““The woman was dead. Alex rose, hurrying back to Laurie. “She’s dead. I’ll stay here, you go for help.” “I’m not leaving you here alone with a corpse.” “Okay, you stay, I’ll go.” “You’re not leaving me alone here with a corpse!” “Laurie—” “She’s dead. She’s not going anywhere. We’ll both go for help.” “Yes, but what if someone . . . what if a child comes out here while we’re gone?” “What?” Laurie demanded. “You think I’m going to throw myself on top of a corpse to hide it?””
![“[...] Mom’s not keeping me out because it’s a dead friend, she’s keeping me out because it’s a dead sixteen-year-old girl with no clothes on’ ‘And that’s officially the creepiest thing you’ve ever said,’ said Lauren. She stopped typing, and then grimaced and shivered, like she’d just eaten…” quote by Dan Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e08/dan-wells-2142_dead-body_mom-s-not-keeping-me-out-because-it-s-a_2443174.jpg)
