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.”

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

stomped her foot angrily. “How could you laugh after someone did this

and stopped smiling. “Who did this?” he asked calmly. Surprisingly,

me, Toby, I’m injured all over.” Tina rolled her sleeves up to reveal the bruises on

coldly, “I understand. Why don’t you go take a shower for now? I’ll

Tina nodded and shuffled

“Get

to take the door and saw Toby standing before him, his heart skipped a beat. He was scared,

play a part in it?”

moment Toby glared at him, he started stammering, and that was answer enough for

“I can’t believe you actually

it. She tried to kill

you guys did it to get back

what?” Tyler muttered under his

coldly. “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

each other, and though they said nothing, they knew why Toby was here. Tina must have woken up and snitched on them,

and leaned against the doorframe. “Why’d you wake us up, Toby? It’s the dead of the night, and we need to sleep,” he

the matter with

against the door. Her

of the dream he had earlier, but he stared down and looked away quickly.

a moment, then he clapped his hands and laughed. “Great job.

she didn’t open her

was looking furious. “Playing

are you talking about?” Charles shrugged.

though, judging from his

nonsense, Toby. 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

annoyed that everyone was denying it. “Tyler told me everything, so don’t even try

apologize for something we didn’t do?” At the same time, Charles glared at Tyler surreptitiously. Why’d you

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