Remember Yesterday

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My sister Callie didn’t kill herself so I could risk my future pulling stupid stunts. Yet here I am, hanging upside down over a cage of mice, while my best friend, Ryder Russell, anchors me with a rope and pulley as he squats in the air duct.

“If you drop me, I’ll tell Mikey you snuck out of the compound last weekend,” I say, too softly to set off the sensors inside the lab but loudly enough for Ryder to hear.

“If I drop you, my dad will be the least of our problems.”

I stretch my fingers toward the metal cage, making sure my shirt stays tucked into my pants. I have a unique, blobby-hand birthmark at my waist, one I’d like to keep hidden from the security cameras. “A few more inches, and that should do it,” I say.

Ryder grunts, and I fall half a foot.

My heart bounces as if it were attached to a bungee cord. But he won’t drop me. He never has. This is our fourth time breaking into a lab, and we haven’t made a mistake yet.

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