Toby was still wondering if he was hearing voices when Tina cried out for him again, “Open up, Toby. Please…” Toby focused once he heard her cries, and he knew it wasn’t a dream.

He got out of bed and turned on the lights before he went to the door. What greeted him was a woman with disheveled hair and torn clothes. He froze up for a moment, frowning. “Tina?”

 

“Toby…” Tina looked up at him tearfully.

When Toby saw the state she was in, his face fell. “What happened?”

Tina puckered her lips sadly, and she cried even louder. She was about to hug Toby, but he took a step back reactively. When Tina realized what had happened, she stopped crying and stared at him angrily. “Did you just avoid me, Toby?”

Toby knew he must have hurt her pride, so he coughed and explained, “Sorry, Tina. You know I’m a germaphobe.”

 

“Yes, but—”

“Alright, Tina. Tell me what happened,” Toby interrupted.

 

Tina bit her lip. “Someone took me away in a sack and beat me up.”

that, and he did. Well, it was just a smile,

“How could you laugh

asked calmly. Surprisingly, he wasn’t too

club and beat me up. Just look at me, Toby, I’m injured all over.” Tina rolled her sleeves up to reveal the bruises on her arms. “This is what they

though Tina was bruised, Toby still wasn’t too angry, though he said coldly, “I understand. Why don’t you go take

nodded and shuffled

looked up at the stairs before going upstairs. “Get out, Tyler!” He knocked on Tyler’s door,

door and saw Toby standing before him, his heart skipped a beat. He was scared, but he yawned to cover his fear.

Did you play a part

him, he started stammering, and that

fell. “I can’t believe you actually did

deserves it. She tried

creased Toby’s forehead. “So you guys did it to

So what?” Tyler muttered under his

you did.” Tyler protested, but Toby ignored it and went to knock on Zane’s door. A short while

other, and though they said nothing, they knew why Toby was here. Tina must have

his arms and leaned against the doorframe. “Why’d you wake us up, Toby? It’s the

matter with you?”

the door. Her eyes

reminded of the dream he had earlier, but he stared down and looked away quickly. “Tina’s beaten up by

moment, then he clapped his hands and laughed. “Great job. Any idea who did it? I

she didn’t

furious. “Playing dumb,

talking about?” Charles shrugged. “Wait, you can’t

though, judging

our rooms all this time. There’s no way we could have done that. And there’s no reason for us to do that either.” Zane had on a

denying it. “Tyler told me everything, so don’t even try

that’s his problem, not ours. Why should we apologize for something we didn’t do?” At the same time, Charles glared at Tyler surreptitiously.

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