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“Thea, your phone,” Levi muttered beside me as he rolled over.
“I’m too tired to move,” I groaned.
Bellamy had just went down for the night after refusing to eat. It had taken her a good two hours to realize that her parents weren’t around her anymore, and once she did, she lost it and began screaming as loud as her little lungs would let her, for as long as they would let her. I just wanted to sleep, but my phone wouldn’t stop vibrating against the bedside table.
BUZZ
BUZZ
“Thea…”
“I’m getting it…” I grumbled, as I sat up and reached for it. The time was 1:53am, which meant it was too late for anyone to be calling for anything.
“What?”
There was silence.
“Selene?” I looked at the caller ID.
“Turn on the news.”
“Selene it’s two in the morning why are—”
“Thea! Turn on the damn news!”
What the hell is wrong with her?
“Okay, hold on.” I got up out of bed, trying not to wake up Bellamy who slept in a makeshift crib next to us.
When I turned on the television I didn’t see anything.
“Selene are you sure this isn't local news for you? I don’t see anything—”
“They aren’t talking about it, but look at the bottom banner, under the Twitter feed.”
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bsp; I searched, watching as the sentence rolled by, still not seeing it anything…
“Selene…” I stopped, and so did every other part of me. I couldn’t breathe and soon even standing was too hard. I collapsed onto the ground.
“Thea?” Levi called out to me.
“Thea?”
I heard him, but I didn’t see him until he was right in front of my face.
“What’s wrong?”
Everything.
“My father tried to commit suicide.” I said the words, but I found myself unable to believe them.
My mind was spinning, and all I could think about was getting him out before it was too late.
“I need to get him out. Levi, please, help me get him out.”
Collapsing into his lap, I cried, I sobbed, I begged him… and part of me knew that this was going to destroy us. This was the other shoe that had been waiting to drop. And as it fell, it landed on the back of my neck.
