one last thing. (eddie munson x mike's sister)

(22)

we drove to the school, finding a loose window to climb through.

"where's miss kelley's office?" dustin asked.

"down this hall, on the left." i called, jogging ahead and taking the key from my pocket.

i pushed it into the lock and twisted, swinging the door open.

"file cabinet." i said, walking over to it.

i pulled it open and saw so many names i recognized.

"holy shit." max blurted out.

"what?"

"not just chrissy, fred was seeing miss kelley too." she picked up the files.

something in my right ear began to ring high pitched and loud.

"ah!" i seethed, putting my hands over my ears and wincing.

"woah, you ok?" steve asked.

"what is that ringing?" i asked, pushing my palms flat on the sides of my head.

"what ringing?" he asked, looking at me like i was crazy.

"the high pitched ringing.." i started, the noise easing up and disappearing.

i took my hands off my ears and shook it off.

"nevermind, i must be losing it."

i saw max grab another file from the drawer before putting fred and chrissy's down on the table and flipping them open.

she looked between the two frantically.

i looked down at the pages.

constant nightmares.

severe headaches.

nosebleeds.

past trauma.

"max?" dustin called, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"what is it? max?" he called.

she suddenly snapped back into reality, getting up and grabbing her flashlight.

"where are you going?" i called after her.

"come with me!" she yelled.

"i saw a clock, an old one."

"what?" i asked.

"like a grandfather clock." she explained, running down the hall.

maybe i wasn't totally crazy?

"it was here! it was right here!" she said, pointing at a dead end wall, nancy and robin running up behind us.

~~~

"chrissy's headaches started a week ago."

"fred's 6 days ago."