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deep breath before I run up the stairs behind Liv and Emily.
    Emily has her head buried in Liv’s shoulder, her eyes squeezed shut. I pray that Tony is okay and we don’t have to go through all of this again, one time is enough for a lifetime. Tony’s door is one of the last ones on the right.
    Liv runs to the door and bangs on it while I put my back to the wall and look all around us. That noise surely had to attract some attention. When the door opens my breath catches in my throat as the brown hair of someone we don’t know peeks out.
    “Who the hell are you?!” Liv barks at the brown haired bimbo at the door.
    “Becky, now be fucking quiet! Before we are swarmed with them things!” she barks back.
    “FUCK YOU! TONY?!” Liv yells into the crack in the door.
    The door slides open and there stands Tony. I don’t know if I feel relieved or jealous that he is alive and Devin isn’t. I want to be pissed that Tony did nothing to save his cousin, or maybe he did but it just wasn’t enough.
    Liv rushes in knocking the brown haired bimbo to the side as she wraps her free arm around Tony. I watch as Becky rolls her eyes and shifts her weight from one foot to the other and slams the door shut behind me.
    “Thank God you are alright!” She says as she gently sits Emily down and envelopes Tony in a tight hug.
    “Hey baby I am so glad you are alive!” He wraps his arms around Liv and kisses her on the lips slowly.
    I roll my eyes and take Emily’s hand leading her to the couch.
    “Uhm, can you two do that another time?” Becky asks.
    Liv turns and glares at Becky and then takes Tony’s face in her hands and passionately kisses him. I can see her tongue as it darts in his mouth. I think I am going to be sick. I turn my attention to Emily.
    “Are you okay?” I quietly ask.
    “Yes,” she replies almost too low for me to hear.
    I pull her close to me wrapping my right arm around her. “It’s going to be okay baby girl, I promise.” I say not knowing if I am saying it more to her or to myself.
    I hear Liv try and whisper to Tony without me hearing, “What happened to Dev?”
    “He couldn’t fucking wait until we had a plan. He went to find Willow on his own. Have you seen him? Is he okay?” he asks looking around the living room like he snuck in behind us without him seeing him or something.
    Liv throws herself back in Tony’s arms and I can hear her heart breaking sobs from over here.
    “H...He D...Didn’t make it,” she wails.
    “Fuck!” He steps away from Liv and looks to me and I see the sorrow in his eyes.
    I want to slap him and his little bimbo to! If he had really wanted to make him stay he could have done more to stop him.
    “You let him walk out the door! Don’t look at me like you are sorry!” I yell.
    “Why didn’t you stop him? Or at least go with him?!” Liv yells.
    “What was I supposed to do? I was trying to make a damn plan that kept us all alive!”
    “Well you failed at that buddy!” Liv says as she pushes past Tony and comes to the couch beside me.
    “I am so sorry Wil.” She wraps her arm around me giving me a gentle squeeze.
    I wrap my arms around Liv and try not to cry. I don’t want Emily to see us break down again. I will do that alone when we make it somewhere safe, somewhere other than here. Here holds too many memories of Devin for me.
    “Who are they Tony?” I hear Becky purr as she steps closer to him and touches his chest.
    “My girlfriend Olivia and her best friend Willow.” He quickly moves back away from Becky’s touch. “And this little beauty I don’t know,” he says and smiles at Emily.
    She smiles back at him. “My name is Emily. Olivia and Willow saved me,” she beams at me and Liv. I can’t help but smile back and wrap my arms around her pulling her into my lap.
    “We sure did baby,” Liv says giving Emily her brightest smile.
    Tony looks between the three of us with a look on his face that says he believes none of what we are