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I half expect Adah the dressers or so, but it’s empty I shut the door behind me and scan the room Where do rich people hide their safes? I search around the place quickly but don’t see anything that could hold a safe

I sink down onto the bed, suddenly so tired I can barely ot to the future Even though it’s only 4:41 pht I’ve never been out of California, but I bet this is what jet lag feels like I’d love to just lie down and pass out until it’s tiure out what’s going on—I’m exhausted

But there’s no one else I’m the only one who can stop these ed mirror on the wall That’s it! The mirror That’s why the numbers were in that sequence I rush over and peer behind the frarab the mirror and yank it off the wall A small metal box is embedded underneath with a keypad on it My heart races as I enter the numbers and the safe pops open

Inside is a thick folder Nothing else

I flip the folder open and find page after page of infor Future-Adam collected on our deaths Police and autopsy reports Crih each page, soaking up everything like a sponge Trent was killed first, with his time of death estimated between 3:00 pm and 4:30 pm His body was found in a du nearby where he’d been squatting Zoe died next, between 4:30 pirlfriend’s apartns of forced entry Chris is the third victim, shot two blocks from the auto repair shop where he works, between 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm

I’m last in the folder My body was found on the beach, partially suberprints on the gun and gunshot residue on ht they were fro with the others And one bullet to the head, from close proxiunshot, freezing it at 11:38 pm That’s how they knew my exact time of death

Through blurry eyes, I force myself to look at photos of the criun that killed us was a Glock 9mm with the serial nuun as the one in erprints, and even strands ofme to the crime scenes

The papers flutter to the floor I slide down the wall and cover es that are now carved into les, covered in blood My own corpse, bloated and pale

Any questions I had into die tomorrow, and all evidence points to me as the murderer

“Elena?” Zoe calls froht?”

“Yeah, fine” I should show the others everything in this file They need to know about their own deaths, to know the facts about what is going to happen to us They’ll discover I’ure out why I’d do this or how to stopto me…well, at least I won’t kill anyone tomorrow

I start to collect the papers but pause when I see the unfolded origami unicorn on the floor, where I must have dropped it Future-Adam told me to open it alone He left this folder for er self Me

He trusts ure this out onthe truth froht

I shove everything back inside the safe and slam it shut

10:29

I wander around in a haze until I find rass trirown dark, and the sun dips into the ocean in the distance We’ve run out of daylight