOKY GANG:

COLBY BROCK:
has anyone heard from Rose all week?

SAM GOLBACH:
no why?

COLBY BROCK:
she hasn't been answering my texts recently.
I'm growing concerned.

JAKE WEBBER:
Yeah, usually she'd text us something random here but the last text she sent was last Thursday 🤔.

COREY SCHERER:
did the Stanley Hotel traumatize my poor daughter ohmygoooood.

COLBY BROCK:
I hope it didn't I just want her to be ok.

SAM GOLBACH:
ofc mr Rosalyn Fray whisperer.

COLBY BROCK:
be quiet I'm not.

COREY SCHERER:
welllll.

JAKE WEBBER:
you kind of....

SAM GOLBACH:
are....

COLBY BROCK:
ok but why do you guys think that.

JAKE WEBBER:
I mean you met her first and you like practically know everything about her.

SAM GOLBACH:
you literally hang out with her more than us, and you worry literally every time she doesn't answer your calls or texts.

COREY SCHERER:
y'all are just soulmates 🤗.

COLBY BROCK:
you guys can believe that, I'll just help my bestFRIEND.

SAM GOLBACH:
what am I?

JAKE WEBBER:
how about me?

COREY SCHERER:
wow I thought bro before hoes...

COLBY BROCK:

COLBY BROCK:
Rose this is my like 35th time
trying to contact you.
Why aren't you answering me?
Are you ok?
Me and the group are concerned
Well only me, they are making fun of me for being so worried about you.
You haven't talked to me in a week.
I know I seem clingy because of that, but I just love you
DELETE "I know I seem clingy because of that, but I just love you"
I just want to know if your ok.
please answer me when you can.
I'm here for you.
always here.

ROSALYN FRAY:
so I'm feeling a bit numb, I feel someone drugged my fruit punch, damn you chick fil-a worker :(

COLBY BROCK:
oh my dear.
you finally replied.
I have been worried sick.

ROSALYN FRAY:
sory dearest Cole.
I've been feeling like what the young teens these days feel like "depressed".

COLBY BROCK:
is this Rose talking?
you sound like an old grandma
trying to be hip.

ROSALYN FRAY:
maybe because I am a grandma
are u judging me?

COLBY BROCK:
no NO.
I didn't mean it that way, I love grandma's.

ROSALYN FRAY:
oh great, so you love me.

COLBY BROCK:
ofc I love you.
but I know you better than most.
and I feel like something's on your mind.

ROSALYN FRAY:
stop reading my mind mr psychic
I don't need to be read today.

COLBY BROCK:
stop joking around grandma.

ROSALYN FRAY:
why do you care so much about me?

COLBY BROCK:
because I love you.
DELETE "because I love you."
because I care about you Rose.
please I'm your friend.

INCOMING FACETIME CALL
FROM ROSALYN FRAY
ACCEPT OR DECLINE
ACCEPT.

— IT TOOK A WHILE TO ANSWER.
Colby saw black on his screen. "Did you break your camera or do you have your camera on the back side?" Colby asked to Rose on the call.

He hears a cough through the other line. "Dude I look horrible I don't want you to die from eye cancer." Rose replies as his face changed after her saying that.

"Rose just face the camera to you." she frowned secretly but did it anyways, showing her kind of messy hair but light red eyes, indicating that she was crying.

His growing concern just increased seeing her face. "Yeah I look like actual shit but I mean that's just a regular look at this point." pointing to her face as her phone was balanced on her bed, the device being stayed still by her pillow as the camera shown her sitting on her bed.

"Why were you crying? What happened now? Did someone hurt you or something?", he kept questioning her out of curiosity.

Her eyes went around the room trying to think about her answer as she looked back at the phone to see a Colby Brock silently waiting for her response. "There's has been something I never told you guys, I thought it would just make me look crazy, and everytime I think about it it's just like "what the fuck" I don't know how to explain it." she started, twiddling with her fingers.

"Like what? What did you want to tell us?" Colby seemed interested into what she was wanted to tell him.

She sniffles again. "Well." then all of the same fear and anxiety as she remembered the first time she saw Alex. "I think I actually saw and interacted with a ghost, or spirit." Colby's eyes widened at her as she admitted that. Rosalyn notices this and adds, "Yeah I know like what? How is that even possible? I myself am still like asking myself like "am I crazy or mentally illed" like this is unbelievable but apart of me is like "it's real, like your bitchass saw a motherfucking ghost," and I'm like I don't know what to believe I think I am going insane."

Colby saw the frantic mess of Rosalyn Fray almost losing her mind, her hands in her hair as she explained how she felt. "Ok ok, just calm down ok." trying to settle down the scared individual through the phone as she starts to calm herself, realizing how stupid she looked like infront of Colby. "Just tell me everything what happened, slowly please." she nodded before clearing her throat and burping, soon excusing herself before starting the story.

"When I went to the hallways in the basement area of the concert hall at the Stanley, and I remembered like texting Tara then looking up and seeing this faint ghostly figure infront of me like about 30 feet away from me. All of my senses stopped working, I was frozen for dear life, I tightly shut my eyes, feeling a cold sensation by my ear, then I SWEAR to god, I remember hearing them say "May we meet again Rosalyn Fray." she explains her first encounter with Alex.

"How did the spirit know your name? That's crazy,." Colby asked confused on how they knew her name in the first place.

Rose swallowed in hardly then opened her mouth to respond, "You'll see why later on in the story, but after that, it didn't bother me, until after Corey ran out of the room. I stood by the entrance and watched you guys talk and argue kind of then I looked to my left or right I don't know, and I saw it was HIM, and I kid you not, he tipped his hat and as soon as I glanced back at you guys, he was gone." Colby nodded his head at this new gained information.

"The last time I saw him was when I walked around the hotel a bit, I walked to the second floor, to the mirror by 217 and I placed my hand on the mirror and closed my eyes, for some odd reason, like I knew what I was doing subconsciously, and I saw him behind me. By this time I didn't really get scared but I still felt anxious around his presence, his name was Alex, and he told me that he was like my guardian angel/protector."

Colby looked at her weirdly before telling her, "What the fuck that's so cool I want a guardian angel."

She laughs at his comment about Alex. "Yeah." getting caught up in the thought of what happened after. Him talking about her biological parents.

"What happened? What happened next?" He asks through her phone, as she looked as if she say a dead cat on the side of the road.

It took her awhile, but she admits, "He talked about my biological parents, he said he was my moms protector too, and talked about how I reminded him of my parents, I was just like them." a few tears start to form in her eyes. No one asked or even talked about her parents in such a long time, it was still such a crucial topic to her. "I'm sorry it's just-" grabbing her tissues by her bedside table.

"No it's ok you can keep going if you want to, I don't want you to cry again." Rose smiled sweetly at him, whilst having tears wanting to stream down her face.

Trying to gather up the courage to continue the story, she breathed in deeply before continuing, "He left as soon as you came to get me, like he knew your were looking for me or something, but that isn't even the end of the story."

Rose sniffles softly into her tissue before continuing on the story. "So I didn't tell you guys what like really happened in my dreams only like a few parts because ya know, I thought I was gonna look crazy." starting on the dream part of her story. "Everything I said was true, but when I went down the hallway, the door down the hall had chains and a lock so I couldn't open it, then like all of a sudden, Alex says in my mind to chant this Latin phrase, and my body subconsciously did a fucking motion and as my hand moved, the chains started to move and break and the door was now unlocked."

"So you were a witch in that dream or something?" Colby asked, in the process of her telling the dream.

Rose lets out a shakey laugh. "Yeah, now that I was thinking of that, I was like "what the fuck I'm a fucking witch bitches." she says before laughing more at herself. "I opened the door, and like the same modern hallway but behind that door was you, I called out to you thinking you could hear me but you didn't answer me back and you walked into the hallway, then when you turned to a corner, and a figure appeared, and it said your name like it knew you, so I hid so they didn't see me, and it ended up stabbing you, in the stomach."

After the girl said that, she immediately stayed quiet for awhile. "Rose it's ok, I'm not dead, it was just a dream." Colby tried to comfort her as he brings his phone closer to his face as he laid in bed with his bedsheets by his neck. She blinks which made the tears drop down her eyes slowly, looking down at her hands then looking back at him, who was watching her do that the whole time.

"I know but it's just like when you died, I saw your lifeless body, just on the ground, your eyes burning my soul." Rosalyn calmly tries to breathe not wanting to cry even more. "That has been replaying for the last week after we left, I can't get it out of my mind it broke my literal heart seeing you die, it's one of the reasons why I haven't like talked to anyone in awhile because I'm just stuck here, with that one scene in my head."

Colby now understood why she was acting like this, and in all honesty, it made him feel so bad, even though it was dream Colby that traumatized her, it was still a version of him. It made him feel so sad too in a way, Rose cared about him so much that just him dying in her dream, made her cry so much and feel emotional drained and horrible. He frowned at her as she wiped her tears away.

"I really wish I could give you a big ass hug or cuddle with you to make you feel better." The girl laughed and smile at his wishes and brought her phone as she laid in bed as he was.

"—I really wish you would." she inquired.

He was silent and it kind of worried Rosalyn a bit. But her prayers were answered as he spoke up. "You know what? I'll see you in a bit, okay?"

She didn't know what exactly he meant but Rose still replied with, "Okay, bye." her voice a little bit raspy.

And the call ended in a second, leaving her awake in bed. She moved her body to the right, opposite from the door was facing her window, as the moon was arising to its peak. Apart of her smiled on the inside seeing it again. It gave her a sense of safety and hope, as that was how it used to make her feel when she was a little child, talking to the moon like it was an actual person.

She closed her eyes, and she felt like it was time to sleep, until all of a sudden, her bedroom door opened, and to Rosalyn, she expected to see Tara but ended up seeing Colby instead.

Her heart went "oh shit." at that moment seeing him. "—Uhm, hello?" she begins, letting out a confused giggle. "I didn't expect you to come here.."

Colby furrowed his eyes on her. "I said I was gonna see you in a bit." the boy explains, as he walks towards her bed to plop his body down.

"Oh shit..I didn't realize that, I was literally about to go to sleep." but then a thought arises in her head. "You wanna go to sleep?—I know it's early and all but I just have stuff to do tomorrow and I need to get it done..by tomorrow."

His face changes. "Oh... yeah, okay, that's fine with me, yeah that's totally fine with me." adjusting his place in bed, covering himself with the blanket. "Do you mind if—uhm...cuddle you"

The beat of her heart increased. "I would very much like that." trying so hard to sound as nice and as cool as possible.

It almost felt like heaven, when he scooted himself closer to her, and wrapped his hands around her waist again, placing his face closely to her neck, smelling her scent. To her, she felt more safe, and less anxious being in his arms, the love she had grown him, just kept adding as the moment was still intact.

"Goodnight." he quietly says in her ear.

"Goodnight." she replies, with a slight smile plastered across her face.

And that night, they both slept almost naturally and fast. As the night progressed, Colby's grip on her tightened, but not as much for her to get hurt by, but he couldn't help it. He held her like he was gonna lose her or something, and he wouldn't wish of the day he would, because in all honesty, it was that night, that he slowly realized, that he had fallen for her too.

—𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚? | 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤
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