Forbidden Dance
“I’m—I’m fine. I’ll stay here tonight. I was just a little angry earlier, I didn’t mean to freak out.”
“Get in the car,” Theo says, ignoring her plea. “We’re not leaving you here.”
A moment of tense, eerie silence settles over the small crowd of people, but a second later, someone who has been sitting inside the SUV smoking a joint this entire time flicks on the stereo and turns the music up. A loud, jarring bass rattles from the speakers, drowning out everyone’s voices.
I see what’s happening here. We all do.
“Fuck,” I mutter, and Theo and Mark step back, just a little bit, as the rest of Xander’s crew rise to their feet and step forward, flanking him once more.
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