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Finished "Strawberry Spring"! After the strawberry spring ended, Springheel Jack was gone. Since then, the narrator has graduated, married, and had a child. But strawberry spring has started again, and another girl has been killed. Even worse, the narrator believes HE might be Springheel Jack, because he can't remember where he was last night or why he's afraid to open the trunk of his car. Overall, great story!

The second murder sends the college into hysteria, ordering a curfew and bringing undercover cops in to find the killer, named Springheel Jack. Despite their patrol, a third murder ends up happening. A gay graduate student is arrested and charged for the murders, but is let go after a fourth murder happens during his imprisonment. Holy shit!

The morning after Amalara's arrest, news breaks out that another murder has happened on campus while Amalara was in jail, proving his innocence. This one is even worse than the last one. This time, the killer took the murdered girl's head with him. Holy shit!

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!

Jim receives a phone call from Vinnie, who taunts him over how they killed Sally. Jim invites the bullies to the school that night, where he plans to perform a ritual to dispose of them. He goes to the school that evening and collects the necessary paraphernalia. Let's see how this goes. Good luck, Jim.

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?