finally on the paved roads that’re home to the notorious Stonewall University. We took Axel’s decked out truck all this way, leavin’ a few days after we wanted to because Zane requested, we stick around for a minute. With the way shit went south with the General, he didn’t feel right letting us leave. Not when we still don’t know who his boss is. We still don’t, but it’s only a matter of time until we do.
We stopped and got gas at a station on the campus, leavin’ the truck there while we walk around. It’s just startin’ to get dark so we grabbed dinner at the Italian restaurant on campus. The food was some of the best food I’ve ever eaten in my life. I wonder how many grandmothers they have cookin’ up a storm in that place. We took the opportunity to ask some questions about Halloween a few weeks back.
Ruby was able to give me the name of the party she went to, considerin’ it was a sorority’s party she was leaving. Though, Zorro was the one askin’ the pressin’ questions, like if there are any troublemakers around and all that. I was hopin’ to get here with a little time to get a scope on the place before we put a target on our backs. Zorro didn’t get the memo. He just wants to fuck up the pieces of shit who came after Rub’, and I can’t blame him for it. Axel and I may look like we have our cool, but we’re fuming.
So far, everyone has been tightlipped. I don’t know why. However, it’s evident something is going on in this place. The campus isn’t insanely packed because we’re nearing Thanksgiving and I’m sure loads of kids have already gone back home to their families. It’s exactly the reason the three of us wanted to leave two weeks ago, so we’d be able to figure out who actually did this.
Rub’ and I had a discussion before we left about this Scorpio Society that she’s part of. It doesn’t make loads of sense to me, but at the same time it does. They’re a cult of sorts who want to have power, and the only way to have power is to ensure your people are some of the best of the best. Rub’ has been a dual major for marketing and business administration. She started selling CBD gummies online and a drop shipping campaign before she even finished her first year of college. I was super proud of her for getting a leg up under her business. Only now did she tell me the society helped fund her startup, and the advertising going behind it. She’s in bed with them and can’t get out. I asked her what the goal was for them, and she told me about the power and whatnot . . . but she ended up givin’ me more information I wasn’t expecting.
They want to get her company so high up there that the public can start taking stock in it, and since they own a share of the company . . . that’ll only help fill their pockets even more.
Axel decided after dinner to head over to the gas station and see what sort of information he could discover. Unfortunately, it wasn’t much. They knew a girl was attacked on campus, but after that they wouldn’t say jack shit. He said the girl behind the counter seemed nervous, constantly lookin’ around the store like a demon was gonna come out of the walls.
If you ask me, there’s somethin’ fishy goin’ on in this place and I don’t like the way that makes me feel. Fuck, if it’s makin’ me feel this way I can’t even imagine the way Ruby feels.
Zorro, Axel, and I split up one last time before we decided to meet back at the truck. Axel and I went to two fraternities, while we sent Zorro to the sorority close by. He’s the pretty boy, so we’ll let the girls talk their ears off to him.
Again, nothing. Only awkward silence and glances between others.
They’re hiding somethin’ here, and I don’t like it.
We’re finally back at the truck, all of us more pissed than I can even express. “Those pieces of shit are hiding something, brothers.” Zorro snarls, clenching his jaw as he peers through the windows.
“I don’t disagree,” Axel says.
I haven’t told these two about the society because Rub’ asked me not to. If either of them knew, they wouldn’t