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Tonya boots open her door, and Billie feels a thrill run up her chest. She knows what’s coming. A sister fight—a twin fight. And she’s not gonna miss that.
Clumsily, she practically spills out of the car as fast as Tonya gets out.
Tonya doesn’t look back as she storms up to the front door. Billie’s on her tail, her trusty water bottle in hand. She staggers up the steps behind Tonya.
T’s determined frustration shows when she smacks a hand down on the door and uses the other to tug on the stiff handle. The smack was unnecessary, just as unnecessary as how she lifts her leg and boots out at the door, hard.
It swings open and bangs against the table tucked behind it.
The whole damn wall rattles as Tonya storms inside. Bounding steps, one, two—and she staggers.
Her feet catch together, and she near topples over.
Right behind her, Billie jumps to the side, out of the way of Tonya’s stumble. But Tonya doesn’t fall…
She just stares up. Mouth agape, eyes wide and stunned.
Billie traces her gaze—
Up at the ceiling’s beams.
Gigi hangs from a rope.
And she’s so fucking dead that her warped, horrified expression is blue… and frozen.
Silence falls down on them. It strangles them. The thickest damn silence Billie’s ever felt in her life, pressing down on her.
Tonya stands there, just a few steps through the door, looking up.
That’s all she does—stands in place. Like a fucking statue.
Billie blinks. That one move starts pulling her out of her daze.
Slightly, she shakes her head. Her heart thumps in her chest with the beat of her mutters, “No, no, no, no—a”
Billie staggers back into the doorframe, eyes wide and shifting down to the blue feet that dangle in the air.
Billie… stares.
Legs turn to jelly beneath her, and she starts to slide down the doorframe, unable to tear her wet eyes from the feet. Flesh with two letters carved into it…
H. M.
Initials.
Time is still for a moment, the rapid heartbeats thumping in Billie’s chest, but it shatters as soon as Tonya falls to her knees—
And an animalistic, savage scream rips free from her.
Billie slaps her hands to her face.
She hides.
She hides, not from Tonya’s grief or Gigi’s hanging body…
She hides from the message.
H. M.
