Gabriela's tale

twenty-one

***A few days later***

I went over to the Shelby house to look for Polly, just to see what she was doing. I walked to Polly's office and there she was reading her book.

"Hello pol." I said, as I walked in.

"Hello." she said, when she saw me and put her book down.

"Are you still working?" I asked her.

"No." she said.

"Lets go get drinks at the Garrison. I haven't been there in a while." I said.

"All right. Lets go." she said, getting up from her chair and going up and grabbing her coat and putting it on. She grabbed her purse and pulled on her gloves. 

We began walking out of her office and towards the front door.

"Have you seen tommy today?" she asked.

"No, he hasn't been to the office all day." I said.

"I need to talk to him." she said.

"About?" I asked her.

"The stocks. I have to talk to Michael too, somethings changed in the numbers and I just want to see it its correct." she said.

"I'll let him know if I see him tomorrow or I'm sure you'll see him first." I said.

We walked down the street to the Garrison and once we arrived, we went to the side room where we usually went to. 

Through the little window Polly ordered us two glasses of rum. The barmaid poured our drinks and handed it to her. She thanked her and handed me one and took a seat.

"Busy day today?" she asked.

"Extremely busy. I worked all day today non stop. When I get home I'm going straight to bed." I said.

"And this is only the beginning. We're going to have to talk to tommy about hiring more people for the offices. All the legal stuff of course." she said.

"Agree, we need more workers." I said.

"Have you talked to Esme?" I asked her.

"No. I've been trying to avoid her, because I know she's going to want to ask about the robbery and I don't know what to tell her." she said.

"She's been extremely upset lately about everything. It must be the pregnancy." I said.

"It sure is." she said.

"She seriously needs to get on with it." she added, with a small chuckle, I laughed.

For the next half hour, we talked and ordered one more glass of rum and at the end we headed our separate ways. Polly to the Shelby family house, and I headed home.

Once I got home, I changed into my night gown and headed straight to bed.

*5am*

I was woken up abruptly by a bang at my front door. I quickly got up and looked through the window, it was hard to see because it was dark outside.

"Its Polly open up!" she said. I quickly opened the door she walked in, she looked exhausted and nervous.

"Get dressed. tommy's in the hospital, he been hurt." she said, and my heart dropped.

Without saying I quickly went back to my room and changed into the first thing I could find in my dresser. I quickly went to the bathroom and came back out, Polly was standing by the door. I grabbed my coat and put it on.