CHAPTER 28

Alessandro

I lasted two hours. I was going crazy with worry over Gia. She would think I had this done. She would think my friend capable of doing this to hers. I had to see her.

I didn’t bother trying the roof. If Xavier said it was locked, it was locked. What I did was trickier but my crew and I had done it before on a dare. I hadn’t broken my neck then and I would keep from breaking it now.

The old buildings had three-inch ledges below the windows. After putting on athletic shoes, I climbed out my window and looked around. The sun hadn’t hit the horizon but it would soon. Senior suites were on the fourth floor of the main dorms. I didn’t need to go up or down a floor, just cross two buildings, each with a different set of problems.

The first crossing had an old tree. There was a main branch that I had to jump for and then hike myself up and use weaker branches to gain the ledge of the next building. Tree bark ate into the palms of my hands when I caught the branch and swung myself u