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“Okay!” He slides off the stool and grins. “This should be fun.”
“Hey, Lucky!” I shout over the bar. “We’re taking off.”
She calls out from the back room. “Your tab’s getting awfully high, Myers!”
I laugh. “I’ll take care of it soon, I promise.”
Tucker and I stumble outside into the cold. I shiver and zip up my jacket.
“Want me to drive?” Tucker asks, fumbling into his pocket for his keys.
“Hell no. We’ll walk it.”
“But it’s cold.”
“We’ll live, man. It’s like three blocks.”
We stumble back into town, whistling and humming to keep ourselves warm.
“So, Valentine’s Day, huh?” Tucker asks as we reach the town square.
“Yeah.” My teeth chatter. “What about it?”
“It’s just…” he chuckles. “You’ve always hated it. Makes sense now why.”
“Well… Valentine’s Day was always a really horrible time for me and Jovie.”
“Why?”
“Something bad always happened on Valentine’s. Something would trigger one of us off and we’d have a huge fight. Usually over absolutely nothing at all but it was like clockwork.” I pause to kick a can off the curb. “That year, I wanted to get ahead of it and do something I never thought would start a fight. Turns out, I was very, very wrong.”
Tucker sighs but says nothing more as we cross the street toward the shop. He slows to a crawl and slinks over to the windows to peek inside.
“See anything?” I ask.
“Nah.”
I take a look myself. Shadows cover every inch of the place, lying along the cars and parts scattered on every bench.
I pull at the entrance door and it slides right open.
“That was locked before,” Tucker points out.
We walk in and I close it behind us. I tap the flashlight on my phone to illuminate my path and Tucker does the same. I point to the left, signaling that I’ll take this side and Tucker nods before shuffling away toward the opposite wall.
I stiffen up in the darkness, ready to pounce on any attacker who dares take me on.
Bring it on, murderers and thieves. I’m Will freakin’ Myers.
“Will,”Tucker whispers. “Over here.”
I flinch but quickly relax to hide it. “Where are you?”
“Over here.”
“Where?”
“Just get over here, Will.”
