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FINNEY LOOKED VAGUELY UNCOMFORTABLE!
Mia, Cherry's best-friend, paced back and forth in her living room. Her boyfriend Vance sat on one end of the couch while Finney sat on the other.
The only one of them who was missing was Cherry. Her home was being searched after the break in and her father wasn't letting her a foot out of his sight.
That meant the rest of the group would have to reconvene and meet at Mia's house, where she'd do her best to keep the pair of boys apart.
Her steps were the only sound in the quiet room. The blond boy watched his obviously nervous girlfriend.
The dark-haired boy fidgeted awkwardly as he waited for the point of the meeting.
Vance was the first to speak up. "You're gonna burn a hole in the carpet if you keep pacing like that."
Mia snapped her head up when he spoke, her gaze narrowing at him like she was deciphering something internally.
She'd been doing so for the last couple days.
Her mind racked through every classmate, teacher, maybe even a stranger Cherry might've spoken to unkindly on the street.
Nobody came to mind besides a couple people with the initial V who had been recently angered with her.
"Vance, where did you go the other night? After we got icecream?" Mia recalled the night before, pausing in front of him. "That's when Cherry found the threat."
Finney remembered the blond boys rushed exit as soon as the topic had gotten too heavy.
Vance, on the other hand, wasn't seeing it so rationally. He matched his girlfriend's expression.
What was she trying to accuse him of? He returned her stare as she questioned him.
She'd been studying him for the last few days. Looking at him for awkwardly long periods of time like she was trying to figure something out. Almost like she was trying to read his mind by just staring at him. He had a feeling he knew what she was getting at.
"What are you saying?" He asked, his tone growing slightly defensive. "You think I'm involved or something?"
There was no way she really thought it was him.
Though, the little evidence they had wasn't doing much to help him. He did hate Finney. He also did want Cherry to get as far away from him as possible.
Cherry was Vance's bestfriend before anyone else had been.
"Where were you?" Mia repeated her question, not backing down.
