My Name Is...
PART 2
The ambulance crew showed up almost exactly a second after Max disappeared. Luckily on his part, I guess. They wanted to look me over, even though I kept insisting that I was fine and that it was just ketchup. Hey--Max saved my life, whatever he did. I figured I owed him this much.
My father, meanwhile, was having a cow. No matter how hard I tried to reassure him, he was in hysterics and wouldn't stop. Finally, I suggested that the ambulance crew check *him* out. And got punished, of course. Since they'd already said that I was all right, he decided that it was okay for me to go to my room.
I walked upstairs to our apartment. As soon as I got in, I collapsed on the couch, shaking. I didn't believe that I had just almost died.
"Tess?"
Oh, no. Maria had followed me upstairs. I was so not in the mood to hear a lot of talking. But there she was, ready to confront me. "So, what just happened?"
"What, don't you listen?" I snapped irritably. "I told everyone--I was startled, I knocked over the ketchup bottle."
Maria rolled her eyes. "I'm not stupid, you know. I saw you. You were *dying,* girl."
"I think *I* would know," I replied. Could the girl *not* take a hint? "It was *ketchup.*"
She made some kind of loud, annoyed sound. "Fine." And then she went back downstairs, leaving me to start shaking again. Okay, Maria was right. I had almost died.
Wow.
I had almost died.
I started threading my fingers through my uniform--I always pick at my clothes when I'm nervous. And I came across the bullet hole.
Holy *shit.* I reopened the front of my uniform. The blood had dried, so I went to wash it off. Who knew blood stuck so hard?
Then I saw something silver under the blood. I scraped some more blood off. And gasped.
It was a handprint. A glowing silver handprint. Max's glowing silver handprint.
I changed as quickly as I could, climbed down my balcony, got into my car, and drove as fast as I possibly could to the Evans' house.
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