Koi and I returned to the hospital, where we heard yelling coming from Domino's room.
"Get out! Get out get out get out get out get out!" she screamed.
We ran down the hall to catch Carlos standing with his hands up.
I stormed over to him. "I suggest you fucking listen."
His eyes flicked from me to Koi who'd joined me, and he ducked under my arm and fled the room. I hurried to Domino.
"Are you okay?" I brushed her hair back. She shook her head, her beautiful brown eyes growing wide with fear.
"Get out. You tried to kill me. You're psycho. Both of you." She flinched away as I tried to touch her. She grasped the remote control and pushed a button, alerting a nurse. "Get the fuck away from me."
My mouth parted as I stepped back. "Domino, what are you talking about? We didn't do anything."
"I know it was you. I saw your masks. You're the killers. You're?—"
"The villains?" Koi finished.
Her face paled. “Fuck you for making me think you liked me. We’re through. I hate you. I hate you both!"
A nurse came in and forced us to leave.
We stood in front of the building, taking everything in while we smoked.
"I can't believe she thinks we're trying to kill her." I shook my head. "And that she broke up with us."
"After all we did to save her." Koi sighed. "I don't know what to do. Our cabin burned down now. And they aren't going to let us leave."
I considered our options. There weren't many. There was too much blood on our hands. I finished my cigarette and flicked it onto the ground.
"Grace needs to go next," I announced. "She said so herself, she'll roll over on all of us. Or Marisol, since she lit the fire. I have a feeling Grace helped."
Koi looked at me. Neither of us wanted to be the one to kill Dennis's little sister. Their family had been through enough. But if it was Grace or Domino, we'd already made the choice.
Koi nodded, stubbing out his cigarette.
"Fine. Let’s do Grace first, but can we at least return the body to the family this time?"
Dennis's parents deserved that much. We started back to Koi's car, and as we pulled out and onto the road, my hurt over Domino's words turned to anger.
She wanted a villain? She'd get two.
Rule 47 - Koi
Cry if you have to.
Seven years ago
"It would mean a lot to us." Puffy-eyed Mrs. Palmer stared down at me, holding back her tears. "Would you, sweetie?"
I looked over to Swayze. His head was down, refusing to meet my eyes. He knew what was going on. She'd already asked him.
"Yes, ma'am," I said to her. "It would be my honor."
The next day, I dressed in the suit I'd worn for the Spring Fling. I'd taken Marilyn Burns. Swayze had gone with Kirsty Laurence, and Dennis had taken Dani Ardor. We'd taken them on our bikes and thought we were the shit because we had smokes and had stolen a bottle of vodka from my dad's cabinet. We even got to make out with them behind the school. We thought we were invincible then, but now... now we weren't.
I went downstairs and found my dad consoling my mom. She'd been having a hard time with everything too, almost as if it were me, not someone else's son, who had died.
