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

“How could you laugh after someone did this

again and stopped smiling. “Who did this?” he asked calmly. Surprisingly, he wasn’t too mad that Tina

asked Tyler to lure me out, then 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 me with water. You have to tell them off, Toby, This is too

Toby still wasn’t too angry, though he said coldly, “I understand. Why

nodded and shuffled back to her

before going upstairs. “Get out, Tyler!”

skipped

play a part in it?”

lie, so the moment Toby glared at him, he started stammering, and that was

fell. “I can’t

She tried to kill

Toby’s forehead. “So you guys did it to get back at

Tyler muttered under

protested, but Toby ignored it and went to knock on Zane’s door. A short while later, everyone on the third

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

us up, Toby? It’s the dead of the night, and we need to sleep,” he

matter with

the door. Her

but he stared down and looked away quickly. “Tina’s beaten up by

snake up?” Charles looked shocked for a moment, then he clapped his hands and laughed.

she didn’t

looking furious. “Playing dumb, are

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

judging from his

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 sleepy

denying it. “Tyler told me everything, so

we didn’t do?” At the same time, Charles glared

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