Chapter 17-1. forgive me

PRESENT Marley Hoover was sure she'd experienced enough thrill for the night, after careening down the frat house stairs on a mattress next to her manically giggling best friend. They probably both would've cracked their skulls open if not for tattooed arms acting as hard barriers. Marley and Gabby fell into Jamie's chest while he steadied them with strong hands, looking up at the group watching from two floors up, laughing while holding up phone cameras. "Whose goddamn idea was it to send two drunk freshies down a fucking staircase on a mattress?! Anyone?! Because I've got some violent ideas for you!" All of the laughter stopped upstairs, their peers disappearing one by one from view out of fear for their lives. Jones and Kleo waved from over the railing. "We tried to stop them big bro!" He slurred, before collapsing against a giggling Kleo. "They were in candy land with the rest of the lalaloopsies!" "Fucking edibles," Jamie muttered under his b