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Laura felt her face flush as the words lingered between them, hanging in the silence as if suspended by time. The words slowly seeped into the part of her brain where she could decipher them. But even then, she didn’t understand. How could Tom have been the last to see Ryan alive? She was. She left him on the tracks. She heard the whistle of the train only minutes later. It couldn’t be true.
‘That’s not true. You can’t have been,’ she whispered, confusion blanketing her face.
Tom turned toward her. ‘I saw you and Ryan on the tracks. I’d been looking for you. I wanted to tell you everything. About Ryan and Rachel. And then I saw you both.’
‘How? Where were you?’
‘I was hiding behind the bushes near the walkway. I don’t know what made me hide. I was a coward. I know. But you guys wer
