on the map//spencer 'spider' white

14

"Oh, shit," Amerie remarks.

"Amerie! Get out here right now!" Mrs Wadia shouts.

"Your mum's scarier than mine," Ant taunts.

"Anthony!" a woman shouts into the megaphone.

"Shit, bro," Spider teases.

"Anthony! So help me God, if I have to come in there, I will drag you out myself."

Ant moves towards the door, but Spider stops him.

"We don't see JoJo anywhere. So, all of you piss off," Amerie tells them. "Oh. That's how it is." She puts the intercom speaker down. "Sorry, Mum." She turns to the rest of us. "If anyone wants to leave, now's your chance."

"I'm out." Ant tries to leave again.

"Spider stops him. "Bro, come on. It's fine."

"My mum's going to kill me," Ant insists.

"Guess we're bunkering in for the night," Amerie says.

Woodsy turns towards the parents. "So right now, we are giving the kids exactly what they want, which is attention. They have conviction, sure, but no strategy. It's just a matter of time before they get bored and give up. Meanwhile, I've contacted security and they will monitor the building overnight. Be assured they are safe, and they are supervised. Mark my words, this will all be over before you know it."

We all do the best we can to settle in with no water and only junk food. Missy and Spider are playing flip cup. Spider loses.

"Hey, hey, hey, guys. Remember why we're here," Amerie tells them. She looks at whatever Ant is eating. "Ant come on that's disgusting, come on."

"This shit better be over by the morning. 'Cause he's a pretty regular dude," Spider says.

Ant nods. "Mm-hmm."

Amerie heads back into the office and Dusty follows her. I don't know what's going on between the two. I mean they were getting it on at her party but other than that I have no idea what either of them is after.

Everyone starts to turn in for the night. I see Spider lying down on a vag costume. He smiles slightly.

"We can share," Spider offers.

I nod as I lie down beside him. He wraps his arms around me and pulls me closer.

"You okay?" Spider asks.

I nod. "Yeah, I'm good."

After Quinni and Darren shake me awake I help them wake up Amerie.

"Amerie! Amerie!" Darren whispers.

"Uh-huh. Five more minutes," Amerie mumbles.

"Hey, it's Missy," Darren tells her.

Missy is in the storage closest holding a stapler over her face. "That dumb little dog. You know, I don't know why I said I was okay with it. Yeah, but I'm not. I'm not."

"Missy?" Amerie asks.

"Shit! You are right. Sasha trampled my heart so bad," Missy says as she starts to cry. "Now, I think I like white boys. Started watching Blue's Clues the other day."

"Missy, are you okay?" Amerie asks.

"Excuse me," Missy says before gaging.

"What did she take?" Ant asks.

Missy clips the stapler near here ear and screams.

"Sugar high. She's super dehydrated," Darren says. "She needs water."

"Yeah. I'm really thirsty too," Sasha says.

"Yeah, same. I've got glue mouth," Ca$h says.

"This is your fault," Amerie tells Ant. She tosses a can of silly string at him. "You are coming with me."

Amerie opens a window and the two of them climb out.

We all go back to sitting around waiting for Miss Obah. Suddenly Amerie comes bargaining into the office. She gets in Dusty's face.

"Say it, Dusty!" Amerie shouts. "I need to hear you say it!"

"Say what?" Dusty asks.

"That you fuckеd me over just to get out of doing a class, that you made up the rumor about me and JoJo," Amerie says. "Actually, that the whole thing was your idea. I just... Say it!

Dusty gets up without saying anything.

"It's JoJo!" Quinni shouts as she points at the window. "JoJo is back!"

Her and Darren open the window.

"Miss, please come back," Darren begs. "We want you back."

"We don't want to be anyone else's SLTs," Quinni tells her. "We want to be your SLTs."

"Thanks for coming, JoJo," Woodsy tells her.

"Is that a penis balloon?" Miss Obah asks.

Woodsy nods. "Yeah, it's one of them."

Four cops walk into the courtyard.

"Okay. Uh, I think we're about to get dragged out of here, people," Ca$h warns.

Everyone starts to leave the building.

"How did she know?" Dusty asks Spider.

"We're so screwed," Spider says.

After welcoming back Miss Obah and Amerie having it out with Dusty the two of us are on the way to Harper's.

"Can you tell me what happened?" I ask Amerie.

"Dusty," Amerie says. "It was him, and Spider, and Ant that started the rumor about me and Miss Obah."

"Those assholes," I state.

"Ant made the call and Spider wrote it on the map and Dusty apparently it was all Dusty's idea," Amerie explains. "He said he didn't want to hurt me. He just wanted SLTs canceled. Said he feels shit about it."

I scoff. "Yeah 'cause he got caught."

"It gets worse," Amerie tells me. "Harper gave Dusty chlamydia."

I laugh. "Good he deserves it." Then I realize. "That's why she crashed the party."

Amerie nods. "It's why she came in and threw all that shit on us. She wanted me to know that. She was trying to protect me from Dusty."

Amerie and I finally make it to Harper's.

"Harper!" Amerie and I shout.

She comes out of the house covered in blood.

"Harper?" I ask.

"What happened?" Amerie questions.

"It happened again," Harper says.