Jeremy crushes me to him protectively. I wrap my arms around his neck.
"There's no way we can get out of this," he says.
"You sure? We can't just take the ditch and floor it?"
Slowly he cranes his head towards me and stares at me, a blank look on his face. In my defense I was only half serious...but nonetheless it feels wrong simply sitting here and waiting for Seth—since I think it is safe to assume we both know that is who is coming—to completely close in and back us into a corner. We are sitting ducks. Jeremy eventually returns to looking at the encroaching headlights through the rearview mirror. I try to hide my trembling as they get closer.
"What are we going to do?"
"I don't know but I'm not going to let anything happen to you. That is what I do know. I'll kill all of them if
