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“Obadiah?”

Shiloh wasn’t entirely familiar with the name, or the person it belonged to but the pranks seemed harmless enough, and definitely within the line of a schoolboy crush. He smiled; perhaps Maebe had herself a little not-so-secret admirer.

He was in the midst of jimmying out the rest of the coins, when the door sudden swung inwards and everything on Maebe’s side went quiet.

Getting to his feet, he grabbed onto the edge of the door that had swung back, and carefully slid it open, until it thumped on something behind it.

“Maebe?”

He carefully peered around the edge of it, only to see Maebe lying with her eyes closed on the ground, and he ignored the sticky mess that was the floor, kneeling quickly beside her.

“Maebe, wake up,” he said, shaking her. “God dammit, Maebe, only you could manage this.”

He looked around, wishing he had some water to splash in her face.

The text came later that same day, waiting for her whenever she turned on her phone.

There was nothing rigged to her room that was immediately visible. There was nothing blocking her door, no signs of tampering that were evident to the naked eye. But clearly, something had happened, because he'd seen her from across a hallway, busy on his way to somewhere, and he'd waved, whether she'd noticed or not.

And clearly, something had happened for this reason, too. The text was short. It just said, "5."