"They what?" Darren shot up from his bed and pulled his pants on, the phone still in his ear. He was out of the house in seconds but then he stopped again.
"She what?"
He strapped his watch on and slipped the phone into the car speaker system and drove to the address Elma had sent him. Why hospital…
"Why is the address you've sent me a hospital?" Darren asked as he instinctively accelerated.
"That's because…all of them are there. Saye fell from a ladder."
"HUH?" he bellowed so loud that even he got scared by the voice. Elma took the phone away from her ear and waited for him to calm down.
He was raging on the inside. How much more stupid could she be? First she kisses one of them now she climbs a ladder and falls from it. What had gotten into that prissy princess? Was it the boys? Were they affecting the two girls he mostly cared about?
"And where's Ashe?" he moved on and was received with silence.
