Rodwood Academy

Chapter 75: Learn Respect

Driving with as much speed as she could to safely yet quickly get over to James's house, Lain was zooming through the city.

Ever since she had left the Academy the sun had been setting slowly, but somehow it still caught up with her.

By the time she had arrived to her brother-in-laws neighborhood on the opposite side of town from her own home, the sun was already at the top of the mountains, barely peaking out.

While she was driving her phone had been going off crazily, but she was too lost in her own head thinking about all that she had uncovered to even notice.

All she cared about was finding James and getting back home to her family before night arrived.

Finally reaching a house much smaller than her own with only one floor, she parked her car out in the empty driveway.

The home with beige walls and white accents had a fairly modern look to it. The only thing that was missing from the decently sized home was its owner. "Where is he now?" She sighed.

His driveway shouldn't have been empty.

Using this time to pull her phone out the woman was about to call James again, but was surprised to find that he had been the one behind all of her missed phone calls and messages.

Scrolling through the few messages left from James, Lain read them all out loud softly to herself.

"Heard you were looking for me."

"Sorry I'm busy today."

"Out at the shops to grab some things."

"Hello? Are you there? You aren't answer my calls.

"Where are you?"

She scoffed as she got to his most recent message. "Where are you?" She repeated rhetorically to herself. "You're one to talk."

Seeing her call log had not one, but several, missed calls from the man Lain decided to give him a piece of her mind. She had just wasted all this time driving out here when she could've been back home. She knew by now Faye was certainly awake from her nap and that only irritated her more.

But as her phone began to ring, her doubts all came rushing back.

And one after another the ringing never ended. "Oh so now you're not even going answer your phone." She annoyingly said aloud. Pulling her messages back up, the woman had seen that the last time the man sent something to her was only a few minutes ago.

"Well I know you have your phone on you." She rolled her eyes. Digging even deeper into his phone calls, the woman checked when each of the six calls were made to her.

She sighed the moment she saw that all six of them had occurred within the exact same minute.

She raised a confused brow at the man's games. "So first you're going to ask me where I've been, even though you're the one who's missing. And now you want to call me six times in one minute? You didn't even let them ring more than once did you?" She said to her phone.

She didn't understand a thing.

Trying one more time to reach out to the man she knew wasn't home with a call, Lain frowned seeing the sun slowly disappearing as the dark twinkling sky came out.

Giving up on her hunt, Lain wasn't going to wait any longer. James was old enough to take care of himself and she had her family to get back to.

With the city being as large as it was, it took the woman nearly another hour just to drive from James's home all the way back to theirs.