Olympus Drive Book 3: According to Plan

Chapter 13

Gale

I run out to the drive then continue eating my spoils. I do not like that woman. She looks like she'd lock a little boy up in a basement and like it. And these people had so much cake and cookies and nice sweet things to eat. I want to stay by their house and take more food. They might even have shiny things.

"Hey—you're Gale, right?" the girl with the long dark hair asks. She's wearing a very short skirt, "Sorry, I didn't really get your name."

I nod my head that she's correct.

"I'm Luna, this is my girlfriend Nym," she says, nodding to another girl, also in a skirt, also rather pretty. "A friend of ours died this morning. We want to track down who did it. Do you want to come help?"

I frown, then nod before I can change my mind. They're being very nice. And they have nice food. I can always run away.

"Cool, let's go," she says, starting off down the drive.

"You think you can track a car?"

"Probably---I've never really tried before, it's tricky when I'm trying to track the person in it. But her blood stayed on the car I'm gonna guess—so I can follow her trail," Luna says, swallowing. Her eyes are red like she's been crying. I don't like crying. I hold out one of my fifty eight cookies.

"No thanks. You look like you need those," Luna says, politely. I nod and cram two in my mouth. "Are you staying?"

I nod, slowly. They gave me food. And a nice name. And we're off in the woods at night. And no one has gotten cross with me running places, or eating.

"Cool, then you can come to school with us tomorrow. We're the Hunters, we're a gang. You can join if you want."

I nod my head.

"Are you deaf?" Nym asks me, pointing to her ears.

I shake my head no.

"He's just quiet, come on, let's go find this car before my brother does something stupid," Luna says.