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you use it.”
    “I’m sorry.”
    “You’re not sorry enough—not even close to as sorry as you’re going to be. You know that he’s going to be arrested again, don’t you? I’m going to call the cops the second you walk out of this room. You’ll be lucky if you make it five miles before you get pulled over again.”
    “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
    “So that’s not Elijah in that car outside, then?” Deena asked, pointing at the window.
    “No,” Caelyn lied. “It’s his brother.”
    “Bullshit.”
    “Deena, it’s true. You know Elijah’s in jail. How could he be here?”
    Deena smirked and folded her arms over her chest. “Maybe he escaped. I guess he has enough brains to do that—but not enough to stay away from you.”
    “That’s ridiculous. It’s just Elijah’s brother. We’re friends.”
    “Well whoever it is, we’ll see what happens when the police pull them over. If they’re related to Elijah, then they’re probably a criminal with a warrant out for their arrest anyway.”
    Caelyn sat up and tried to compose herself. She needed to give Deena something to appease her. “Listen, I’ll give you all my money.”
    “You don’t have any.”
    “My credit cards.” Caelyn grabbed her purse and started digging. “You can charge them up, I’ll never say a word.”
    “I don’t want your stupid cards. I can get money if I want it. Plenty of money.”
    Deena smirked again. “I have everything I want, except one thing.”
    “What’s that?”
    “You. Miserable. In this house.” Deena’s smirk turned into a genuine smile as she considered this. “I want you to be here, where you’re absolutely at your lowest point.
    No friends, no Elijah, nothing. And I get to watch you sink deeper and deeper into despair. That’s what I want.”
    “What did I do to you, Deena? Why do you hate me so much?”
    Deena’s smile faded and her expression turned icy. “Don’t ask me that, you stupid bitch. I don’t owe you an explanation. I don’t care if you “get me” or not.” She turned and started towards the door. “Time to make a phone call. I figure the cops will want to know about any suspicious vehicles parked outside our house—“
    “Deena, I know your secret,” Caelyn called after her.
    Deena froze in her tracks, her hand on the doorknob as she prepared to leave the room. “What did you say?” Deena asked, turning toward Caelyn.
    “You heard me,” Caelyn said. “I know everything. You’ve been bad. Really, really bad, and you were also stupid. You left the easiest password ever on your computer.”
    Deena’s eyes narrowed. “You’re lying.”
    “Really?” Caelyn got up and stood firmly, her legs feeling sturdier all of a sudden. “I mean, I was flattered when I guessed it. I figured you were obsessed with me, but that password really confirmed my suspicions.”
    “If you try and tell anyone, I’ll hurt you worse than you could imagine,” Deena said.
    “How can you hurt me any worse than you’ve already hurt me?” Caelyn asked.
    “Try me.”
    “Listen, we should call a truce. You let me go right now, and you keep your evil mouth shut. Then I won’t tell Mom and Dad and the rest of the world what you’ve really been doing when you pretend to go studying at the library.”
    Deena just stared at her. “You’re bluffing. You can’t prove anything. I’ll change my password.”
    “There’s this little thing called email,” Caelyn said calmly. “So don’t worry.
    You can rest assured that even if your computer mysteriously went up in flames, I’ve got backup copies of everything. And I mean everything.”
    Deena licked her lips. “You’d really do that to Mom and Dad just to get back at me?”
    “I’d enjoy it, too,” Caelyn said, staring Deena down. “And you know I would.”
    Deena’s mouth opened and shut. For the first time in her life, Caelyn thought, she seemed to have absolutely no comeback.
    Caelyn smiled at her younger sister