Don't get involved...

Chapter 8

"I see..." I said.

"You know, you could have just asked me instead of doing all of this," Josh said, lecturing me.

 "I didn't think I could trust you, especially since we've only known each other for 2 months only," I explained. "Not to mention, your friend, which I'm assuming is the artist, looked weird"

"I can agree on that, but trust me, he's really friendly. He just doesn't care about his looks much. One thing You should know: Never judge a book by its cover"

"That's what I've been told many times..." I thought.

"Well, you trust me now, don't you?" he asked.

"Yeah, not really"

"You're gonna need time," he said, looking calm and positive.

"But why did you have to pick it up in the middle of the night?" I asked.

"I wanted to make it as secretive as possible so that no one, especially your mother, would find out about the surprise waiting for her as I get the gift. So, me and this guy, we both made a deal to each other that we'd meet at 3 AM so that I'd get the box. I know it might not have been the best idea to do this but, I had no choice"

My mom's husband then put the statue inside the box and left. I sighed in relief, happy to know that my Mom was safe and that the secret that Josh was hiding wasn't anything bad. I knew I had to call my Dad about this and tell him that he doesn't have to know about Josh's secret anymore. I figured that Sabrina was right, what he was hiding wasn't anything bad at all.

I went inside my room and called my father.

"Hey Vicky, are you ok? Did your mom do something?"

"Hi Dad. Yes, I'm ok. How about you?" I answered, not expecting him to be this worried to the point that he had to ask me if my Mom did something.

"Yeah, I'm good. Just working on the case I told you about, the one about Emma Taylor"

"Oh right. By the way, there's something I need to ask"

"Yes? What is it, dear?"

"Today, when I left your house with Mom, I noticed that you took Josh's phone. Why?"

I know that I already discussed this with Mike, but I still decided to ask him, just in case.

"Well, like I told you, I'll take care of it, I'll try to find out myself, I'll take care of Josh's situation with the black box. So, I took his phone to see if I can find any information on his phone," he answered.

"So Mike was right, after all, he did take Josh's phone to find any useful hints on his phone that could help him figure out Josh's secret..." I thought.

"Well, about that..." I spoke.

I eventually explained everything that has happened with Josh just now and the discussion with me and Mike.

"Oh...Mike was already able to put cameras in his office after school and Josh knew about everything, huh," he said.

"Uh-huh"

"Well, that's good. At least no one is in danger now, at least not your mother. And now, I don't have to work on this and try to find out what your Mom's husband is hiding"

"Yeah, I just wanted to let you know," I said.

I looked at the time and said to my Dad

"Alright, I have to go to bed now, it's passed my bedtime"

"Oh ok. Good night"

"Good night"

Then we hung up.

"In that case, I don't have to wake up at night and spy on Josh..." I thought. "I won't even have to look through his stuff in his room or office to find hints"