“Does it count as a cold plunge if we eat ice cream out in the cold?” I pulled my large coat over me, briefly considering this may have been not the most well thought out plan.

“Yes! Dual health!”

Everyone’s phones around us started pinging rapidly. So did mine. So did Kelly’s. We exchanged a glance while pulling out our phones.

“What the hell could that be? Must be some emergency thingy...” she trailed off, unlocking her phone first and scrolling around to find the source. Her jaw went slack. “Fal, look at this.”

I leaned over to peek at the massive group text that had been sent out.

Six of your daddies are going to jail. Let the games begin.

My eyes almost fell out of my head. I was so done for this semester. Not only was I going to learn how the wealthy operated while paying catch up, but I was going to play some fucked up version of whodunnit,

Frozen yogurt wouldn’t solve this type of problem.

“Does it say who it’s from?”

She shook her head. “Nope. This semester is going to be a wild ride. I remember when something similar happened when I was younger. It wasn’t like this per se, but someone was bent out of shape about something and a few families had to deal with some pretty heavy legal trouble.”

Did this happen often or something?

We looked up to glance over at the guys on the field huddled around holding their phones. They whispered amongst themselves while pointing to their screens. Would we know whose families were involved, or was this a domino effect to get people to out each other?

The bleachers shifted slightly under the weight of someone sitting down next to me, their thigh touching mine. I looked up to see Brent and his usual confident smirk still in place.

“Wild news, huh?” His voice was low and edged with a more serious tone. Didn’t think he had a serious bone in his body before today, but I was learning a lot in the span of a couple weeks.

I nodded, giving him a suspicious sideways glance. “Uh huh.”

He leaned in closer, lowering his voice to a whisper near my ear. A shiver ran through my body before I could try to suppress it. The effect he had on me was more than irritating. “Want to get out of here? Just you and me?”

With our two escapades fried into my brain permanently, I didn’t dare delve into questioning his motives. Lucky for me, I didn’t come alone, and I sure as hell wasn’t leaving without Kelly.