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“Kara, please open the door…” I begged and begged, but there was no response.

I messed up. I messed up big time.

I had Vanessa leave the house and I was waiting by her door for almost an hour, but she still wasn’t coming out. She didn’t leave her room the entire night. Not even for dinner. Her mom was worried that she was sick or something, and I couldn’t do anything but sit quietly at the dinner table, looking at the empty seat.

“She was ...