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Cole and Layla went slack with shock. All the fight drained out of them as the officers pushed them through the door.Ryan came over to me with a wicked grin."How about that? Good thing your buddy came to save you, or the whole internet would be tearing you apart right now!"I laughed and slung an arm around each of them."All right, pizza and burgers tonight. My treat!"Evan grinned wide and thumped me on the chest.After everything blew over, life went back to normal.Well, not exactly normal. I'd opened a social media account, and people had been flocking to follow me. I checked after class, and it had already hit a hundred thousand followers.[Smart and hot? I'm obsessed!][When are you going live? I want to join the fan club!][Hey, did you see? The psychos who framed you just got sentenced today!]I blinked, then scrolled to the trending page.[Pair Behind False Rape Accusation Sentenced to One Year]I smirked. Even just one year was enough for them to think about what they'd do
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Layla snapped and lunged for my face, nails out."You bastard! I worked so hard for everything I have! Who the hell are you to take it from me!"Detective Harris grabbed her by the collar and pinned her back in her chair, voice dead serious."Ms. Brooks, I strongly advise you not to try anything. One more move and we will use physical restraint!"Layla's lips trembled. Then she whipped her finger toward Cole."Don't... don't arrest me! It was him! He forced me into all of it! He planned the whole thing and beat me whenever I refused. I had no choice!""What? You bitch!" Cole twisted around and roared right back. "Detective, don't listen to her lies! She came to me first. She said that since Owen and I already didn't get along, I should help her frame him..."She even said if the views blew up, she'd split the money with me fifty-fifty! I've still got the recording of her bribing me on my phone!""What?! You've been scheming against me this whole time?!"Layla completely lost it. She th
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Officers moved in immediately, pinning them down. Handcuffs clicked shut around their wrists."Wait! It's fake! It's all fabricated!" Cole was losing it, his cuffs clanking. "He used AI to fake it! They're framing us!""That's... that's right! Owen's had it out for me all along. This whole thing was his sick revenge plot!" Layla shrieked."Framed? Revenge?" I let out a cold laugh. "Even now, you're still twisting the truth?"Cole, if you really want to prove your innocence, why don't you let forensics swab under your fingernails for traces of the sedative? Or better yet, let's pull the lab's checkout log for that chemical."Cole's pupils shrank to pinpoints. His lips trembled, but no words came out."Layla, your manager, Dana Pierce, was already plotting to frame me back during the lake incident, wasn't that right? And the hotel surveillance was hacked by someone working for your management company!"Layla was shaking violently now, her nails digging into her palms.I looked her dead i
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Evan clenched his fists, anger threading through his voice."When I got Owen's shared location and rushed to the hotel, I saw them hauling him inside."I followed them. While they were stripping him and dumping him on the bed, then leaving to get their camera equipment, I climbed through the hallway window into the room, threw his jacket over him, and carried him out."He paused here and took a deep breath."But right as I reached the stairwell, I heard them coming back. There was no time. I stashed Owen in a storage room, then... quickly changed into his clothes and got back on that bed."What I didn't expect was that they drugged me again with the cloth, just to be safe. In the last second before I blacked out, the only thing I managed to do was hit the record button on the voice recorder hidden in my pocket."The room held its breath. You could've heard a pin drop.Detective Harris nodded slowly, but confusion still clouded his face."So, in trying to collect evidence against them,
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He scanned the room, and his gaze settled on me."Hey, bro.""Bro?!" Layla's voice nearly cracked in half.The livestream chat went berserk.[Holy crap, are they twins?][Wait, did the brother come to take the fall for him?][This whole case is bizarre enough to be AI-generated. Grab the popcorn!]My eyes stung with heat. Since coming back, this was the first time I'd seen Evan.In my past life, part of the reason I'd jumped into that lake was to keep from dragging him down with me.Our parents had already fallen into depression. If Evan also had a brother branded a rapist, the bright future he deserved would be ruined because of me.Evan turned to Detective Harris with a calm smile."Detective, the person at the hotel at the time of the incident was not my brother."It was me."Shock flashed in Detective Harris's eyes, nearly cracking his professional calm."What? How is that possible? Are you telling me you anticipated all of this?"Evan looked my way. Seeing the encouragement in my
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He gave me the slightest nod, then slapped a folder down on the table."This is proof that Owen was in the dorm with me!"Layla and Cole froze. When they saw what was in the folder, their eyes went wide.It was... a screenshot of an online match history showing Ryan and me playing together."What the hell is this? You're trying to pass off a game screenshot as evidence?" Cole barked, but there was an involuntary tremor in his voice.Ryan shrugged."This is the clearest proof that Owen had no time to commit the crime. We were both playing in the same live match."If you don't believe me, check the timestamp in the top right corner."Everyone's eyes shot to the corner. They all went still.3:05 p.m.!"Still not convinced? Keep going." Ryan leaned in and flipped to the next page.The shock on everyone's faces was impossible to hide.It was a photo of Ryan and me eating pizza and making goofy faces at the camera. The timestamp read:4:10 p.m.!"How... how is that possible!" Cole's face dra
