“We tried to find Akio’s parents last night,” João said, lingering beside my locker the next morning with a lit cigarette hanging out of his mouth. His knuckles were bruised, the skin split open. “But we f*****g couldn’t. We searched all over town. When I see them, I’m going to f*****g kill them.”
“Did you at least find your mom?” Landon asked, grabbing two of my textbooks from me.
Kai eyed João, then looked back at us. He didn’t have to say anything for me to know that they had found her somewhere, but João wasn’t going to tell us that. At least not now, and I wasn’t sure if I even wanted to know.
wanted Landon leaned back against the locker beside me and stared down the hallway. People in Redwood were whispering a lot more than usual today, and I wasn’t sure if it was because of us or
