Silence. Total and complete silence.
I forced myself to walk back to that library, back to that room, and sit there as they brought in another student. Then it was lunch, and I couldn’t hold back any longer. The four of us met on the bleachers by the football field.
No one was out here during lunch. If they were, they saw us and turned away. Survival instincts.
I’d just finished telling the guys everything.
Crickets.
“She talked about us?” Jordan finally asked, his shoulders bunched tight around him.
I nodded. “She didn’t name us, but she didn’t hold anything else back. They asked for her thoughts on the crew system. She gave them. And I’m quoting, she ‘didn’t like the system in the beginning, but recently had a change of heart.’”
His voice was raw. “Did she elaborate?”
“Did she te
