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jack and ryan Jack and Ryan weren’t your typical college roommates. They didn’t throw parties or blast music on Friday nights. Instead, their dorm room always smelled faintly of instant noodles and old coffee, and the soft clatter of mechanical keyboards was their soundtrack of choice. They had met during their first week at a campus hackathon—two strangers bonded by an obscure bug in a signup form and a shared love for open-source code and chaotic energy drinks.

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Hollow Creek On Halloween night, with leaves crunching beneath their feet and the full moon casting silver streaks across the sidewalk, Jane and Jake stood before the rotting gate of the Thornbridge Mansion—the infamous house at the end of Hollow Creek Road. It had been abandoned for over fifty years, shrouded in stories of disappearances, ghost sightings, and strange lights in the windows.