“Get the fuck out,” I snarl as soon as I step inside, still clutching the iPad, my skin soaked in fresh sweat, my heart in pieces. I push my way in, my face wet with tears, my legs wet with blood, and I find my way down the hall to Studio C. There's video proof of Neil Pence raping my older sister.īut if I turn it in, he goes to prison … and so do the boys.Īt first, I don't realize where I'm going, not until I find myself outside the door to the Southside Dreams Dance Company. I hate that more than anything, that he knew exactly how to get under my skin and destroy me. The Thing knew-he knew-that this would freak me out, that it would make me question everything I thought I knew about the Havoc Boys. How could they? All this time, they had this video. Numb, like when my foster brother smoothed his hands over my budding breasts. Numb, like when I was locked in the closet. “Bernadette!” It's Oscar's voice, calling out to me.īut he doesn't stop me, and I don't slow down, pushing myself so hard that I trip and fall more than once, bruising my bare knees on the concrete, turning them bloody. So I run and I don't stop, holding the iPad like I'm holding Penelope's heart in my hand. Heather will be safe with Havoc.ĭespite everything else I know about them, I believe that part to be true. I have no idea where I'm going, but I can't stay here. Throwing the passenger side door open, I fall to my knees with the iPad clutched against my chest. I make myself watch the whole thing if Penelope suffered then I can at least watch. My sister's most unbearable pain, and there it is, etched into technology forever.
My hands shake and fat tears roll down my face as I watch what I already knew to be true take place on a shiny glass screen sitting in my lap. The world is evil I've always known the world is evil.īut this, it’s even worse than I ever could’ve imagined. My mind goes blank, and everything that makes me, me … it all just disappears.
I wait until he's climbed out before I press play on the video he's pulled up.
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