... the top of the stairs. "Oh Jake, honey, is that you?" she said running down the stairs. When she reached the bottom she let a small sigh escape as her spirit sank, he wasn't there. I couldn't have just imagined the whole thing, Vivian thought to herself, someone came into the house I heard them. "Jake? Are you here?" she yelled stepping into the middle of the foyer, her echo bouncing off the empty walls of the house ... the stairs; it dripped warmly off of each separate step filling the ruby pool on the one below it. Vivian stood frozen unable to believe the oozing mass that was collectin...

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