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blood and death. Alone and afraid, she hid
deep within her mind until she couldn’t bear it any longer. As the
whispers of her dreams fell away, she realized that she wasn’t
waking up in her bed in her dorm room. She sat up and took in the
room around her and blinked. It was fit for the inside of a
palace.
    The bed that she was in was bigger
than any bed she had ever seen. It had scarlet sheets that kissed
her skin. She looked down and blushed. The nightgown she was
wearing matched the sheets and was cut so low in the front that it
skimmed the tops of her breasts. She hadn’t ever worn anything so
revealing, not even to bed. Usually Violet drowned herself in baggy
T-shirts when she wasn’t wearing the required school uniform. She
pulled the sheet up and tucked it under her armpits as she took in
the rest of the room.
    There were two large windows across
the way, and cheery sunlight streamed into the room. A large
antique armoire took up one wall next to the door. As her eyes
skimmed upwards, she saw that the ceiling had a Renaissance-like
mural painted on it.
    “I hope you like it. I picked this
room out just for you.”
    Violet jumped at the female voice
and turned. In a chair in the far corner, almost tucked behind the
bed, sat Margo. Her memories came rushing back and Violet slid out
of the bed. Her heart pounded as she grabbed Margo into a tight
hug. “I thought you were dead!” she said.
    Margo stroked her hair and gave her
a tight squeeze back. Then she disentangled herself from Violet’s
arms and pushed Violet back enough to look her over. “That color is
killer on you. You have to stop dressing like a bag lady,
Vi.”
    Instantly crossing her arms over
her chest in embarrassment, Violet started processing Margo’s
words. She took a small step back, her enthusiasm at seeing her
friend suddenly extinguished. “Margo? What’s this about? What
happened?”
    Margo grimaced and put her hands
up. “I’m really sorry about what happened at Mike’s place, Violet.
I didn’t know everything that Tesla had gotten herself into, so
things got a little bit...out of hand. It was completely
unexpected.”
    A cold feeling swept through
Violet. She remembered that it had been Margo who gave her the
drink; the drink with the drug in it. What had Margo gotten them
into?
    “Where are we?” Violet asked as she
slowly backed up against the bed. Her mind raced as she tried to
quickly assess if she could get to the door before
Margo.
    “Hear me out, Vi.” Margo said
gently. She tossed her chestnut hair over her shoulder and took a
step toward Violet. When she saw Violet inch backwards again, she
stopped and sighed. “No one is going to hurt you, Vi. You are
totally safe. You are set up here. What is about to happen is going
to be cooler than your wildest dreams.”
    Violet started to shiver as Margo’s
words sunk in. She pulled her arms tighter around herself, wishing
she had more to cover her body than the thin nightgown. Margo
looked alarmed as the sound of Violet’s teeth chattering reached
her ears.
    “Violet! You are going into shock,”
Margo said as she swept a light afghan off of the back of the chair
and moved quickly to settle it over Violet’s shoulders. Violet
couldn’t resist. “I know you saw more than you should have at
Mike’s house, but you’ve got to trust me. You weren’t supposed to
be part of any of that. I gave you a little something that should
have knocked you out. I didn’t know you’d have some kind of
immunity to it.”
    “I th-th-th-thought you were-were
my friend,” Violet managed to get out. Her whole jaw was vibrating.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t get that horrific bloody
room out of her mind.
    Margo took her firmly by the
shoulders and pulled her across the room into the bright sunlight.
Instantly, Violet’s face felt warmed by the strong sunbeams
streaming into the room and her body’s quaking stopped. She looked
at Margo, and saw that Margo’s pretty face was