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After walking in on this bloody ot that I haven’t found Thea

“I don’t know,” she sobs “She told ain I’ I should’ve protected her I should’ve—” She buries her face in her hands and sobs and anything said after that becoibberish

I give up trying to get Lauren out of the laundry roo Thea

I drop the gun on the kitchen table and head upstairs, straight to her room

The door is locked

“Thea?” I bang on it, shaking the knob

No sound

Oh, God

I feel like I o to my room, and the door is open, so is the one to the bathroorab the knob of the one leading into Thea’s room If she was smart she locked this one too

But the knob twists beneathon the floor

I rush to her, expecting to find her covered in blood, but she’s surprisingly unscathed

I shake her slightly and her eyes flutter open She doesn’t realize it’s et away from me

“Thea,” I whisper her na’s okay”

All the fight goes out of her and she breaks down crying, crawling intoher arms around me

“I thought I was going to die,” she confesses against my neck and my heart stops