>>SHADOW THAT WANTS TO REPLACE ME<<

I curiously asked my roommate Lily Nova, “Why are you changing rooms suddenly? Aren’t we all getting along well?”

She let out a dry laugh, “Well umm… another room invited me…”

As she said this, she kept her head down, her voice trembling, not daring to look at me.

In contrast, when she talked to other roommates, her body language was noticeably more relaxed.

My heart sank, “Did I do something wrong that made you uncomfortable living here?”

“No! Not at all! How could that be!” My roommate frantically denied,

“Don’t overthink it, it has nothing to do with you, really!”

When Wendy Xavier, our room leader, learned that Lily Nova was moving out, she wanted to organize a farewell dinner for everyone.

Lily kept waving her hands in refusal, “No need, no need, don’t be so polite, it’s not like we’ll never see each other again.”

I felt uneasy and asked Lily, “Why are you changing rooms? Aren’t we all getting along well?”

Hearing my voice, Lily’s body trembled imperceptibly.

She let out a dry laugh, “Well… another room invited me…”

She kept her head down, pretending to be busy, not looking up at me.

In contrast, when she talked to others, her body language was noticeably more relaxed…

My heart sank, “Lily, did I do something wrong that made you uncomfortable living here?”

Lily suddenly raised her head, looking at me with near terror, shaking her head vigorously,

“No, not at all, how could that be!”

“Aria, don’t overthink it, it has nothing to do with you.”

“Really!”

Lily moved out hurriedly that day.

Forget about the farewell dinner, she didn’t even want to talk to us much.

“Don’t you think it’s strange?” I asked,

“Why does Lily seem so afraid of me?”

My roommate Sage snapped, “Don’t mind her, she’s so ungrateful, not even willing to have a farewell dinner with us, making it seem like we bullied her or something.”

Wendy also looked annoyed, “It’s my fault for taking the initiative, she didn’t even say she wanted a farewell dinner, why did I have to bring it up, now everyone’s awkward.”

“It’s not your fault,” Sage comforted her, “Lily is the only one in our room with a different schedule from the three of us.”

“We sleep at 9 at night, she likes to stay up late.”

“When we’re all asleep, she doesn’t feel comfortable turning on the lights.”

“Other rooms all stay up late, so there is no early sleep issue.”

“It’s better that now she has moved out, everyone will be more at ease.”

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>>SHADOW THAT WANTS TO REPLACE ME<<

As Sage said, after Lily moved out, our room’s schedule became more harmonious.

Basically, by 9 PM, when other rooms were still laughing and playing around, we had already cleaned up and were ready to turn off the lights and sleep.

However, one day, Wendy suddenly asked me, “Aria, what time did you come back last night?”

“Huh?” I was confused by her question, “Didn’t I come back right after dinner?”

Wendy said, “I mean when you leave the room later.”

I was completely baffled, “Leave? I didn’t. I went to sleep right after showering.”

“You didn’t go out after 9 P.M.?” Wendy’s voice became strange.

I didn’t know why she was asking this, but I still answered, “No, I’ve always been a good sleeper, I don’t get up at night, I sleep straight through till morning.”

“Are you sure?” Wendy’s face looked troubled.

I sensed something was off and asked back, “What’s wrong?”

She stared at me for a while, then quickly averted her gaze, saying, “Nothing.”

She said it was nothing, but after asking me, she seemed distracted, stealing glances at me from time to time.

Whenever I caught her gaze, she would immediately pretend to be busy.

Her strange attitude made me uneasy.

That night, I had trouble sleeping for once, had a nightmare, and woke up in a cold sweat.

The room was pitch black.

It wasn’t dawn yet.

I didn’t know what time it was.

Still thinking about the nightmare, my heart was racing. Suddenly, I felt someone at the foot of my bed. Glancing over, I saw Wendy standing on the ladder of my bed, half of her body inside my mosquito net.

The expression on her face was strangely exaggerated, staring at me in terror.

“Ah!!!”

I screamed in fright, flipping over and bolting upright in bed.

“Ahhh!!!”

An even more terrified scream came from Wendy’s mouth.

Followed by a loud crash.

She fell off my bed onto the floor.

Sage and I rushed Wendy to the hospital in the middle of the night.

The doctor examined her and said, “It’s not serious, just a sprained leg, we’ll set it right and it’ll be fine.”

However, Wendy insisted that the doctor give her a CT scan to thoroughly check her brain.

I asked Wendy, “What were you doing sneaking up to my bed in the middle of the night?”

She avoided the question, not answering directly.

The day she returned from the hospital, Wendy secretly went to the counselor to apply for a room change.

The counselor called Sage and me for a talk.

“Aria,” she hinted meaningfully,

“Don’t just focus so much on scholarships that you neglect getting along with other students. Dorm relationships also need to be carefully maintained.”

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>>SHADOW THAT WANTS TO REPLACE ME<<

“Aria,” she hinted meaningfully, “don’t focus so much on scholarships that you neglect getting along with other students. Dorm relationships also need to be carefully maintained.”

The counselor glared at Sage, as if too lazy to deal with her, and softened her tone to advise me, “Aria, when one person applies to change rooms, it might be that person’s issue, but when two people apply to change rooms, maybe we need to look for reasons within ourselves. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Counselor,” I asked directly, “Are they changing rooms because of me?”

“They didn’t say it explicitly,” the counselor paused briefly, “but when they mentioned you, their attitudes were consistently strange.”

“Okay, I understand, I’ll reflect on myself.”

“What’s there to reflect on?” Coming out of the counselor’s office, Sage folded her arms, looking annoyed, “The counselor just knows how to pick on the easy target.”

I didn’t respond.

I noticed the counselor’s choice of words.

She said “strange.”

The series of events that had happened recently gave me the same feeling.

I wanted to talk to Wendy and Lily, but they had blocked me, and the messages I sent showed glaring red exclamation marks.

I tried to find them during class time.

They always pretended to be chatting with others, deliberately ignoring my existence, their attitudes extremely cold.

After several attempts at friendliness were met with indifference, I had no choice but to give up.

Sage’s home was close to the school.

She went home every weekend.

Once she left, I was the only one in the room.

At 9 PM, as usual, I got ready to sleep.

I don’t know how long I slept, but the persistent ringing of my phone woke me up.

I fumbled for my phone in a daze, saw it was 11 PM, and the caller was Sage.

Calling so late, could there be some emergency?

I quickly answered the phone, “Hello? Sage, what’s up?”

“You’re something else, Aria!” Sage’s excited voice came from the other end of the line, “Girl, I didn’t expect you to be having such a good time

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behind my back!”

I was completely confused, “What?”

“Stop pretending!”

Sage sent me a SnapChat photo.

I opened it and my eyes widened, all traces of sleepiness gone.

In the photo, the campus heartthrob and I were in an intimate embrace, in a pose that couldn’t be more suggestive.

My head was spinning.

I was lying in my dorm room right now, when did I hug the campus heartthrob?

“When did you take this photo?” Coming to my senses, I immediately asked Sage.

“Just now! Aria, stop pretending! I saw you!”

“Sage, I’m in the dorm, the girl you saw isn’t me.”

“How is that possible!” Sage firmly refuted, “It’s you!...............

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