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84: Catastrophic
A few days to revision week and Emily still wasn't home. It's been three days since she last replied their messages and they were starting to worry. Especially since she was no longer active on any of her social media accounts and her phone was now switched off.
It was like she... Isabelle found her thoughts absurd and pushed them aside as she tried to refocus her attention on the ongoing conversation in her living room. Her friends had converged at her place to think up possible places Emily could be.
However, it was hard to focus when she was coming down with something. A cold, maybe. The rain had stopped a week ago and the harmattan season had taken over with incredible force.
Sniffing, Isabelle went with the idea that it was just a cold caused by the weather. Even though she wasn't one to catch a cold easily.
Everyone's first instinct had been to ask Jessica if Emily w
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