Mercy disappeared when she was seventeen. When she went missing, they said she ran away from home to do drugs. My parents believed it because they always believed the worst about her and she did do drugs. But my brother and I didn’t believe it. She wasn’t that far gone on drugs, not yet. And she wouldn’t have just disappeared without telling Felix and me, since she knew we’d never rat her out to our parents. Then today, out of the blue, they pulled her out of the bay, looking completely healthy on the outside—minus the…bloating—but inside, she was a disaster. They have no answers for me. They
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