CHAPTER 50

KATHERINE. ‘What the fuck just happened?’ was the first thing that popped into my mind as silence reigned after the ghost took Chelsea’s friends into the woods. There was no one else around because this was the path that led to the clubhouse and it was time for dinner – students were at or headed to the dining hall – so the only person I could glance at to confirm I hadn’t just imagined that was Josie. “...Josie?” I called. She was staring in the direction the ghost had gone in with a mixture of shock and anger on her face. I was more shocked than she looked – I was terrified! A ghost just snatched a person in front of me, right after snatching my roommate. I didn’t even know ghosts could grab people! The CMES said that whenever ghosts became erratic, some of them took students, but I had just thought Theo had meant they possessed them and led them to wherever they wanted. I didn’t think he meant ‘physically’ taking people. “Josie?” I called again when the expression slipped off he