I woke up before everyone else and took a quick shower. New Orleans is a beautiful city. I sit on the balcony and have breakfast waiting for those sleepy heads to get up. Carla wakes up first.
"I'll wake Mandy up and we can to the FBI office" Carla said as she leaned on the door frame. She's in baggy shorts and a T-shirt.
"No, let her sleep" I said. "Come sit down"
I tapped on the chair beside me.
"You seem.......at peace" Carla smiled as she sat.
"After today we may never see Richard again, I will be happy" I said and sipped my coffee.
"Yeah, we don't have to look over our shoulders to see if Richard is out to get us" Carla said.
"Peace," I said and Carla smiled and held my free hand.
"Thank you" Carla says.
"For what?"
"Taking a girl who had no sense of adventure and giving her an amazing one". I smile.
"Thank you for being my friend" I say.
"We were destined to become friends already,one way or another. Our parents were friends"
"Our parents would be so proud" I say. "Or very mad"
"Obviously they would be proud. Be positive, Addy"
Mandy woke up thirty minutes then we got into the car and went to the FBI office.
"I'm looking for the FBI agent in charge of the Richard Donovan case" i said to one of the agents. We followed her into an office. The man behind the desk looked in his early forty. He had brown hair and piercing blue eyes. She introduced us to him and he asked us to sit. The chair was so cold but I can't complain. I feel like I'm in the principal's office for doing something wrong.
"What do you have?" He asked.
We told him everything, about my parents, the society he formed, everything. And also that he was back in New Orleans.
"Shall we? " The detective said getting off his chair
"We are going with you? " I asked.
"Of course, Miss McCarthy, this could be a prank" He said
"Well it's not, my parents were killed by this man and you do not believe me" I said.
"I'm sorry but a few years ago your mother made that same call telling us he was in Texas, we go there and she tells is it was a mistake, that she thought she saw him. You can't blame me for not trusting you. So are you coming or not? I have other things to do" He said.
Wow
"I'm not lying and I will go with you" I grabbed my bag of the floor and leave the office.
"I can't believe that man" Mandy said as we sit in our car driving in front of the jerk who doesn't believe us
We drive to where Richard is staying. An old motel on the outskirts of town.
"Are you sure about this? "The detective asked.
" Yes, I'm sure" I said.
I knock on the door of his room but no one answers. The man breaks the door open with a kick but it's empty.
A suitcase is opened and the bed has been slept in.
"Guys, " Mandy called. She pointed at an open window and climbing down the side of the building is him.
Richard.
"I need back up, suspect is running on foot" The detective runs out of the room screaming into his walkie talkie
"Now do you believe us" Mandy smiled and Carla and I laughed.
By the time we get to the cars they had already caught Richard and handcuffed him.
"I'm impressed, your parents will be proud" Richard said. "Wait, they are dead so it should be, would have be proud, right Addy"
"Don't you ever speak of my parents again, asshole" I said. Did I just call him that?
"Oh, I bring the bad girl in you, that's nice to know" He smiled.
"Shut up and get in the damn car" Carla said. A cop pushes him into the car.
"Can I talk to you? "The detective asked us.
" Yeah" Mandy said.
"I owe you an apology, I should have believed you" He said.
"I would like one more thing" I said.
"Name it and it's yours"
"I want immunity for the people who helped him hide, he blackmailed them into helping him" I said. I don't want Lucy, Toby, Uncle Austin and Fred to go to jail.
"Okay" he said and left with the police.
I'm finally free.
We spend one more day in New Orleans then go back home. When we got there, our guardians and parents scolded us first, then hugged us and asked if we were okay and told us how proud they were but we should never do anything like that again.
We promised never to. Richard was sent to jail for the rest of his life because he was not only charged with partaking in an illegal business but also for murder.
Not long after promising not to sneak out we did.
We go to a park at midnight and lay out on the soft wet grass. We crack jokes and relax. Tomorrow we'll be back in school but we aren't thinking of that.
I can finally live knowing that I got justice for my parents.
I uncovered the truth.
Wow, I am done. Thank you all for taking your time to read my book. Don't be a slient reader. Thanks for the votes and comments. I love you all. 😙😙😙 I will be going to school so my other books may not be updated for some time but I will try and update before I go. It's a boarding school 😭😭. Again thank you and have a good day. Check out my other books too
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Teen Fiction#Completed# Addison leaves Texas after her parents die in an accident. She returns to Texas expecting to settle down and have a normal life but when she meets her mom's best friend and finds out her parents accident wasn't really an accident, with h...
