Many questions

“How did you discover Jefferson’s plans?” Max asked. “About the girls?”

“He had a filing system. When I was alone, I had some time to look around,” Rachel said. “It was… horrifying. Each binder had pictures of the girls. All of them looked… hazy. Like they weren’t even there. I don’t even know if they’re alive or dead.”

“Well we know Kate’s alive,” Chloe said.

“Thank God,” Max said. “We should check in on her.”

Rachel nodded. “And Samantha… I know she had a thing for Nathan. I suspect that’s how Jefferson got Nathan to cooperate. So that he wouldn’t hurt her.”

Chloe had her arms around Rachel. “I’m sorry you had to go through all of that.”

“Let’s hope Victoria gets out of there fine,” Max said. “I don’t want something to happen to her. No one deserves that.”

“I’m sure David will be back with her sometime soon,” Chloe said.

“Never thought you’d ever call him by his first name,” Max said.

“Yeah well… maybe he’s not so bad,” Chloe said.

“Chloe, I have a question for you,” Max said.

“What?” Chloe asked.

“Is it true you set the forest on fire?” Max asked.

Rachel and Chloe exchanged a look. “No,” Rachel said. “That… was me…. I was a little bit angry. And well I tipped over a trash can that was on fire and everything turned into a big fire.”

“Oh,” Max said. “Yeah it was on the Seattle news. People were saying Chloe had something to do with it.”

The girls continued hanging out asking each other questions. Finally Joyce and David called. “Girls! Come on down, we need to talk.”

Max threw on some clothes not caring about the dare and headed down with Chloe and Rachel.