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Christ. What if this is about my grades, oh my god, what if it’s about the video, the pictures. I’m going to need Flynn. He’s going to need to help me. I don’t ever know what to say to authority figures. And if thisisabout my grades… He said he was going to fix it.
I dial Flynn and wait and wait, and it’s still ringing and then‘This person’s mailbox is full.’
Rex hasn’t texted me back and I’m climbing the stairs, on the other side of the campus now.
Phone to my ear, I bite my lip, waiting, it only rings once.
“Lollipop, what’s wrong?”
I’m panting, sweating, cold, a chill creeping down my spine, it makes my head spin. This fuckingwithdrawal.
“I don’t feel well,” I suddenly say, not meaning to tell him that at all.
Slumping against the wall, resting my shoulder against it, my temple, breathing hard through my mouth, I close my eyes.
“I’ll come and get you, just wait for me to-”
“No, I can’t, that’s not why I called. I think I need Flynn, and I- oh shit! I’ve forgotten my computer,” I huff a breath, my head spinning.
“Lollipop, take a breath,” and I do, at his instruction, making my brain still, just enough to do as he asks. “Now, where’s your laptop?”
“In my class,” I say, still focussing on my breathing.
“And you are…?”
“Not in my class.”
“And that’s because you are where exactly?” he asks, I can hear a door closing, the snap of his fingers, his voice sayingKing.
“I got called to see the dean and I’m worried I’m in trouble, why else would they call me there? What if it’s about my grades, what if it’s the,” I swallow, “video?” I whisper, biting my lip, even though Flynn assures me it’s gone, is it ever really? “What do I do?” my body starts to tremble and sweat beads along my brow, my insides feel like they’re curdling. “And I really don’t feel good, Bennett.”
“I’m on my way,” his voice sounds further away and the purr of his engine comes through. “I’m going to fix everything, Lollipop, just wait for me.”
“How long will you be?” I whisper, palming the front of my throat with my hand, fingers flexing on the sides of my neck as bile sits on the back of my tongue.
“We’re at my office downtown,” his engine purrs louder and I know he’s speeding because that’s exactly how he drove in the snow.
I liked it.
The fear.
But I know that means he’s at least half an hour away and even with the insane way he drives, he’s going to be at least fifteen.
“But they want me in there now,” I whisper, biting my lip, real fear and something worse making my mouth dry. “And my computer,” I knock my head against the wall, gentle but it thuds all the same in the empty stairwell.
“Get Flynn on the fucking phone!” Bennett snaps, presumably at Raiden, sensing my panic. “Baby,” his tone is so different with me, like the other side of a coin, “we’ve got you, they can’t do anything to you. Please don’t worry. And Rex can get your computer.”
“Told him to grab it already,” King says to Bennett, and then, “Princess, everything’s gonna be fine.”
“What if I’m getting kicked out? I haven’t met any of my conditions to stay,” my chest is heaving, breaths coming too short and fast.
My ears are buzzing and Bennett’s voice is drowned out by the erratic thudding of my own heart.
“What if this is abouthim?”I shudder as I think it,Chris,what he did to me, what these boys did to him.
“It isn’t,” Bennett says with certainty.
I drop my bag to the wooden steps, follow it down, settling into a crouch. I hold the phone between my ear and shoulder, fiddling with my stuff. I reach into the bottom of it, retrieving a small zipped pouch, finding a little white pill in the bottom of it.
