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This story took place three years ago on my 16th birthday. It was a cool autumn evening.

The leaves had begun to fall from the trees, leaving them empty and somewhat haunting.

I was at home preparing for my birthday slumber party. I had never really had a slumber party before

and wasn't quite sure what the night would bring. I knew we'd probably watch a movie,

eat some popcorn and of course some late night adventuring. I arranged the blankets and pillows

in the basement, made sure that the TV worked, grabbed a few snacks and organized them on the

little table before going up to my room to wait for my friends to arrive. It was around 7 pm

when the girls started arriving. First was my best friend, Caitlin, next was Sonja, and finally,

Amy. One of my friends, Hannah, hadn't made it to the house yet. Her mom wouldn't drive her

so she decided to walk. We waited for Hannah at the house for about an hour or so just playing

little party games, chatting it up with my parents about school and things like that. Before we

decided to text Hannah to meet us at a burger joint downtown. It was only a 20 minute walk from

my house to the downtown area, so we weren't too worried about any kind of potential danger.

This was a time before any of us had data on our phones so we had no way of calling anyone.

The way that we were communicating with Hannah was through text message. You know, the green message

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