The Twenty-Ninth Photo

Today, 11:18 PM

Mia: Genna, tell me you didn't hop the fence again.

Genna: I'm at the door of Harrison Elementary. I'll be in and out in five minutes.

Mike: For the backpack? We can pick it up tomorrow when it's light out.

Genna: My keys, my ID, and the card with everything we recorded are in there. I can't leave it behind.

Mia: That school's been closed since 2004 after the fire in the kindergarten wing. We went there to shoot urbex footage, not to die over an SD card.

Mike: Besides, we ran out because a bell rang. There hasn't been power there in twenty years.

Genna: I know. That's why I want to get the footage back. If we upload it right, it's the best video the channel's ever had.

Genna: I'm in the janitor's office. This is where we left the backpack when we went up to the second floor.

Mia: Do you see it?

Genna: Yeah. But there's something else. An old phone on the janitor's desk. It's on.

Mike: That wasn't there when the three of us went in.

Genna: It has a photo album called Room 5B_2004. Twenty-eight pictures.

Mia: Don't open anything. Grab the backpack and get out.

Genna: They're kids sitting in a classroom. All of them are looking at the camera. None of them are smiling.

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Mike: On the chalkboard it says "Class closed: 28/29."

Mia: Twenty-nine? I thought twenty-eight kids died in the fire.

Genna: The 29th photo just appeared by itself.

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Mia: Genna, that's you.

Genna: I didn't go into that classroom. I'm in the janitor's office. I'm looking at the closed door at the end of the hall.

Mike: In the photo, you're sitting in the empty desk.

Mia: And there's someone standing behind you. Looks like the janitor from the old news reports.

Genna: The janitor's office door just closed by itself.