Keeley was not an artistic person. Whoever put her name on the volunteer list to make and put up the decorations for the dance was going to suffer.

　　It would be held in a banquet hall at a fancy hotel downtown—this was a private school; they had standards—but the volunteers worked on making them in one of the art cla.s.srooms after school for a week prior.

　　One of the socialites only there to get volunteer hours for college admissions complained, "Isn't this a little underwhelming? It would be so much easier to just buy everything and it would look better too. A kindergartener could have made this."

　　She eyed Keeley's masterpiece made from two balloons taped together in the shape of a heart and plastered with paper mache with distaste.

　　It would look better once the balloons were removed and it was painted. She hoped. At least n.o.body else's looked much better.

　　The student advisor who came up with the idea wanted to hang the hearts upside down from the ceiling covered in glitter so they would have a slight dis...o...b..ll effect under the flas.h.i.+ng lights of the stage where the live band played. Everyone was too tired to argue.

　　Most partic.i.p.ants were on the student council, didn't want to be here but needed volunteer hours, or came to goof off with their friends who fell in either of the first two categories.

　　Keeley was the only one who didn't personally have a reason to be there.

　　At least no one she was trying to avoid was on the decoration committee. That list had grown from Aaron and Lacy to the man she was certain killed her.

　　Looking in the student directory, she discovered his name was Maximillian Lynch. Lacy's loyal lapdog.

　　Just thinking about him gave her gooseb.u.mps. Every time she saw him she felt the fear that flooded through her when that car barreled out of nowhere even though he wasn't a killer yet.

　　Keeley absentmindedly continued pasting paper mache to her balloons as she thought about her dilemma. One of her enemies orchestrated it so she would have to attend the dance so she a.s.sumed they would be there.