How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok

Author:Victoria Wlosok [WLOSOK, VICTORIA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 9:50 AM

My mind spins as I stare at the fake blood dripping from the bathroom mirror. Stalls get vandalized all the time in Hillwood—when Stella was a freshman, someone found a scrawled bomb threat while they were trying to pee and the entire school had to evacuate to the football field—but I’ve never seen anything like this.

At least, I think I haven’t. Until my stomach twists with recognition.

This is Lea’s handwriting.

“Shit,” Nathan whispers behind me, his eyes locked on the bleeding words. “Shit.”

Now that I’ve placed its writer, my eyes can’t stop traveling over the word. CHEATER, in the exact same careful, precise lettering it was in when Lea keyed the word into Kevin Wu’s car. CHEATER, outlined with red. CHEATER, exposing Nathan Deveraux. And below it, the accusation. The deadly one.

MURDERER.

I take out my phone with trembling hands and almost drop it on the disgusting, grimy floor. When I finally get it steady, though, I take a picture. And then I scroll back through my camera roll to find the Snapchat post Sammy sent me back when The Wu Incident occurred. I screenshot it, and then I swipe back and forth between the two until my vision blurs.

They’re the same.

Behind me, Nathan lets out a choked whisper. He looks completely different from the guy who was just threatening me, and I realize I’ve never seen him look this… defeated. He slides onto the floor, and I keep looking at my phone, staring at it hollowly. I can’t believe Lea would do something this dramatic. I can’t believe she would make such a public display without putting it in an article first.

Doubt trickles into my mind. This isn’t like her.

Behind me, Nathan raises his equally empty, unseeing eyes to meet mine in the mirror. “I knew it,” he whispers, his voice ragged. “You were there that night, weren’t you? You took that photo. God, Blackthorn. Why? Why are you so obsessed with ruining my life? Why did you do this? Why couldn’t you stop meddling after I sent you that text?”

I glance back down at my phone, half expecting to find a death threat from Deveraux mixed in with all the other hateful messages I’ve been receiving since Delphine leaked my number, but then I realize there’s only one he could mean.

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