The Reservers

Chapter 10

The Reservers Chapter 10, a romance fiction |

Dana Schultz.

The only Dana I knew in The Palms was my psych partner Dana. The Calloway's' neighbor, whose house I had been inside of not too long ago and who probably knew the Reservers better than I did.

The question I should have wondered was how did they find out that it was her? Shouldn't I question it? I know there was a way to track down phone numbers and messages but those were things I usually only saw in movies and such. Unfortunately the how of the situation wasn't really what my curiosity wanted to know.

The why of the issue was the first thought to come to mind.

Why would Dana Schultz send me those texts? What reason did she have? Was it maybe to frighten me? Warn me? That seemed to be the tone coming from the messages but for what reason? I didn't understand.

And then they wanted me to decide what to do about it. What to do about her. I didn't have an answer. I simply didn't know.

I would have never suspected Dana but then again I barely knew the girl. Sure she seemed so nice when we first met and started working on the project together but was it all just an act? Was she just pretending? It must have been. She even had a lot of questions to ask that day. Questions I didn't want to answer. No wonder I felt uncomfortable with it. What exactly was she playing at?

There was also the fact that again they knew her better than I did. She grew up around them. There was affability among them from I remembered of the pool party. Was that it? The fact that they were now showing this new cordiality toward me as well?

I recalled the conversation she and I had at the Calloway's pool party.

"And yes, I am their friend." Dana answered my previous question. "I'm just not close to them like they are with each other." She had said.

"Why not?" I continued with my line of questions. If Dana was annoyed with them, she didn't show it. The drink in her hand might have had something to do with it.

"Loyalty." She answered as if that was the simple explanation to everything.

Loyalty.

Was that it?

It sounded like Dana wasn't loyal and she knew it. By the expression on Rachel's face as well as Jensen and Samuel's reactions after reading the note during lunch, I was sure that they were already aware of the real Dana Schultz.

I had read her wrong and if that was the case, then they would have already done something about her before my arrival. They wouldn't have been friendly to her like they were and more than likely taken care of it. Right? Why hadn't they?

"She's never been a problem." Jensen answered when I mustered up the gut to ask him about it some time during Algebra, after Mr. Hung allowed us to independently work on some equations. "And now she is."

Was she? It wasn't like those texts were threats...well, except that last one.

Prepare yourself, Leah. You have no idea what you just signed up for.

It wasn't exactly a threat but it felt like a warning, as if me deciding to be part of that exclusive group would bring about the end of the world. I wasn't ok with that message. Something about it was familiar and I wasn't willing to go through it again.

They were right, I had to do something about it.

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After school found me inside the Calloways' car. It was the first time I ever stepped foot inside a Convertible and I must admit, it was nice.