There are two women that are close friends and as a result, their families spent a lot of time together. Both women have children of the same age, so these two kids are forced to be together whenever the families meet up - resulting in them growing up together like brother and sister. They live on the same street too, so they spend a lot of time with each other outside of school too.
As the children get older, the families meet up less and the girl, Holly, decides to push the boy, Michael, away from her because she wants to spend time with her friends, not him. Michael has nobody else so he's angry at Holly for trying to get rid of him and wants her to notice him again - he's extremely clingy. (This backstory won't be revealed until later in the film.)
The film starts with Holly messing around with her friends with a Ouija board or a pentagram, although this doesn't do anything and they're disappointed. Holly is the main protagonist and she has an average life - she goes to school, gets good grades and has lots of friends, which is shown by her being friendly and saying hello to a meek-looking boy from her class (who is later revealed to be Michael).
Once the protagonists have been established, weird things start happening to her friends, which then become bad things, and Holly notices a pattern of the things happening to people she has talked to - leading her to believe that the pentagram/Ouija board worked and she's cursed. Her friend Natalie goes missing and it's assumed that she has run away due to the bad things that have been happening to her.
Holly blames herself for Natalie running away, isolates herself and becomes paranoid (and is seen rejecting a call from a person named Michael but the audience doesn't know who he is). After thinking that it was all in her imagination, she talks to her best friend, Amy, about her problems and then finds out the next day that Amy has gone missing. (It will be shown later that Michael saw Holly talking to her friend, went to kidnap Amy, and took it too far - accidentally killing her.)
Later that day, Holly has a fight with her mother and storms out of the house to go for a walk to calm down. As it gets darker, she cuts across a field as a shortcut home and sees Michael near some bushes. She calls out to him and jogs over - seeing how he looks shocked to see her but disregarding it as jumping at the sudden shout. She asks him what he was doing and he says he thought he saw something in the bushes but it turned out to be nothing. They walk back to Holly's house together and Michael says about how weird things have been happening to him too, which leads to her mentioning Amy's disappearance (and it makes her suspicious at how much Michael knows about it).
The next morning, the body of Amy has been found in the bushes, dumped haphazardly as if the person was in a rush and wasn't able to hide it as well. Holly sees the area it was found on the news and realises that was where she saw Michael the night before. She asks him if it was the body he saw last night and why he didn't tell her sooner, which leads to him giving a very vague and suspicious answer about how it might have been. She then asks what he was doing out there so late anyway and when he doesn't have an answer, she realises that he was the one that put the body there. She goes to leave but he tells her that he was doing it for her, which results in her slapping him out of disgust and telling him that she hates him.
There is then flashbacks of the film from Michael's point of view, showing how he made the bad things happen and how he killed Amy. These flashbacks emphasise his infatuation with Holly and how everything he did was justified by his good intentions, even if they were executed in a twisted way. The audience isn't meant to sympathize with him and should instead understand him a little better.
Before she leaves, she asks him if he had anything to do with Natalie disappearing and he glances quickly to his basement door in panic. She goes down to the basement and Natalie tied up and on the verge of unconsciousness, and helps her to escape - more concerned with the health of her friend than Michael.
Natalie regains consciousness at Holly's house (after about an hour) and tells Holly to call the police immediately. Holly says she wants to but she can't bring herself to because Michael is like her brother and she doesn't want him to go to prison. Natalie asks if she's at least told Amy and Holly reveals that Amy is dead - resulting in Natalie going over to the phone to call the police herself but spotting a police car outside of Michael's house. The two girl go to see what has happened and notice that Michael is in the back of the car and the neighbours are gossiping about how they can't believe how such a meek boy would commit murder. This makes the girls realise that he turned himself in and they are shocked as they watch him being driven away. The film ends with Holly and Michael's eyes meeting for one last time as he leaves.
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