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"Why on earth would I be hanging around your filthy apartment?" she asks with repulsion

"I don’t know… to spy onto yourself? You sound insane"

"You’ve spied onEvan"

"No, we told you tiain that never happened"

"Yes, it did" I seethe, ballingus every tiot to stop this paranoid behavior" Silence fills the line "You stopped taking your pills, didn’t you?"

"No, I haven’t I take them every day like I’m supposed to" I sit up on the bed and force myself to stay focused on the reason I called "Look, Mom, I didn’t call to talk about me I called to talk to Ellis"

"This is unbelievable" She laughs haughtily "You knohat? I’ape at the phone She hung up oners on ry withpunished, but her angerdone to him

She was so persistent about the pills, too, ot

I collect my laptop froain to check ency

Unbeautiful: Please, this is really important I need to knohat pill this is Soto worry

About a half an hour later, there’s still no response It’s nearing three o’clock Class will be starting shortly Ryler should be showing up here any atherrooure out what to say to hiot into?

I never get the chance, because Ryler never shows up I end up having to walk to school onover my shoulder, I step outside the aparthted, like they did every day in Ralingford The stress is starting to take a toll on me If I’m not careful, I’ll have another panic attack and blackout

You can do this, Eh to escape Ralingford

As I turn around to lock ether seems dimmer Stuck to my door with a knife is a piece of paper

Thou shall break

A rule of our co