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and Frannie at the diner that Frannie and her mom works at. When I get there, Cassidy is waiting in a booth in the back. Frannie still has a few minutes until her break, so I sit with Cassidy.
    “How are you?” I ask her.
    I haven’t seen her since Emma went missing. Cassidy is definitely the emotional one out of all of us. I know she has to be taking this hard.
    “I feel guilty,” she answers. “I should’ve gone to the police like you wanted. If we would have, Emma never would’ve disappeared.”
    “You can’t blame yourself,” I say. “It’s not your fault. Even Detective Condie told me that he knows why we didn’t come to him. It was scary. And while I know we made the wrong decision, we can’t regret it. The cops are going to find them. Daisy and Emma are going to be returned to us. Safely.”
    She sighs. “You’re right, Mads.”
    Before I can say anything else, Frannie comes over with three plates full of food. My stomach growls as I look down at the steam coming off the biscuits and chocolate gravy. My favorite.
    I smile at Frannie. “I love you.”
    She laughs. “I know.”
    I take a big bite of my food. It burns my tongue, but I don’t even care.
    “So. Good,” I say with a mouth full of food. Forget table manners.
    “Luke is throwing another party tonight,” Frannie says.
    My eyes widen. “Is he forgetting that somebody was kidnapped last time he threw a party?”
    “Please, you know Luke hates Emma,” Cassidy says. “He’s probably throwing this party to celebrate the fact that she’s missing.”
    “Actually, I didn’t. Why does he hate her?”
    “Because she turned him down,” Frannie answers. “I thought everybody knew.”
    “Emma turned down Luke?” I ask, still not believing it. Emma doesn’t turn guys down. Actually, girls don’t turn down Luke either.
    “Yeah. In front of everybody. He asked her to homecoming our sophomore year and she laughed in his face,” Frannie says. “She was actually kind of rude about the whole thing… told him he was the last guy she would ever want to go to homecoming with.”
    “Harsh,” I say.
    And not at all like Emma. I mean, sure, she has her bitchy moments, but she’s usually not that blatantly rude.
    Cassidy nods in agreement.
    “So, the party tonight…” Frannie says. “Are we going?”
    “I don’t know…” Just as the words leave my mouth, all three of our phones go off at the same time. My heart stops momentarily before it jumps into overdrive. Hesitantly, we all reach toward our phones.

    Blocked ID: Be at Luke’s party tonight. I will have a surprise for you.

    My phone goes off again, but only mine this time.

    Blocked ID: And this time, no cheating. You owe me a game.

    I show Frannie and Cassidy my text.
    “What should we do?” I ask.
    “Tell the police,” Cassidy says.
    We all agree.
    “And then I guess we are going to a party tonight,” Frannie says.
    I sit back against the booth.
    I really hope I don’t end up in the hospital this time.

    11am
    You better stay sober tonight.

    Detective Condie meets the three of us at the diner. At that point, he tells us we don’t need to go to the party. And we all tell him that we can’t just not go. Though we probably should skip out… I don’t want to. I don’t want this person to ruin my life — not that they haven’t done a pretty good job of that already.
    “Did Hayden get a text too?” he asks us.
    “I don’t know,” Frannie answers for us all.
    “Isn’t she your best friend too?” he asks.
    Frannie bites her lip. She tends to do that a lot when she’s nervous. “Yeah, sort of. I guess. She was always closer to Emma and Dee. Cass, Madi, and I always stick together. I mean, the six of us are all close, but I’m closer to Cass and Mads.”
    “Why do you think that is?” he asks.
    “Because Cass is my stepsister and Madi is pretty much the nicest person ever,” she says. “Emma and Hayden always put up with Dee’s drama. In fact, they