The Rules by Nancy Holder

Author:Nancy Holder [Holder, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

Since Thea didn’t have Beth’s keys, she had bolted for the Maximum Volume van with Mick. It turned out that Hiro, Drew, Stacy, and Praveen were huddled inside. When they heard August on the mike, they did exactly what he said and stayed there.

That meant four of the people Robin and Kyle were looking for didn’t need to be found. Someone should tell them, but Thea totally wanted it to be someone else. They had to get out of there now. Stacy had a huge goose egg on her head from falling on the dock, and she was sick to her stomach.

Then August came back and told them the cars weren’t working because someone had taken the batteries. Stolen them. Everyone completely freaked out. He kept telling them that he didn’t do it. How could he have? Thea was afraid they were going to murder him then and there.

August said that they’d better go back inside the warehouse. That caused more arguments. Stacy was barely able to walk two steps without throwing up. When they reached the warehouse door, Drew balked.

“No. I’m not going back in there. It’s insane,” Drew said, crossing his arms. He was jittering and sizzling, and if Thea ever needed a reminder that drugs were evil, she had only to recall how he looked right now. They were all terrified, but Drew was on another planet.

“We have to all stick together,” August said, confronting Drew, totally in his face. “We should just go inside and wait for our parents to send out a search party or something.”

No one knows where we are, Thea thought. No one, anywhere. Except whoever is doing this to us.

“No frickin’ way,” Drew said. “We’ll be in there with the killer.”

“Hey, we don’t know who it is or where he is,” August said. “It could be someone lurking around out here right now, watching us.”

“Try ‘she.’ Morgan, you bitch!” Drew shouted. “Give us back our frickin’ batteries!”

“We don’t know that she killed Cage,” Praveen said.

“The hell we don’t. She was his partner. No one’s found her body,” Drew said.

“I’m done,” Stacy said to Thea in her gravelly voice, “with the hurling.” Raising her head, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. “Get out of the way,” she said dully to Drew before pushing into the warehouse.

Reluctantly Thea followed.

Cage.

Thea’s stomach lurched as she caught sight of the tarp that had been draped over his body. August had come in alone to search Cage’s pockets for his car keys while everyone waited in the lot. After August had opened Cage’s car to release the hood, he’d shown everyone a small cache of steroids he’d found in the glove compartment. It was almost as if August had known exactly where to look for them.

After that, August had decreed that they would search each person’s car for “anything suspicious,” but other than drugs and more drugs, they were left empty-handed.

Lacking Beth’s keys, Mick had suggested holding off on inspecting her car, but August smashed in her window.

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