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cop came by when I started walking to a hidey place. They were in a car and then they got out. They offered me a ride home and then some stuff happened,” she waved her hand. “S’okay.”
    We stopped when we got to a clear area. She put her elbow on my shoulder and we popped down to Hell for a second, then back to our living room. Mom was sitting on the couch reading.
    “You’re home early,” she said to me. Then she looked to Hadley and narrowed her eyes. “And you’re late.”
    “Sorry,” she shot her a toothy smile. “Long night.”
    Mom shook her head. “Yeah I bet it was. Did your sister have to go and get you from somewhere?”
    Hadley looked to me and bit her lip. “Kinda. But she was just in gym class. She didn’t miss anything important.”
    She actually saved me from having to keep talking to Hale. So maybe I should be thanking her. That didn’t make up for the worry I had about her being gone so long. Anything could have happened. But she was too free spirited to ever be tied down by anything. Even a worried little sister.
    “Oh,” Mom said. “Gym is quite stupid.”
    “I agree. But Jay teaches it, so it’s the only class that I don’t hate.” Except these last couple days.
    “Sorry,” Hadley said. “How bout I make you some cake? Will that make up for it?”
    “Double chocolate?”
    “Of course,” she said like she was shocked I could ask for anything else.
    “Sounds good,” Mom said. “Hop to it.”
    And we did.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter Four: Sage
     
     
     
    Oh, sweet, sweet Friday. It was here and that meant I could sleep in tomorrow. And that was the greatest thing of all. I had grand plans of not getting up ‘til noon and then eating the rest of the cake that Hadley made the day before yesterday. She was a troublemaker, but she was amazing at baking. And no one could take that from her.
    My biggest problem seems to have taken care of itself. Hale didn’t say a word to me the entire day. He didn’t sit with me at lunch and he didn’t try and strike up a forced conversation.
    He was done with me. And that was okay.
    I got ready for school and picked out something that went with the warm weather today. So I chose shorts and a tank top. Both different shades of blue. I decided to go with boots today. I shoved my normal shoes in my backpack so I could use them for Gym.
    I walked out of my room and nearly stepped on the cat. Who was lying completely flat on the tile outside of my room. He was staring up at me like I was the one out of place.
    “Are you guarding my door, Brom Bones?” I asked him. “Surely you realize that you’d be no match for an intruder.”
    He meowed loudly at me before biting my boot and leaving. I hate that cat.
    I didn’t get anything to eat before I left for school. I opened my eyes when I got to Hell and was slightly thrown to find myself in a crowd of people. I backed up and sat on the bench while they whimpered and cried about how scared they were and how they didn’t understand what was happening. I couldn’t understand the language most of them were speaking, but I recognized the tone.
    “Sorry,” I heard from beside me. I turned to see the homeless man grimacing at the people. “I try and have this place cleared out around this time, but it was a busy night in Moscow.”
    “Ah,” I nodded just as a purple double-decker bus was pulling up to the stop. The driver was someone I’d seen a few times before. He was blonde and I was pretty sure he was one of my brothers.
    “He is,” the homeless man answered the thought in my head. He had a tendency to do that.
    The people shuffled onto the bus and then the area cleared. The bus driver waved to me and I waved back before he took off.
    “I like his hat,” I said. It had little devil horns on it.
    “Yes, he finds it amusing,” the man said.