Interesting.
“I’m so confused by all of this,” Sol mumbles to Dutch. “Who’s that chick again? Where did she come from?”
Dutch grunts. “I have no idea.”
“Has Finn ever brought a girl around?” Sol scratches his head. “I’m thinking, and I genuinely can’t remember one time.”
“She’s the first,” Dutch confirms.
“So are they just screwing or are they dating?” Sol asks Dutch as if I’m not there.
Dutch grunts. “The hell am I supposed to know? Ask him.”
Sol flops lower in the passenger seat. “He’s not going to say. He doesn’t tell us anything.”
That’s true, but it’s not because I don’t trust them. There are certain experiences not even my brothers and Sol understand.
They drive quietly for a moment, while I look down at J curiously. Is she really going to die in my arms tonight?
I don’t know how I feel about that.
“I’m going to ask him,” Sol whispers to Dutch.
“He’ll tell us when he’s ready.”
“How long until he’s ready? He even brought her to Redwood.”
“We don’t know why he did that. She didn’t say anything to us,” Dutch reminds him. “And he didn’t bring her into the practice room either. Maybe it’s not serious.”
“Not serious? He was basically climbing inside her in the classroom.” Sol sounds perturbed. “I’m going to ask him.”
“Sol,” Dutch hisses.
“Finn,” Sol says over my brother. “Who’s the girl?”
I look blankly at him.
Sol pushes out his bottom lip. “Should I ask her?”
J is currently too busy coiled into a ball on my lap to answer.
“She’s a heart patient,” I say to Sol.
“Why are you hanging out with a heart patient all of a sudden?”
Because she’s Jinx and I’m going to prove it.
“She’s how we’ll find the girls,” I say confidently.
Dutch almost slams on the brakes. “What are you talking about?”
“I got the recording of Mom because of her. She hacked into the system.”
Dutch’s eyes widen, and he flashes a hopeful look at J through the rearview mirror. “She can do that?”
I dip my chin. Jinx has already displayed her prowess. I don’t doubt her abilities, only her intentions.
Sol turns fully around, his nose scrunched. “Are you sure it was her?”
