THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT, maybe, if I hadn’t said what I said. If I hadn’t planted the seed in Tabby’s head, hadn’t told her exactly what Keegan wanted me to say. This is his pattern. I saw him with another girl. It was dark. I couldn’t tell if they were kissing but their heads were really close—
Back then, I thought Keegan and I had a similar interest. Making sure two people who had no business being together weren’t.
But he had a different agenda the whole time, and I practically sent her into the woods myself. A girl, a boy, and a monster lurking in wait. Only two came back out.
Do you see what I mean, about how I had something to do with this? I told Tabby about the other girl, the one who probably doesn’t exist. I told Beck about Tabby’s kiss with Sawyer. And I told Beck that Mark wasn’t a good guy. Now I’m not even sure which were truths and which were lies, but I do know that everything could have had a better outcome if I had just not said anything.