There is a knock at the door

Mary started as she heard a loud knock at the door to the closet.

"Fuck that scared the shit out of me!" She cried.

Looking over to Luna, Mary saw that the girl was staring at the book with large, shocked eyes, her hands trembling.

"Did-did you feel that Mary?"

"No!" She lied. "Here, I'll get the door."

Mary threw open the door and looked into the sweet green eyes of Lily Marsh.

Lily was the senior class president. She was a beautiful yet poised girl with long, curly locks of natural red hair that Mary envied deeply. While Lily always wore fairly conservative outfits, a simple glance at her figure revealed that her hair wasn't her only enviable attribute.

"Hey Mary! I didn't expect to see you in here," Lily said with a calm, natural smile.

"Hey Lily, sorry about that. Are we in your way?"

"No! Definitely not. I just need to pull some supplies out of here for the Spring dance. Do you guys mind if I just duck in?"

Mary looked back at Luna, whose normal ecstatic cheer had iced over into a sullen frown.

"You know what, we're actually done in here," Mary said. "You can have the closet."

Luna shot Mary a dirty look, but stepped out of the closet with her friend. She was entirely silent until they stepped out into the hall.

"We weren't finished!" Luna hissed. "Why'd you have to let little Miss Perfect ruin the fun?"

Mary hated this side of Luna. Lily had never done a single thing to Luna, but Luna still hated her. It all came back to insecurity. Lily had beauty and popularity, two things Luna shunned and yet secretly craved. It got tiresome hearing her dance around the truth.

"What fun? Nothing happened."

"You didn't feel the change in the atmosphere? Something was coming through. I mean you had to see the fucking light flicker."

"Sure, a light in an old, dusty closet at this piss-dump school flickered," Mary said. "So spooky!"

"Oh fuck off. We brought something through, or almost did."

"Sure," Mary said. "If that's what you want to believe."

Mary needed a break from this nonsense.