LORI
I felt him before I saw him. He was already too close. A smirk pasted across his face like he owned something. “Hey, Green,” the boy said.
I turned and instantly regretted it.
He held out his phone with the screen tilted toward me. He paused the video; my body at the edge of the pool, with my mouth open and arms flailing. The Play button was glowing like poison.
“You look cute when you panic.”
Something dropped out of my chest. Jason stood up. Reed was already halfway around the table.
My hands wouldn’t move. My voice didn’t work. All I could see was the water, my hands hitting the tile. My lungs screaming.
The boy laughed. “Did he have to fish you out like a wet dog or did you—”
Jason slammed him into the table so hard the trays jumped. The guy’s back hit the table with a cr
