Seventeen
Duke
“Where is he?” I hiss into the phone, digging the metal rims with my fingernails. Alice is locked in the bathroom, getting ready to head to the music school. I told her she should take a day off, but she’s determined not to let her fear control her. I want this scumbag to go down even more now.
“I don’t know, Duke.” Frederick Truman, my old colleague, whispers. “He graduated high school same as your sister. It’s not like we keep in touch. The administration wants to put as much distance between us and that… incident.”
“Incident?” My heart hammers at a speed dangerous to my health. “He r***d my sister and you guys let him walk.”
“I had nothing to do with that,” Frederick says.
I close my eyes and fold my anger back, allowing it to simmer in a locked chest where I keep i
