Lina Is Typing......
CHAPTER 1
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Rain hammered against Nira’s window while her phone screen glowed in the dark.
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She should’ve been asleep hours ago.
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Instead, she kept scrolling through old conversations she promised herself never to read again.
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Most of the messages were years old.
Pictures from university.
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Nira stared at the group icon.
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Her thumb hesitated above the screen.
The last message was still there.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
If anything happens tonight, don’t let them lie about me.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
Seen by Everyone.
4 years ago.
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She remembered deleting the app three times after Lina disappeared.
But somehow she always came back here.
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Her screen suddenly flickered.
[A new notification appeared]
[LakeSide 5
1 New Message]
Nira
That wasn’t possible.
The group chat opened by itself.
A new message appeared slowly.
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Like someone typing carefully.
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Nira’s hand started shaking.
Another message popped up.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
You all remember what you did that night, right?
Nira
(Nira dropped the phone onto the bed)
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Her pulse exploded in her ears.
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The account picture was still the same.
Lina smiling beside the lake.
Dark hair blowing in the wind.
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Exactly the same photo police used after she vanished.
Rayhan
“nobody panic”??? lina is literally texting us
Nira
(Nira kept staring at the screen)
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She hadn’t messaged yet.
Because she recognized something nobody else noticed.
Lina used to type without capital letters.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
Nira
Nira
(Nira stopped breathing)
Lina (the invisible charecter)
You still kept our photos?
Nira
Tears filled her eyes immediately.
Nobody in the group knew about those photos.
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Her private gallery suddenly opened by itself.
Image after image flashed rapidly across the screen.
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Then one final image appeared.
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Nira’s stomach dropped.
It was a photo of her sleeping.
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Nira nearly threw the phone away.
Messages exploded inside the group.
Rayhan
STOP FUCKING AROUND
Tisha
Whoever hacked this isn’t funny
Sami
[Three dots appeared beside Sami’s name]
Sami
Someone logged into lina’s account 11 minutes ago
Nira
(Nira typed with trembling fingers) lina is dead.
No one replied for almost ten seconds
Then a new message appeared.
Hard to understand at first.
Then she realized what she was looking at.
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The five of them standing beside the lake.
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[But there was something wrong.]
Someone else was in the picture.
Half-hidden in the darkness.
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Nira’s hands turned cold.
A new message arrived under the image.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
There were six of us that night.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
And then—
Lina started typing again…
CHAPTER 2
“The Photo That Wasn’t There”
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She sat on her bed with the phone still glowing in her hand, like it had become something heavier than glass and metal.
The group chat stayed open.
Just the last line sitting there like a stain.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
There were six of us that night.
Outside, the rain got worse.
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Inside, her thoughts did something worse.
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She reopened the image.
Five friends at LakeSide.
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Except the shadow behind them.
The figure was still there.
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Not clear enough to identify.
Standing just a few steps behind them.
Nira
(Nira whispered to herself) “That’s not possible…”
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Because she remembered that night too well.
There were only five of them.
Her phone suddenly vibrated.
She didn’t open anything.
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But her gallery app was already inside a new folder she didn’t recognize.
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Timestamp: Today – 3:03 AM
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She didn’t take any photos.
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She didn’t even move from her room.
A dark image filled the screen.
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At first it looked like noise.
Taken from the corner of the ceiling.
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Nira dropped the phone.
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It hit the bed but didn’t turn off.
A new message appeared in the group chat.
Sami
Did anyone else just get a photo of themselves?
Tisha
Stop. stop this right now.
Ariyan
Don’t reply to unknown files.
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Nira grabbed the phone again, faster this time.
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Her hands were cold now.
Nira
Someone is in my room
No one replied for three seconds.
Because Nira realized something.
Arian always said things like that.
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Calm. Controlled. Like he already knew how people would react.
Another message appeared.
No typing indicator this time.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
You’re looking at the wrong place
Nira
(Nira’s eyes snapped up.)
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The room felt different now.
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Like something had finally noticed she was awake.
Her phone vibrated again.
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Nira hesitated for exactly one second.
The screen showed static at first.
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Close to the microphone.
“you still sleep facing the window…”
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Nira’s head turned instantly toward her window.
The camera angle changed slightly.
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Now it showed her room again.
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Nira backed away from the phone.
On screen, the camera slowly panned.
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Pointing directly at her.
One final message appeared.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
Don’t turn around.
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Nira didn’t move.
Not even her eyes.
The room behind her felt heavier now.
Like something had finally settled into place.
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Her phone buzzed one last time.
Sami
Everyone log out now. someone is using live access.
Tisha
What does that mean??
Ariyan
It means they’re inside the system
Rayhan
Inside WHAT system???
Three dots appeared under Lina’s name.
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Nira stared at it without blinking.
Then the message arrived.
Lina (the invisible charecter)
Nira
Lina (the invisible charecter)
Don’t scream
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The lights in Nira’s room flickered once.
And in that single moment of darkness…
Her reflection in the phone screen smiled first.
“Read Receipts”
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The phone slipped from her hand and crashed against the floor.
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The lights came back immediately.
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Her reflection was gone.
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Just her own terrified face staring back from the black screen.
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Breathing hard, she grabbed the lamp beside her bed and turned it on too.
Every light in the apartment.
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Her chest hurt from how fast her heart was beating.
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Her phone buzzed violently across the floor.
Group chat notifications flooded the screen.
Sami
Don’t ignore messages right now
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Nira picked up the phone with shaking hands.
Nira
Someone sent me a video from inside my room
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No replies came for several seconds.
Rayhan
Yeah okay i’m officially done
Sami
Check your windows first
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Nira immediately looked toward the window again.
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Rainwater slid down the glass.
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[check your front door.]
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Nira’s stomach dropped.
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She stared toward the hallway.
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The apartment suddenly felt too quiet.
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Even the rain sounded far away now.
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Her feet moved before her brain caught up.
The wooden floor creaked softly beneath her.
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Don’t turn the hallway light on.
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Her hand hovered near the switch.
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Every instinct screamed at her to run back.
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She turned the light on anyway.
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The hallway flooded with yellow light.
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Nira almost laughed from relief.
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Then she noticed the front door
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Something was taped to it.
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Every step tighter than the last.
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The picture showed the five of them at the lake again.
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Like someone else had taken it secretly.
The sixth person wasn’t blurry.
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Nira’s blood turned cold.
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Standing beside the trees.
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But one detail was horribly clear.
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She was wearing Lina’s white hoodie.
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Nira ripped the photo off the door.
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On the back, written in black marker:
Her hands started shaking uncontrollably.
Sami
Who just joined the chat?
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Nira stared at the screen.
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At first, nothing looked different.
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There were only five accounts.
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Then the new name appeared.
The account instantly sent a message
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"I remember the screaming"
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The typing indicators appeared one after another.
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Like everyone was terrified to say the wrong thing.
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A photo uploaded into the chat.
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Nira recognized the location instantly.
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But that wasn’t the horrifying part
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The horrifying part was the timestamp.
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Rayhan replied immediately.
Tisha
That lake was closed years ago
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Another message from seen appeared.
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"she waited for you to come back."
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A new image uploaded immediately after.
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A girl in a white hoodie.
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Back facing the camera.
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Nira felt goosebumps spread across her arms.
Then Sami sent a message that changed everything.
Sami
I checked the metadata
Sami
These photos aren’t being uploaded from the lake
Sami
They’re being uploaded from inside Arian’s house.
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