My Hockey Alpha

Nina

Without removing my lab coat and goggles, I ran from the laboratory and down the hall. I didn’t know where I was going or what I was doing, but I had to tell someone.

As I ran down the hall, I nearly ran straight into none other than Jessica. She had her hair up in a bun and a stack of textbooks in her arms, which she dropped when I almost ran into her.

“Geez!” she said, clutching her chest with one hand as she looked at me. ” What the hell happened? You look like a crazed murderer.”

I caught a glimpse of myself in the reflection of a classroom window. Jessica was right; my lab coat had blood on it from opening up the cadaver, and my goggles only emphasized my wide eves But that wasn’t important right #Chapter 18 Hypnotherapynow.

“Follow me,” I said. “I have to show you something.”

We returned to the lab, Jessica grumbling behind me about how gross cadavers were as we entered.

“There,” I said, pointing at the table with my cadaver on it. “Look.”

She walked over, clutching her books to her chest, and peered at the body with a scowl on her face. “What is it?” she asked, sounding confused.

I stomped over to show her the body, but the chest was completely healed and the fangs were no longer there. How?

“Someone switched the body,” I said, whirling around to see if someone had moved my cadaver elsewhere. Jessica only looked on in confusion.

“Um… Nina, are you alright?” she said, putting a hand on my shoulder. “Are you overly tired or something?”

I shrugged her hand off and shook my head. “No,” I replied. “I’m fine. I swear my cadaver’s heart was massive… twice the size of a normal human’s. And I checked his teeth. He had fangs. Like a wolf.”

Jessica furrowed her brow and looked at me with concern drawn across her face. “Nina, that’s ridiculous,” she said. “I think maybe you should go home and get some rest.”

“I know what I saw!” I snapped. My hands were shaking and my eyes began to fill with tears. “That cadaver was no ordinary human, and someone switched it.”

Jessica didn’t say anything.

“I know you think I’m crazy,” I said, pulling off my goggles and my lab coat and putting them away in my locker. ”

swear. I saw something that was not…

that she was lying, but I didn’t say anything. “Let’s just go home

my bag out of my locker. “No,” I replied. “I’m

me, I stormed out of the lab and marched straight

she looked up. at me with a stern expression on her

Miss Nina Harper,” the dean said, taking off her glasses and clasping her fingers together with her elbows on the desk.

“I… uh…” I stammered.

say, kindly leave my office,” the dean

blurted out, “in my anatomy lab. My

raised an eyebrow. “Oh?” she

Saying it out loud to the dean made

down her nose at me. “Why come to me, and not your professor?” I swallowed, unsure of how

thought ahead this far. For some reason, my immediate

She jotted something down on it and ripped the paper off,

” Please make an appointment

“I don’t need thera-”

so much a request as it is

nodded solemnly and looked at my. feet,

else?”

though the dean wouldn’t allow it now; besides, 1 was too embarrassed. I just

to. I called Edward and made an appointment. When Jessica asked what happened later, I

to his office after a sleepless night; I’m sure the dark circles under my eyes didn’t

Edward, a portly, kind-

something yesterday when I was working with a cadaver on my anatomy project,” I replied as I fiddled with a loose thread on my

what happened after that?” Edward

ran,” I replied. “And when I went back a few minutes later, it was gone. Like someone switched the bodies.

was silent for a moment while he jotted on his

what you saw was real for a moment,” he said, crossing his legs. “Why would a dead body heal on its own? Not to