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With a groan, I flung my sheets off and sat up just as a voice in the hallway shouted, “Hello? Can anyone hear me? Is anyone there?”
Scowling in confusion, I surged to my feet, knowing that voice didnotbelong to anyone in my family.
“What the hell?”
I charged toward the door and yanked it open.
In the hallway, a night-light was plugged into the wall to help people see through the dark during nighttime trips to the bathroom. And standing right in front of it was a girl with long wavy auburn hair, wearing a fashionable jumper.
Not at all expecting to see her in my family’s home, I pulled back in alarm.
“What the fuck are you doing here?”
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FOSTER
The girl yelped and whirled toward me.
“Oh my God,” she panted, pressing a hand to her heart. “Oh thank goodness, it’s you.”
I didn’t feel so grateful, though. Letting go of my door handle, I stepped into the hall, growing pissed. “Why are you in my house?”
She glanced around herself, then asked, “Isthatwhere I am? I had no idea.”
“Yes,” I seethed from between gritted teeth. “This is where I live. Breaking and entering is becomingquitea thing with you, isn’t it? How did you even get in here?”
“I…” Wincing at me, she shrank a step away. “You’re really not going to like it if I tell you I don’t know, are you?”
Ah, Jesus. Of course, she didn’t know.
“Look, I don’t know what’s going on—” I started, done playing games. But I felt suddenly deceived. I’d been fuckingworriedabout her, hoping she was okay. And all this time, she’d been following me aroundtown?
Breaking into my house was the last straw, though. Myfamilywas sleeping just on the other side of all these doors.
I stormed forward, but before I could grab her arm and manuallyescorther outside, the door to Reed’s room opened, and he stuck his head into the hallway. “You okay, Foster?”
I froze, gaping at him when he completely ignored the girl, acting as if she wasn’t there, even though she was literally standingrightin front of him.
“I thought I heard you talking to someone,” he added, still not acknowledging her.
“Yeah,” she spoke up, waving at him slowly. “He was talking to me, sorry.”
But Reed didn’t respond to her. He simply kept watching me for an answer as if he hadn’t heard her.
“Uh…” My brain stalled out, trying to make sense of what was happening. “Yeah. I mean,wasI?”
Meanwhile, the girl slowly waved her hand inches in front of his face.
He didn’t even blink. “Iheardyou talking,” he said, cocking his head to send me a strange look. “Were you sleepwalking or something?”
I’d never been known to sleepwalk a day in my life, but I nodded slowly and swallowed hard. “Maybe,” I murmured as the girl standing between me and my brother hugged herself and started to back away from Reed slowly as if she was afraid of him.
“He doesn’t see or hear me, does he? Why doesn’t he see or hear me?”
Her voice fluttered with panic, and she started to breathe hard.
“Can anyone else hear me?Hello?”
