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.”

like laughing the moment he heard that, and he did. Well, it was just a smile, but Tina caught

stomped her foot angrily. “How could

he asked calmly. Surprisingly, he wasn’t too mad that Tina

they knocked me out and put me in a sack. After that, they took me to the turf 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 did to me. And they even drenched

coldly, “I understand. Why don’t

Tina nodded and shuffled back to

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

and saw Toby standing before him, his heart skipped a beat. He was

up. Did you play a part in it?”

at him, he started stammering, and

“I can’t

She tried

“So you guys did it to get back at

So what?” Tyler muttered

“You’re not getting any allowance for three months. Think about what you did.” Tyler protested, but Toby ignored it and went to knock on Zane’s

nothing, they knew why Toby was here. Tina

us up, Toby? It’s the dead of the night, and

the matter with you?”

against the door. Her eyes were closed, looking like she

of the dream he had earlier, but he stared

clapped his hands and laughed. “Great job. Any idea who did it?

she didn’t open her

was looking furious. “Playing dumb,

are you talking about?” Charles shrugged. “Wait,

like it though, judging from

We’ve been in 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

annoyed that everyone was denying it. “Tyler told me everything, so

problem, not ours. Why should we apologize for something we didn’t do?” At the same time,

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