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“Felicity, that’s the same picture I showed you before It’s your profile picture There is no one in the picture with you”

I froze then flipped to the next picture One moment I saw her, the next I didn’t Soht out of the photo

“Take… me home… please”

“We’re already here,” he said as the car pulled to a stop in front of otten it at the gala

“I don’t have —”

“I picked it up after you ran out I came here first to find you after you left I’m sorry, but I let myself inside” He held up the keys

Not saying anything, I stepped outside the car I didn’t wait and walked up the stairs to our condo Turning the doorknob, , yet there was no difference in anything when I stepped into the living room It was absolutely the same as always My teal pilloere on the tan couch Mark had loved the first moment he’d laid eyes on it at a yard sale

“Mark?” I called, putting my keys down “Cleo? Are you here?”

No answer

Hearing the floorboards creak, I turned to see Theo standing with his hands in his pockets, watching me

“They’re real,” I said

“Felicity, I’s online on the way over here However, so I learned was that hallucinations have one fatal flaw: even for the person having the that can’t be rationalized to help give people a point of clarity”

I bittears “Cleo and Mark are not hallucinations I’ve not been hallucinating for six years! We all live together here We are faet the fuck out”

He looked like he didn’t want to speak His mouth opened and shut twice before he finally said what he needed to say

“Felicity, why do you only have one bedroom?”