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JOÃO
“These people need to fucking die,” I said, staring out at our classmates who flooded out of the football stadium and into the streets, not caring who they walked in front of on Friday night. “One of these fucking days, I’m going to plow right through them. There’re too many.”
The students cheered and laughed together, celebrating a Redwood win.
Like winning by one point in overtime should be celebrated.
When the red light turned green in front of me and people continued to walk right across the crosswalk without a care in the world, I laid on the horn and cursed out of the window. “Fucking move, before I make you.”
We were late to meet Jace in the back parking lot to grab the money. Kai had gotten there about ten minutes ago and was still waiting for him to come out of the locker room, but I wanted to be there when he did because I needed to make sure he wasn’t going to back out.
He needed to get us entrance into the police chief’s house.
As the crowd finally died out and the light turned yellow, I sped around the corner, my wheels screeching against the asphalt. I pulled into the back parking lot next to Jace’s car and cursed when I saw him talking to Kai already.
“You got it?” I asked, stepping out of the car with Landon.
Jace swallowed hard and looked around nervously, as if he didn’t want to do this.
Landon arched his brow. “Anxious tonight? You almost lost the damn game for us.”
“You want the money or not?” Jace asked through clenched teeth, opening his trunk.
Landon, Kai, and I walked around to the back.
When I saw the duffel bags, I unzipped one and nodded, a smirk crossing my lips. “Didn’t think you’d be able to get this much in time,” I said to Jace, then nodded to Landon. “Take it.”
Landon gathered the bags and put them in my trunk.
“Text the details to Kai,” I said to Jace, shutting the trunk. I shouldn’t be surprised that he was going through with this because his father was almost as big of a dick as mine was, but still … I had expected a rich boy to act differently when it came down to it.
“When will it be done?”
“We’ll count the money tonight. If it’s all there, we can do it tomorrow at the earliest. And the girls stay out of this.” Then, I climbed into my car and nodded to Kai. “Meet us back at Landon’s.” I slammed my door and sped out of the parking lot, looping around the school one more time to see if Imani had finally left the game yet.
Kids filled the main student parking lot, hanging out of their cars, crowding the sidewalks, making plans on where to party tonight because after every Redwood win, there had to be a party somewhere.
I scanned the parking lot for Imani, and when I didn’t find her, I continued down the road toward the field one last time. Imani walked down the sidewalk with Allie and Akio, sinking deep into her winter coat.
Slowing down, I parked on the opposite side of the road and glanced into my rearview mirror to watch her walk back to her car. I didn’t fucking care if she got back to her car all right, but there were too many rowdy kids tonight, already drunk off their asses.
Landon didn’t say anything about me stopping and stared into the rearview mirror too. “What the fuck is Akio doing with her?”
“I don’t know, but when Kai finds out, he’s going to kick his ass. Kai hates Akio.”
“For good reasons, but especially for what Akio’s family did to his parents.”
I shook my head. “Another piece-of-shit family. Who fucking knew Redwood was shit?”
Suddenly, Jace sped around the corner to the student parking lot in his car, and he parked and got out when he saw Nicole. I threw the car in reverse and backed up enough to get a better view of the action. Between him and Nicole and Allie who was about to walk over, something was bound to happen.
And I hoped to fuck Imani wasn’t about to be in the middle of a Redwood fight.
She’d be able to kick anyone’s ass, but still.
Nicole moved closer to him, biting her lip and looking actually ridiculous. I rolled down my window, hoping to hear something but couldn’t over the loud murmurs of the crowd. Jace swung an arm around her waist and pulled her closer, flirting to get us access into her father’s house for tomorrow night.
But shit …
