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Mati
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“Just a sec,” I say to Noelle, hearing a knock on my door, and I tell the person to enter. The door pushes open, and my mom steps inside.
“Do you have a moment?” she asks with a serious expression, and my heart starts beating faster, having a feeling what this could be about, and I pray I’m wrong. Mom and I had dinner after the cottage incident, and she was awfully quiet at the dinner table. She only responded if I spoke, and I could see something was bothering her. I didn’t want to ask because I was afraid I might not like or know how to respond to the answer.
Before dinner, she went to the surveillance room, and I know she saw me in the corridor, and even though she doesn't know what I was doing there, I'm still worried, especially since she wanted to view the
