“She won’t show up. She’s scared out of her mind,” Matt said and rolled his eyes. “I say we get her out of the apartment. Go have some fun with her.”
Cameron’s eyes gleamed as he drove away from the school. “She’ll show up. Dooley says she’s been snitching for Wilson all this time.”
“What are we gonna do?” Matt wanted to know, looking excited, his eyes taking on a feverish glow.
“The same thing we did to Jace,” Cameron replied and gazed at his companion with a feral look in his eyes. “It was all perfect until that bitch got to Marnie and she changed her story.”
“Yeah, too bad he died so quick too. I only got to stab him a few times. You said I could do more this time,” Matt whined.
“I get her first,” Cameron said coldly and glared at his friend and partner in crime. “She wrecked my life.”
“What are we going to do with all those people up there, Cameron?” Matt asked.
Cameron looked thoughtful. “I’ll think of something. You just take care of what I asked you too. She’s not getting out of there alive.”
“Can I kill Marnie at least?” Matt asked in a plaintive voice. “You never let me do hardly anything!”
“We risk enough killing Lindsay right now. Everybody on that mountain tonight needs to be my alibi that I was there the whole time. I need you to be visible and everybody will say they saw me. You just do what I say.”
“What if somebody finds out?”
“They’re going to be so trashed none of them are going to know which way is up. Besides it’ll be dark and you’ll be wearing my jersey and hat. Just stay away from the bonfire.”
“Cameron, I don’t have a good feeling about this.”
“I’m not leaving here until she’s dead!” Cameron said coldly. “Everything would have been perfect if she hadn’t wrecked things!”
“You still think his ghost is after you?” Matt asked and giggled.
“He came back for her. I don’t expect anybody to believe me,” Cameron said harshly. “She can join him now for all I care,”
“Whatever! Just let me slice up Marnie. You promised!”
“My ex-girlfriend can wait. I know where she’s going. She won’t see it coming. We’ll go on a little road trip in a few months and get her then.”
“Can I cut her first this time?” Matt asked hopefully.
“Yeah, you can do whatever you want this time.”
Matt looked pleased and sat back in the passenger seat and went back to playing with the radio.
Jace sat back in the backseat with a look of rage in his eyes, longing to kill Cameron and Matt both. It wasn’t just Cameron that day. He absorbed their words in shock. Matt helped him with the killing. They did it together. He recalled nothing of Matt attacking him. He’d been too far gone, bleeding out and dying by then; unaware his assailants switched out.
The fact they’d done it for the enjoyment of it disgusted him. Knowing they meant to kill Lindsay and later on Marnie made his decision. Whatever happened tonight; these two boys he’d known since grade school weren’t leaving that mountain. He wouldn’t want to leave this world knowing he left these two monsters behind.
They killed for fun in some sick perverse way he couldn’t imagine. They would kill again; he was sure of it. The cops weren’t even looking at Matt as a suspect. Even if Lindsay managed to get Cameron to confess tonight; Matt would still be out there on the loose. He waited in the woods that day when Cameron lured him out there. They worked together.
If Cameron walked away from this as they feared; they would be going after Marnie too. Jace wished he could summon his focus to flip the Mustang and kill them both. He didn’t dare use any bit of his energy now. He would need every bit to protect his girlfriend from these two deranged killers.