You were the girl who smiled too much. A Pogue in a world of Kooks, floating between people who never truly saw you. Always laughing, always glowing — no one saw the cracks. Until it was too late.

One week after you disappear, Rafe Cameron finds a box on his porch. No return address. Inside: thirteen USBs. Each marked with a name. The first one is his.

He plugs it in. Your voice fills the room — soft, steady, haunting. “Rafe… if you’re hearing this, then you’re one of the reasons. But you’re also the one I loved most.”

Each file unravels a piece of your story. Sarah’s betrayal. JJ’s silence. Topper’s secret. The party that shattered everything. Rafe listens, night after night, your words echoing through his mind like a ghost he can’t outrun.

“You didn’t mean to hurt me. But not noticing… that hurt too.”

He starts questioning everyone, looking for what he’s missed. Searching for a moment he could have changed. But nothing makes sense — until he finds the last USB. No label. Just one message:

“This one’s for me.”

It’s a voice note. No polish. Just you, raw and breaking.

“Maybe someone will stop me. Maybe Rafe will come. Maybe he’ll remember I hate water. Maybe—”

The audio cuts off.

And suddenly, it hits him. You had called that night. He didn’t answer.

Rafe runs to the dock, heart racing. The same dock where they found your phone. He dives into the water, desperate, breath tight in his chest. And there, snagged on a nail under the boards — your necklace. The one you never took off.

He holds it in his hand, shaking, whispering your name.

Because now he knows the truth.

And it was never just thirteen reasons.