Lauriver Chronicles

Chapter 126

Yolanda was sitting in the principal's office, squirming under the looks she was getting from the principal and her parents. The only person who wasn't giving her a look was her sister Artemis.

"Yolanda, why were we called here?" Oliver asked his daughter.

"I swear, it's not what it looks like." Yolanda said quickly.

"Your daughter was found with narcotics in her possession." Principal Shaplin said, causing both Oliver and Laurel to look at Yolanda.

"What? Yolanda, please tell me this isn't true." Laurel said.

"It's not. I swear, I was in boxing club and someone must've slid it in my bag while I was in there and then it fell out." Yolanda said.

"Do you have any proof the drugs are her's?" Oliver asked, not believing Yolanda would do something like this and he could tell his wife didn't believe it either.

"They were found in her bag." Shaplin said.

"And you never considered that someone might've planted the drugs in her bag?" Laurel asked.

"Who would want to do that?" Shaplin asked.

"Well, off the top of my head, I'm thinking Taylor DeSantos, the meanest girl in school and Yolanda's personal tormentor, not to mention her competition in the race of student council president. If anyone would have the motive and means to plant drugs on Yolanda, it would be her." Artemis said, coming to her sister's defense.

"I find that highly unlikely." Shaplin said dismissively.

"Well, I'm sure my father, Detective Quentin Lance, who I'm pretty sure is going to be the next captain of the SCPD, would be more than happy to clear his granddaughter's name with a lie detector test." Laurel said with a smirk, since she knew her father would be more than happy to do that, and it was well known that he was on the fast track to becoming the next captain of the SCPD.

"I'm not sure that's necessary." Shaplin said.

"Why not? After all, narcotics usually warrant getting the police involved and this can clear our daughter's name and after that, I think I might talk to the school board about a change in management since you're clearly trying to railroad our daughter for no good reason, not there's one anyways." Oliver said and both his daughters smirked at that.

"I'm not railroading her." Shaplin said.

"You're accusing her with no real evidence and jumping to conclusions. Seems like railroading to me." Laurel, ever the lawyer said, her phone out and her dad's contact pulled up.

"I don't think this is necessary." Shaplin said, clearly trying to save face in some way.

"You brought this on yourself when you accused Yolanda with no solid proof. Make the call." Oliver said to his wife.

"Consider it made." Laurel said as she dialed her dad's number.

Quentin had arrived quickly with the polygraph test in hand and Oliver had also called in the school superintendent and Laurel had also called in Sam to issue a lawsuit against the principal.

"Well?" Oliver asked his father-in-law to follow the polygraph, even though he and Laurel both knew that he'd trained Yolanda to be able to thwart polygraphs, in this case, there'd be no need. Which was why Oliver had been watching the polygraph for any of the signs that Yolanda was faking it and to his relief and to no surprise, she wasn't.

"She's clear. I also had my guys check the school security cameras and they found this." Quentin said as he showed them his phone which clearly showed Taylor planting the drugs in Yolanda's bag while she was boxing.

"Well, there you have it. Clear proof that Yolanda is innocent and you're dead." Oliver said to Shalpin, who was sweating.

"Now, I don't think that's necessary." Superintendent Anna Kojin said.

"This poor excuse for an educator falsely accused our daughter of having drugs with no real proof and continued to harass her." Laurel said.

"And unless you want me to change the name on this lawsuit from Derek Shaplin to the entire school board, you will terminate this man right now and vet his replacement a little more thoroughly. Especially since I had my investigators do a little digging and it turns out that you have a personal reason for trying get Ms. Montez in trouble." Sam said.

"What are you talking about?" Kojin asked.

"He's dating the mother of one Taylor DeSantos. Clearly an attempt to gain Taylor's favor by sabotaging her opponent." Sam said.

"Which won't matter since I now have enough to get a warrant to arrest Ms. DeSantos for underaged possession and planting drugs on another underaged student." Quentin said as he could see Oliver having to hold Laurel back, since it was clear that this attack on her daughter had brought out her momma bear side.

"Laurel, you're pregnant and I don't think your father or I can cover up for you attacking a principal, no matter how much he deserves it." Oliver said, while also covering her mouth. Those not in the know thought that he was trying to keep her from shouting profanity, but those who were in the know knew that he was preventing her from using her canary cry. Even though Caitlin had warned her not to use her powers while she was pregnant as a precaution.

"Fine." Laurel said as she calmed down.

"Derek Shaplin, your employment here is terminated, effective immediately. You have one hour to clean out your office before campus security escorts you out." Kojin said.

"And I'm more than happy to assist, after I put Ms. DeSantos behind bars." Quentin said as he left to go and get that warrant as Shaplin glared at them.

"You Queens think you're better than us just because you're rich while people like me are just living from one paycheck to another and now I don't even have that." Shaplin said.

"You did this to yourself and you have no one to blame for it but yourself. I get wanting your girlfriend's kid to like you, but this was completely unethical." Oliver said coldly and without pity as they left him alone to pack.

"So, what now?" Laurel asked.

"We find out what kind of drug was planted in Yolanda's bag and take out the supplier before someone here or anywhere does use it and gets themselves killed." Oliver said quietly both his daughters nodded, eager to deal with this.