This Girl Followed a Puppy Into an Alley—Then Disappeared From Maps
The Wrong Hallway at School
The next Monday, the school felt different. It was dimmer, like the lights couldn’t quite keep up. At lunch, she walked past the janitor’s closet and noticed a hallway she’d never seen before. It curved where the lockers usually ended, and at the end of it was a gray door with no handle.
Lila stepped toward it before she could stop herself. Then her friend Jonah appeared beside her. “Hey,” he said, like nothing was off. Lila blinked. The hallway behind her was gone. Just lockers again. But when she checked her sleeve, a smudge of ash had appeared on the cuff, right over her wrist.
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