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Then he got to mine.

It started out with ‘hey, I’m your biggest fan!’ then ended with ‘the girl finds out that she’s delusional, and the stalker she thought she had was actually a figment of her imagination. Spoiler!’

He got to the ‘figment of her imagination’ part then cursed. “Fuckin’ A, you bitch! I told you not to spoil it!”

I grinned, then started typing.

“Well, I guess that’s the least that you can deal with since you played a role in my best friend’s suicide,” I replied angrily, reading the words aloud as I typed them.

That was the first day that I was blocked by Taite DeRosa.

But it wouldn’t be the last.

* * *

8 weeks later

I watched on Taite’s live stream as he shared his fan mail.

“I know this has become kind of a new thing with us,” Taite was saying. “But I just had to share how excited it makes me to read fan mail from people.”

Taite started opening up his fan mail.

He had a stack of probably fifty envelopes.

He was about ten deep when I saw my envelope start to slowly rise to the top.

The glitter bomb had been a huge hit.

But this one…

The card was opened, and the moment that it was, the card started to sing.

And sing.

And sing.

And sing.

I read on the box that the card would sing for a solid seventy-two hours.

Just when you thought it stopped, it would start up again.

He’d probably throw it away within the hour.

But for now, I got a kick out of how many times he tried to break it, rip it apart, and stomp on it to get it to stop.

All the while he was cursing my name, because you know damn well I signed it.

Love, Hollis. Your most hated fan.

I give just about enough of a fuck to keep me out of jail.

—Texts from Hollis to Keda that’ll never get answered

QUINCY

6 months later