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In fact, sitting here on the top step to the entrance of Snowflake High watching this potential disaster unfold, I search my memory for the first person arned n of Terror Motorcycle Club

There was no pa health class No sex conversation like the one arten because I referred to a certain male body part by the sa

But when it pertains to the threat that is the Reign of Terror MC, it’s not learned, it’s known Like how an infant understands how to suck in a breath at the s It’s instinctual It’s ingrained It’s fact

"Do you think his motorcycle ork this time?" Addison asks

"Hope so," I breathe out, too terrified to speak at a nor black leather vests who circle the broke-down bike Reign of Terror arches over the top of the black vest, in theout of the eye sockets and drops of fire rain around it It’s os touching Shoulders bumped into the other We’d probably hold hands if we didn’t have our welcohtly to our chests Because we can’t spawn eyes in the back of our heads, we lean against the large pillar of the overhang so no one can sneak up on us fro, but the August sun hasn’t coh, has clai the afternoon hit over a hundred and I swear the concrete stairs and pillar absorbed every ounce of today’s sunshine and is now transferring the heat into my body

Sweat rolls down hs off the step Why I thought it was a fantastic idea to wear the jean skirt, I have no idea

I take that back I do have a clue for rade was together in one roooal for the year may seem simple to some, but to me, it sometimes feels i more than freakishly smart Breanna Miller at least once before I leave this town I’d like to soe to be on the outside who I a sixth sense infor neo friends on the verge of starting their senior year vanish without a trace Because that’s how motorcycle clubs would handle this--they’ll kidnap us and then hide our bodies after they’re finished hatever ritual act they’ll use us to perforins to bounce Mom and Dad left after h Grove Academy and they promised to return in tiht and the parking lot cleared out by eight twenty The straggling parents arrived by eight thirty and that left Addison and me alone with blond-haired biker boy and his dilapidated machine

He called his buddies around the same time I tried the variousshowed in a chro to hear fro on with your family?" Addison asks

Besides I’m child number five of nine? "Who knows"

Maybe Elsie needed ain and the pharmacy was behind schedule Maybe Clara and Joshua split with the cars, thinking everyone was hoame went into triple overtime Maybe my parents counted someone’s head twice and assuotten in the car pool rotation Won’t be the last

I don’t feel nearly as awful about being forgotten byto call her father to tell hi to miss curfew My left knee joins the other in a constant rhyth for her at home

"I can have my parents call your dad," I offer "Make them take the bla fault

Addison’s mouth slants into a sad smile as she yanks on a lock ofyou"

Addison and I have been friends since elean, in sixth grade While Addison and Reagan are more alike, both natural blondes and have a take-no-prisoners attitude, it’s me they entrust with the secrets Like how Addison’s bruises are hardly ever fro squad

One of the gang members stands frouy we attend school with inserts a key, holds on to the handlebar of the bike, and when he twists it, I pray the motor purrs to life

My heart leaps, then pluround when the unshot Addison’s head falls forward, and I biteexternal chaos

Addison pulls her phone out of her purse and taps the screen "I’ her to point the finger at Thomas Turner and his band of uy ore loudly the ain Thomas is the name called on the first day of school by our teachers, but it’s not the naoes by his "road name," Razor