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didn’t scare you?” he finally asked, his voice, soft, serious.
    “I probably should be, but scared isn’t what I would call it. Intrigued is more like it.” I’d never met people like them, and the fact that they’d allowed me a peek inside their world excited me—probably more than it should have. Kasey gazed at me, as if trying to decide if I was telling the truth or not. He placed his hand on my cheek and spoke softly. “You know I meant what I said about the demons.” I knew he’d meant it, and Chase had been right. Everyone has them. At that moment, I didn’t want to talk about demons, or problems. I’d accepted Hazel’s invitation to get away from those things.
    “I love your eyes,” I murmured.
    “You should lie down,” Kasey whispered, and helped me get into bed, which made me realize how sleepy I truly was. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d stayed up until 3 a.m., and felt my eyelids losing their battle to stay open.
    “Check your phone in the morning,” Kasey whispered as he covered me with a blanket. That was the last thing I remembered before everything went black.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    DAY TWO
                 
     
    When I woke up, I didn’t know where I was at first, but then I saw Hazel lying next to me and realized I was in one of Tosh’s beds. Hazel’s hair was twisted around her neck, her makeup smeared, but she still looked amazing; like a beautiful raccoon. It instantly made me concerned about how I looked, which I knew was nowhere near decent.
    I smoothed my hair with my hands, wiped the crusted drool from the side of my face, and ran my fingers around my eyes to remove the sleep as memories from the night before slowly filtered through my head. I shot straight up when I remembered Kasey’s last words to me. I dug my phone out of my pocket and went directly to my contacts list where he’d entered his name, The hot guy I met last night .
    I covered my face and groaned, remembering how I’d acted with Kasey—the things I’d said to him. I felt like such an idiot. And holy shit, I’d gotten high, which had to have been why I’d been so bold. I’ll remember how hot you are for the rest of my life . I groaned again and slapped myself on the forehead. That is why they call it dope! I couldn’t believe I’d actually uttered those words, especially to a guy like Kasey.
    My bellyaching woke Hazel, whose only word in response was, “Food.”
    Hazel rolled out of bed, moving jerkily like a rag doll, quickly gathering her clothes from the floor and sticking them underneath her arm.
    “T, we’re out,” Hazel called, and opened the steel wall revealing Tosh’s bedroom door, and disappeared through it, leaving me behind. She was only wearing a tank top and panties, gray and white respectively. The straps of her black Mary Jane’s were entangled in the fingers of her left hand.
    I’d been waiting for an acknowledgement from Tosh that we were leaving, but decided I wasn’t going to get one and ran after Hazel to keep from being left.
    Hazel’s Audi was parked at the bottom of the front steps, which wasn’t where she’d left it the night before. I decided that I didn’t care how it had gotten there; I had bigger, more embarrassing things to worry about.
    The sun reflecting off the car’s back windshield nearly blinded me as I descended the steps. I threw an arm over my face, blocking the light. Hazel was leaned against the rear fender slipping on her shoes. A round, gold pendant tumbled from inside her tank top, swinging forward. She quickly grabbed hold and tucked it back in before I could get a good look at it. “Let’s go,” she said, bringing me back to the present. I sat down in the passenger seat and shoved my overnight bag between my legs.
    “I won’t be right until I eat something,” Hazel said, starting the car. “Until then, I might be kind of a bitch if you try to talk to me.” I figured that was a hint to keep my mouth