Taken While I Slept by My Stepbrother and His Friends novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Forum
By midnight the video had ninety thousand views.
By morning it had three hundred thousand, and strangers had written PRAYING under my name eleven thousand times.
The hospital emailed at seven.
In light of public concerns, please do not report to orientation until further notice.
I didn't answer it.
I put on my navy hospital scrubs from orientation week instead, the ones with my name stitched on the pocket.
My mother looked at me in the doorway of Torin's bathroom.
"You're wearing those?"
"He told three hundred thousand people I'm a nurse who knows better," I said. "So I'm going as a nurse."
At 8:40 the detective texted me.
The judge is reading it now. Don't do anything I'll have to write down.
The forum was in a community center gym off Indian School Road.
Folding chairs. A stage with five candidates at five little tables. A big screen behind them for their slides.
Two news cameras on tripods at the back.
The red lights were already on.
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