Page 6 of Vile Boys

Blood drains from my face. “No.”

She giggles. “I won’t tell a soul, promise.”

“I don’t!”

Her smirk only grows bigger. “Want me to introduce you to him?”

“Ladies. Keep it quiet, please,” the librarian calls to us.

Brooke hides her face behind her hand and whispers, “Oops. My fault.”

“Hey guys, care if I study with you?” Kayla asks as she smacks her books down on the table right beside me.

“Sure, no problem,” I reply, hoping it’ll keep Brooke from asking more questions.

“Don’t think we’ve met before,” Brooke says, and they shake hands. “Brooke.”

“Kayla, I’m her friend.”

“Same.” Brooke smiles. “We met at a party during summer break.”

Kayla pulls out a chair. “Oh, so you’re the girl who taught her how to drink.”

“Oh God.” I bury my face in my hands.

“What? That’s a good thing.” Kayla bumps into me with her hips. “You need to relax more.”

“Exactly what I said,” Brooke says, getting up and packing her things. “But anyway, I have a class soon. See you later, okay?”

I wave as she walks off. “See ya!”

Kayla sits down and opens her books. “You know, I heard the Phantom Society is having a party soon.”

I put my laptop away. “So?”

“Wanna go together?”

I sigh. I really don’t want to put myself in more danger.

She smiles and jerks my arm. “C’mon. It’ll be fun.”

When she puts it like that, it’s hard to say no.

“Fine, fine, I’ll come,” I whisper.

“Yay,” she says with a grin. But when she glances over her shoulder and spots an angry librarian ready to kick us out, she says, “Sorry! We’ll be quiet now.”

Caleb

I chuckmy bag on the table in the hallway and make my way to the common room. “Man, I’m beat.”

“I don’t know, Father, figure it out,” Ares barks into his phone before he ends the convo.

I throw myself onto the couch and lean back, snatching some peanuts out of a bowl on the side table.

“What was that all about?”

He places his phone in front of him on the table and stares at it for a moment, and I can tell shit’s not going good at all.

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