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Because Marco was paid to babysit me and give me the movie experience.
Because Marco is a lie.
The thought just makes everything go dark. My body goes lifeless and I slip back into the water.
“Hey, no!” Marco’s arms are around me before I go under, and he swings me up in his arms and lifts me so I’m sitting up in the bathtub.
My head flops back on the porcelain edge of the bathtub, and I stare without seeing at the stupid tilted wooden beams of the ceiling that had seemed so rustic and romantic yesterday. It had felt as if we had been the only two people in the world, hiding here, in our own private fairytale.
Now it’s a nightmare.
“Open your eyes, Olivia, I need to keep you awake until you’re warmed up,” Marco shouts, rubbing my arms furiously. “Olivia! Please, please. Livy.”
He’s crying as he says my name, but my eyes drift closed, and it’s too hard to open them. I can’t.
“I need you to open your eyes,” he begs again.
What he needs is to get me far away from himself, but I’m shaking too badly and the darkness around me is too thick, and I can’t tell him to get lost. Like I should.
