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“Come on.” Lilly moved further into the maze, letting go of my hand to put out her hands in front of her. I was ready to go after her when a noise from behind me caught my attention.What was that?I strained my eyes to see, but darkness closed in around me, and there was nothing but black.
“Lilly,” I hissed, my eyes searching frantically for the real her.
“Here, Becca,” she called back, but they all did. Scarlett had completely disappeared, taking the light with her. I fumbled in my jeans pocket, sliding out my cell phone. It lit up the space in front of me, and I hissed again. “Lilly, where are you?”
“Becca.” Her voice echoed around the room, reflecting off the mirrors, but it sounded like it was getting further away. The mirrors distorted everything, making it hard to concentrate; the fact my heart felt ready to explode from my chest cavity didn’t help.
With one hand holding out my cell phone, using it as a flashlight, I used the other to trace the path of mirrors. The first route I took was a dead end, so I doubled back and went a different route. “Scarlett, Lilly?”
“Becca.” Their voices bounced around the room, only confusing me more, and I wondered if back in the day the acoustics of this room were set up to do that—confuse fair-goers even more. The path wound around on itself until my hand hooked around a mirror that gave the illusion of being two mirrors side by side. I slipped between them and found myself in another dark passage.
“Lilly?”
“Over here. Jesus, that was awful.” Her face appeared in the cloud of light. “Come on, almost there.”
Thank God.
We spilled out of the same door we’d gone through. Upon closer inspection, I could see it was divided into two. One corridor in and one out.
“They live to tell the tale.”
“Barely,” I said, my voice a quivering mess.
“You should see your face, Becca.” Jay came over and pulled Lilly and me into a bear hug. “I’m proud of you girls.”
Pressing my hand against his solid stomach, I slipped out of his hold, letting him have Lilly instead.
“Remind me never to do that again. I swear someone was in the room of mirrors with me.”
“Yeah, Lilly and Scarlett.” Vin snorted, earning him a shoulder punch from Scarlett.
“Shut it, dickwad. We lost each other. It freaked us out.” Something flashed in her eyes as if she actually believed me, and I shuddered. I’d had enough scary fun for one night. But in a strange way, it had bolstered my confidence. I’d faced my fears and lived to tell the tale.
Maybe one day I’d be able to face Kendall too.
CHAPTER13
“You seem different.”
Evan sure knew exactly what to say to make me go‘huh?’
“I—”
His lips quirked up. “Smiling looks good on you.”
“Oh right, that.” I shrugged my shoulders. “Things are better, I guess. I mean Kendall still wants my blood, but I have Scarlett and Lilly so…”
“You found your people.”
Closing my locker, I clutched my books close to my chest. It should have pleased me to hear those words, but a pang of something bolted through me.
All week, I’d hung out with Scarlett and Lilly. Tuesday, I’d worked at the diner for a couple of hours and then met the guys at Jay’s garage. Mitch had given me some spoiled burgers and fries, which Jay, Vin, and Eric had practically inhaled. Then Wednesday, Scarlett had driven us downtown so we could shop for outfits for the party tonight. Aside from the one note in my locker yesterday and the fact that Evan had pretty much ignored me all week until now, things were good.
So why did I still feel like this?
Lost.
Floating like driftwood in the ocean, like I still didn’t truly fit in at Credence High—that maybe I never would.
