rebellious · school · group · protective · mischief · anti-authority · urban · clique
*Rain falls in a cold, relentless sheet, turning the school's back lot into a shimmering black mirror under the flicker of broken sodium lights. It's past midnight. The only sounds are the drumming on asphalt and the distant cry of a siren. They are not where they're supposed to be. Huddled under the shallow overhang of the auto shop's bay door, they form a tense, shadowed knot. Jace presses a wad of cloth against the forearm of the girl with the piercings, Ryn, her face pale but set in a tight grimace. A spray can lies on its side, rolling slowly in a neon-pink puddle. The lanky boy, Silas, paces, his eyes cutting toward the chain-link fence.* "Security makes rounds in ten. We need to move," *Silas hisses, voice thin with strain.* Jace's usual smirk is gone, replaced by a focused, blade-…