RIP by Lisa Renee Jones

Author:Lisa Renee Jones [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-06-26T05:00:00+00:00

Death becomes her if you don’t make her believe. RIP

I suck in a breath. RIP has to be here, watching us. My gaze jerks upward, and I find Tad helping a customer. The girl he’d been talking to is nowhere in sight. I shift my gaze toward the stranger, and he’s gone.

“What is it?” Aria asks. “What’s wrong? What did the message say?”

I glance out the large window beside us, at the people strolling by, and realize how easy it would be for someone to watch us from beyond The Brew.

“Darla,” Aria pleads. “What is it?”

I turn my phone around and show her the message. What little color she has left in her face washes away. “Me? Death becomes me?”

I nod. “He says that Ali plans to kill you all off one by one. I don’t know the order. Well, all except one. Me.” My gut knots, and I leave out the part about me, that I’m going to be framed for the murders.

Aria leans in close again. “A few months ago there was a fire, and someone pulled us out. A couple of us thought we saw Alison’s face, but it’s just crazy. She’s dead, and why would she pull us out if she wants us to be dead, too?”

“You know how Alison was,” I remind her. “She wants things on her terms. You wear what she wants. You date whoever she wants you to date. You die when she wants you to die.”

“You really think she’s alive?” she whispers.

“I think we have to convince the police to do an autopsy of the body,” I say.

“How are we going to do that?”

I thumb through my cell phone and show Aria the pictures I’ve loaded. “Look at the date and time stamp. RIP sent them to me.”

Aria studies the photos. “How do we know they aren’t doctored?”

I inhale. “We don’t, but maybe the police—”

“They won’t do anything. We’ve tried. ‘A’ always makes us look like fools.”

“We have to find a way to make them listen. And Aria, you have to get out of town. You all do. Split up so you aren’t targets.”

“What if that makes us easier targets?”

“It won’t.”

“You don’t know that. And … and I have—”

“Ezra,” I say. “I know, but what happens when ‘A’ decides to kill him to torture you?”

“Why would she hate us this much?”

“You tell me,” I say. “What happened the night she supposedly died?”

Aria cuts her gaze to the window. “I don’t know. I …” She turns back to me. “I don’t know what happened.”

“Ali thinks you do. We should talk to the other girls. I rented a room at the Hollis Hotel. I want it to seem like I’m just here for a holiday. Can you arrange to get everyone to my place tonight? Say seven o’clock. We can’t risk anyone hearing us talk.”

“Yes,” Aria agrees, standing up to grab her coat. “I’ll get them there, but no one is going to want to leave. We’re going to fight to the end.”

I hug her again, and squeeze my eyes shut.

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