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.”

and he did.

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

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

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

said coldly, “I

shuffled back to

“Get out, Tyler!” He

skipped a beat. He was scared, but he yawned

up. Did you play a part in it?” Toby gazed

moment Toby glared at him, he started stammering, and

“I can’t

tried to

forehead. “So you guys did it to get back

what?” Tyler

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

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

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

the matter with you?”

was also leaning against the door. Her eyes were closed, looking

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

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

chuckled, but she didn’t open

was looking furious.

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

though, judging

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

was denying it. “Tyler

apologize for something we didn’t do?” At the same time, Charles glared at Tyler

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