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She glanced back at me. “What?”
“The—the Clemenza?”
“Yeah?”
“You know about the Clemenza?” I whispered.
“Of course. Didn’t Adam tell you?”
“Tell me what?”
June took a long look between me and the door like this was a joke, but I legitimately had no idea what she was talking about. Adam and I smashed the Clemenza, but after the conversation with Coach Lawson and a confirmation that they had no descriptions for the suspects, we never heard about it again. Nobody even talked about it beyond the RA meetings when they warned us about taking valuables on trips.
“Uh…Adam basically had this big speech for Zariah and me,” June said slowly. “He wanted us to tell everybody that you were with us the whole night and that we saw him with a blonde girl we didn’t know.” She raised her eyebrows. “Zariah and I put two and two together pretty fast.”
My mouth fell open, and I snapped it shut.
“We just told everybody all four of us had a movie night. And there were no cameras, so…” June trailed off.
“No cameras?”
“Piper, they didn't have working doors.”
No wonder the Clemenza issue never got back to me. Adam made sure I had a rock-solid alibi and he…never mentioned it. Never brought it up. Never ushered it into the conversation.
It was time to play that horrible game from Adam’s high school coach.
What does he have to gain?
I took in a slow breath, mind whirling. What did Adam have to gain? He protected me. And he did it without expectations, without asking anything for it. My heart pounded, like it was threatening to jump out.
My phone buzzed in my hand and I blinked down at the messages.
lineback that ass up: everything in the fridge is yours for the shift
lineback that ass up: cabinets above the storage got everything too
lineback that ass up: surprise from illustrator in chief in fridge
“It’s not your ex again, is it?”
“What?” I glanced up at June’s question and went back to the text messages. “Um…no. It’s Adam.”
“Is it something dumb?” June peered over my shoulder and snickered. “Back that…linebacker jokes. Corny. What’s he mean by the fridge?”
“I don’t know,” I said slowly and the two of us headed down to the lockbox for his room key. Upstairs, I slipped it into the lock and opened Adam’s dorm, a little apprehensive. I thought I could stop thinking about him like that. It was hard not to.
“Hey, hey, hey.” June wiggled her eyebrows and held up a familiar-looking letter from the back of his side table. The pregnancy test prank that June, Zariah, and I had put together. “He hasn’t found it yet.”
Oh no.
“I was thinking about tossing it in the garbage,” I admitted, walking to his kitchen.
June drew in a shocked breath. “Why? He loves pranks.”
I pressed my lips together. Because pulling a prank—that’s what friends do. And Adam did it constantly. It was okay. But it wasn’t, because if Adam panicked over the card, I wasn’t sure if I could stomach that. Which was weird.
I sighed, shaking my head.
