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But he didn’t let go.
“We could try,” she whispered.
He stared back at her. “Emily ...”
“We could stand up to them. I could tell the others about you, that you’re not—”
“Wait. Shhh.” He put a hand to her lips, his attention focused up the hill.
She whispered around his hand. “What?”
His eyes snapped back to hers. “They did follow us. They must have had another car. Is there a different way back up the hill?”
Then she heard branches breaking, boys calling to each other in the darkness. Fear punched her in the stomach, hard.
Michael squeezed her hand. “Come on. Is there another way?”
She shook her head quickly. “No—we beat down this path last summer.”
“We know you’re down there!” Tyler’s voice. “We saw the truck.”
She could almost feel his presence through the air—he was close.
“Through the water,” said Michael. “We can swim across the quarry.”
“You go,” she said. “I’ll stall them—”
He swore. “You are out of your mind. I’m not leaving you to face them.” Then, before she could answer, he was dragging her down the hill, to the edge of the rocks, until the water was glittering below them.
“So we run?” she said.
“Yes. For now.” He glanced back at the darkened woods. “The underbrush will slow them down.”
“When we get to the other side—” she started.
“We’ll figure it out.”
“Together,” she said.
He nodded. “Together.”
Then he took her hand, and they jumped into the water below.
o;I never thought they’d really do it.”
He gave a humorless laugh. “Of course not.”
She fell silent for a while, and all he heard was her breath whispering along his skin. Too much had happened in a short span of time. Part of him wanted to push her away again, but a bigger part wanted to pull her closer and beg her to say she was on his side, that she’d had no part in this.
Finally, he couldn’t take the silence anymore, and he needed a destination. He couldn’t go home, not with her in the truck, and he sure as hell wasn’t driving to her house. “Where am I driving?”
“Go to the quarry.”
His head had cleared enough for him to look away from the road. “The quarry?”
“There’s lots of exposed rock. That’ll help you, right?”
“Yeah, but there will be other people there.” Given this heat, probably half the senior class would have snuck in to go swimming.
