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Danny curled into himself, putting everything he had into making himself as small as possible.
“Danny?” His mother called. “It’s okay, you can come out.”
Danny stayed frozen, not daring to move even an inch.
She continued. “Danny, we love you no matter what, we promise.”
She was lying, he knew it. She was lying, as the second he revealed himself she would shoot him with some ghost-trapping gun and then rip him apart for research like she always wanted to.
“Danny? Danny, please.”
He wasn’t falling for it. There’s no way he would let himself fall for it again.