"Calm down! As long as there’s no evidence, we’ll be fine!" one of the boys said, trying to sound confident.

"This is all your fault! I just wanted to have some fun, but you insisted on joining in. Then you woke her up! I didn’t want to kill anyone!" the boy with the bat-shaped earring hissed in panic.

"Do you want to shout louder so everyone knows we killed someone?!" the other boy snapped, slapping his panicked companion hard across the face.

"I didn’t want this either! We’ve done this plenty of times before without any trouble. How was I …