The car went well past the legal limit with Joseph's foot heavy on the gas pedal. He was close to the gas station.
Soon, he and Jenn would go together to the beach to investigate and he hoped against hope that they'd find
Prerna alive and well. Perhaps slightly sloshed from the previous night, but alive.
Though, deep down he knew something had to be wrong. She would've never taken off without telling
Joseph. And she wouldn't have ditched Jenn. Prerna wasn't that kind of a person. In fact, when he'd reluctantly decided to go to senior prom with Prerna, she'd never left his side, even while guys flocked to her in an attempt
to steal her attention.
The deep and darkened feeling in Joseph's stomach grew
the further he drove. What if she was dead? Had he
done everything he could to keep
