Sleepover with the Enemy by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Maggie Dallen

Six

Alex

* * *

Max was being a spoilsport.

Again.

“What’s the harm in Truth or Dare?” I asked. One of the girls in the cafeteria had suggested it, and Max had been quick to shoot the idea down.

I hadn’t instantly taken her side, and now she was bent out of shape over it.

“I mean, Spin the Bottle could lead to trouble, but Truth or Dare isn’t so terrible,” I said.

She gaped at me as she tore the pizza boxes from my hands. The pizza had been my idea, and she’d fought me on it, saying it wasn’t in the budget and it wasn’t sanctioned and blah blah blah.

I’d finally won when I’d reminded her that carb overload usually ended with sleep.

I’d caught the flicker of hope in her exhausted eyes before she’d caved with an oh-so gracious, “Fine.”

We’d both gone to meet the delivery driver at the door—me because I figured the pizzas would be heavy and it had been my credit card that paid for it. I suspected she came because she feared I’d see the open doors and flee, leaving her alone in the midst of her worst nightmare. I caught the flare of longing in her eyes as the driver walked back out the way he’d come in. Back to freedom.

“Come on, champ,” I said, nudging her elbow as we headed back to the fray. “We’re almost there.”

She gave me the side-eye. “We have four hours to go.”

“Exactly,” I said with forced chipperness just to annoy her. “Almost there.”

She gave a scoff of amusement and exasperation. It was a noise I was starting to know well after spending the last two hours as a team.

In a weird sort of way, I was starting to like the noise. It didn’t hold the same judgemental snark that she normally threw in my direction like confetti.

The giggling coming from the auditorium was reaching epic proportions as we passed. Max and I exchanged a look and, by some unspoken communication, kept walking. One of us would go in there soon to make sure all hell wasn’t breaking loose, but for now…

For now, I for one needed pizza if I was going to make it through the night. These kids were exhausting.

By some miracle, the kids we’d left in the cafeteria to watch a movie were actually...watching a movie.

Max and I paused just inside the doorway and exchanged a wide-eyed look of disbelief.

“Is this some kind of trick?” she whispered.

I shook my head, my gaze captured by the horror movie they were watching. “You put Scream on for these kids?”

“What?” she asked defensively. “They wanted to watch something spooky.”

“This isn’t spooky. It’s terrifying,” I said.

Her lips twitched up in amusement. “You think so?”

“Don’t you?”

She lifted a shoulder. “It’s campy.”

I leaned in toward her, keeping my voice low so as not to alert the kids to our presence. “This is the stuff of nightmares.”

I took in the stricken face of the sweet blonde who’d finally stopped crying. She no longer looked so weepy. Now she looked like she might pee her pants from fear.

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