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“Let’s follow him,” Melanie says.
I snap in her direction. “Are you serious?”
“Why not?”
“Because it’s rude!”
Trix smiles. “I can be rude.”
“Well, I can’t!” I say.
“Two against one.” Melanie grabs my arm. “We’re doing this.”
“No, wait, guys—!”
She tugs me along with her around the building to the parking lot.
“We’ll take my car,” Trix says, grabbing her valet stub. “It’s the least conspicuous and I’m the best getaway driver in case he pulls evasive maneuvers.”
“No one’s pulling evasive maneuvers!” I say. “You guys, come on.”
Trix gives her stub to the valet. “Lightning fast, please. I’ll slip you a fifty if the car is in front of me in fifteen seconds.”
He grabs her keys and races into the lot.
Clive closes the trunk and rounds the car toward the driver’s side door.
I breathe through the rising panic in my chest. “Clive will be long gone by then,” I say. “Can we just go to the movies instead?”
“No, he won’t,” Melanie says, raising a finger. “Daddy’s still right there.”
I force her hand down. “Will you please stop pointing at him?”
“Nora,” she takes a breath, “do you want to know if he’s still homeless or not?”
“Well, yeah, but—”
“And do you feel, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that he’d tell you the truth if you walked up and asked him right now?”
I pause. “I dunno.”
Trix’s car screeches to a halt beside us.
Melanie smiles. “Then, get in the fucking car.”
I deflate. They’re going to do this with or without me. I might as well tag along and make sure they don’t confront him directly. Or worse.
“Fine,” I say, lowering into the backseat. “But I’m doing this under protest.”
She winks. “Sure, you are.”
Melanie hops into the front seat next to Trix, who immediately slams on the gas as soon as her door is closed.
I clutch the seat beneath me as I click my seatbelt and hope for the best.
Melanie points down the block. “He’s at the light. Hurry.”
“Slow down, Mel...” Trix says, calm and collected. “We need to establish a safe distance first.”
