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“A recovery team was sent out,” Kota said “Nathan and I were there before dawn to identify where the car went down They’ll find it”
“Will it be bad?” I asked “Can it be fixed?”
Victor spoke, “I et creative hat happened to it Or find another one and just change the plate so”
I felt bad for Victor He’d have to figure out how to not let his parents know about what really happened to the car “Maybe you can use Mr Blackbourne’s for now? Maybe they won’t notice?”
“We could,” Victor said “I ht Not that they pay attention too much I could switch plates for now But I’ll have a problem later if anyone checks the VIN number”
“At least until we see if we can get your car fixed,” Kota said “And Mr Blackbourne will need a replacement”
“Another reason for a house,” Gabriel said “We can switch cars whenever ant”
“I don’t need any more reasons,” Victor said
“Another reason,” Gabriel said He held up a couple of fingers, like he was ready to count off these reasons “No running out the door without breakfast just to avoid Erica”
“I’ her,” Kota said “We just don’t have the ti”
“That’s avoiding”
“Where’s North car?” I asked
“North reported it stolen,” Kota said “We don’t knohere it is”
My heart sunk “We never found it?” I’d left the necklace he’d given me behind the seat Not to mention he loved his Jeep I’d hoped Volto ditched it like he had with Mr Blackbourne’s car
Kota shook his head but looked back at ain “Don’t worry It’ll turn up”
“Maybe,” Gabriel said, sitting back again and crossing his arms “If Volto didn’t sink that one, too”
“If we don’t find it, we’ll get another one,” Kota said “At this point, we’ll probably need some extra cars”
Internally, I was laughing atodd and out of frustration A few days ago, I was on bed rest Today was day two of being allowed back, and it was already wild And who kneould happen today Volto was back We were doo vehicles Our ht seemed to have failed completely
Maybe they thought nothing of the cars they needed to replace, but we needed to be ht about that Cars we could get We couldn’t get another Nathan He could have been seriously hurt last night
It was really onesettled Mr Hendricks Volto, if we could Although, I found it odd that Volto was more interested in our activities around the school
For weeks, we’d been away, and he had stopped Why did he seeo inactive and then come back now?
The big question was left hanging open “Did we find out as in the boxes going out? And what they brought in?”
“Food,” Kota said “Just food It seemed like similar supplies as well”
“What? Why?”
“We’re trying to figure out why they were swapped North ended up in a warehouse on the other side of town It’s hard to explain and I don’t know the full details We need to get to Mr Blackbourne and find out”
Another groupThey had more of those than I realized but I knehy now And I realized they’d probably had a lot before I’d been allowed to join them
We were safe now, that was good “Kota?”
“Yeah?”
“You didn’t tell the people you were on the phone with just now about Danielle Didn’t she want out of school, too?”
“I don’t kno to ask about that without her parents getting involved Her situation is different WeSee if she can qualify for some sort of local private school Marie’s free to leave the school on her own, but we don’t want to tell her A hoive her mainly what she wants”
“Good idea,” I said
“Nathan is going to get them both to come in today,” Gabriel said
I yawned again I didn’t e in the car?” I asked “Before we show up?”
The others looked at each other and Gabriel shrugged “Can you do it?”