QUID PRO QUO

FIVE

NARI'S POV

There was so much noise at the police station.

Telephones were ringing non-stop, criminals were being dragged in and out. People who had been arrested were shouting and claiming innocence. The policemen were shouting that everyone should shut up.

It was a complete mess.

Steven was sitting beside me, the nurse was standing behind us with our homeroom teacher and a policeman was seated in front of us behind his table as he studied us closely.

"Now", the policeman began, "you both will answer every question I ask you truthfully. Understood?".

I nodded. Steven didn't

The policeman ignored him anyway.

Then to our homeroom teacher, he asked; "have you called their parents?".

"Yes. But just the boys' mother. The girl said she doesn't have a guardian. She just joined our school yesterday."

"Ahh, I see...", the policeman trailed off as he typed something on the laptop in front of him.

"you two go to the same school, right?", he asked.

"obviously", Steven muttered but everyone heard him.

I stepped on his foot under the table and glared at him. Things had already gotten bad and he was trying to make it worse.

I don't know why I was trying to protect him but I just didn't want him to get caught and go to juvie or prison.

Prison?

I looked at his face and tried to guess his age. He should be 18 right? He couldn't be anything lesser. Not with the way he looked.

The policeman cleared his throat and I came to my senses.

What in the world was I thinking of?

"So, this young boy right here stabbed you at about 8:30 pm last night, right?", the policeman asked me.

I nodded.

The policeman typed something again.

"And he..."

"He did stab me but it was unintended. He didn't mean to", I interrupted the cop. I had to intervene before things got out of hand.

"The knife he had was for peeling the tangerines he was eating. I bumped into him," I completed.

"That's not true! He brought her to the pharmacy with blood over her and dashed out just like that. She's not saying the truth!", the nurse suddenly yelled.

What exactly did it matter to her if I was lying or saying the truth?

"No, I'm not lying," I argued further, "he really didn't stab me intentionally",

The policeman heaved a heavy sigh and scratched his scalp.

"Listen miss, lying is going to do you no good. What you're saying is the exact opposite of what the CCTV cameras recorded. Take a look", he said as he turned the laptop to face me and Steven.

'Darn it', I cursed under my breath.

Steven didn't seem so bothered about the whole situation and it got me really upset. Why did I have to be the only one trying to defend him and he just sat there keeping his mouth shut?

"I'm the victim here and if I say it's fine then it is!!", I yelled at the top of my lungs.

The whole police station went silent for seconds and everyone was shocked.

I cleared my throat and scratched my neck even though it wasn't itching. I really wasn't expecting to scream that loud.

Everyone went back to whatever they were doing and I sighed out of relief.

Just as I was about to utter my apologies and probably try speaking in a calmer tone, I heard the sound of approaching heels.

We all turned and saw a beautiful and sophisticated-looking walking up to us.

Don't tell me that's Steven's mother!

She was too young and beautiful to be middle aged.

Of course, she was most definitely middle aged to have a son like Steven.

She stopped right beside her son and took off her sunglasses.

"You're here ma'am", our homeroom teacher kind of 'greeted' her.

She flipped her hair and looked at the cop, totally ignoring our teacher's existence.

"you're the cop in charge?", she asked.

"Yes ma'am. I am. Your son here stabbed this student here last night. And so far he hasn't proven himself innocent or tried to explain himself".

Steven's mother chuckled.

"Do you not recognize me or are you pretending not to recognize me?", she asked the police man.

I couldn't help but notice that Steven who had his head raised up all along now hung his head down.

I wondered why.

The policeman looked closely at her and then gasped in surprise. His eyeballs nearly fell out of their sockets.

I was beginning to wonder who she was already.

"Congressman Park's wife. The one whose husband ran for presidency last year, right?".

I gasped. The nurse gasped too.

The only person who wasn't surprised was our teacher.

What do you mean, my classmate would've been the son of the president if his father had passed the elections last year?!

Woah!

"I see you know who I am. You and the rest of the cops can have coffee later. It's on me. Let's wrap this up nicely okay? It wouldn't be nice if the reporters caught wind of this."

The policeman nodded briskly in obedience and typed something on his laptop then looked up at me.

"You were willing to settle, right?", he asked me.

I scoffed in my mind.

Wasn't this the cop who insisted that it wouldn't do me any good if I lied?

"Yes. I'm willing to settle", I said.

I couldn't miss the smirk on Steven's mother's lips after I had said those words.

"Come out Steven. We need to talk," she told him as coldly as possible as she put her shades back on as she walked away from us and then out of the station.

TBC...

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