Day 12

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Taraji

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Taraji

"We have to call someone!" Fantasia screamed in fear for her own life as we looked down at one of our closest friends. "Maybe she isn't dead." Fantasia bent down to one knee and slapped Nadira's face.

"Tasia." I said softly, still trying to find my own words from this fear. She kept slapping and yelling her name. "Tasia." She continued. "Tasia!"

She finally wiped her head around to me, her eyes full of tears. I allowed her to grab my hand so I could pull her up. "No she can't be gone too." She started crying uncontrollably. It's terrible to say, but I don't think this is a coincidence. The phone call that I got about Colton being close mentioned a time where we were all in a group. I also said pretty loudly that I wanted to take Fantasia on a run. Whoever did this must've thought we were going to go on a run along this path and find this area.

"We'll go back to where there are people and report this." Fantasia was completely lost in her sadness. I wasn't as close with Nadira as she was. Someone is definitely out to scare her and make her life hell. She has to get her brother back home. "Tasia, I need you to listen to me." She blinked away her tear and nodded her head. "We need to go find help, okay? We can report that we found her body on our running trail. I also need you to tell your brother to go home."

She looked at me in disbelief. "No. Why? What does he have to do with this."

"Please just trust me."

"I can't trust you if I don't know what the hell your ideas are. Why does my brother need to go home, Taraji?"

I walked us away from Nadira's body, I'm still in partial shock. "I believe someone is trying to get to you."

"What?"

"Colton, Nadira, and there could be someone else, we don't know. Colton and Nadira were the closest people to you when we came on this trip, now they're no longer with us. If your brother is here, he could potentially be a target. Who ever is doing this is obviously close enough to pick off the ones you stuck to the most."

She looked at me as if she were considering something, then her eyes got watery again. She threw her hand over her mouth and started shaking her head. "That could mean you too! We have to go, Taraji, right now." She started to run off quickly.

"Tasia!" I called out to her. "Tasia!"

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"How was she found again?" Our trio manager asked. We sat in Fantasia's villa. She seemed broken. The grief she feels for Nadira is a lot heavier than the grief I saw her show for Colton. It could be a combination of the circumstances and the fact that we found Nadira dead.

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