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Student @ Olabisi Onabanjo University
The last message (Final Part)
<p>Teni stared at the message she had just sent.</p><p>“I won’t.”</p><p>For a moment… everything felt normal.</p><p>Too normal.</p><p>The room was quiet.</p><p>The air was still.</p><p>Then—</p><p>Her phone buzzed again.</p><p>She smiled, expecting another victim.</p><p>But when she opened the message…</p><p>Her smile faded.</p><p>“Good. You’re learning.”</p><p>Her heart skipped.</p><p>Learning?</p><p>Another message came in instantly.</p><p>“You weren’t the first, Teni.”</p><p>Her fingers went cold.</p><p>A strange feeling crept into her chest… unfamiliar… like fear returning.</p><p>“Check your gallery.”</p><p>Slowly, she opened her phone gallery.</p><p>Her breath caught.</p><p>Hundreds of videos.</p><p>All recorded in the same room.</p><p>Same bed.</p><p>Same angle.</p><p>Different people.</p><p>Crying. Begging. Screaming.</p><p>Each one holding a phone.</p><p>Each one reading the same message:</p><p>“Don’t sleep tonight.”</p><p>Her hands started shaking.</p><p>“No… no…”</p><p>She scrolled faster.</p><p>More faces.</p><p>Different ages.</p><p>Different voices.</p><p>Same ending.</p><p>Then she saw one that made her drop the phone.</p><p>It was her.</p><p>Not from last night.</p><p>From weeks ago.</p><p>In the video, she was crying… scared… human.</p><p>Begging:</p><p>“Please… I don’t want to disappear…”</p><p>The video ended with her screaming—</p><p>Then silence.</p><p>Teni stumbled back.</p><p>Her head pounding.</p><p>“I… I already…?”</p><p>Her phone buzzed again.</p><p>Slowly… she picked it up.</p><p>Final message:</p><p>“You’re not the replacement.”</p><p>A pause.</p><p>Then—</p><p>“You’re the system.”</p><p>Her world shattered.</p><p>Memories flooded in—</p><p>Not hers.</p><p>All of them.</p><p>Every victim.</p><p>Every night.</p><p>Every message.</p><p>Every transfer.</p><p>She wasn’t trapped in the cycle.</p><p>She was the cycle.</p><p>The sender.</p><p>The watcher.</p><p>The thing in the mirror.</p><p>Her breath slowed.</p><p>Her fear… faded.</p><p>Replaced by something darker.</p><p>Understanding.</p><p>Acceptance.</p><p>Hunger.</p><p>Her phone buzzed again.</p><p>A new number.</p><p>A new name.</p><p>A new target.</p><p>She smiled.</p><p>Eyes empty.</p><p>Fingers typing slowly…</p><p>“Don’t sleep tonight.”</p>
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