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I scoot closer to him and stare at him seriously, making sure I am truly speaking with Derrick and not some monster pretending to be him to trick me.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” he asks, his voice lowering.
“I—”
Delizah interrupts us and my face flushes and turns away. “It was my fault. He’s here because of me. My f-father, he, he’s inside of you. You’ve become his vessel.”
“Shit, I remember now,” he tells her.
A new emotion cuts through me as he gives her attention. He doesn’t understand that things aren’t fixed yet.
“Derrick, bruh, listen to me.” He turns to me with full trust in his eyes and mine well up with tears again. I can’t lose him. “We still need to get you help.”
He looks at me seriously and it's as if both of our lives flash before his eyes. “Tell me what we need to do.”
Delizah relays to him the same information she told me and he continues to stare at me with a faraway look.
“We need to leave this apartment now.” Derrick stands up and looks around, then looks back at me. “How did you bring me here?”
I slowly stand up, not taking my eyes off him, trying to soak in everything that is Derrick in case this plan doesn’t go through and this becomes the last time I see him.
“He carried you,” Delizah pipes in again and I jerk my face to her, my eyes steely. He doesn’t need to know the details.
“You carried me up two fucking flights of stairs, James?”
I audibly swallow. “I wasn’t going to leave you behind.”
“We need to act quickly. If my father resurfaces in your mind, who knows what he’ll do?”
Derrick takes his attention off me and casts his gaze to her, letting me breathe a sigh of relief. Why do I feel embarrassed about what she admitted? Anyone else in my position would have done the same.
“You said you all drove in my car?” Derrick asks with his eyes fixed on me.
“Yeah. I still had your keys.”
“We need to take another one. Was everyone in the cult there tonight, James?”
I think back and am honestly unsure. He sees it in my eyes and nods. “We need to take another car.”
My lip quirks at the corner. We haven’t hot-wired a car since our youth. Derrick feels the same as he gives me a smile and begins moving toward the front door.
Down in the apartment’s parking garage, we all look around for something suitable and discreet.
“That one, right there,” Derrick points. It’s a black, nondescript sedan.
“You sure your neighbors aren't going to come after you?” I tease him, feeling a lot lighter than where we started, even though my mind continuously questions if this mission will be successful.
All three of us quickly move and duck between cars until we reach our destination.
“I’m barely home enough for them to know what kind of guy I am,” he admits as he uses a tool to slip between the glass and the door frame. The driver’s side door unlocks with a loud click and we all duck our bodies behind the car for a few seconds.
“Have you guys done this before?” Delizah screeches under her breath.
“Maybe,” I answer her before looking over the hood of the car to see if anyone heard us. No one is around and the night is still young. I nod to Derrick, who opens the door, hits the unlock button and quickly climbs into the driver side.
I shouldn’t feel turned on by the way Derrick ducks down, pulls the wires from beneath the steering column and hot-wires the vehicle, but my dick twitches at the sight. I readjust myself and climb from the back to the front passenger seat. The car roars to life and we quickly pull it out of the garage.
“Which way?” I ask Delizah.
