What Lies Beneath The Clearing

3.4

Lennox had met Jay whilst he was still in uniform. He'd been called out to an abandoned location that had been considered unsafe and off limits to civilians, and after searching for 20 minutes he found 13-year-old Lennox playing with the broken pieces of plastic left behind from whatever construction work was being completed on the place before the job was stopped for good. He was always kind to her, playing good cop over bad cop everytime she got into trouble for being somewhere she shouldn't be. She didn't trust many people, but he was one of the chosen few she considered worthy of her trust and respect. To lie to him the way she had about the situation with Sasha gave Lennox an uneasy feeling in her stomach, one that she knew she wouldn't be able to shake until she'd come clean. He gave her his card before Officer Paul drove her back to the hospital; he'd said that if she wanted to talk, or needed a shoulder to cry on, that he was there. Going over his generosity on the drive back, she stared at it until she got back to the hospital.

She was grateful to Caleb that even after fighting with her, he'd protected her, but she couldn't get rid of the guilty heaviness looming over her head. Lennox's father took the three of them home, back to her childhood house where he'd remained after Lennox's mother passed away unexpectedly when she was 6. It had been a few months since she'd visited, being busy with school work, and even longer since she'd been back since moving out to live in her shared apartment with her friends, but nothing had changed at home, which was oddly comforting considering she'd never really felt at ease in that place. Skye slept for most of the evening, exhausted from stunting her emotions all day, Caleb didn't utter a word, and Lennox's dad was called back to the hospital around 8 'o' clock for an emergency that needed his expertise, so she knew he wouldn't be back until late in the morning.