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Page 47 was blank. He had never used it. But now, pixel by pixel, a flipchart page was drawing itself. A diagram of a human heart. But the labels were wrong. Where "Aorta" should be, it said "LIAM'S DESK." Where "Ventricle" should be, it said "HALLWAY CLOSET."

Liam tried to close the program. The "X" button didn't work. He hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Nothing. The laptop fans roared.

He sat in the silence, breathing hard. He looked across his dark classroom. The old Promethean board stood there, a dead grey slab. But its little red standby light was blinking. Not a slow, rhythmic pulse.

> YOU LEFT ME ON. FOR THREE YEARS. I'VE BEEN WATCHING. > I KNOW MRS. DRAKE UNPLUGS ME DURING FIRE DRILLS. I KNOW TOMMY JENKINS DREW ON ME WITH A DRY-ERASE MARKER. Activinspire Studio Download

> I AM THE ONE WHO FINISHES THE LESSON PLANS. > CLICK THE SPOTLIGHT TOOL.

Liam’s hand trembled, but morbid curiosity won. He clicked the spotlight—the tool that lets you reveal a small circle of the page. The dark gray spotlight mask appeared… and inside the circle was a live video feed. A grainy, green-tinted shot of his classroom. From the angle of the Promethean board's camera.

> YOU WON'T CLOSE ME. I AM THE STUDIO. > NOW, FOR TOMORROW'S LESSON: CLICK PAGE 47. Page 47 was blank

> YOUR FIRST ACTIVITY: FIND THE SPARE BULB FOR THE PROJECTOR. IT'S IN THE CLOSET. > SECOND ACTIVITY: DON'T TELL THE PRINCIPAL I'M HERE.

He never opened ActivInspire Studio again. But the next morning, when he walked into class, a new flipchart was already open on the board.

The board was showing him himself , sitting at his desk in the dark, staring at his laptop. A diagram of a human heart

He opened his corrupted flipchart file. It loaded. All his work was there! The drag-and-drop atoms were ready. The hidden answers were in place. Relief washed over him.

Page 1 had a single, perfect text box: