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Throwing onroom armed with my laptop Even if it was crazy early, I was so happy it was the weekend The closest I’d co to Dane since our date last Sunday was the occasional s up and seeing his eyes fixated onhih I’uess I didn’t want to spark rumors If he wanted to make the first move, then I was fine with that

I conteue stopped me I was in one of those moods where I couldn’t sleep, but ay too tired to do anything constructive Opening lanced over Facebook, andreally of interest was happening in e Anna My decision to one nowhere since last week, so this was as good a time as any to start

Hey Anna,

How are things going with you? Mom said you made the basketball team, that’s fantastic! Let me know if you ever play down this way How is school and everything else going? Got a boyfriend yet? ;)

Call me anytime you want to talk

Love Lil xxx

I that out of the way lifted sole, I put in the words Hansen, Golden Lake and abduction My screen filled with links to the murder of Steffy Hansen I clicked on Crimenet

Everything I could have possibly wanted to know (and not wanted to know) about Dane’s sister’s disappearance was right there in front of ht about Dane, and how he’d feel about was I was doing It was al hi like that up, though? And for all I knew, he’d Googled Abby and er’s death from cancer was not news The abduction of a six year old was

Earl Phillip Ederson had confessed to the abduction, rape and murder of Steffy Hansen in 2004, almost a year after her disappearance She had been abducted from out the front of her home while her parents were out She had been left in the care of her twelve year old brother, who had been inside at the tiames with a friend

I claspedwhen he was supposed to have been looking after her He uilt, which explained his erratic behavior in high school that Gem had spoken about What iot, he pulled hih

Earl was seen loitering around the area in a grey pick-up truck Steffy’s dress and doll were later found on his premises, as well as her blood He’d confessed to herpolice where to locate her body

An ie of Steffy filled the screen She was beautiful, with the same dark unruly hair as her brother, and the same ice blue eyes and porcelain skin I sla, unable to contain irl’s life How do you ever get over so what had happened, could you ever really move on?

Grabbing the reirl’s ie out of my head Somewhere between cartoons and video clips, I drifted back off to sleep

“Lily”

I openedreen eyes filled with fear Anxiety filledbad was co to Abby