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“I can’t wait to see Ernie’s face.” Lacey giggled menacingly.
Caden and Wally led the way back through the dense woods behind Farm Fresh. The cool night air was refreshing, even though Roe’s belly itched like crazy.
“Do you think there’s poison ivy out here?” he asked, frowning.
“Probably,” Grey said, shrugging. “Oh, what if we find Bigfoot while we’re here? That would really make Ernie mad.”
Roe looked around, chuckling. The light from his flashlight bounced off something white in the trees to his right. “Whoa, what’s that?”
His friends stopped and gathered around him, all shining their lights toward the item he’d noticed.
“Is that a shoe?” Caden asked.
“Why would a shoe be out here?” Abel frowned. “No one comes out here. That’s why I picked it for our mission.”
“Fuck a duck,” Grey said, gasping. “That shoe has a foot in it.”
Ice crept along Roe’s spine as he moved his light a little higher. There was a foot in the shoe and that foot led to a leg.
Wally moved in front of them, blocking their line of sight. “That’s enough. I’ll call Mack. Abel, get everyone back to the cars and stay there. Wait for the police, then lead them here. Everyone will need to give a statement.”
“Is it a body?” Justin asked, sounding shaken.
“Yeah.” Wally gave them a grim look. “Get moving.”
Roe satin the backseat of his car and scratched his stomach again. “I think I got poison ivy.”
“Who do you think it is?” Grey bit his bottom lip. “Could it be a hunter?”
“Not in these woods,” Abel said, groaning. “Do you think Sheriff McKenzie will ask us why we’re out here?”
“He’d be dumb not too and he’s not dumb,” Caden said.
“Renee is going to be mad that she didn’t get to come,” Lacey said, sending another text on her phone.
Several police cars were parked around them, lights flashing. Roe really didn’t think all these people were needed for one little body, but what the hell did he know?
If felt like hours before Mack came to the car.
“Roe, would you like to tell me why you and your friends are stomping through the woods late at night? I thought you were going to the pub. And why is Lacey with you?”
“Lacey is my friend too,” Roe said, wincing. He scratched his stomach harder. “We started at the pub, but then Abel asked us to help him with something.”
Mack rubbed his hands over his face. “I don’t want to know why the Bigfoot statues at Farm Fresh are now dressed like hooker fairies, do I?”
“No, you probably don’t,” Roe agreed.
“We talked about being Wilson adjacent, damn it.”
Roe giggled. “Yeah, I can’t help that. You’ll have to love me anyway.”
“Why are you scratching your belly?” Mack knelt in front of him and took his hands. “Is there something you want to tell me?”
“I think I have poison ivy?” he asked, tilting his head. “Do you know who the body is?”
Mack sighed. “Eugene Scott.”
“Oh, no,” Lacey said, sighing.
