"HEY, CAN WE talk ? It's important." Finn asked, running towards Mal as she was about to leave.

"Sure." She replied, getting out of the house. He followed her, closing the door after them.

"So what is it ?"

Finn got the mysterious photograph out of his pocket and showed it to her, biting his lips.

"Who are they?" She questioned, looking deeply at the photograph's creepy features.

"The man is that mysterious guy we were telling you about, our director. I don't know the woman though."

She eventually nodded, still staring at the man's face.
"Can I take a picture of that ?" She requested. Finn nodded, holding the photograph against his chest so it can be clear to phone's camera.

"So. How is Oakes doing ?"

"I think we're back together." She replied happily.
"Really ? Good for you too. I'm so happy for you guys !"

"Thanks, Finn."

Mal finished taking the picture, and stared at it with sharp focus.
"Do you think something is wrong with the picture, or is it just me ?" She asked.

"I think there's something weird about that woman in the photograph. She looks even more creepier than him."

She nodded in agreement.
"Okay, I'll look through it. I'll text you if I find something out."

He nodded with an awkward smile.
"I have to go now."

"Okay, see you."

"See you later."

She then took off.

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"Hey, how was your visit?" Maya, Mal's biological younger sister asked as the girl entered the restaurant, looking worried.

"It was.. Weird. I need to figure something out."

The younger girl nodded and left the place. Mal sat down on a table close to the window, then let out her notebook and her phone.

She let out a pen from her bag, and began writing what she knew.

She paused for a minute, and turned on her phone, scrolling through her gallery to find the picture she took with Finn.

She stared at it with concern, then began describing it in her paper, struggling to find the right words. She wrote what she thought, and what appeared to be creepy and whatnot.

"Hey sis, what are you doing ?" Adam, Mal's brother asked, coming into the room with a tray full of orange and yellow rice.
The brunette sighed angrily, clearly losing her focus. She then held up her phone to meet his sight while he set the tray down.

"Do you see something wrong with this picture ?" She asked curiously.

"Hold on a second, who are they ?"

"Just answer the question, Adam !"

"Okay fine. I think.. Her smile is too weird. Almost like, it's.. Forced."

Forced.

She wrote what he said in her notebook.
"Can you send me Rajwan ? I need to see what he thinks about this one."

He nodded reluctantly, then turned to call his brother, who was helping their mother in the kitchen.

"Oh, you're back. How was your day?" The mother, Nawal, asked.
"Cool. Can you bring Rajwan and Luna over here? I need to ask them about something."

Rajwan heard her, and walked towards her table.

"So what is it?" He asked softly.

She held up the picture in front of him, and he stared at it in shock.

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