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Chapter 76

Author: Dea B
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-02 17:56:37

Jessa

The glow of the TV flickered across the living room, splashing the walls with bursts of color and laugh-track echoes. Some reality show about couples arguing in tropical villas played, but I wasn’t even following the plot anymore. I just needed noise. A distraction. Something, anything, to drown out the thoughts buzzing in my head like angry hornets.

Homework sat untouched on the coffee table, spread open like an accusation. Math problems I didn’t understand. An essay I hadn’t started. Biology notes I’d pretended to review. I told myself I’d get to it later, after just one more episode. But the truth was, I didn’t want to think. Thinking meant replaying everything that had happened in the last few days—Friday night, Saturday in bed, Monday at school, Noah at my locker this morning.

So I sank deeper into the couch cushions and turned the volume up.

For a little while, it worked. I even caught myself laughing at a contestant screaming about how she didn’t “come here to make friend
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