“He said homophobic shit, and he said shit about Riley. Shit that made me think that maybe he’d been messing with her. So I went at him. A stupid move. Paul called for backup, and someone shot me up with something. And I woke up in the closet.” Deep breath. “The supply one in my room, where they kept all the medical supplies,” I whisper. “The thing didn’t have a doorknob on the inside. It was small, like smaller than a handicapped stall in a bathroom. There were machines in there. Like a cart, this IV machine thing. Needles. Bandages. There was some saline in there, bags of saline. And a
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