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people, Keeley had no doubt that they did indeed know what to do. They’d also probably mess it up.
    People did that, didn’t they?
    She didn’t think of it again as she pulled out, carefully. The van was just on loan after all and Keeley couldn’t afford to have it fixed if she got in an accident. In the review mirror Keeley watched as her mother drove off in Dan’s car, headed toward the school.
    Riding with a Demon.
     
     
     
     

Chapter four
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Hally wasn’t outside her front door waiting like she normally did, but rather stood on the street corner nearly a block away from the brown single level ranch style house her family lived in. The Yorks weren’t rich people, but had managed their money pretty well and lived a decently comfortable life.
    That was what everything about them said at least. Hally’s parents took every possible precaution they could, trying to look like normal, friendly people, ones that cared about keeping kids off of drugs and who did drug counseling on the side. Both were recovering drug addicts.
    Except they weren’t really, that was just their cover story, meant to explain any slips they made. No one expected much of a junkie, and they all had dark things in their pasts they didn’t want to share.
    They were really recovering con artists. Good at their jobs too. They were largely just pretending to be straight now, not because they loved their lives so much, but because the alternative was prison, almost without a doubt. Keeley pulled to the side of the street and leaned over to let the cute redhead into the van. She wore her little cheerleading outfit, and a letterman’s jacket over the top. Advertising for the big game the next day, Keeley figured. Though they were supposed to do that on game day.
    Keeley steeled her nerve and reached a hand out to help the other girl in, catching the sum total of what the girl was and had been through all at once. Again, having done it before, which made it easier. The first time was always the worst. That’s when whatever you thought about a person got trashed, those first moments, as everything they’d ever done wrong, each dark thought and desire, washed over you.
    Most people did a lot of things they weren’t proud of. Hally was no different, but refreshingly, most of her issues were so minor that no one else in the world would really care. She hid over the counter diet pills in her closet for instance, afraid her parents would be mad if they found out. She also had a slight crush on their friend Gary, who was gay, which she didn’t feel happy about, because it was confusing, not because of anything else.
    Then, she had a crush on almost everyone she knew. She was friendly like that.
    Once she was in, she just sat quietly, not moving for a long time. She didn’t even buckle her seat belt. Finally she looked in the back and saw it was empty, but didn’t bother asking where Sherry was, or why they weren’t moving. After several minutes of this she just spoke, her voice almost imperceptible it was so soft.
    “I… Keeley. My parents… I, they… said something.” Then she went silent again.
    “OK. Seat belt please.” She had to help her with that, then they drove… right back into the York’s driveway.
    Amazingly Hally just got out, not even asking anything at all. Her face was pale and she shook a bit, clearly scared and not having any clue about what to do about it.
    That kind of made sense, didn’t it? Keeley didn’t have a big plan for her either, but leaving her alone wouldn’t help at all. She had to get Hally out of the van, walking around to the far side and taking her hand to ease her back to the ground. Then, slowly, making sure that the girl didn’t stumble, they walked back to the front door.
    There was yelling coming from inside. It was loud and angry sounding too.
    Goody. It was always fun to walk up on a tense situation, wasn’t it?
    She couldn’t make it out, but knocked