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“No one knows where Fionna is?” I repeated to an empty hospital room. My family had left to go get my friends, and even though my mom insisted she would come back in with whichever two of my friends came to see me first, she had stepped out into the waiting area with Max and Gray.
I wondered what had happened to the girl. I was furious at her, of course, but at the same time, I thought about how small and helpless she had seemed earlier in the day, when she’d insisted on holding my hand to walk to class. She was like a little lost child, out there in the big world on her own. What if she got lost? Or more importantly, what if some unexpecting human came across her and ended up getting hurt? I shuddered at the thought of what might happen.
When the door opened again, it wasn’t my mom as I’d expected. Rather, it was a nurse, dressed
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