Fake it with me
And when she finished, she sat very still in the driver's seat of her car, because the screenshot did not say what she had assumed it said two days ago, did not confirm the story she had built in the equipment room with her hands going cold.
It said something worse.
It was a conversation between two people planning something, dated three weeks ago, and the plan in question had nothing to do with cousins or secrets or anything she had imagined.
It had her name in it.
Multiple times.
And the date on the screenshot meant that whatever this was, it had been happening since before the pep rally, before the equipment room, before any of the moments she had started, despite everything, to believe w