Graduation Speech: Jacob's Death

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***Beth 's POV***

After what seemed like forever Jacob finally choose a hotel to stay at. It was an okay looking hotel, it was not one of the worst ones, but it was one of the nicer ones. We make our into the hotel, to check in. Jacob and the women started talking and again, I spaced out, and thought of leaving him, when the night fell upon us.

Jacob tells me that he is ready to leave to the room, I just follow him. We walk in complete silence, all the way to the room. Once and a while I look to him and think, why did he pick me, at of all the girls in the world he picked me. The girl that just casually trapped him and his friends, in their own home, and just killed them.

***Jacob 's POV***

As we walk to the room I can notice that Beth would look at me. When she did that I would think about, what people thought about us being together. Would it have been
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What did I do to deserve a painful and slow death. I was nothing but nice to you, and you kill me the worst way possible, by asphyxiation."

That speech killed me the most, he was right about everything, he did nothing wrong to me, and what did I do kill him the worst way possible, I just couldn 't bare looking at him so I had to leave. I open the door and leave my room.

I tried to make my way to the front of the house, but I ended up in another hallway, but this one had a gaping hole in the middle, and I knew who died here. Matthew was killed here. I go over to the edge, and there is his body at the bottom. His ghost started to make his way up to me, where the spikes were at, he had holes, his clothes were all full of blood.

He touches me and I get the chills, he then looks at me and says, "How could you put us through this, you made us watch all of us die, one by one. Did this bring you joy, because for us, it brought sadness, watching all of our friends

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