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Finished "Sometimes They Come Back"! Jim performs a sacrifice ritual to summon a demon at the school. When the bullies arrive to kill Jim in a reenactment of sixteen years ago, the demon takes the form of Wayne and takes the bullies' souls to Hell. As it leaves, it tells Jim it will return, and Jim remembers his demon book warning that sometimes, the summoned demons come back. Yikes! Overall, awesome story!

Sally's funeral happens, but Jim is triggered when an apple pie brought by one of the guests triggers memories of his childhood. After looking at memorabilia from his marriage with Sally, he gets an idea. What could he be thinking about?

Jim arrives at the hospital and receives horrible news: Someone has died, and I'm willing to bet it was Sally. Jim starts feeling sick, but then faints when David Garcia appears to him, dressed like an orderly. They finally got Sally. The bastards got her. Good thing I'm with my boyfriend now.

After Sally goes out for the night, Jim gets a call from Officer Nell, who reveals that the three bullies were burned to death after crashing their car into a main power pole during a police chase. The fourth bully, Bleach, joined the army after getting a girl pregnant. But he fails to get in touch with his mother after refusing to tell Nell his story. And then another call comes in. What's going on now?

Jim confronts Vinnie after class the next day, after he scared Jim in the phone booth. It's now confirmed that the three bullies are ghosts, having come back to terrorize him (and maybe even Sally) because he's "unfinished business". However, there was a fourth bully that must not have died because he hasn't come back yet. Things are just getting more interesting.

Jim asks Officer Nell to look through the police records and find what he can on the three bullies, since they were never caught after killing Wayne. However, when he asks about a Milford High School, Officer Nell tells him the only "Milford" he knows is Milford Cemetery. Holy shit! I think it's safe to say that these kids are in fact ghosts. But what happened to them?

Jim goes to a pay phone at a drug store and manages to track down a police officer from his hometown that he knew as a kid. Awesome work, Jim! But what are you gonna talk to him about?

After Chip Osway's departure, a new transfer student named Vincent Corey has joined Jim's class. The third and final bully. When the two are introduced, Vinnie asks about Wayne, which triggers Jim. What the hell is up with these bullies?

After fearing he will be deemed crazy for telling his story, Jim decides to get Chip to expose Robert and David for threatening a teacher, in order to get them kicked out. But when he goes to the office, he finds out Chip is absent. Even worse, when he calls Chip's house, his stepfather answers and reveals that Chip has run away from home. Looks like he was SUPER desperate to get away from those two. Damn.

One day in February, after school, Chip Osway goes to Jim and confesses about Robert and David. He had been hanging out with them, but after Chip said he would get Jim for that test, Robert and David revealed they knew Jim back when Chip was a baby and imply that they plan to kill him. Chip is now terrified of them. And it looks like these two ARE the same two bullies who killed Wayne. But how have they not aged?