BROKEN

LUKE

"Sarah," I began, my voice low and steady, hands still raised, "you're confused right now, okay? We can help you. You just need to put the gun down."

Her eyes darted between me, Jess, and Laura, her knuckles white where they gripped the weapon. The gun wavered slightly, but her voice came out sharp and resolute. "I'm not confused, Luke. You are."

I stayed perfectly still, watching every slight twitch of her movements, but Laura snapped.

"Are you fucking crazy?" Laura's voice was shrill, the words echoing in the kitchen. "We helped you! We've done nothing but help you!"

Sarah's head whipped toward her, her expression darkening, but there was something fragile in her eyes-like glass about to shatter. "Help me?" she repeated, her voice trembling. "You think I needed your help? You think I wanted your pity?"

She looked back at me, her eyes filled with something desperate, something unhinged. "All I wanted was for us to have a shot, Luke. After the island, you knew. You felt it too. I thought we connected there."

Josh shook his head from where he stood, his voice calm but firm. "Sarah... no. I might have been delirious and dehydrated

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toward Josh, her hand shaking violently. "You're lying! What about the waterfall? You can't tell me

me. "Sarah," I said softly, "what you saw at the waterfall... that wasn't real. What you saw was me, imagining Jess was with me. It had nothing to do with you." Her face crumpled for a moment,

no way to know if she'd figured that out and reloaded it. I wasn't

about this, okay?

then Jess and Laura shifted behind me.

and I'll fucking shoot you

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chest tightening as Jess and Laura went

right? I mean... I coped without my medication. I didn't unravel, not once. That means I'm cured, right? I have to be cured. Otherwise, I would've fallen apart. But I didn't. I held it together.

you're telling me I'm imagining things again! Do you know what that means? It means

and you're just trying to make

breathing was ragged, tears streaming freely down her face now. The gun wavered again, and for a moment, I thought I was getting through

her eyes hardened. "No. You don't want to help me. You just want to get rid of

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