“Their hookup spot was the boathouse, and they’d meet in the middle of the night. I piece it all together, everything suddenly so obvious. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Though his cheeks are already chapped red by the cold, Paul flushes even deeper. “You were blackmailing Tipton! You sent those texts and emails the cops showed me.” What I can’t believe is he didn’t kill her. They can’t believe he’d do that! Such a nice guy.” “How are things in the office?” “Since, you know.” What can I say? No students murdered on your watch while I was gone? Glad you kept your job! But if I cut and go, I’m just another spoiled Claflin brat who can’t deign to speak to the security staff. “Olivia, hey, welcome back.” Paul and I stop in the middle of the quad. This all has to have been worth it, to get to the other side in a better place than where I started. I’ll never fit in, not really, but I have to keep pretending for as long as I can stand.
Claflin is just one of the feeder schools to the elite universities to which I applied. Of course, college will bring more of the same. I will finish the semester, get my diploma, and leave this all behind. Every person in my life who had a secret, earth-shattering or otherwise, who kept it from me easily and as a matter of course.Īs I walk the path to Bay, dragging my suitcase noisily behind me, it doesn’t feel like returning home. Then I got taken in by my roommate, her killer, Tipton, Sierra, Margot, Avery, Ethan. I don’t know if I will ever trust people in the same way ever again.Īnd I’d thought I was pretty skeptical to begin with. Campus is gray when we return, as if it knows that everything has died.
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