
The next morning, my phone rang nonstop.
It was Mia—crying, shaking, barely able to speak.
“You need to come over,” she sobbed. “Now.”
When I arrived, she was pale and frantic. She told me she’d remembered something our stepmom once said—that her most precious possessions were hidden somewhere safe. Mia had searched the apartment all night and found nothing.
Then she looked at the plant.
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