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Chapter 76

Author: Lissa B
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-28 04:08:38

Em

Em opened her eyes slowly.. barely. She closed them again. This happened over and over before she could keep them opened for longer than two seconds. Ugh. She felt awful. Did she have a hangover? What had she done last night?

Wait. Where was she?? She tried to sit up but couldn’t. Her head felt like it weighed about seven hundred pounds. She had felt this way before when ….. Then … it all came back. The fight. The water. The guy. Oh god. Oh please no. No not again.

Tears immediately started running down her face. She looked around. She was in some small bedroom. She was on the bed and she could see a dresser with some clothes and knick knacks on it, a tv sat on top of another chest…. and some piece of exercise equipment was in the corner. She saw an old desk with a laptop, and beside the laptop were tons and tons of pills. Pills and baggies with different drugs in them.

Oh no.

She tried again to lift her head and this time she was a little more successful. She looked d
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