"Be serious," Felicity elbows Mary Grace, which has never once happened before. "Sorry," she quickly adds, "I'm just... worried, I guess. Patrice is so needy he would never just leave us."

Substitute basically any of the other Wildgulch juniors for 'Patrice' and the statement would still hold true. Felicity grabs a sweatshirt and a thought occurs to her... either he's dead -- which would be bad -- or he's gonna survive and they'll never hear the end of it. Both sound miserable, she thinks.

"Stick together?" she whispers.