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

Tina stomped her foot angrily. “How could you

this?” he asked calmly. Surprisingly, he wasn’t too mad that Tina was beaten

at me, Toby, I’m

was bruised, Toby still wasn’t too angry, though he said coldly, “I understand. Why don’t you go take a shower for now?

and shuffled back

at the stairs before going upstairs. “Get out, Tyler!” He knocked on

went to take the door and saw Toby standing before him, his heart skipped

up. Did you play a

at him, he started stammering, and that was answer

“I can’t believe you actually

tried to kill

you guys did it

what?” Tyler muttered

but Toby ignored it and went

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

leaned against the doorframe. “Why’d you wake us up, Toby?

what’s the matter

door. Her eyes were

at her for a moment. He was reminded of the dream he had earlier, but he stared down and looked away quickly. “Tina’s beaten up by someone. Care to

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

chuckled, but she didn’t open

looking furious. “Playing dumb,

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

judging from

all this time. There’s no way we could have done that. And there’s no

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

should we apologize for something we didn’t do?” At the

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