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Becca laid a hand on his arm and whispered something. I disarmed the Impala, and we all climbed inside. The ride back to Jay’s was quiet. He kept his head turned to the glass, only talking to give me his address, while Becca sat lost in her own thoughts.
When I pulled up outside his house, he said thanks and climbed out.
“That was intense.” I ran a brisk hand over my head as Becca moved from the back seat to the front seat.
“She’s hurting,” Becca said quietly. She seemed distant, and I didn’t like it. This wasn’t her fight. She couldn’t carry the weight of their relationship. “So is he.”
“You want to go somewhere? I bet I could help take your mind off things?” I kept my voice light, but disappointment flooded me when she said, “I’m just going to go home if that’s okay.”
“Sure.”
We didn’t talk again on the ride to her house. She was lost in her own thoughts, and I was trying to figure out what the hell had happened since outside the Funhouse to now. Becca had promised she would come to me if something was bothering her, and she was already pushing me away.
But she couldn’t keep me out forever.
CHAPTER27
BECCA
Every day that passed,the walls seemed to close in around me. Kendall was always there—around every corner—watching, baiting me. Daring me to come clean to save my sanity… and in the process, risk losing everything and everyone.
Evan wasn’t at school Monday or Tuesday. His mom had been sick, and with Mellie out of town, there was no one to watch Eli. This morning, he’d texted to say he had gotten sick too and wouldn’t be in.
I was in hell.
Lilly couldn’t even lay eyes on Jay without breaking down, and Jay wasn’t much better.
And it was all my fault.
As if things couldn’t get any worse, I’d received another text.
Second-floor bathroom. Now.
So here I was, walking against the flow of kids headed for lunch. I slipped inside only to be met with Kendall’s smug smirk. “What took you so long?”
“Lilly wanted me.”
“And how is the lovely Lilly?”
“Fuck you,” I snapped.
“You kiss your mother with that mouth?”
I released a heavy sigh. “What do you want, Kendall?”
“Round two. You game?”
“Do I have a choice?”
“I like you, Becca. Underneath all that Little Miss Prep School is a quick learner. Here.” She thrust out an envelope, and I took it from her, peering inside. “What is this?”
Kendall rolled her eyes. “Don’t be so stupid. You know what it is.”
“Yes, but what do you want me to do with it?”
“Funny story.” She started pacing the bathroom. “You were desperate to pee, you got excused from class and went to the first-floor bathroom, passing Scarlett Peters on the way in. You headed into the stall and found something that didn’t belong there, something that she must’ve left behind. As an upstanding student of Credence High, you felt it your moral duty to inform the principal.”
The blood drained from my face. “Why?” I croaked.
