8. “Mellon” Might Not Cut It This Time
So much for a quick, easy, in-and-out supply run.
The screamers we’d been hearing through fences and hedges had broken onto the parking lot by the time we’d filled the first bag, and even after Hector had circled in the van a couple times to distract and crush as many as possible, The Eagle Scout, Rory, Norman and I had to fight all the way from door to door.
Maybe it was stupid to stop for the newspaper from the stand outside, but if it had been your face on it, next to the face of your dead crush, and the words, “FIRST OF MANY?” in big, all caps news header print, would you have been able to leave it alone?
I’ve got to admit, even though I’d always been well taken care of, nice school district, all the extracurriculars I wanted, updated phone an
