The Secret (Boston's Best 1)

Chapter Fifty-Eight

Matt

"I still don't understand though." Alex sighs.

Felix eyes him, "What is so difficult to understand?"

He takes a sip of his coffee. "How you're able to speak so many languages!"

"Only Spanish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, and Arabic. German, Russian, and Latin a little bit but not too good. I know people who know more."

All three of us stare at him and he says, "What? It's really not that impressive."

"Bro, you can speak six, basically nine, languages. That's fuckin' impressive." Darius says.

I add, "And English."

Alex falls back in his seat and mumbles, "And fucking English." He sits up, "I can barely speak one."

"Fuck." Darius says, sitting up straight in his chair holding his phone.

"What?" Felix asks.

"That law about abortion got overturned."

"Ah shit. You're joking." I say, "Maddie's super serious about this stuff, she's gonna be pissed." I look at Alex, "Have you heard from any of the girls?"

He shakes his head, "Nah, I haven't even been on my phone all day. Sure, that's why we're all only finding out now."

I check my phone and sure enough it's powered off, because I was saving the charge as I wasn't on it.

I start to power on my phone and we all sit in silence for a minute before D's phone starts ringing.

He stands up, "It's Zen. I'll be back in a minute."

He walks to the back of the Dunkin, because apparently this is the only place we all go now.

"This is shit." Alex exhales.

Felix takes a sip of his coffee, "I bet the girls are pissed."

I nod and my phone powers on and instantly my screen lights up with a million notifications.

Alex laughs, "Mr Popular, over there."

I smile and instantly stop when I see it has fifteen texts from Maddie and five missed calls.

"Shit." I mumble and stand up and start to walk outside of the store, ignoring Felix and Alex calling after me.

The second the door shits behind me, an ambulance and two police cars roar down the road.

The hell?

I dial Maddie's number and she answers on the second ring. "Matt." She sounds like she was crying.

"Mads, what's wrong? What happened? Are you okay? I heard about the abortion law."

There's nothing but silence on the line and I check to make sure she didn't hang up, she didn't. "Maddie, you there?"

I hear a sniffle and then, "Brooke's in the hospital. We just got here. Penelope rode in the ambulance with her, and Ev and I drove but they won't tell any of us anything because we aren't family. But her dad isn't answering and her brother is still in India, he also isn't answering either though."

What the fuck.

"Listen to me, Maddie. Milan never answers his phone, regardless of if he's in India or two feet away from you." I exhale, "Now, explain to me what happened."

Her breaths are erratic, "We were at a protest for Roe v. Wade and a fight broke out, we all got separated from each other and Brooke got hit unconscious and she got trampled on by a lot of people." She cries now, "They won't tell us how she is, Matt. I'm really fucking worried."