High School Never Ends

“Everything.” Vic echoed
“Yes, Vic. I need to know everything. Paige was my sister, I need to know this!”
“Aria, it’s a touchy subject. I can’t promise that you’ll believe what I tell you. It could put you in danger to have the knowledge.”
“Well from the looks of it, I’m already in danger.”
Vic smiled sadly at me and nodded in agreement.
“I don’t know where to start…” Vic trailed off
“Melissa told me to stay away from you: all of you.” I replied
“Melissa? Amelia’s sister?”
“Yeh.”
“I thought she skipped town after, y’know…”
“She did, but she’s been looking out for me. She gave the message to Amelia.”
“What did Amelia tell you?”
“It was drugs related and that you had something to do with it…”
“Of course. That’s exactly the sort of thing that Melissa would…” Vic was cut off by the sound of the fire alarm in the diner.
The customers and staff poured out of the building. Mike, Jaime and Tony came running towards us out of the mix.
“How did you guys get here?” Mike asked, confused
“There’s a fire exit at the back.” Vic replied
“Oh. You alright Ari?” Mike questioned
“Huh, what?” I asked, snapping out of my trance
“I’ll take that as a yes.” Mike chuckled
“I think we should probably get out of here.” Jaime suggested
“Yeh, let’s go.” Mike called
“I call shotgun!” Jaime shouted as he ran to the car
“Jaime…” Mike began
“It’s fine. As long as I don’t have to sit in the middle.” I cut Mike off
I climbed into the back seat, Vic sat in between me and Tony.
During the drive home, I whispered over to Vic.
“Gimme your phone.”
He didn’t question, but subtly handed over his phone. I looked up to see if anyone was paying attention. Mike was concentrating on the road, Jaime seemed to have passed out and Tony was staring out of the window. Quickly, I entered my number into Vic’s phone and sent a text to myself that I would receive his number. I gave him his phone back and pulled mine out of my pocket.

To: Vic
From: Aria

“We’ll meet up another day and talk, yeh?”

Vic didn’t text back but simply nodded at me.

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