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I wrap my arms around my cousin’s thighs, picking her up and feeling the water on her jeans seep through my hoodie. “I got her,” I tell Mr. Green before he has a chance to say anything.
I carry her back to my table.
“Let me go,” she grits through her teeth.
The excitement dies down, and I pull my chair back in, sitting and plopping her down in my lap.
“Let me go!” she shouts this time.
I pull my tray in and secure my arms around her waist. “Eat,” I tell her.
I’m not letting her go to retrieve her own tray.
But she glares. “I’m not hungry.”
“If you don’t eat,” I tease. “I’m not giving you your surprise.”
My table goes quiet, Calvin, Mace, Arlet, Farrow, and Constin all listening. Dylan stares at me but keeps her mouth shut.
I quirk a smile. “We’re going to sneak into the Falls tonight and get your good luck charm.”
Laughter and snorts go off around the table. “Really?” Calvin asks me.
But Dylan frowns a little, looking guilty. “We’ll have to sneak really well,” she warns.
I cock my head.
She grabs my apple and lifts it to her mouth. “I left it at your house.”
The table erupts in squeals, someone pounding on the table in excitement.
Dylan
I think I made a mistake.
I grip both handlebars, revving the engine. “It can just be you and me,” I tell Hunter. “Not everyone has to come.”
He tosses gear into the trunk of his car, Farrow and Constin running down the steps of Hunter’s brownstone, and all of them ready to make a full-blown invasion.
“It’s Rivalry Week,” he says, as if that explains it.
I clench my teeth and pull my helmet off the back of my bike. Or the bike Farrow gave me. Thankfully, he retrieved it from Phelan’s Throat.
When Hunter said ‘we’regoing to sneak…’ I thought he meant him and me. Us, together. I thought we’d be alone for a little while.
But he’s determined not to chance running into Kade without backup.
Sure, they’ll fight. And they’ll probably fight a dozen more times about what, I’m not sure,but eventually, the yelling will stop, and they’ll talk. I just know that nothing will change if they don’tseeeach other.
Mace and Coral climb on bikes, Mace riding her own. Arlet lingers on the other side of Hunter’s car.
“Shouldn’t we wait until like ten or something?” I press. “People will still be out on the streets.”
“It’s Rivalry Week,” he says again.
He doesn’t think Kade will be home. It’s only after seven, and after dinner, Kade often heads back out with friends, or whoever he’s dating.
Hunter will be able to slip into the house with me, grab the necklace, and get out before anyone’s the wiser. But just in case, he’s bringing the whole motley crew and hey, they may snap some pictures or video to post online and brag that they snuck into the Shelburne Falls mayor’s house, with me helping them do it.
