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    "The police didn't tell me either," Gina said, seeming to read her mind. "I had to go to the station and answer a bunch of questions, and they never once said they arrested anyone. I saw that on the news when I was out there in the waiting room."
    "It was on the news ?" Taylor asked, horrified.
    "Of course it was," Gina said. "The news trucks were out there before you even left to go to the hospital."
    "Yeah, I don't remember too much about that."
    "I know. You were in bad shape. I was worried about you. What happened? Did you go into shock or something?"
    Taylor gave her a half smile. "Anxiety attack."
    Gina nodded as if she could see how finding a dead body could do that to someone. Taylor couldn't let go of the subject of the news, even though part of her didn't want to know what had been reported. "They didn't say my name on the news did they?"
    Gina stared into space, trying to remember. She shook her head. "No, I don't think so. No, I'd definitely remember that. They just said the body of a seventeen-year-old girl had been found at a busy Nashville restaurant and that the suspect the police were questioning had turned himself in."
    Taylor covered her ears when Gina said the girl's age. She had no idea how old she was, and had hoped to shelter herself from the details.
    "What's wrong?" Gina asked.
    "I don't think I want to know anything about her," Taylor said.
    Gina sighed and was quiet for a minute. "I'm sorry."
    "It's not your fault. I just think it'll help if I stay oblivious to who she was. It's messed up enough that I saw her like that. I don't think I want to know anything about her."

 
    Chapter 4
     
     
    What happened to your arm?" Gina asked, trying to change the subject. "Did you seriously break it?" She remembered the paramedic prodding at it, but it hadn't seemed like a real problem amidst all the puking and passing out.
    "Yeah, I have to keep this thing on for a month." Taylor lifted the cast out of the sling and Gina looked surprised.
    "I can't believe you broke your arm ," she said. "How'd you do it?"
    Taylor remembered falling. She remembered the feel of the dead seventeen-year-old's leg. She cringed inwardly but tried to remain composed for Gina. "I fell," she said. "I tripped over something in the shed."
    Gina reached out and touched her friend's shoulder. "I'm sorry," she said. " I can't believe they have you all hooked up in here." Gina took the IV tube in her hand and gave it a little shake. "I thought I was just gonna show up here and give you a ride home."
    "You are," Taylor said dismissively. "I'm done once the bag's empty. It's just because I puked so much."
    "You puked your guts up," Gina said. They chuckled a little even though they both still felt the heaviness in the room.
    "Does anybody else know about this?" Taylor asked.
    Gina shook her head. "No. I called in sick for your shift tomorrow at Common Grounds, and I didn't even tell them the real reason why. I just said you were sick."
    Taylor was relieved that apparently Gina was thinking straight and looking after her. She didn't even think about her 7AM shift at the coffee shop. She didn't even really remember she had a job.
    "What'd they say?" she asked.
    "I talked to Michael. He said to tell you he hopes you feel better."
    Gina was lying. She'd talked to one of their other co-workers who had tried to guilt her into covering for Taylor. Gina refused, saying she was sick as well.
    "Thanks for not saying anything," Taylor said. "I'm just a little freaked out about people knowing I was the one who found that girl. I'm scared."
    "I know," Gina said. "I would be too if I were you."
    The comment was supposed to make Taylor feel better, but it had the opposite affect. "You don't think he's gonna come hunt me down or anything, do you?"
    "No, no, no, definitely not. I told you he already turned himself in."
    Taylor still didn't know how she felt about that fact. She almost asked Gina if turning himself in should end all of her worrying, but