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  Frightened, we all look at him. We don’t know what to do, except stare.

  “What’s wrong with him?” I ask. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone go this nuts from a bite unless they had rabies or something, but don’t ask me. My medical knowledge is limited to what they show you on TV.”

  Despite the heat and the blanket, he isn’t getting any better. Abigail stoops down and tries to talk to him.

  “Jayce, hon, try to relax, OK?”

  He isn’t even looking in her direction or ours.

  “Jayce, can you hear me?” she asks.

  He doesn’t respond.

  She looks down for a moment and then at us. “He still feels really cold. Aw, man. This can’t be good. Plus, look at his eyes. They’ve got a white haze over them. I think we need to get him to the hospital, like, right now.”

  “I agree,” I say. “We need a doctor, but this doesn’t feel right. We need to do something, but if the people who did this are still out there waiting for us, we’d all be at risk if we go outside.” I think for a moment. “The police and ambulance should have been here by now. Are they even coming?” I ask, feeling my stress level rising and my anxiousness returning in full force.

  With that, Jayce makes more strange noises, weird, high-pitched, shrieking ones I’ve never heard a human being make before. I can’t stay in here listening to him anymore. Just as I turn to leave the lounge and return to Studio One and Wyatt, Jayce jerks his head forward and bites Abigail’s forearm. She cries out in pain and screams. Stunned and in shock, she kneels there, dazed. It happened so fast. I turn around.

  “Ow! What the hell is that? He bit me!” she says.

  I look at Jack. He looks back at me, and we both look at Bill. We all had the same expression. Get out. Now.

  Abigail and Connor quickly follow us out as we run to the door. We lock it behind us right before Jayce—or whoever he is now—runs right into the door with a hard thud. He almost knocks the door off its hinges.

  Connor stays at the door to hold it secure while we search for something to block it. Abigail just stands there holding her arm, crying.

  She is hysterical. “Why’d he bite me? I was only helping him! What's gonna happen? What am I gonna do?”

  Jack, Bill, and I run to grab something, anything to block the door. We find a chair, run back, and barricade it.

  Even with the chair blocking the way, the door and its hinges shudder every time the body on the other side bangs against it. That plus the horrific sounds he is making are frightening and freaking me out.

  We all look at each other. He doesn’t seem to be getting tired or stopping his attack. What’s going to happen when he breaks through the flimsy wooden door?

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