Once again. Rachel looked around at all the students around her. They’d arrived at Milton High and, like any other day, there were countless students milling around before the school day officially started. She hated the way they looked at her and Liz whenever they passed. Trevor’s pictures as well as Rachel being one of the few students who stumbled upon Trevor’s body gave her and her friends some notoriety she didn’t appreciate.

It was better than being oggled at she supposed, but only barely. At least Rachel didn’t feel the eyes of every boy she passed mentally stripping her. And yet, once again, she tensed every time someone’s eyes linger on her too long. Was that Trevor? Rachel thought, glancing just in time to see another student quickly looking away. Or is that Trevor?

Liz squeezed her hand, ”We’ll get through this together,” she seemed to say. The spider necklace was visible over her shirt, when she heard there might be another body hopper on the loose, she told Rachel she wouldn't take it off. That’s all well and good, Rachel thought, but I’m not sure if it will protect you from what tried to take me over last night. She still wasn’t convinced that was a body hopper, if it was she wouldn’t have been able to fight her off.

Her phone buzzed. A message from susan.

Susan: Almost there!
Heard anything from Naomi?

Liz: Not yet.

As Rachel was about to put her phone away, Naomi texted her directly instead of the groupchat:

Naomi: Hey.
I got your text.
I’ll be sure to keep a lookout for him. Mind meeting up with me before school starts?
There’s something I need to get off my chest.

Probably just wants to tell me how much she still hates our guts and is only working with us because she doesn’t want to deal with Trevor alone. Rachel thought bitterly, Still, I’m glad she at least got the message that someone is out there taking over people’s bodies. I don’t want her or any of us getting caught off guard again.

Me: Yeah, that’s fine.

“Naomi just texted me,” Rachel said, “she wants to meet up before school.”

Liz didn’t look particularly excited by that prospect, “Well at least we have someone else to keep a lookout of things.”

The two of them sat down near the big tree and looked …