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I crossed my arms, tapped my boot on the concrete floor, and gritted my teeth at João. “It’s one simple favor, João. Come on.”
“If you want us to hack into your accounts and delete all that shit from the internet,” João said to Maddie and Alec, and he lit a cigarette and gently pushed on Alec’s chest, “then it’s going to cost you.”
I rolled my eyes. “Please, can you do this one thing for me? You know how shitty Maddie and Alec have had it today. All Maddie wants is to have her life back.”
João raised a brow and glared harder at me. His mere stare didn’t affect me the way it used to. A few weeks ago, he would’ve scared me shitless. Now, I matched his glare with one of my own and refused to back down.
“Please,” I pleaded when I knew he wouldn’t give in.
“No,” João said.
“It’s fine,” Kai said from the couch, scrolling on his computer. “I’m already in.” He looked up at me. “But only this once.”
Grinning wickedly at João, I nodded and walked to the couch beside Kai. I patted beside me for Maddie to sit, but she didn’t move. Alec didn’t either. Instead, they both stood awkwardly in the middle of the basement as Ana watched cartoons on the small television screen in the corner with Allie.
“Do you know who did it?” I asked Maddie and Alec.
“No,” Maddie said, finally relaxing when João stopped glaring at me and disappeared up the stairs with Landon. Maddie grabbed Alec’s hand and walked over to me, leaning against the opposite wall and glancing around. “We have no idea.”
I jumped up and hiked my thumb back to the stairs, where the other two members of Poison had disappeared. “Well, if you find them, let me know. I’ll get those two on them to kick their ass. Nobody should go through what you did. Students at Redwood are nasty.”
“Thank you,” she said. “This means so much to me.”
“Anytime, girl.”
“Got it,” Kai finally said, looking up at Alec. “I’ve changed your password for all your social media accounts and took down what I could of the videos left up online of you and Maddie in the locker room. Make sure that you change your passwords once more to something that you will remember, but don’t make them all the same thing. That’s how you get hacked and locked out of your accounts.”
After Alec thanked Kai and changed his passwords, he pulled Kai over to the side and talked quietly to him about something that neither Maddie nor I could quite hear. I pulled Maddie down onto the couch next to me.
“I know this next week at school is probably going to be hell for you,” she said. “You, Vera, and Piper are welcome to sit with me and Allie at lunch. If you sit with us, people will know to back off you.”
“I’ll have to take you up on that,” Maddie said. “Vera would like that, too, but Piper is a bit more … well, she doesn’t like that many people, so I’m not sure if she’d join.”
“That’s fine!” I said, leaning closer to her. “And Allie and I are having a girls’ day tomorrow. We would love it if you and Vera could come!”
Maddie’s eyes got wide. “Really?!”
“Yes!”
When Alec walked back over to Maddie, he took her hand and pulled her off the couch.
“Well then, I’ll see you and Allie tomorrow!”
