“So what do you guys want to do?” Iris asked. She, Sarah, Ally, and Stephanie were lying on her bed after the dance, and honestly, they were all bored.
“Dude, can we go out on the roof?!” Stephanie asked excitedly. She hated heights, but loved roofs.
“The roof?” Sarah asked.
“Yeah! Please, please, please, please, please!” Stephanie begged.
“If we don’t say yes, she’ll never shut up about it,” Ally said.
Iris sighed. “Fine.”
“Yes!” Stephanie said loudly. Everything she said was loud.
The four of them went outside to Iris’ backyard and Iris had Sarah help her get the ladder from the shed. Then, they all climbed up onto the roof.
“Hey Iris? Is that your cat?” Ally asked, pointing to a pair of yellow eyes in the bushes.
“No, my cat’s inside,” Iris answered. The four girls stared at the eyes as the body behind them slowly crept out of the bushes. It was a gray wolf, about the size of Doberman. It was thick and muscled and just stared at us.
“Holy crap,” Sarah said.
“What are we supposed to do?” Ally exclaimed.
“You know…,” Stephanie began. “It’s kind of cute.” The other three stared at her in shock and exasperation. “Well, look at it!” She defended.
“I guess it kind of is,” Iris agreed. So they didn’t do anything to stop it as it bounded over to the tree, climbed it onto the roof, and lay down at Ally’s bare feet. They exchanged glances.
“What do I do?” Ally whispered.
“Um, stay still and hope it doesn’t hurt you?” Stephanie said, unhelpfully. Then Ally screamed. The wolf had bitten her toe.
They all started screaming, and Sarah and Iris jumped up and pushed the wolf off the roof. Their screams brought on a new wolf, and at the edge of the roof, Sarah lost her balance, and fell to the ground, accidently taking Iris and the ladder with her.
Sarah and Iris landed in a huge pile of leaves, which thankfully broke their fall. The ladder crashed down next to them, leaving Ally and Stephanie trapped on the roof.
The wolves started growling, and one launched itself at Sarah. She quickly grabbed a nearby flagpole and started fending it off. Iris picked up a huge stick and together, she and Sarah back themselves against the house and started fighting the two wolves.
Stephanie went to the edge of the roof to watch, but, as Murphy’s Law says, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. She slipped. Thankfully, she managed to grab the gutter, but the sharp edges were quickly cutting her hands open.
“Steph!” Ally yelled, not daring to get too close to the edge.
“We need help!” yelled Iris. “All my neighbors are on vacation and my parents won’t be home until tomorrow!” Stephanie took her right hand off the gutter, pulled her phone out of her pocket, and tossed it to Ally.
“Call Cam! He lives in Holt Summit. He’s 16; he can help!” Steph ordered. She got both hands on the gutter, and screamed in pain. “Hurry!”
“It’s ringing!” Ally screamed. “Cam! It’s Ally!” pause. “No, not that Ally! I’m Steph’s friend!” pause. “We need your help!” Ally begged. Cam assented, so Ally gave him Iris’ address. “You have to hurry! Steph’s hanging by the gutter, and two wolves are on Iris and Sarah!” Cam hung up. Ally unthinkingly tried to hand Steph her phone back, and it fell to the ground.
“Is Cam coming?!” Sarah yelled. She twirled her flagpole and stuck it in the neck of one of the wolves. It dropped to the ground, twitching. Sarah started fighting Iris’ wolf so Iris could run over and punch in the garage door code. It opened, and Iris rushed in and grabbed the first sharp thing she could find- a machete. Just then, Cam pulled up.
Seeing Stephanie hanging from the gutter, he jumped out and immediately put the ladder up, climbed it, and pulled Steph back up onto the roof.
“Are you okay?” he asked. Stephanie nodded, and she, Cam, and Ally headed for the ladder. Just before they stepped on it, another wolf came barreling out of the woods and knocked the ladder over, heading for Sarah and Iris
“We’re trapped,” Ally said. Stephanie nodded. “Again,” Ally finished, and Cam nodded.
“Steph, Ally, I don’t think we can hold them up much longer! We really need help!” Iris yelled.
“Who do we know that can drive?” Steph asked.
“Trent,” Ally said immediately.
“You really think Trent would come and help us if we called him at one in the morning and said we needed help fighting off wolves?” Steph asked. Ally just shook her head sheepishly.
“There’s no one,” Cam said.
“There has to be someone!” Steph argued, frustrated.
“No one legal!” Cam shot back.
“Legal… Cam that’s it!” Steph exclaimed.
“What?” Cam asked.
“Give me your phone,” Steph ordered. Cam handed it over without questioning. “Please tell me you have his number…. You do!” Steph clicked on a number in his address book and hit call.
“Who are you calling?” He asked.
“Jordan.”
“What! No!” Cam protested. He and Jordan had been best friends, almost brothers, until 8th grade graduation, and then they mysteriously stopped. When asked, Cam says “I miss him so much, he was like a brother to me, he was my boy!” and Jordan says “I hate that mother (bleep bleep bleepity bleep bleep)” It sounds like a really bad break up.
“What do you want?” Jordan answered, assuming it was Cam.
“It’s Steph. We need your help. Please,” Steph begged.
“Why should I help you?” He asked curiously.
“Because we need you. Please,” Steph said. And she gave him directions to Iris’ house.
“How am I supposed to get there?” Jordan asked.
“Oh come on, you’re Jordan. You’ll think of something. But quickly, please? Because if not, we’re kind of dead here. Literally.”
“Fine.” And the line went dead.
“Is he coming?” yelled Sarah. They were holding off against their two wolves extremely well. They were wolf fighting extraordinaires! They held their own against the two wolves until twenty minutes later, Jordan pulled up. He jumped out of his car, and got the ladder back up again. He climbed up to help them down, and as soon as he was on the roof, Sarah, with a wild slash from her flagpole, accidently knocked it down- again!
And then it started raining.
Cam, muttering under his breath, sat down against the chimney. Ally started sliding on the slick roof, and Steph and Jordan managed to pull her up to the chimney, where she proceeded to wrap her arms around it and refuse to let go. Jordan stood with his back against the chimney and closed his eyes in frustration.
Steph has always had a balance issue. As she walked to go comfort Ally, she tripped and started sliding down the roof. Jordan launched forward, and after a second Cam did too. They pulled Steph back up by her elbows, and Cam just got fed up with it all. He slid down the roof, like he would slide in at home plate, and rolled as he hit the ground to escape injury. He jumped up and Iris threw him the machete as the wolf she was fighting bit her leg.
Cam jumped forward and killed it, but it still got a big bite out of her. He and Sarah quickly took down the other wolf, but not before it bit Sarah’s upper left arm.
Meanwhile, up by the chimney, Jordan literally ripped his shirt sleeve off, tore it down the side seam, and then tore it in half. He used the halves to bind up Stephanie’s bleeding hands, which were really bad.
“Where did you learn to do that?” Stephanie asked in amazement.
Jordan shrugged. “TV.”
Stephanie shook her head and saw Ally shaking with cold. Then rain was coming down in buckets. She hugged Ally from behind as Jordan slowly tried to pry her frozen finger off the chimney.
Iris has collapsed in the entrance of the garage. Just then, a huge Alpha wolf came out of the trees. It immediately attacked Cam. Its right claw tore down his right arm, leaving a gaping wound, but Cam battled on. Sarah pushed the ladder up to the roof, but only Ally made it down before a particularly vicious blast of wind knocked it over again.
Jordan couldn’t be still anymore. He tried to do what Cam had, but on the roll, landed on his left shoulder, dislocating it. He stood up anyway and yelled up to Stephanie, “Jump!”
“Are you crazy?!” Stephanie yelled back in disbelief. Their yelling argument went on as Ally helped Iris into the basement. Sarah finally yelled at Stephanie.
“Just jump already!” Stealing her breath, Stephanie slid to the edge of the roof and jumped. Jordan managed to catch her with her right arm just below her armpits, and he set her down gently.
Sarah rushed into the garage and came out with an ax. Cam saw that, and cut the wolf’s legs out from under it. Sarah rushed forward and chopped off its head in a single swing.
Cam, Sarah, Jordan, and Stephanie rushed inside and Sarah closed the garage door. The four of them walked into the basement, panting.
“Sarah, help Cam. He seems to the worst,” Stephanie said immediately. Blood was pouring at a rapid rate out of his arm. Sarah was the most trained medic. Ally had gotten the medical supplies from where Iris said they were, and Sarah walked over to Cam with iodine, gauze, and long bandages.
“Nu uh, not happening,” Cam protested. He and Sarah argued it out for a while as Stephanie tied Jordan’s left arm up so he wouldn’t move it. His dislocated shoulder was clearly bothering him, but he was pretending it wasn’t.
“Cam, stop being so stupid and just let her take care of you!” Iris finally yelled just before she passed out. Ally got to work treating Iris’ wound because she had the most practice with terrible, gaping, bloody wounds- she’d had so many of them herself.
Jordan’s makeshift bandages on Stephanie’s hands were already blood soaked, and blood was trickling on to the floor. Jordan took her over to the sink and she collapsed onto a nearby chair.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
“My knees,” Stephanie moaned. He looked down, and her knees were scraped raw, probably from tripped and sliding on the rough roof tile. Jordan pushed her chair over to the sink and started washing both her knees and her hands.
Cam gritted his teeth as Sarah poured iodine over the huge gash. It burned, and Sarah soaked up the blood with the gauze. Finally she put gauze on the gash and then started wrapping it with the bandages.
“Iris’ leg is oozing pus,” Ally informed them all.
“Eww!” Stephanie yelled from the other room.
“No, that’s really good,” Ally said.
“Still gross,” Stephanie countered.
“Uh oh…” Jordan said. He was washing Stephanie’s hands.
“What?” She asked cautiously.
“You have pieces of the gutter stuck in your hands,” Jordan said. The blood quickly drained from her face. “I know you have zero pain tolerance, so I’ll get Sarah and Cam’s help.”
“For what?” Stephanie demands.
“Sarah! Cam!” Jordan says. He has Stephanie sit on the ground as they walk over.
“What’s up?” Sarah asks.
“She has pieces of gutter stuck in her hands,” Jordan informs them.
“Oh s***,” they say together. Everyone knew about Stephanie’s zero pain tolerance thing.
“Sarah, you sit on her legs, Cam, you hold onto her from behind. I’ll pull it out,” Jordan says, brandishing a pair of tweezers. They get in position, and Stephanie squeezes her eyes shut.
As Jordan digs in her hand, she screams and cries in pain. Finally, after a couple excruciatingly long minutes, her hand is clear, and Jordan rebinds it. He sits next to her on the floor, and without really thinking, she lays her head on his shoulder, exhausted.
“Let me clean your cuts,” Cam says to Sarah.
“Um, no. I got this,” Sarah says. She’s got a shallow cut from above her right eyebrow to just below her right cheekbone, and it won’t stop bleeding. She has to keep wiping blood out of her eye.
“Just let me help you,” Cam insists.
“No!” Sarah says.
“Sarah!” Ally reprimands.
Obediently, Sarah hands Cam the gauze, and he wipes the blood off her face and using medical tape to tape it down. He takes the iodine and splashes it in the bite on her arm, and she screeches. “Ouch!”
“Sorry,” Cam says, clearly taking pleasure in getting pay back. He wraps it up, and they sit on the other side of the couch.
“Guys, I think we need to take Iris to the hospital,” Ally says. Everyone else quickly agrees, and Cam helps Ally load up Iris in the backseat of his truck. She climbs in with him. That leaves Stephanie, Sarah, and Jordan in Jordan’s car.
“I’ll drive,” Stephanie says.
“Uh, no, my car, I drive,” Jordan says.
“I’m 6 months older than you, I have more practice, and I’m probably better,” Stephanie insists. They go at it for about 5 minutes, until Sarah finally gets fed up.
“Stephanie’s driving! She’s older! Now just get in!” She says. She gets in the backseat, and Stephanie and Jordan glower at each other over the hood.
They make it quickly back to Jeff, Stephanie and Jordan arguing the whole way, with Sarah laughing in the backseat. Once at the hospital, the nurses check them over and re-bandage their various cuts. Stephanie’s told to avoid using her legs too much because her knees could get worse. The three of them find Cam, Ally, and Iris. Iris is awake, and the doctor is fixing her up nicely. A nurse is sewing Cam’s arm up, and Ally got a pneumonia shot.
The nurses let Cam go home, and he leaves quickly, but they make them all wait for their parents. Jordan’s dad is furious with him, but the girls defend him, saying how hopeless they would have been without his help.
The next day after school, Stephanie’s mom takes the four girls to Sonic for happy hour, and as they are sitting there, laughing and waiting for their order, Jordan pulls up with Mallory. Almost simultaneously, Cam pulls up too.
The four girls get out and walk over to Cam’s truck, Iris on crutches. Jordan follows. Cam reaches over and pushes the passenger side door open so Stephanie can sit, as she’s not technically supposed to be using her knees. Jordan leans against the truck.
The six of them are talking about the experience they just had when Cam suddenly says, “Steph, as much as that was fun and all, never call me for help again.”
The four girls break up laughing, and Jordan shakes his head in amusement.
“Cam, I promise I will,” Stephanie says, and everyone laughs at that.
“Dude, can we go out on the roof?!” Stephanie asked excitedly. She hated heights, but loved roofs.
“The roof?” Sarah asked.
“Yeah! Please, please, please, please, please!” Stephanie begged.
“If we don’t say yes, she’ll never shut up about it,” Ally said.
Iris sighed. “Fine.”
“Yes!” Stephanie said loudly. Everything she said was loud.
The four of them went outside to Iris’ backyard and Iris had Sarah help her get the ladder from the shed. Then, they all climbed up onto the roof.
“Hey Iris? Is that your cat?” Ally asked, pointing to a pair of yellow eyes in the bushes.
“No, my cat’s inside,” Iris answered. The four girls stared at the eyes as the body behind them slowly crept out of the bushes. It was a gray wolf, about the size of Doberman. It was thick and muscled and just stared at us.
“Holy crap,” Sarah said.
“What are we supposed to do?” Ally exclaimed.
“You know…,” Stephanie began. “It’s kind of cute.” The other three stared at her in shock and exasperation. “Well, look at it!” She defended.
“I guess it kind of is,” Iris agreed. So they didn’t do anything to stop it as it bounded over to the tree, climbed it onto the roof, and lay down at Ally’s bare feet. They exchanged glances.
“What do I do?” Ally whispered.
“Um, stay still and hope it doesn’t hurt you?” Stephanie said, unhelpfully. Then Ally screamed. The wolf had bitten her toe.
They all started screaming, and Sarah and Iris jumped up and pushed the wolf off the roof. Their screams brought on a new wolf, and at the edge of the roof, Sarah lost her balance, and fell to the ground, accidently taking Iris and the ladder with her.
Sarah and Iris landed in a huge pile of leaves, which thankfully broke their fall. The ladder crashed down next to them, leaving Ally and Stephanie trapped on the roof.
The wolves started growling, and one launched itself at Sarah. She quickly grabbed a nearby flagpole and started fending it off. Iris picked up a huge stick and together, she and Sarah back themselves against the house and started fighting the two wolves.
Stephanie went to the edge of the roof to watch, but, as Murphy’s Law says, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. She slipped. Thankfully, she managed to grab the gutter, but the sharp edges were quickly cutting her hands open.
“Steph!” Ally yelled, not daring to get too close to the edge.
“We need help!” yelled Iris. “All my neighbors are on vacation and my parents won’t be home until tomorrow!” Stephanie took her right hand off the gutter, pulled her phone out of her pocket, and tossed it to Ally.
“Call Cam! He lives in Holt Summit. He’s 16; he can help!” Steph ordered. She got both hands on the gutter, and screamed in pain. “Hurry!”
“It’s ringing!” Ally screamed. “Cam! It’s Ally!” pause. “No, not that Ally! I’m Steph’s friend!” pause. “We need your help!” Ally begged. Cam assented, so Ally gave him Iris’ address. “You have to hurry! Steph’s hanging by the gutter, and two wolves are on Iris and Sarah!” Cam hung up. Ally unthinkingly tried to hand Steph her phone back, and it fell to the ground.
“Is Cam coming?!” Sarah yelled. She twirled her flagpole and stuck it in the neck of one of the wolves. It dropped to the ground, twitching. Sarah started fighting Iris’ wolf so Iris could run over and punch in the garage door code. It opened, and Iris rushed in and grabbed the first sharp thing she could find- a machete. Just then, Cam pulled up.
Seeing Stephanie hanging from the gutter, he jumped out and immediately put the ladder up, climbed it, and pulled Steph back up onto the roof.
“Are you okay?” he asked. Stephanie nodded, and she, Cam, and Ally headed for the ladder. Just before they stepped on it, another wolf came barreling out of the woods and knocked the ladder over, heading for Sarah and Iris
“We’re trapped,” Ally said. Stephanie nodded. “Again,” Ally finished, and Cam nodded.
“Steph, Ally, I don’t think we can hold them up much longer! We really need help!” Iris yelled.
“Who do we know that can drive?” Steph asked.
“Trent,” Ally said immediately.
“You really think Trent would come and help us if we called him at one in the morning and said we needed help fighting off wolves?” Steph asked. Ally just shook her head sheepishly.
“There’s no one,” Cam said.
“There has to be someone!” Steph argued, frustrated.
“No one legal!” Cam shot back.
“Legal… Cam that’s it!” Steph exclaimed.
“What?” Cam asked.
“Give me your phone,” Steph ordered. Cam handed it over without questioning. “Please tell me you have his number…. You do!” Steph clicked on a number in his address book and hit call.
“Who are you calling?” He asked.
“Jordan.”
“What! No!” Cam protested. He and Jordan had been best friends, almost brothers, until 8th grade graduation, and then they mysteriously stopped. When asked, Cam says “I miss him so much, he was like a brother to me, he was my boy!” and Jordan says “I hate that mother (bleep bleep bleepity bleep bleep)” It sounds like a really bad break up.
“What do you want?” Jordan answered, assuming it was Cam.
“It’s Steph. We need your help. Please,” Steph begged.
“Why should I help you?” He asked curiously.
“Because we need you. Please,” Steph said. And she gave him directions to Iris’ house.
“How am I supposed to get there?” Jordan asked.
“Oh come on, you’re Jordan. You’ll think of something. But quickly, please? Because if not, we’re kind of dead here. Literally.”
“Fine.” And the line went dead.
“Is he coming?” yelled Sarah. They were holding off against their two wolves extremely well. They were wolf fighting extraordinaires! They held their own against the two wolves until twenty minutes later, Jordan pulled up. He jumped out of his car, and got the ladder back up again. He climbed up to help them down, and as soon as he was on the roof, Sarah, with a wild slash from her flagpole, accidently knocked it down- again!
And then it started raining.
Cam, muttering under his breath, sat down against the chimney. Ally started sliding on the slick roof, and Steph and Jordan managed to pull her up to the chimney, where she proceeded to wrap her arms around it and refuse to let go. Jordan stood with his back against the chimney and closed his eyes in frustration.
Steph has always had a balance issue. As she walked to go comfort Ally, she tripped and started sliding down the roof. Jordan launched forward, and after a second Cam did too. They pulled Steph back up by her elbows, and Cam just got fed up with it all. He slid down the roof, like he would slide in at home plate, and rolled as he hit the ground to escape injury. He jumped up and Iris threw him the machete as the wolf she was fighting bit her leg.
Cam jumped forward and killed it, but it still got a big bite out of her. He and Sarah quickly took down the other wolf, but not before it bit Sarah’s upper left arm.
Meanwhile, up by the chimney, Jordan literally ripped his shirt sleeve off, tore it down the side seam, and then tore it in half. He used the halves to bind up Stephanie’s bleeding hands, which were really bad.
“Where did you learn to do that?” Stephanie asked in amazement.
Jordan shrugged. “TV.”
Stephanie shook her head and saw Ally shaking with cold. Then rain was coming down in buckets. She hugged Ally from behind as Jordan slowly tried to pry her frozen finger off the chimney.
Iris has collapsed in the entrance of the garage. Just then, a huge Alpha wolf came out of the trees. It immediately attacked Cam. Its right claw tore down his right arm, leaving a gaping wound, but Cam battled on. Sarah pushed the ladder up to the roof, but only Ally made it down before a particularly vicious blast of wind knocked it over again.
Jordan couldn’t be still anymore. He tried to do what Cam had, but on the roll, landed on his left shoulder, dislocating it. He stood up anyway and yelled up to Stephanie, “Jump!”
“Are you crazy?!” Stephanie yelled back in disbelief. Their yelling argument went on as Ally helped Iris into the basement. Sarah finally yelled at Stephanie.
“Just jump already!” Stealing her breath, Stephanie slid to the edge of the roof and jumped. Jordan managed to catch her with her right arm just below her armpits, and he set her down gently.
Sarah rushed into the garage and came out with an ax. Cam saw that, and cut the wolf’s legs out from under it. Sarah rushed forward and chopped off its head in a single swing.
Cam, Sarah, Jordan, and Stephanie rushed inside and Sarah closed the garage door. The four of them walked into the basement, panting.
“Sarah, help Cam. He seems to the worst,” Stephanie said immediately. Blood was pouring at a rapid rate out of his arm. Sarah was the most trained medic. Ally had gotten the medical supplies from where Iris said they were, and Sarah walked over to Cam with iodine, gauze, and long bandages.
“Nu uh, not happening,” Cam protested. He and Sarah argued it out for a while as Stephanie tied Jordan’s left arm up so he wouldn’t move it. His dislocated shoulder was clearly bothering him, but he was pretending it wasn’t.
“Cam, stop being so stupid and just let her take care of you!” Iris finally yelled just before she passed out. Ally got to work treating Iris’ wound because she had the most practice with terrible, gaping, bloody wounds- she’d had so many of them herself.
Jordan’s makeshift bandages on Stephanie’s hands were already blood soaked, and blood was trickling on to the floor. Jordan took her over to the sink and she collapsed onto a nearby chair.
“What’s wrong?” he asked.
“My knees,” Stephanie moaned. He looked down, and her knees were scraped raw, probably from tripped and sliding on the rough roof tile. Jordan pushed her chair over to the sink and started washing both her knees and her hands.
Cam gritted his teeth as Sarah poured iodine over the huge gash. It burned, and Sarah soaked up the blood with the gauze. Finally she put gauze on the gash and then started wrapping it with the bandages.
“Iris’ leg is oozing pus,” Ally informed them all.
“Eww!” Stephanie yelled from the other room.
“No, that’s really good,” Ally said.
“Still gross,” Stephanie countered.
“Uh oh…” Jordan said. He was washing Stephanie’s hands.
“What?” She asked cautiously.
“You have pieces of the gutter stuck in your hands,” Jordan said. The blood quickly drained from her face. “I know you have zero pain tolerance, so I’ll get Sarah and Cam’s help.”
“For what?” Stephanie demands.
“Sarah! Cam!” Jordan says. He has Stephanie sit on the ground as they walk over.
“What’s up?” Sarah asks.
“She has pieces of gutter stuck in her hands,” Jordan informs them.
“Oh s***,” they say together. Everyone knew about Stephanie’s zero pain tolerance thing.
“Sarah, you sit on her legs, Cam, you hold onto her from behind. I’ll pull it out,” Jordan says, brandishing a pair of tweezers. They get in position, and Stephanie squeezes her eyes shut.
As Jordan digs in her hand, she screams and cries in pain. Finally, after a couple excruciatingly long minutes, her hand is clear, and Jordan rebinds it. He sits next to her on the floor, and without really thinking, she lays her head on his shoulder, exhausted.
“Let me clean your cuts,” Cam says to Sarah.
“Um, no. I got this,” Sarah says. She’s got a shallow cut from above her right eyebrow to just below her right cheekbone, and it won’t stop bleeding. She has to keep wiping blood out of her eye.
“Just let me help you,” Cam insists.
“No!” Sarah says.
“Sarah!” Ally reprimands.
Obediently, Sarah hands Cam the gauze, and he wipes the blood off her face and using medical tape to tape it down. He takes the iodine and splashes it in the bite on her arm, and she screeches. “Ouch!”
“Sorry,” Cam says, clearly taking pleasure in getting pay back. He wraps it up, and they sit on the other side of the couch.
“Guys, I think we need to take Iris to the hospital,” Ally says. Everyone else quickly agrees, and Cam helps Ally load up Iris in the backseat of his truck. She climbs in with him. That leaves Stephanie, Sarah, and Jordan in Jordan’s car.
“I’ll drive,” Stephanie says.
“Uh, no, my car, I drive,” Jordan says.
“I’m 6 months older than you, I have more practice, and I’m probably better,” Stephanie insists. They go at it for about 5 minutes, until Sarah finally gets fed up.
“Stephanie’s driving! She’s older! Now just get in!” She says. She gets in the backseat, and Stephanie and Jordan glower at each other over the hood.
They make it quickly back to Jeff, Stephanie and Jordan arguing the whole way, with Sarah laughing in the backseat. Once at the hospital, the nurses check them over and re-bandage their various cuts. Stephanie’s told to avoid using her legs too much because her knees could get worse. The three of them find Cam, Ally, and Iris. Iris is awake, and the doctor is fixing her up nicely. A nurse is sewing Cam’s arm up, and Ally got a pneumonia shot.
The nurses let Cam go home, and he leaves quickly, but they make them all wait for their parents. Jordan’s dad is furious with him, but the girls defend him, saying how hopeless they would have been without his help.
The next day after school, Stephanie’s mom takes the four girls to Sonic for happy hour, and as they are sitting there, laughing and waiting for their order, Jordan pulls up with Mallory. Almost simultaneously, Cam pulls up too.
The four girls get out and walk over to Cam’s truck, Iris on crutches. Jordan follows. Cam reaches over and pushes the passenger side door open so Stephanie can sit, as she’s not technically supposed to be using her knees. Jordan leans against the truck.
The six of them are talking about the experience they just had when Cam suddenly says, “Steph, as much as that was fun and all, never call me for help again.”
The four girls break up laughing, and Jordan shakes his head in amusement.
“Cam, I promise I will,” Stephanie says, and everyone laughs at that.
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