CLOSED (for Mira)

This keeps happening. Her friends get hurt, they get taken, they disappear and end up in the hospital and she's been there. She's been that person, she's been the one who's gone and scared and sure she's going to die, and there's no way in hell she's ever going to let that shit happen to the people she cares about.

Not as far as she can help it, anyway, which means she's got four things. She's got Oscar with her for the walk to Mira's house, because she's not going to give them another thing to worry about with her vanishing, and she's got her phone, she's got the knife she started carrying after she got taken last year, and she's got mace.

The walk's short - there's police cars outside of Spencer and Joel's house, and it makes Raleigh's stomach twist. She trusts what Coop said, she trusts that they've got their part of it handled, but god, she's so angry, she's so upset because this keeps happening, and would it fucking hurt the universe for once to make it so that Spencer and Davin both don't have to go through more of this shit.

Knocking on Mira's door, Raleigh takes a deep breath, trying to seem like she's got her shit together and not like she wants to just start kicking things, just in case Mira's not the one who answers the door.