Later this day, at the dorm, Alexander, Marcus and Selena arrive at a door, where they look around and notice there is still some trash from this morning left on the hallway by one of the people who lives in this dorm room. Alexander knocks on the door of that door. The door is slowly opened from inside, someone looks through the small crack of the door, then the person from inside is asking.

“Password?”

“Rudy is the best bro.” says Alexander to Rudy, who closes the door and opens it large.

“What is my friend?”

“I need some more jenkem.”

“You sure, my friend?” asks Rudy to Alexander, looking worried but with a wide smile on its face. “Last time you three went on a trip where I thought that'll be the last time I saw y’all.”

“Rudy, please.” says Alexander. “Hand me a bottle of Jenkem?”

“Why are you asking me this?” asks Rudy looking with suspicion at Alexander and the other two. “What’s it for, Marcus?”

“Why me?” asks Marcus.

“Tell me the truth. Why do you want my Jenkem?”

“Alright.” says Marcus. “The truth is. We need Jenskem to let Alexander go on another trip to find the location of the amulet which is somewhere here in the dorm. Finding the amulet, it will help us stop a demon that possesses people and make them kill themselves.”

“...You guys aren’t high right now?” asks Rudy, surprised by the truth Marcus told him. “Or drunk?”

“No. We’re clean.” says Marcus.

“We’ll pay you twenty dollars.” says Selena.

“Make it forty. And we're done.” says Rudy to Selena.

“Pay it, Alex.” says Selena to Alexander.

“Why me?” asks Alexander.

“Cause this is your idea.”

“Fine…” says Alexander, taking forty dollars from his wallet and handing it over to Rudy.

Rudy goes into his room, takes from one of his drawers a bottle with human manure, he wraps it into a towel and hands it over to Alexander outside. Then, he tells him the following.

“This one isn’t as strong as the last one, but it’ll do the… thing you needed for.”

“Thank you.” says Alexander to Rudy.

The group of three people are walking away from Rudy’s room, where Rudy is closing the door, locking up and going back to do his business. The group of three people have walked into the dorm room of Alexander, which is still a disaster like it was this morning. Both of them haven’t had any time to come there and clean up. But they’ll have time to do it until tonight because it’ll be dangerous at midday.

“We don’t want to harm any innocent bystanders and dorm staff,” said Marcus.

***

“Here goes nothing.” says Alexander about to take the first breath from a Jenkem bottle, while Selena and Marcus are sitting on the bed of Marcus’s.

The room of Marcus and Alexander is now cleaned, any sign of an old hooker in there with a goat is now gone, Alexander's broken bed is still broken, but it can still hold Alexander slim body, and the whole room looks better cleaned than what it was this morning.

After the first inhale, Alexander is looking at Selena and Marcus for a good five seconds, then Marcus asks.

“Are you high?”

“Not yet.” says Alexander standing still, then he wheezes and falls on the bed.

“Now he’s high.” says Marcus to a worried Selena.

“And what’s going to happen now?”

“He’ll go on a trip.”

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Alexander lies on the sides of his bed, he looks at the ceiling without closing his eyes, and breathing on his mouth. The young man stares at the ceiling like he is seeing something from an outside, but from Alexander's perspective, he is looking at someone.

“I-I have got the amulet…” says Alexander looking at the ceiling. “Yes. Where is Rosa?... She is there, right?... That is good… Now listen-I-I… I… need you to tell me where the other amulet is?... The one here?... Wait… There are three amulets?... Yes. One is at Rosa, one must be here… and the other?... Is it there?... Really. Right there?”

“Who’s he talking to?” asks Selena to Marcus.

“I believe it is with one of the ghosts,” says Marcus. “But he said something about three. You also caught that?”

“Yeah. I did.” says Selena.

“Is it in that room, correct?” asks Alexander, shaking. “A-Alright. I’ll check it.”

Alexander rises up from his bed, making the bottle of jenkem fall from the bed and land on the floor, where the liquid manure combined with piss is falling on the floor that was swiped earlier by Alexander. The young man puts on a pair of his sandals and walks out of the room. His two friends are following Alexander to make sure he won’t end up somewhere he’ll regret.

***

The three students arrive in the basement of the dorm house, climbing down the stairs in this dark room which has no illuminating source present. Selena and Marcus, are looking after Alexander, following him since he walks down the stairs like he is seeing the interior. The whole group manages to climb down the last pair of stairs, walk three feet, then Alexander stops and is looking up.

“How am I going to dig? I have no shovel… Yeah, yeah… I’ll be looking after one.”

Alexander turns around, walks through the group of his two friends, pushing them aside, and goes back to the stairs to the first floor. The two students are going after Alexander to make sure not bad will happen to him. The two got on the first floor, and there they saw a student who was lying on the floor, with a bottle of beer almost empty.

“Are you alright?” asks Marcus to that student.

“Ugh…”

“He’s alright.” says Marcus to Selena, and they go after Alexander.

The student continues to lay down on the floor for a while. The two students are walking at the backdoor from the dorm. Marcus opens the door of the backdoor, but before he could step outside, he makes way for Alexander to come back into the dorm with a shovel, goes past the body of the drunk student, opens the door to the backdoor, goes back to the basement and proceeds to tear down the floorboard with the shovel. Marcus and Selena followed Alexander, and made sure to close the door behind them to not attract anyone's attention and get in bigger troubles.

Ten minutes later, Alexander found something while he was digging. He found a small chest. All by himself because his two friends remained a few feet away from him, and watched him doing the searching. When he got the chest out, Alexander looked at where the two guys were and asked.

“Are you sure this is the right chest?”

“You’re talking to us?” asks Selena.

“Alright…” says Alexander ignoring the two, he looks at the chest. “How do I open it though?... But where is this key?... Couldn't it be easier if I use a crowbar to open it?... If you say so.”

“Um, Alex?” asks Marcus to Alexander who finished talking and raised up to his feet.

Alexander ignores Marcus, he walks back to the first floor. His two friends are following the young man who is still talking to “himself” while walking.

“So, you say this chest can be opened only with the key that is hidden in the bodies from the cemetery.”

“Will we go back there?!” Selena asks worriedly.

“I’m afraid,” says Marcus.

“I know the risks.” says Alexander to the ceiling while walking down the hall. “But the police and everything else outside… Couldn’t we try it with a crowbar or a shovel to open it? It’ll be easier than going back there and getting arrested again… If you say so.”

The three students are getting outside the dorm, the moment they open the door, a group of students stops them from walking, dying to know their perspective of what happened last night and earlier this day. One of the students was asking Alexander.

“Dude! Did you actually go to jail for searching coffins?”

“Did you actually have sex with an old lady and goat?!” asks another student.

“Hey, baby!” says a drunk student to Selena. “Wanna hang out in my room?”

“Get out of here, you creep.” says Selena to that drunk student.

Alexander ignores the group of students, he walks past them, without saying a single word to the group of students who were following him for a moment, then they decide to give up since they realize the students won’t tell them anything more about what happened earlier that day and last night at this dorm. The three students walk to the exit of the dorm, they arrive at the streets of the city, and before they are about to crosswalk, a car stops near them.

“What are you kids doing here?” asks Detective Malcolm from the car after he lowered the window to yell at them.

“Um…” tries Selena to say. “W-We are going out.”

“Why is Alexander walking in the middle of the road?” asks Detective Malcolm pointing out at Alexander who is walking aimlessly in the middle of the road.

“Okay, chief.” says Marcus to detective Malcolm, walking closer to his car. “We are trying to solve this… Thing… So we let our friend take Jenkem and we are looking after him.”

A car was close to take Alexander's body, but the car managed to change direction at the last second, and continued his route like nothing happened. The three people saw that, then they all looked at each other. Detective Malcolm got out of his car and jumped on Alexander, moving him out of the road to avoid getting into a car accident like earlier.

“Where is he going?” asks Detective Malcolm to the two students.

“To the graveyard I think.” says Selena.

“But it's two miles from here.” says detective Malcolm. “Will be faster and safer if I give you a ride there.”

“Would you do that to us?”

“I have no choice here, kids.” says detective Malcolm going with the two young adults after Alexander who is walking down the road by himself while guided by the ghost.