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Our seatbelts unfastened and the metal lock slipped free.
Oh, shit.
Hazel screamed dully in the back of her throat as something grabbed her and pulled her out the door and up into the light, disappearing in an instant. Sirena went next, then Victoria, as they were closest to the doors on that side.
Sensing it would be our turn next, I focused all my effort into looping my arm around my seatbelt. It was already halfway there. I just needed to tense my finger a fraction, and I would hold on.
If I could hold on long enough, maybe these people, these things, whatever had grabbed us, would let us go…
It made no logical sense but when you were desperate you grasped at whatever straws you could find.
I felt the same tug that’d taken Hazel, pulling me back. The seatbelt tightened around my arm, locking it tight.
Yes!
The force pulled on me, like gravity on overdrive, and my legs floated out behind me, but I still wouldn’t let go. Bianca squealed as she was tugged out of the minivan, with Maddy on her heels.
It was just me now, floating there like an ice cube in a forgotten drink. The pressure grew stronger as the force pulled harder, working to get me free. It felt like a giant had wrapped its hand around me and was growing irritated that I wouldn’t let go.
I had to hold on. The guys were counting on me!
Of course, they weren’t really. I had no idea where they went or what they were doing. But the mission became the goal. Achieving it became the only thing that mattered.
The force shifted, banging me against the ceiling and then forcing me down. My head thudded against the steering wheel. And still, I kept my finger cocked, holding the seatbelt in place.
But it was slipping. One inch, and then another…
The force swung me left to right and then twisted me around.
And that’s when I lost my grip.
No!
The instant I left the safe confines of the minivan, it immediately dropped and exploded, and the yellow flames chased me up, licking my boots, almost as fast as I was traveling, a million miles an hour, into the sky.
The light grew brighter and more intense until it burned my vision and I couldn’t see anything but white.
Just three hours earlier, we clinked our glasses and together bellowed, “To your last night of freedom!”
We downed yet another cocktail—at least, my friends did. I was the designated driver and had to put up with passion fruit juice. The girls chugged back their drinks and hissed with delight.
Today was our second day of celebrations. We took a day off work so we could leave our New York offices Thursday night as early as possible. I picked up the hired minivan from the dealer, who couldn’t help but notice: “How well you drive a stick. You must have a lot of practice with sticks.”
Victoria would have given him the finger but I was too polite and shrugged my shoulders before taking off. Why did every loser think he could hit on me? I swore I was cursed.
The partying began in the minivan approximately ten seconds after I picked everyone up from Hazel’s apartment building. Despite the ample trunk space, there was barely enough room for all of Sirena’s things.
“I like to be prepared for any situation,” she said.
Although why she thought it necessary to bring a maid’s cosplay uniform, I had no idea.
“So, where are we heading?” Victoria said.
Maddy rolled her eyes. “Alice only sent us the memo, like, a dozen times.”
“I don’t read memos,” Victoria said.
