Normally, I would never stay at school longer than I had to, but I really needed to finish that project. My friend Hannah and I sat in the hallway, rushing to finish it. She had been acting...off. Her eye would twitch every once in awhile and she squirmed constantly.

"Are you feeling ok? You're acting really weird," I asked her.

"What are you talking about, I'm perfectly fine," Her voice sounded robotic. "But you won't be." A sharp, shiny blade appeared in her hand.

"Wh-what are you doing!"

She did not answer and instead charged at me with the knife in hand. I dodged just in time as she crashed into the wall next to me, the weapon clattering to the ground. She stared at me, her body scarily unmoving as she slowly picked up the knife and in one quick motion slit her own throat.

"Hannah!" I screamed as my friend collapsed to the floor, blood pooled around her. I stared, frozen, as something crawled out of her ear. It skittered along the ground coming straight towards me. Shaking out of my shock, I sprung to my feet and ran. Sprinting faster than I ever had, banging into lockers and whatever else was in my path as the creature followed me. I came across a ladder and slammed it down behind me. Squish. I looked back at the dead creature, pink gutted mush lay across the tile. Whatever this thing was, it was definitely not normal. Still in shock from the past events, I sprinted home and immediately headed onto my laptop. My mind raced as I tried to figure out what in the world I had actually seen today. Finally, I came across an old, run- down forum describing almost exactly what I had seen earlier. Yes, yes, I went down the rabbit hole of the internet to what was probably just some joke blog; but I needed at least a little senses of what had tried to kill me twice! However, once I read, I immediately regretted it.

They called it the Mozack Worm, it snuck inside your brain and slowly turned your thoughts until they were not your own. Invented by the U.S. government, the Mozack Worm was a secret project in Area 51. The population had grown too large for the government to contain, so they created a creature that could go into people's minds and make them do whatever the government wanted. All deaths from murders committed by your neighbor, to the latest terrorist attack you saw on television; they were all controlled by them. I had always wondered what went on inside the minds of terrorist and school shooters, now I knew. Those people were victims of a mind and thoughts that weren't even their own.

I felt sick, like my brain was going to vomit up the information I had just read. People had to know about this! We had to find a way to-! I froze as I read the last line of information. "The Mozack worm cannot be killed." Wait... then how did I... what did I do? "If you believe you have killed the creature, you are really its next victim." My hand trembled as I realized I was holding a kitchen knife. No! This can't be happening! This can't-! My eyes blackened as I heard the sound of a knife slicing through skin.