"We're going therenow?"
"Yeah, is that okay?"
"I was going to go home and change into sweats but I guess I can clean in this." She's wearing black leggings and a cropped t-shirt that shows off her belly ring. If Kendrick shows up, he's going to have a hard time keeping his eyes off her.
We get to the house and find Kendrick waiting in the driveway.
I walk up to him. "Is Danny here?"
Kendrick glances at Eve as she gets out of the car. "He went to pick up food. We promised the guys we'd feed them."
"Did Danny give you the key?"
He holds it up. "I haven't gone inside yet."
"You didn't tell me HE'D be here," Eve says to me, sounding annoyed.
"Good to see you too," he says.
"I told you the whole team was coming," I tell her as we walk to the door.
Kendrick unlocks it and we go inside.
"Holy shit," Eve says, looking around. The place is a disaster, with furniture on its side and couch cushions scattered around the floor. Some of the drawers from the bedroom are in the living room, dumped upside down. "His dad did all this?"
"It's worse than I thought," Kendrick says.
I step over a pile of clothes, past the upside-down couch, to the kitchen. I see the blood on the counter and look away, tears stinging my eyes.
Eve comes up beside me. "Go work on the living room. I'll do the kitchen."
"I'll help," Kendrick says.
I shake my head. "I can do it. I'm here to clean so I might as well clean."
Kendrick glances at Eve, then turns me toward him, away from the blood. "Let Eve and me take the kitchen. There's plenty of other stuff you can do."
I nod. "Okay."
"You want to help me get stuff from the car?" Kendrick asks Eve. "My mom gave me some cleaning supplies."
"I have some too, and gloves."
She follows him back outside.
Looking up at the walls I see more of Dean's blood, and when I look down I see it on the tile floor. I follow the trail of blood to the carpet between the kitchen and the living room. It ends with a really big blood stain on the carpet by the wall. That must be where Dean was lying when he passed out.
There's so much blood. He would've died if his neighbor hadn't called the police.
"What are you still doing there?" Eve says, coming back in the house, her arms loaded up with cleaning products. "Get out of our area."
"Yeah," Kendrick says. "Move it."
I step aside as they put everything down, then watch as they put on the gloves.
"I'll take the walls," Kendrick says to Eve.
"I'll do the counters."
