I looked down at my flight ticket, then at all my red-nosed friends. Connell had flown up to North Dakota a few hours earlier, with Zach and my parents. They would be flying to set things up with his best friend, and then we’d all be going to Washington. We were going to meet up at Connell’s parents, before apparently initiating an act of war?

“This guy just had to be across the country,” Sara snapped. Of course she wasn’t thinking about the fact the we could possibly die, but of the fact that it was going to be inconvenient.

“Maybe on the flight you can grow a heart,” Fletcher...