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'Zach, please don't worry about it. I'm sure everything will be okay tomorrow. Just please, go to bed.'
Elizabeth Jensen had been dreaming about the phone call she had received from Zach Dempsey after the homecoming game all weekend. She was the first person he wanted to talk to after almost beating Bryce Walker to death, but she just told him to not stress about it until the morning. This decision would haunt her for the next few weeks. She woke up the monday after the homecoming game to Justin Foley hovering over her, looking very concerned. He had been trying to wake her up for the past couple of minutes. "Babe, you okay?"
"What?" Elizabeth rubbed her eyes as Justin moved next to her on her bed.
"You were saying some weird shit in your sleep." Justin stated before placing a kiss on her shoulder. "Is that shit about Zach still bothering you?" Elizabeth nodded as she looked up at him. He had been with her when she received Zach's phone call. "It's fine. We haven't heard a thing about it since friday."
"That might not exactly be a good thing." Elizabeth shook her head.
Justin took his girlfriend's hands in his own and placed kisses on her knuckles. "We can't do anything about it now, okay? All we can do is live our normal life."
There was a knock at the door, and Elizabeth pushed Justin off of her bed. Clay Jensen entered his sister's room and laughed. "It was just me. You didn't have to yeet Justin all the way across the room." Clay glanced down at Justin, smiling. "Dude, you need to start sleeping in the shed with me because my parents are starting to realize where you've actually been sleeping." Elizabeth shrugged in response. "Eliza, you're the whole reason we were kicked out to the shed in the first place, so shut the fuck up."
"Don't talk about the shed like that, at least you have fucking privacy there." Elizabeth scoffed, crossing her arms over her chest.
"But not enough privacy." Justin sent a glare towards Clay.
Clay let out a chuckle. "That's the whole point, man."
The girl furrowed her eyebrows at her brother. "Is that why you came in here? To tell us to stop sleeping together?"
"Actually, Mom and Dad told me to come in here and say that."
"Fuck." Elizabeth groaned. "Now we've really been busted."
*
Elizabeth arrived at Liberty High School with Justin Foley. The two went separate ways, with Elizabeth going straight to her locker. She began to put books in her bag and felt someone's eyes on her. She turned to look around the hall and saw Zach Dempsey standing across the hall from her with his crutches. He gave her a nod, motioning towards the library. She nodded in response and finished placing her books in her bag before closing her locker door. Elizabeth made her way into the library and sat where Zach had chosen.
