Walking Danger

Chapter 13

I go straight to my room when I get home. I started shaking not long after we left school. What was I feeling? It felt like my body being invaded but I wanted to welcome it. Embrace it. I sat on my bed and took deep breaths in. My body was relaxing when someone knocked on my door.

"Come in" I called. The warden walks into the room looking determined. Behind him is Isabel. They walk in and close the door. They then stand at the door looking awkward. Okay, first step walk into her room whats next?

"Hey" my dad says
"Hi"
"How was your day"
"Good" I reply.
"We want to talk to you about something" he says. Isabel proceeds to sit on the bed.

"Okay" I already know what this is about.
"When you came back from your party you were drunk. I didn't think we had to talk about you drinking but clearly we do. We also need to discuss why you can't remember who bought you home" We have a moment of silence after his speech.
Isabel says more softly " Zee-Anna what happened at that party?"

My first instinct is to lie. But when I think about it, I'm the victim in this situation. I didn't do anything wrong so maybe I should just tell them the truth. Besides they already have half of it. I don't see how this will hurt me so I tell them the truth.

" I went to the party and I drank juice. I wasn't paying attention and my drink was spiked, the person I can home with is the boy who saw what happened."

They are both quite after my explanation. I don't want to talk about this. I don't want to go though the whole thing where the warden feels like he needs to protect me and Isabella
feels the need to step up as a mother. They haven't been there for a very long time.

He left when I was 6 two weeks before my 7th birthday. It was the worst birthday of my life. He just left, disappeared and no one explained to me why. My mom was a mess and I was confused while he was starting his new life with his new perfect wife.

So no, I don't want to start caring and if it wasn't for the situation I wouldn't even be here.
''Its okay, its already been taken care of.''
The warden looks shocked, he looks at his wife but she is no help. They don't have to deal with such problems. Their perfect children are young and will never get into such
shitty situations because they will be raised properly.

Not that I wasn't raised properly, I mean my mom did the best she could. But it wasn't enough to keep me from making bad decisions that I only realize are bad when they come back to bit my ass.

Isabel finally gets over the shock and asks ''Did something happen to
you... you know, were you?''
''No, nothing happened, I'm fine." I say firmly. ''I'm tired and I've got lots of homework so...''
They hesitate, he takes one more look at his wife and she shrugs so he stands up and says ''I'm glade you are okay.''

Isabellas asks if would like to fill a police report. I decline, I'm staying as far away from them as possible, the less they know the better. They finally leave and I breath.

Now for this Troy Reed. It's a small town so it won't be hard to get information about him. A quick search on the internet tells me he lives two blocks from me.

His mom is a nurse and his dads work is stock trading. Shouldn't that make him rich? Why is he drugging my drink? How many other girls has he done it to?

I close my laptop and grab my pepper spray and my bag and head for the door. The warden and his wife are whispering, you and I can guess over what, seeing as how they keep
quite and look at me when I get downstairs, I ignore them and leave. Giving a careless yes to Isabell asking me to be home before it's dark.