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Twenty Two

Lauren's 22nd birthday group chat

6 days after Lauren's disappearance

T: So the body they found was Dinah's? I knew it would be. Who else would it be? First Lauren now Dinah.

T: She killed herself to escape the punishments. Coward.

N: No Ty watch it again. She's been dead for 6 days.

T: Woah wtf? There must be some sort of mistake....They fucked up the report. How could she of been? She's been messaging us all week. I don't get it. It doesn't make sense...

T: What is going on?

T: Hello?

T: Why is nobody answering me?

T: What the fuck is going on?

T: Mani?

N: I'm just thinking.. The police wouldn't screw this up.. There is no way they'd get the time of her death wrong. They're doing tests on her body....They wouldn't broadcast wrong information on the news.. Not by 6 days.

T: Mila you were just with her yesterday yeah?

T: MILA?

N: Ty think about it. Have we seen Dinah? Neither of us has seen her since the night Lauren was murdered. We only heard from "her" over text.

T: Yeah okay? What are you getting at?

N: She's been dead the whole time. Just like they said on the news.

T: This doesn't make sense, Mila what the fuck is going on?

N: Whoever was texting us wasn't her.  I have a pretty good idea who has been pretending this whole time.

N: Ty we need to call the police. It's all starting to make sense now.

T: Are you fucking with me?

C: Stop please don't! Let me explain.

N: I think you better.

T: What the fuck? Tell me it's not true Mila.

C: I wish I could.

C: I've been living with the guilt for the past 6 days...

T: ITS TRUE? YOU KILLED THEM BOTH?!

C: Ty please. It was accident I swear. I'm not a bad person, none of this was supposed to happen.

T: You've got 5 minutes to explain before I call the police.

C: No don't! It was all an accident.

T: Oh an accident? Mila you beat 2 people to death.

T: Two fucking people.

N: Let the bitch speak Ty.

C: Guys please....

N: MILA SPEAK!

C: Ok, I was walking home from the bar. I'd spent all my cash on food and drinks. I couldn't call an uber or a cab, I  was just walking. I got close to the park and I thought I could hear Lauren's voice, she was talking to someone, but she seemed upset. I rushed to help her but I heard her tell someone she was pregnant. It wasn't until she kissed her I knew it was Dinah. I just lost it. Laur and I had been talking about getting back together..I was so mad I grabbed the first thing I could and struck her over the head for lying to me. I don't know what came over me but I kept on doing it until she laid lifeless on the ground. Dinah stood there in shock and started yelling at me. I took off running with her chasing me for a good 5 minutes. She caught up to me and pressed me against the wall by the lake there. She was so mad at me, it was like Lauren was the girl she loved and I was the one who took it away from her. I could see it in her eyes, she hated me for what I had done, she was shaking, she was yelling and kept me against the wall harder and harder I thought I was going to fall into the lake.

C: I found a loose brick and without thinking about it I struck her in the head with it. With a single hit she fell to the ground I checked her pulse and freaked out. I didn't know what to do. I pushed her body into the lake where I thought she would never be found. It wasn't until I got the top of the hill that I found her phone. It had fallen out of her pocket. Mani you texted her to make sure she got home okay. I replied "yes" without thinking and it went from there. I couldn't find Lauren's phone I tried to hide her body but I couldn't and ran.

C: I didn't mean for this to happen. I didn't I swear on my life. I've been living with the guilt for days...

T:  I cannot believe you Mila. What the fuck did you do?

C: Ty calm down please...

T: Calm down are you kidding me? You killed 2 people. TWO LIVING PEOPLE...!

T: You didn't think you'd get away with this did you?  Were you trying to make your dead bestfriend look a murderer? As much as Dinah loved you..

C: I don't know anymore Ty.  The last thing I wanted to do was also hurt you...

T: My god Mila you killed our friends... You acted so innocent during all this. You're not but a lying bitch, you're a twisted girl who needs to rot in jail.

C: Guys please help me.

C: It was accident I swear. I don't deserve to go to jail.

T: Oh mila you're not to jail. You're going to hell!

C: Come on please!

T: You killed 2 HUMANS DO YOU NOT FEEL ANYTHING AT ALL?

C: Of course I feel something. I have felt guilt all week. I've been in tears every night replaying what I did...Do you think I wanted this to happen?

C: If I could go back and change what I did I would.

C: I am begging you don't call the police. You know me, this isn't who I am. Don't you?

T: What? You want us to sit back and forget the whole thing happened? If you do you're more sick and twisted than I thought.

C: I will turn myself in tomorrow I swear. Just let me do It on my own time. I don't want the attention being arrested at my apartment.

T: Bullshit.  You don't believe her right Mani?

N: Not a damn word. I'm sorry Mila. I called the police. They're on the way.

C: NOOO PLEASE!!!

C: You need to help me!

T: I'm sorry Camila. The police are on there way.

T: You're on our own.

TY HAS LEFT THE CONVERSATION

C: Normani?

C: Please?

C: I don't know what to do. We're friends. Aren't we?

N: You're no friend of me.

C: Mani please don't go.

NORMANI HAS LEFT THE CONVERSATION