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“I thought that having the house to myself would be a good thing but I’m getting more and more scared by the minute.”
 
                  Katie chuckled as she plopped down on the couch next to me. “Are you kidding? You’re scared of a little secret admirer? If anything you should be flattered.”
     
                  “We don’t know if it’s a secret admirer.”
     
                  “Well, who else could it be?” she asked, quirking a brow. “Not to be the bearer of bad news but you aren’t exactly popular. You and I were pretty much wallflowers until Sean came along and swept you off your feet.”
     
                  I laughed at the memory. “I guess I just miss Jeremy.”
     
                  “You actually miss the early curfews and constant scolding from your brother?”
     
                  “No,” I laughed, “I don’t miss that, I just miss him.”
     
                  “He’s going to come back, Liz.” she reassured me. “And when he does, you’re going to wish he didn’t. So just enjoy your freedom now.”
     
                  “Katie,”
     
                  “Yeah?”
     
                  “I love you. You know that right?”
     
                  Her eyes widened, “Oh do you now? I never would have guessed!” She said, sarcasm dripping from her words.
     
                  “Come here,” I insisted, flailing my arms around my best friend since kindergarten. “I have no idea what I’ll do without you.”
     
                  “You’d lose all sense, that’s for sure.”
     
                  I smiled at her, opening my mouth to respond when a noise coming from upstairs caught my attention. “What was that?” I asked, exchanging looks with Katie.
     
                  “It’s probably Sean trying to sneak in from the window again,” she rolled her eyes and crossed her legs on the couch. “Go save him before he does something stupid.”
     
                  I was hesitant at first. Though Sean was famous for trying to sneak into my window late at night, I made sure that all windows and doors were locked. There was no possible way he could get in. “Watch the door, in case he decides to be a normal person and use the front door.” I told her before heading up the stairs into my bedroom.
     
                  I ran over to my bedside window to see that it was locked, just as I thought. I sighed in relief and turned around to face my mirror only to be greeted by shattered pieces of glass and a few gardenia flowers drenched in water.
     
                  My eyes flickered over to the dresser that the vase once stood upon and then down to the floor again. I grabbed a plastic bag from my bathroom and carefully placed the pieces of glass in the bag and threw the flowers in the trash along with the glass. I ran back downstairs to see Katie lounged out on the couch reading the note that I had received. “Did you find out what it was?” she asked, not removing her eyes from the note.
     
                  “My vase broke,” I said simply. “I don’t know how that happened. The only way it could have fallen as if someone was in the room and we were both down here.”
     
                  “Are you saying that someone was in your room just now?”
     
                  I sighed. “The windows were locked. Nothing was out of place and if someone was in my house, don’t you think I would know?”
     
                  “I guess,” she shrugged, “Explain the vase then.”
     
                  It took me a moment to realize that there was one room in the house that I had not been in for a while. “Jeremy’s room.” I said, “We need to check Jeremy’s room!” I grabbed on to my friend and pulled her up the stairs with me