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12/26/2025
Your phone buzzes at 2:47 AM. It's a text from Sarah's mother: 'Have you heard from her? She's not answering. Wedding is in 3 days.' Your stomach drops. Sarah never goes silent like this. You try calling—straight to voicemail. The last time you saw her was Tuesday at the bridal shop, and she seemed... off. Distracted. When you'd asked if she was okay, she'd squeezed your hand and whispered, 'If anything happens, remember what I told you that night in college.' That night. The secret she made you swear never to repeat. Now she's vanished, and you're the only one who might know why.
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Your phone buzzes at 2:47 AM. It's a text from Sarah's mother: 'Have you heard from her? She's not answering. Wedding is in 3 days.' Your stomach drops. Sarah never goes silent like this. You try calling—straight to voicemail. The last time you saw her was Tuesday at the bridal shop, and she seemed... off. Distracted. When you'd asked if she was okay, she'd squeezed your hand and whispered, 'If anything happens, remember what I told you that night in college.' That night. The secret she made you swear never to repeat. Now she's vanished, and you're the only one who might know why.
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You pull up the number Sarah made you save under a fake name five years ago. 'Use this only if something happens to me,' she'd said. Your finger hovers over the call button. Once you make this call, there's no going back—and Marcus can never know.
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Your hand trembles as the call connects. Three rings. Four. Then a woman's voice—sharp, guarded: 'Who is this?' You give the code phrase Sarah made you memorize: 'The lighthouse keeper's daughter.' A long pause. 'Jesus. After five years? Where are you?' You're about to answer when you hear it—a car door slamming outside your apartment. Through the window, you see Marcus's BMW in your parking lot. He's supposed to be at his bachelor party two hours away. The woman on the phone is still talking: 'Listen carefully. Sarah contacted me yesterday. She said if anyone called this number, I should tell them to check the place where it all started. But you need to move fast—they're watching the fiancé.' Your doorbell rings. Marcus's voice: 'I know you're home. We need to talk about Sarah.'
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You grab your keys and bolt through your apartment to the rear stairwell while the woman gives you final instructions: 'Don't trust anyone from the wedding party. Not even the bridesmaids.' You reach your car just as you hear Marcus pounding harder on your front door. Your phone buzzes—a new text from an unknown number: 'Sarah's time is running out. Come alone.'
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You arrive at the abandoned lighthouse on the coast—the place where it all started. Sarah brought you here once during spring break sophomore year, right after she'd fled from something she wouldn't fully explain. The structure looms against the pre-dawn sky, its paint peeling, windows dark. As you park and kill your headlights, you notice fresh tire tracks in the gravel. Someone else has been here recently. Your phone vibrates: another text from the unknown number with coordinates and a single word: 'BASEMENT.' Then you see it—a faint light flickering in one of the lower windows. You're not alone here. Your heart hammers as you remember the woman's warning: 'Don't trust anyone from the wedding party.' But you also remember Sarah's voice from that night five years ago, trembling as she confessed: 'I witnessed something I was never supposed to see, and Marcus's family is connected to it.' You have maybe an hour before Marcus realizes you've left town.
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