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I remembered the newspaper article "Three friends They all died together But why?"
"I don’t know All I do know is none had any documented history of depression or anxiety Teen suicide is too prevalent already, but this recent rashto push them to take this horrible step Perhaps it’s an online bully or so about I hope not I hope no one else is headed for the same fate"
"Me, too," I whispered
When Jordan and I were finally dismissed, with Ms Forester’s cell phone number in hand in case we felt we had no one else to talk to, I worked through it in my mind Four suicides in less than a week--and many more before that in the city The four I knew about were students, but none were known to be depressed
"It doesn’t hts "Julie was fine I spent hours with her yesterday and she was fine"
I remembered the moment when Carly ept away frorief and panic, scraet her back--and if it hadn’t been for Bishop I would’ve been lost, as well At thatto save her
"I’ely "You really mean that, don’t you?"
"Of course I mean it"
"Soot a faraway look in her green eyes Then she pulled so and showed it to e scout who stopped and talked to us? She touched Julie just before she went all crazy"
"And?"
"And" She frowned hard "I don’t know I just get this gut feeling that she had so to do with this Julie was fine, she was happy, and ere planning a trip together over winter break You don’tyourself ht But I had to admit it was a valid point "I don’t know"
She shoved the card back into her bag Her broere drawn tightly together "It has to be so scout--when she touched Julieit was like she drained her happiness away and left only misery behind Sohappened to the other girls who killed themselves, too Maybe it’s all connected"
I stared at Jordan, who seemed to have morphed into a tall, redheaded Nancy Drew "That’s crazy"
She hitched her purse strap higher on her shoulder There was a wild look in her eyes "Is it? It’s like that kissingabout I’irl and when he was done and ran away, she looked wrong Like he’d hurt her by kissing her I thought it was only lazed and weak, before she snapped out of it And I swear for a second she had these weird black lines around her mouth--like the ones that some dead people have been found with"