Music thumped through Allie’s house from downstairs, the thick stench of weed drifting under Allie’s door. For some ungodly reason, Jace, her stepbrother who she definitely still had a thing for even though she swore she didn’t, decided to throw a rager the Thursday night before our biggest Biology test.
I lay on my stomach and tapped through the PowerPoint on my Mac, chewing on my bottom lip, unable to concentrate. I hadn’t been able to think straight all night, and it wasn’t because of the party. Poison was on my mind and wouldn’t f*****g leave me alone.
Before they had kicked me out of João’s car, they had made their point clear—they didn’t want any of my parents’ money. No matter how much money I offered, even up to five hundred thousand dollars, no matter how much I promised—I could
