AN: I think we've established that I'm a bit of a Pauley perrette fan. I do hope that my future gore details will make up for the shitty representation of horror. Again, my apologies...

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"Hey... this must be that tape that friend of his didn't want me to see..." Beth picked up the tape from the video table. She was packing up the loft. She couldn't get over how his face had looked, shriveled as if it had been in water for ages. She had found him in his favorite chair, staring at the TV, which had water leading to it... or from it. She looked back at the tape in her hand. She shouldn't; what if it was like, a personal porno. As soon as she had come in, that woman had seemed eager to leave. Old girlfriend, maybe?

Curiosity was getting to her. She walked to the television set and stuck it in the VCR. She had an ominous feeling, but pushed it away as a feeling of loss, that she was getting it because she was in a dead friends's apartment, watching some stupid video. She pressed play. The screen was snowwy, so she hit it, thinking it was the old tv malfunctioning. The screen flickered and an onslaught of horrifying, gruesome images bombarded her.

"Lady... Lady, you gonna get that?" The mover said, picking up the box. No responce. He put the package down and walked to her. "Lady? You alright?" he touched her shoulder and she jumped and grabbed his wrist. She looked up at him and let out her breath. "You alright?"

"Yeah. Sorry..." The portly mover nodded, scratched his balding head, and went back to his boxes.

"...Nutcase..." He sighed, thinking she couldn't hear him. Beth hopped to her feet and got to the phone just as it stopped ringing. She was about to go back to work when she saw a little red blinking light on the reciever. You have one message. She looked at the mover. As soon as he was down the elevator, she pressed the button. A little girl spoke:

"Seven days." she dropped the phone. It broke, the battery pack coming loose from the rest. She had heard of this in highschool. You watch the movie, you get a call, then you die, seven days later. I thought it was just a rumor... she thought.

They say curiosity killed the cat. She had been curious. Now she was going to die... in 7 days.