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"I know you think I’an, "like Dex hiredridiculous, but just know it’s not true Natural y he knows I a to try and see you, but it was all my idea I’ve been real y worried-"

"You’ve said that And you obviously don’t need to be

Look at ood"

I could have sworn there was a slight hesitation before "good"

"Wel , I just got out the shower," I protested

"You look fine, Perry"

Ah, downgraded froory Fine

What was next? Category OK?

"I wanted to see how you were handling things"

I openedbut she continued

"Come on, we both knohat Dex did was a terrible, terrible thing When I found out, I was livid for weeks I kne he felt about you-"

The anger built up in es of my chest

"Felt about me?"

"Yes I mean, he didn’t mean to hurt you Hetothe chair backward

"I hope he fucking did hurt himself! Look, I don’t care about what Dex did and why he did it OK? That’s in the past here We were both to blame I shouldn’t have been so stupid and I shouldn’t have believed for one ht of me more as more than a friend"

"But he does"

"Bul shit! Friends don’t fuck each other over Or fuck each other and then fuck each other over!"

"I know, I know, but he’s a er and he made a terrible edhim? Did you think you could co him? Fuck you, too"

She reached for lared at her She gavehim," she said with forced calm

"Dex is an idiot and he has his issues I just thought you‘d like to know that he lost the most out of this"

My asp

"Let me finish!" she raised her hands "Let me finish before you kick my bottom I didn’t come here to tel you about Dex or try toyou the truth, even if it’s the truth you don’t want to hear or want to believe What happened, even though it was his fault, destroyed hione-"

"Rebecca!" I howled at her, themy face with heat "I said I don’t care! I know Dex is stil your friend and that’s fine, but it’s all over The show Whatever thing we had going on Even you and me I have a new life now I have a new job, I have new friends and I have new dreams

You say you orried about me; well all I can say is that I’m fine I wasn’t fine for a while there, but I am now It’s over OK?"

She looked down at her i to feel faint again I felt bad for blowing up at her but she should have known just what she alking into when she showed up here

"OK," she said, then sighed She looked around the rooot up and made her way for the door A small part of me wanted her to stay, to tel me more about how miserable Dex was and about how far he’d fal en But that was the part of -eyed pianist and I was pretty good at burying her needs and wants

She opened the door and was about to step out when I cal ed out after her So I had no way of finding out

She paused, her hand on the door, and looked ateyes

"What?"

"Did Dex ever say anything to you about the EVP tapes?"

"EVP tapes?" She shook her head, her bob swinging back and forth "No What are those?"

I sighed, disappointed "We record sounds of what’s going on around us e do our shoots I…I had listened to one of the tapes and there was some pretty important stuff on it But Dex wouldn’t have had a chance to listen to it until after I…left"

"Oh Sorry Dex hasn’tabout it to s over "Do you knoho Declan O’Shea is?"

"No Is that Dex?"

"I’ that Creepy Clown Lady (or Pippa, as she introduced herself as) had left, she had told me to ask my parents who Declan O’Shea was I did about a week after I arrived ho or punching things I asked reater memory and he’s a lot smarter than my mom He seemed surprised that I asked but he said he had no idea

Then of course he wanted to knohy I was asking I couldn’t very well say "well there’s this old lady who looks like a clown I think she’s dead Anyway, she said you’d know," so I just said I had heard the name mentioned once and wasn’t sure if he was a friend of the faardless, Declan O’Shea was definitely not a friend of the family

"I could ask Dex for you, if you want," she said in a sht of that e heat creep up the back of my neck