Chapter 25: Chapter 25

Friday, just one day before his big date with Laney, there was another damn fire. Zach swore a blue streak to himself as he stared at the charred trash pile in the middle of the high school's landscaping shed.

The building was mostly vacant due to summer vacation, but some of the staff were still in the building getting things squared away before the end of the year. One of those was the head groundskeeper, who'd been out mowing the baseball and football fields. He'd come back just in time to put out the fire before it caught any of the walls or, worse yet, the stored cans of gasoline.

Once again, Lester Greene was quick to point the finger at Parker and Jacob, though again, no one had gotten a good look at anyone who shouldn't have been on the property. This time, though, the department's sole crime scene tech found fingerprints on the one empty gas can the groundskeeper couldn't identify as belonging to the school.