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I shook my head and turned back to the stadium, anger shooting through me. “I’m going to scream at them for this! How do you just kill someone and throw their fucking head onto the field during a football game?! You have to be fucking insane.”
They were nuts! Psycho! Fucking crazy!
Allie grabbed me by the wrist and dug her heels into the ground to try to stop me from barreling back to find them. They had to be here somewhere. I knew they were watching.
“If you go back in there, the cops will question you and pressure you to give up any information you have on them. You don’t want to get them sent to jail, do you?” she asked me.
“They chopped someone’s head off and showed the entire school, Allie. Doesn’t that scare you?!” I asked, continuing back to the gated entrance to the football field.
A couple cops looked over at us, giving us that look all cops gave when they thought that they had something stuffed in the bag, thought that they could coerce an innocent person into lying or spilling more than the truth to prove their own beliefs.
“They won’t even be inside,” she argued. “They’re probably watching from a distance.”
Knowing she was right, I stopped. “Watching from a distance …” I whispered.
When I turned back around, João’s black car drove by us, almost as if on cue. Though the windows were tinted, I didn’t miss the small smirk I saw from the driver’s window from João when they drove under a streetlight.
As the car drove down the street, I went to chase after it like a madwoman.
Allie captured my wrist again and dragged me down the street toward the bad side of Redwood. “There is no point in chasing them. They’re already gone.”
Allie scanned the field again for any sign of Jace and frowned. I hurried down the sidewalk and inched closer to her. It had to be below freezing out here at the moment—my curls had fucking icicles hanging off them.
We had to get to my car, but the students were getting rowdy in the student parking lot. It would be dangerous—too dangerous. Suddenly, a car pulled up to the sidewalk a few feet ahead, and whoever was driving rolled down the passenger window.
“Get in,” Nicole, head cheerleader, said to us. “You’ll freeze out there.”
Allie’s eyes widened slightly.
What was she doing here, and why was she offering us help? I’d expected her to be the one to add to the drama, not help out two students caught in the middle of it.
“We’re not going anywhere with you,” Allie said, hurrying down the sidewalk.
Nicole sped up enough to catch up. “Get in, Allie. Jace is looking for you.”
After we glanced at the student section one last time, listening to the hollering and car alarms going off, Allie opened Nicole’s car door, and I hoped that I didn’t regret this.
“This doesn’t make us friends,” Allie said.
“Fine by me,” Nicole said, driving off once we were both in the car. “Poison’s place it is.”
