Hailie was gazing at the menu, wondering why she agreed to eat with Amy. After the surprising meeting with Jayson and Declan, she was a little bit off the edge, besides Amy stood in her name, so the decision about the dinner might have been taken too fast. She had nothing to talk about with her ex-best friend but at the library it seemed reasonable to agree, when Amy asked. Especially that a moment ago she actually helped her a bit.

Finally, the waitress came to their table to take the order. Amy asked for seafood and a salad. Healthy dinner, perfect for her diet. For Hailie it was like rubbing it to her face, reminding of all the awful comments that Amy used to tell her. That's why she decided to order something that Amy would never eat. Fries and a burger. She didn't forget about the dessert as well. Cheesecake with fruits sounded amazing.

Amy looked at her like she was crazy. She opened up her mouth and Hailie was just waiting for another comment about how she should starve herself in order to look pretty for boys, who were training all day and taking really seriously how the girls looked.

"I haven't had cake in ages. Make it two, sweetheart," she said to the waitress and waved at her to go away.

That was something that Hailie didn't expect, but Amy surprised her a lot lately.

"You and cake?"

Amy didn't answer. She put her hands on the table and gazed at Hailie with a serious look on her face.

"The four of us, that was really like the old times, but in a different way. Honestly, I think we should never meet in this squad again, or rather that we should never meet those stupid boys again."

"Agreed," Hailie said, but in her opinion the two of them should not be meeting as well.

"I heard what you said to Jayson, but his parents' death was not a secret. I never liked them anyway. I'm offended when someone is fake nice to me and that's how his mother was. Ugh."

Whole Amy. The biggest hypocrite of all. She can be two things: mean or fake nice, but when someone else is one of those things to her, she can make their life a nightmare.

"What were you doing at the library?"

She laughed, because that was a little bit of a funny history.

"So, I was kinda stalking Declan, who was hanging out with Jayson. I have no idea what they were doing at the library, but they saw you at the table, reading some books. The rest you know."

Jayson wasn't in this town for no reason. He came here, because he found out that she's living in the neighborhood. Even after all this time he couldn't let it go. He was holding a grudge against her, even though what she had done was in order to save herself. But not in his eyes. Jayson knew he lost and he couldn't accept that.

"I don't know why you asked me for dinner. We're not friends and we won't be. Your apology can't change this. You switched sides, because Declan cheated on you and Jayson is an ignorant, who never even looked at you nor helped you. Truth isn't important for you. And I'm not important either, never was."

She didn't want to get sucked in the past. Amy had her charms, but Hailie couldn't be fooled again. She already knew Amy's true character.

"Okay, so I guess we don't start with a fresh card," Amy sighed. "Didn't want it anyway," she said just as if Hailie offended her by saying they can't be friends.

"Then what do you want?" Hailie asked straight away, getting bored of Amy's games.

It looked like she was waiting for that question.

"The same thing you want," she smiled in her creepy, mean way. The smile that could freeze to death anybody who crossed her. "Revenge."

Hailie jaw dropped open. It might have been obvious that Amy wanted to get revenge on Declan, but why would Hailie wish for it? The thing she wanted is to never see any of them again, with  Jayson on top of that list. She wasn't going to play in whatever game Amy came up with to fulfill her wish about revenge. Besides, one of Amy's talents was to make others' lives a misery. She'll be fine on her own on the road to destroy Declan.

"Revenge?" Hailie snorted. "After what have you done to me, I believe you don't need anybody's help to turn someone's life into a nightmare."

She couldn't deny it, but that wasn't the point.

"I assume you kicked Debra out of your house?" Hailie nodded. She hoped that Debra already left her house, because she's coming back tonight and seeing another person related to Declan or Jayson can get her on the edge. "Perfect, maybe she'll be living under the bridge, because I don't think she has a place to stay," Amy laughed. "I can take care of her later, because my priority is Declan."

The waitress came back with their order. She put it on the table and quickly left, intimidated by Amy. Hailie reached for fries. 

"Don't you have anything else to do? Like, I don't know, anything?" she asked, wondering what Amy was doing all day long. Thinking about revenge on the old lady, who was first in the line for coffee? Or maybe stealing the little girl's doll, because she said something not nice? It seemed like the goal of Amy's life was to make everybody else miserable, because that was something that made her satisfied. Not that Declan didn't deserve to be humiliated by Amy. Deep down that was something that Hailie actually wanted to see.

"No, I don't. I got kicked out from the university and my parents are pretty angry. They told me  not to show up in the house until I get my life together again, which is fine, cause I don't want to spend time with them. And they're still giving me money, because they're too afraid I'd go work as a prostitute."

That sounded bizarre, but at the same time it was exactly what Hailie could have expected to hear.

"Would you?"

Amy opened her eyes wider as if that was an insult to her.

"That body," she pointed at her belly, "is too good for ordinary assholes. If I was to have sex with anybody for money, I'd get damn sure he or she is a millionaire."

Amy was into boys, but she didn't have a problem with making out with girls. The four of them once played truth or dare and Declan gave her a dare to kiss Hailie. She did it and that's how Hailie's first kiss with a girl looked like. Quite passionate. 

"Let's get to the point. What revenge are you talking about?"

She started eating dinner, waiting for Amy to explain.

"Your house is haunted."

"That's what everybody says," Hailie pretended it's just a rumor.

"No, I mean, it's haunted," Amy insisted on it. "I read the stories and I don't believe it's a coincidence that so many people died there. But even if it isn't haunted, it's a place where imagination can play tricks on you. Declan likes to play a bad boy, but he hates ghost stories. I'd like to scare the shit out of him."

"You want to invite him to my house?"

Like that could ever happen.

"The thing is, even lately few students went missing after your party. The flyers are all over the town. I heard much more in the library. Declan and Debra paid someone to hit you? He's dead as well, isn't he? Otherwise, the two of them would have to explain a lot at the police station, considering that you're dating a policeman."

"I'm not," she hissed, not sure why it angered her so much.

"Whatever. The thing is, you can say that your house isn't haunted, but you can't deny the fact that things going around there can't be a coincidence."

"So what? You think that if Declan comes to my house then a bunch of demons appear and they'll punish him for the sins he committed?" Now that she said it, it actually sounded like something that might happen. "Amy, sending Declan there isn't a good idea. I'm not saying that my house is haunted, but it could be dangerous for him. That's not fun, that's serious."

She smiled.

"So it is haunted."

Hailie couldn't say it aloud, but Amy seemed pretty sure of it. Moreover, she was completely fine with putting Declan in danger. With feeding him to the demons.

That's called murder. Hailie wasn't going to be a part of it.

"No way I'm letting Declan into my house."

He was a bad person, but she wasn't the one to decide if he should live or not. And she was sure that demons would decide that he shouldn't.

"He deserves it."

Hailie couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"You think that people die in this house and you want to send Declan there? Because he cheated on you?"

Amy leaned on the table. Few police cars drove behind the window of the restaurant, with police sirens on. Hailie thought about Shane, but then quickly moved those thoughts aside.

"If it makes you feel better, Declan and Jayson did something terribly bad. You remember that they stole a car? No one found out it was them, because Jayson's parents helped him cover it up. The car kinda drowned."

Hailie took a bite of the cheesecake.

"Whoa, stealing a car, that's a horrible crime," she said ironically. "Or are you talking about killing a car by drowning it? Poor car."

"I'm talking about hit and run. Declan told me everything."

Hailie stopped eating. Maybe that's why Shane had nothing about the car they stole. Nobody knew about it, because otherwise they could connect them with a crime.

"And they were drinking." That wasn't hard to guess and Amy nodded.

"Your house is a specific one. Maybe I'm wrong and it's all just ghost stories. You, Debra and your hot roomie are still alive. Maybe nothing will happen, but maybe Declan will no longer be yours or mine problem. And Jayson will lose his friend."

Hailie stood up from the table and looked at Amy with disappointment.

"No. I know much more about this house than you do. I hate Declan and Jayson, and yes, I want them to suffer. I want justice, but not this way." She shook her head. It was hard to believe that Amy was so fine with this. She really hated her ex-boyfriend that much? "Thanks for the dinner, but I'm not going to consciously put Declan in danger."

Hailie took her purse and walked out of the restaurant. Amy took a bite of that cheesecake she ordered. It was sweet, just like the revenge she has planned. Hailie basically admitted that there was something wrong with the house.

"Maybe you're not going to do it, but I will."