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The other cop stuck his head in the open door, startling the hell out of us. He said nothing, just opened the center console and rummaged through it. “Does she have any weapons in here?”
“Weapons? What? No!” I shrieked.
“Drugs?” he asked.
“Absolutely not,” Laney added.
“How well do you know her?” the cop asked.
“We’ve known her since first grade. She would never purposely evade anyone,” I assured him. My eyes shot to the back window where the other cop now had Holly behind the car. “Please let us go. This was a big misunderstanding.”
Laney chimed in. “We thought we were being followed and—”
“The speed limit’s thirty-five on this road. She was going seventy. She was jeopardizing your lives and the lives of other drivers,” he explained before closing the door and joining his partner at the rear of Holly’s car.
We sat there for what felt like hours, our legs bouncing beneath us.
“Can you see anything?” Laney asked, sitting like a statue in the backseat afraid to move.
I looked from my side mirror to Holly’s. “No. Why are they holding her there for so long?”
I turned to see what was happening behind the car. The flashing lights continued to fill the car and guilt consumed me. I’d told her to speed up. I all but forced her to do it. Now she was taking the blame.
I turned back around facing the long stretch of road ahead of us. I wanted to help but was unsure what to do. I felt so helpless.
Eventually, the driver’s door opened and Holly slipped into her seat.
Relief washed over me. “Are you okay?”
“That was fun,” she said.
“Seriously. Are you okay?” Laney asked.
“I’m fine.”
“Did they give you a ticket?” I asked.
She shook her head. “They debated it, but, in the end, they just threatened me to keep an eye on you guys at the party.”
My eyes widened. “Keep an eye onus?”
She shrugged. “Did you see how hot they were?”
Laney laughed and I slouched in my seat, so happy my night in Coopersville wasn’t ruined before it even began.
* * *
We arrived at Jeff’s backyard party and grabbed drinks, needing to calm the nerves that had minutes before consumed us. A few of our guy friends pulled Laney and me into a game of beer pong. It was so great to be home with people I’d grown up with. People who wouldn’t purposely hurt me. I desperately needed this night.
We played a few rounds of beer pong. Laney and I dominated the table until silence swept over the party and everyone seemed to stop what they were doing.
Motorcycles roared in the front of Jeff’s house.
“Cops!” someone yelled.
Again?
Everyone scrambled, dumping their cups of beer and rushing to their cars in the front yard before the cops started checking IDs. I looked around, searching for Holly.
