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    “Then it’s a good thing she’s gone now, isn’t it. I think you should take a page from her book and leave too.” Morgan points to the girl’s car.
    Molly’s smile falls when she hears the end of Morgan’s sentence.
    The girl eyes Molly, a sadistic look on her face as everyone but Molly sees that Molly is left out of something. “Someday all your dirty secrets will come to light,” she threatens Morgan. “Skeletons don’t stay in closets forever.” She skips back down the steps.
    “Always something… right?” Molly lets out an unconvincing giggle. “Let’s finish moving you in.” She claps her hands and walks inside.
    I look up at Josh.
    “I’ll explain it all another time,” he murmurs.
    “I don’t think I care to know,” I admit.
    “That would be the second smartest decision you made today,” he says.
    “And the first?” I ask.
    “Moving in next door to me, of course.” He taps his index finger under my chin.
    “I had no choice,” I deadpan. 
    “I’ll show you to your room.” Flashing a heart-stopping smile he walks over to the steps with my things still in his arms. “And everyone has a choice,” he says over his shoulder.
    How does he know where my room is?
    “You’re right we do! And I’m still not going to go out with you!” I yell after him.
    There I told him. I feel better now. Consider the cord cut.
    “Well, not right now…” he yells after me. “We have to put your things away right now.” He hesitates and turns to look at me. “Well, are you coming?” he asks, then goes back to walking up.
    Molly, Morgan, and I stand silent as he disappears.
    “Is he crazy?” I ask them.
    They both look at each other and then back at me with a shrug.
    “He does live with them... It’s possible they’ve finally broken him.” Molly glances back up the steps.
    “It’s the quiet ones you have to worry about. I mean just look at Dean,” Morgan muses.
    Obviously they are talking about something I don’t know about since Molly gives Morgan a shove.
    “I told you to drop it! You better not tell Sidney, she’ll never let me live it down,” Molly huffs.
    “Yeah, I’ll just go call her right… oh no, I won’t,” Morgan snaps back at her. 
    Ignoring them, I slowly walk up the steps.       
    “Josh? Are you crazy?” I yell to him.
    I’m starting to think maybe everyone else is normal, and I’m the crazy one… maybe I fell into the rabbit hole…
    Maybe I’m asleep!
    I pinch the back of my arm and flinch from the pain.
    I had a feeling…
    “I would hope not if I were you, since I’m in your room,” he yells to me.
    I run up the steps after him and leave the sisters to their argument. Once inside my room I notice he’s lifting the last of his load onto a bare mattress. I cross the room and drop the last of my stuff onto the pile that is already started.
    “I don’t want to sound rude, but please get out of my room. I have a lot to put away, and I would like to do it alone.” I point to the door.
    Completely disregarding me, he lifts up a cluster of hangers that have been tied together with a zip tie and adorned in a black trash bag; he shakes it at me.
    “Now, is that anyway to thank me for carrying all these up here?” He gives me a look. “I’m not even going to ask why your clothes are packed like this and not in suitcases,” he says, as his long finger pops through the plastic material to rip open the bag.
    I stand here in a trance, watching him as he works.
    He doesn’t get it…
    When he’s finished removing all the trash bags from my clothes, he exits the room without saying a word, leaving me standing here in a state of bewilderment. A few minutes later he re-enters and grabs the hangers to slide a knife under the plastic tie. With a quick jerk the blade slices through the plastic, releasing the cluster.
    “Oh good… I thought maybe you had left without saying goodbye.” The sarcasm rolls off my tongue like I speak it