Ty squeezes my hand and I look over at him. He gives me a very discrete head shake. He's reminding me that I am supposed to be pretending that I don't know Olivia is my stalker. I have to keep pretending until we have hard evidence that it's her.

"Olivia," I say, not having to pretend to be surprised to see her. She is absolutely the last person I thought I would see tonight.

"Hey, Kihanna," she says.

"You two know each other?" Micah asks, looking between us.

"Yeah, we went to school together," I answer.

"She dated my brother."

Micah looks at me. "Her brother..." his voice trails. "You mean that Brian guy?"

I nod.

He looks at Olivia. "Brian is your brother?"

"Yeah," Olivia answers.

"I thought you were at UCLA," I say, lying. I so lie.

"I'm pretty sure you knew I wasn't there anymore," she says. "Maybe next time Gabe decides to hack into my permanent record, he should cover his trail better."

"You told me you went to Stanford," Micah says.

Olivia rolls her eyes. "You are a very trusting person. You believed everything I told you."

"Why wouldn't I believe you?" Micah asks.

I lean over to Ty and whisper, "We need to get out of here. Where is Gabe?"

"I have no idea what the two of you are saying," Olivia says. "But if it's anything about escaping, you're too late."

"Too late?" Micah asks.

Just as the words leave his mouth, there is a loud explosion by the entrance of the building, not too far from where we're standing.

For a few seconds, everything goes black and I feel myself being thrown through the air.

When I open my eyes, I am lying on the floor, there is dust and ash falling down on top of me. I frantically look around, then sigh in relief when I see Ty is right beside me. Micah is not too far away, and he's moving, trying to stand up.

But Olivia is gone.

I sit up, and when I do, the world spins. There is a loud ringing in my ears, making me realize how loud the explosion was.

As everybody around us realizes exactly what happened, people start panicking. People are running towards the emergency exits. In the back of my head, I know that I need to be doing the same thing. What if there is another bomb? But I can't seem to make my body move.

Ty, who seems to be in a better headspace than I, gets up and pulls me up with him.

"Kihanna, come on. We have to get out of here," Ty says.

"Where's Gabe?" I ask. "We have to find him. I can't leave without him."

"I'm sure he's fine. We don't have time," he says.

"No," I say back, shaking my head. "Gabe wouldn't leave without us. We aren't leaving either.

"Kihanna, look at me," Ty says.

I do.

It's then that I see how serious he is.

"The building is on fire. If we don't get out of here right now, we are going to die," he says. "You can either come with me, or I will throw you over my shoulder and carry you out of here. You decide."

"But Gabe-"

Ty cuts me off. "Gabe can take care of himself."

"Okay," I say, realizing he's right.

I take a step to follow him, but the room is still spinning. I nearly stumble, so Ty picks me up and throws me over his shoulder.

Hanging upside down on his back, I realize just how badly my head is hurting.

I can feel every heart beat pounding in my head.

Every step that Ty takes hurts.

"Ty, my head hurts so bad," I say.

I reach up and touch the back of my head and feel something wet. I look at my hand and see that there is a lot of blood on it.

"I think I hit my head when I fell," I say.

"It's just a little farther," Ty says.

"I'm sleepy. I think I'm going to take a nap."

"No!" Ty yells. "Don't go to sleep!"

But it's too late.

I think that Ty is an awesome boyfriend for carrying me out of here, just as I drift to sleep.

Monday, November 15 6 a.m.

Somewhere safe.

Waking up in the hospital, unfortunately, is something I have done before. Somehow, I am not surprised when I wake up in a hospital bed. However, I am surprised to see Ty asleep in the bed beside me, and my dad asleep on the chair by my bed.

I start to sit up, but a sharp pain in the back of my head stops me.

My head fucking hurts.

Ty rolls over. "Kihanna, you okay?"

"My head hurts," I answer.

He pushes a button the side of my bed and a few seconds later a nurse sticks her head in the door.

"Everything okay?" she asks.

"Her head hurts," Ty answers.

The nurse comes over and pushes a button. "That'll help in a few minutes," she says. "Besides your head, how are you feeling?"

"I don't know," I say. "I think I'm okay."

"The doctor will be in soon to check on you," she says, looking at the monitor, then walks out the door. As the door shuts, I hear my dad move. He looks over at me and sees that I'm awake.

"You're awake," he says, standing up and walking over to the bed.

"When did you get here?" Ty asks.

"About midnight," he answers. "You were asleep."

Ty gets out of my bed, as if just realizing he was sleeping beside me in the hospital bed with my dad in the room.

"Why am I here?" I ask. "What happened."

"There was an explosion," Ty says.

Memories of the night before rush back to me. Olivia, Micah, the bomb.

Olivia.

"Is Gabe okay?" I ask.

"He's fine," Ty answers. "He was in the bathroom with some girl when it happened. He wasn't hurt."

"And you're okay?"

"Yes."

"What about Micah? And Chelsea and Simon?"

"They're all okay," he answers.

I breathe a sigh of relief.

"Some people weren't as lucky as you guys," Dad tells me.

"How many people?" I ask, trying not to cry.

"Five people lost their lives," Dad answers.

"It's my fault."

"No, it's not," Ty says.

"It's not," Dad agrees. "I just wish you had told me the truth about what was really going on."

"You know?" I ask.

"Gabriel told me and the police everything," Dad says.

"Everything?"

"Brian is alive. You wanted to move because somebody put poisonous snakes in your dorm room. You've been getting threatening notes again. Also, I learned that Brian never was your stalker and he was just covering for his sister," he says. "Is that everything?"

I nod.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asks.

"Because I was scared you would make me come home."

"You need to be home," Dad says.

My stomach drops. "Dad, no. I have to finish college. I can't let Olivia bully me into quitting. The semester is almost over."

"I talked to the college. They know everything that's going on. For the safety of you and the other students, they think it's best if you finish the semester from home. Just until Christmas. Then we can talk about you going back," he says.

I frown.

What about my apartment?

My friends?

My boyfriend?

My life?

"Ty and Gabe will be finishing the semester off campus as well," Dad says, as if reading my thoughts.

Well, at least Ty will still be with me.

"I believe that Micah Miller will also be finishing the semester from home and will be transferring to another school in January," he says. "He seemed pretty freaked out about what happened."