They Dyed My Dress for the Dance. I Left the Group of Five novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: The Rest of the Chat

The porch on Alder Street was full of boxes when I got there Thursday morning.

My brother's were stacked on the left, taped shut, with his cleats on top.

The big lineman and two of his friends were carrying them down to a pickup at the curb.

Colby stood on the steps with a duffel on his shoulder and a face that had not slept.

"I'm on his couch till the coach decides," he said, nodding at the lineman. "It's got a fold-out."

"It's got a spring in the middle," the lineman said, passing us with a box. "He'll live."

I went in.

Milo sat on the bottom stair in the front hall with a cardboard box between his feet.

His camera was in his lap.

He looked up at me, and I saw he'd been crying and had stopped on purpose.

"Thanks for coming," he said.

"You texted at one in the morning."

"I know."

He pulled out his phone and held it up.

"The drive I gave you stopped at the debate. These are the ones after."

I looked at the screen.

There was a chat with only three names in it.

Lance, Kinsley, Milo.

It was called Friday.

"Lance made it Tuesday night," Milo said. "After I walked out of the atrium. He thinks I'm still in. He thinks I got scared."

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