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and more insistent, like a giant creature trying to kick its way inside.
    “I’ll just look through the peephole,” Cassidy whispered. “Everybody stay quiet.”
    “ No!” Tamila whispered, but Cassidy left the room.  She tiptoed through the small, dark living room, then reached over the breakfast bar into the kitchen and lifted the butcher knife from the chopping block, its sharp edge wet with congealed tomato sauce and mozzarella blobs from the pizza they’d baked earlier.
    Gripping the knife in one hand, Cassidy approached the door.  It shuddered again with another series of loud knocks.
    Her heart thumping, she leaned down to peer through the tiny lens. 
    Outside stood two boys—Dex McKenna, a long-haired muscular boy in a black tank top, the boy Reese had been so eager to screw, accompanied by his little minion, Kyle Bowers, who had a few hairs around his mouth that he probably believed constituted a goatee.  Kyle’s T-shirt depicted what looked like a Barbie doll stuck on the prongs of a red horseshoe, and the caption read CHICK MAGNET.
    Kyle pounded again, loudly and obnoxiously, then cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted: “Open up, ladies!”
    “ Stop yelling!” Dex punched him in the arm.
    Reese unlocked and opened the door.
    “What’s up what’s up, big Amazon chick?” Kyle asked.  He was four inches shorter than Cassidy.  His eyes went from low-lidded and cocky to wide and shocked when he saw the bleeding cut on her chin and the butcher knife with tomato sauce in her hand. “Whoa, who did you kill?”
    “ It’s just Dex and Kyle!” Cassidy called toward her bedroom. “Bring Reese out.”
    “ Oh, yeah, bring her out.” Dex winked at Cassidy as he stepped through the door.
    “ Are you bringing out a chick for me, too?” Kyle asked.
    “ Shut up, Kyle,” Dex told him.
    Barb and Tamila emerged from the hallway with Reese slumped between them, her arms supported by their shoulders.  Her clothes were singed, glass shards jutted from her bleeding hand, blood trickled down from her ruined eye.  Her one good eye was closed, and she was still sobbing.
    “Holy shit, she’s all fucked up!” Dex said.  He looked at the butcher knife in Cassidy’s hand. “What happened?”
    “ Looks like this part-aaay got cra-zaaay!” Kyle said.
    “ Shut up, Kyle,” Dex said.
    “ It was an accident,” Cassidy said. “You have to take her to the emergency room, Dex.”
    “ Whoa, whoa, why me?” Dex asked, holding out his hands. “I just got here.”
    “ You’ve got a car,” Cassidy said.
    “ Yeah, but Reese’s got a car—”
    “ She can’t drive right now!” Cassidy snapped.
    “ Yeah, but one of you could—”
    “ Look, Dex!” Barb scowled at him.  Her shirt was spattered with blood from Reese’s hand. “You came here planning to fuck her, right?”
    “ Uh...I mean, well...” Dex looked away.
    “ If you’re ready to have sex with someone, you should be ready to take them to the hospital,” Barb told him. “Unless you’re a complete asshole.  Right?”
    “ Uh...yeah.” Dex scratched his head. “Shit, if I’m taking her, we need to go.  She’s all fucked up.”
    “ Can you walk, Reese?” Tamila asked gently.
    Reese kept sobbing and didn’t respond.
    “You’ll have to carry her,” Barb told Dex.
    “ Damn it!” Dex sighed and walked to Reese, rolling his eyes.  Tamila looked worried as she saw him scoop up Reese in his arms and carry her out over the threshold.  He paused on the concrete walkway outside, looking back.
    Kyle Bowers leaned against the door frame and cracked open a tall can of beer.
    “Looks like it’s just me and the ladies tonight. So what’s up, Barb?” Kyle raised a suggestive eyebrow at her.
    “ You’re going with Dex,” Cassidy told him quickly.
    “ Wha-aat?  Why do I have to go?”
    “ Because we told you to!” Barb snapped. “Now get the fuck out of here before I throw you over the railing out there.”
    “ Hey, hey,