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"What is this?" I ask

"Those are all girls who left Olyh under mysterious circumstances in the last fifty years The first one dates back to the early 1960s--when the school was founded The o"

"Okay, this is definitely strange, but what does it all one h to be out of the ordinary, but not enough to draw someone’s attention Unless you’re so"

"What exactly do youto the file that’s pulled up on the phone "This Kendare Petrovich, it says that she left OHH because she transferred to Juilliard in 2001" I swipe the screen "And this Adele Berger got pregnant and hsee away froraduating, but you can hardly call that circu why Joe even wanted me around

"Yeah, but Juilliard has no record of a student na in San Diego in 1982 I talked to the aunt she supposedly moved in with, and she hasn’t seen Adele since she was a kid Yeah, a lot of people have co, but these fifteen people all have stories that don’t check out Like so"

"Who even et these?"

"Ion for a couple of years"

I look at hi that I don’t really know him at all Underneath his sweetness and friendly tone lies the heart of a fullblown conspiracy theorist

"I got all these na to show you the ht"

"Have you asked her about this?"

"Yeah, right And tell overnet" Tobin smirks "My mom is kind of a scary lady"

"Tell ot frouess it h, that, as onein her town And it makes even more sense that a ritzy place like this would want to keep this sort of thing covered up Bad PR, you know"

Tobin nods

"But this still doesn’t prove that any of theseabout the Lord fa at the phone "There’s a pattern One girl has goneevery three years There’s only one deviation It’s been six years since Abbie disappeared and no others since then"

"Okay, that’s definitely eerie" I rub hton had stopped Until I saw Haden Lord Which… I’ve only lived here for six and a half years, so I don’t really know, but what if there were people from the Lord family in Oly?"

"Bridgette said that the Lord family sends kids here froiddy at the prospect

"Yeah, her dad’s on the school board She said they come every few years"

"Like, every three years?"

"I don’t know" There’s a look in his eye thatway too many conclusions "Tobin, none of this is proof This is still just a theory And it doesn’tto get soure out if any irls disappeared"

"What are you going to do, hack the school server?"

Tobin doesn’t answer