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Her voice trails off as she walks out the door, and Mike’s eyes meet ive hiers on the door jaain He effectively ruins all the styling he did to it, and then he closes the door behind hiht, my eyes pop wide open in the dark when a crash sounds in our kitchen And another

I grip my bedsheets

And another

In the dark, I roll out from under ht, and I a robbed

So the entire place apart, andto adjust to the dark to find soet forto the city! an unhelpful voice shouts in my head as I stand up, and my disoriented, panicked body spins around and around in thefor a baseball bat or a crowbar or anything except the mountain of pillows on my bed Why the hell do I have so many pillows?!

When the heavy footsteps draw closer toa half-erow too loud to ignore, I launchlike soer-woman

"AAAAAYYYAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The water bottle flies froh the air, and Danica’s voice yells "WHAT THE FUCK!" as it whizzes past her head

"Dani?"

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?"

Her eyes are even wider thanback and forth betweenroohtI thought you were a robber"

"So you threater bottle at me?!" When I just stand there like an idiot, she yells, "Did you even call the cops before you tried toto do, so"No"

Instead, I sprung into the hallway like a five-foot-tall, Aquafina-sponsored assassin, complete with heart-print pajama pants and a puppy face printed on my T-shirt I push my wild hair out ofher way past me "You are so lucky you didn’t hitsomy racecar heart as I follow her back to her room She attempts to slam her door, but ither

She doesn’t bother going into her closet before she starts stripping off her clothes

"Because I’olden top, yanks it over her head, and hurls it at her bed