Bigs and Teeny wore khaki pants and matching blue polos with their aunt’s hotel name monogrammed onto the front right corner. On a different day, it would’ve made me laugh to see the two of them dressed alike, something their parents used to force upon them as young children.

I couldn’t muster up amusement anymore. After I covered my seating area, I rested my elbow atop the ledge of the passenger window and used it as a kickstand for my face, watching my chance for answers turn into a heat-choked blur of scenery. “Thanks for finding me,” I forced myself to say. Putting aside what I’d wanted to do, it meant a lot that they would go out and look for me.

“We’d just left the hotel when Ruby called me five times in a row,” Teeny said. “I looked at Bigs and said, Can’t she send me a text? But she kept calling, and I got scared that—” She stopped. “Well, I answered then. It’s a good thing we were only working the morning shift.”

“Are you all right?” Bigs asked.

Explaining myself felt like a courtesy I owed his kindness. “I fell in the tunnels.”

“Ruby said she came up over by the school,” Teeny told me. “She tried to call you, but your parents have your phone? You were down there without a single way to talk to anyone? You’re lucky I guessed you were over by Marley’s mom’s house! I don’t know how I knew that. I said to Bigs, I bet she found her way out to the train tracks. You were always trying to go to the train tracks.” She wore a satisfied smile, showcasing it in the rearview mirror for me to see. “Little Ollie, still thinking you’re so tough.”

She was misremembering history. It was Ruby who loved the tracks.

I didn’t love anything.

Teeny started to travel down the road of reminiscing until something drastic snatched up the sentence she meant to say and replaced it with one more urgent. “Where’s Harrison?”

Where is Harrison? I wondered with the same newfound panic. “I don’t know.”

“Ruby said he’d be with you.”

“The tunnels split again. Aidy wanted us to cover as much ground as we could, so I—I left him.”

Teeny shook her head. “You left him? Down there all alone?”

“Did you try calling him?” I asked.

Teeny shot me a look.

Bigs redirected our conversation. “She called him twice. It didn’t ring. Where do you think he’d end up?”

A helplessness started to consume me. “I really don’t know. You said Ruby came out by the haunted house? What about Aidy and Nick?”

“She tried calling Aidy when we were looking for you,” Bigs said. “No answer.”

“Aidy doesn’t have her phone either,” I admitted.