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one of the desks that was open and running. Next to it was a digital camera.
    “Is that the stuff he used to take pictures of you, Rachel?” I asked.
    She nodded. “Yeah. I think so.”
    “Is it?” I asked Henry.
    He nodded. “I’ll erase the pictures right in front of you,” he said. “We were just kidding around about showing them to people anyway.”
    “Do you have backup files on your computer?” I asked.
    “No. But I’ll prove it. I’ll go through the whole computer right in front of you.”
    “Don’t fucking lie to me, Henry.”
    “I’m not, man. I swear. The pics are only on the camera.”
    I looked over my shoulder. A line of fraternity dicks were standing on the stairs and by the hallway. I smiled at them.
    “You want me to show you what’s on the computer?”
    “Nope.” I walked across the room and raised the bat above my head and then brought it down full force on the laptop. Pieces of it went flying everywhere.
    “What the fuck?” Henry shouted.
    I smashed the computer and the external hard drive next to it. I hit them again and again until there was nothing but pieces of plastic everywhere. Then I picked up the camera, hefted it in my hand. “Nice little digital camera you got here, Henry.”
    “You destroyed all of my files, my school work, everything.” He stared at the carnage.
    Then I threw the camera into the wall, where it broke into five or six pieces. I picked up the biggest chunk and put it on the ground. Then I hit that piece with the baseball bat and it shattered.
    The room looked like it had been hit by a tornado.
    “I think we’re done here,” I said. “Come on, ladies.” I turned around and leaned into Henry’s ear. “Oh, and if I hear one bad thing about you again from anyone…I’m going to come back with some friends who are even crazier than I am, and I will break your fucking kneecaps. Okay, Henry?”
    “Yeah.” He didn’t look at me.
    We walked along the hallway and down the stairs, brushing past the other fraternity brothers. I looked at each of them in turn as we passed, daring someone to take a shot at me or do anything.
    Nobody did.
    Finally, we were outside again and I tossed the bat on the lawn and kept going.
    We made our way down the street.
    “What if they call the cops and tell them what you did?” Lindsay said.
    “They’re not going to. Because they’re guilty assholes.”
    “Are you sure?”
    “I’m sure.” I turned to Rachel. “Are you okay?” I asked her.
    She nodded, a little uncertain. “I’ve just never seen anything like that. It was so…violent.”
    “Sometimes that’s the only thing people understand. Now don’t you ever let some guy make you scared again, Rachel. Okay?”
    “Okay.”
    “Promise me.”
    “I promise.”
    The three of us kept going until we were back at the residence hall. “Are you coming back inside?” Lindsay asked.
    “I’m tired,” I said, and it was true. All the adrenaline was gone and I was back to being exhausted. The fact that I hadn’t been sleeping wasn’t helping matters.
    “You can sleep here tonight,” Lindsay said. She looked at me and I looked back at her.
    Of course I wanted to. But then I thought about everything that had gone on between us the last couple of days. I remembered the way she’d just kicked me out of her life and only called me because she needed something.
    I didn’t blame her. I just knew that something had changed for me.
    “I don’t think I should do that,” I told her. “I think I’m going to go home.”
    “Okay.” She blinked a few times, looked away. “Well, thanks so much for helping us. I can’t ever repay you for that.”
    “It’s fine. I enjoyed it. In fact, I’d have paid you to let me do it if I’d known how much fun it was going to be.” I put my hand out and stroked her hair, wanting to remember how it felt. “Take care of yourself, Lindsay,” I told her.
    I told myself to take a mental snapshot of how she looked at just that