All Over Me

Chapter 15

Selene

Where the hell is he? Why isn't he answering his phone?

Michael said Ace told him he wanted to rest and that he wouldn't come to have dinner with us, and that's what he did. But he isn't giving any life signals.

"Well, I'm going home tonight, okay babe?" Michael tells Ari, placing a kiss on her forehead; she smiles. "It's Ace's first night here and I don't want to leave him all alone."

"Okay, that's fine," she says.

I get up from the couch. "Wait. Can I come with you?" I ask Michael.

He frowns and scoffs. "What? Why?"

"Ace isn't answering his phone, I..." Think, Sally, think. He's going to find it weird if you're worried about a man so much older than you. "I need to know what time we're going to rehearse tomorrow." Something else. "Plus, I forgot my other phone charger at your house and I need it."

He and Ari exchange a look. I swear they can read each other's mind.

"Okaaay. But either you sleep at my place or you call Malcolm and Susan to take you home," Michael tells me.

"Or...I drive my own car. What about that?" I say with the tilt of my head.

"Are you sure you're ready to come back on the road?" Ari asks me. She knows I've been terrified after the accident and our parents' death.

I look at her with confident eyes. "Yes. I have to move on, Ari. I'm fine with it."

"Okay, you'll drive right behind me," Michael tells me. "Let's go, grab your keys and get out there, little one."

Ugh. I don't like when he calls me that and he knows it. I'm seventeen-turning eighteen in a few months.

I don't even wear a coat because my Rolls Royce is in the garage and I can park it in Michael's garage so I don't get myself wet by the rain.

After the accident we took the car to get it fixed. I used to lend it to Holly until she got her own. So when I start it, the radio is at full volume.

I jump on the seat, scared. Damn, Holly. I mute it and drive out the garage.

This is the first time I drive with the music off. I used to blast it in my car while driving. I loved it because I felt free when I screamed my favorite songs.

But now I hate it. I wish I had paid attention when my mom and dad were screaming at me that a car was coming full speed towards us on the right.

A big SUV crashed on us. That's all I remember before everything went black.

Then I woke up in an ambulance, people dressed in neon green and yellow were covering two bodies. There were red and blue sirens, the police was there.

A black Audi was there. It was my sister's. She walked towards me, her expression unreadable.

My head was pounding, I was confused. I was about to ask what happened but Ari wrapped her arms around me. I heard her sniff just one time and I knew. I knew who was under those white sheets.