CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
Lincoln High School looked oddly out of place to Riley. While Wilson High had seemed like some weird throwback to a bygone time, Lincoln looked sparkling and new, all steel and glass. It reminded her of the school that April went to, which was unsettling because it gave a grim reminder that kids weren’t safe anywhere anymore.
But something else about the building bothered her.
She realized that she couldn’t help thinking of it as phony—a false façade like everything else in this town seemed to be. Riley cautioned herself to double-check her own perceptions. She no longer knew if she was sensing an actual dark underbelly to every part of all this apparent normality, or if she was simply imagining it.
As Jenn rang the buzzer at the front entrance, Riley suppressed a si
