Kin's mysteries

Chapter 8: The plan

-"I won't accept how he behaved yesterday! He has no right to treat me like that, plus in front of the girls!" Kin was furious.

His mother was trying to calm him down, without success.

-"He was just surprised that you weren't studying, you know he needs help in the shop, but he still lets you study. He was just disappointed that you lied" she explained.

But that wasn't Henry's point of view. He wanted to make him look ridicoulous and childish, because Jenny and Rosalind were there. He couldn't care more of their opinion, but it pissed him off at the moment.

After that episode, he decided to work hard and find the truth about that situation his brother was in. He'd hesitated before, but from now on he'd get serious about it.

So he texted Rosalind and asked to see her that evening, after his usual studying hours. She answered almost immediately and accepted.

-"I think we need a plan. Starting from working separately at our houses. I'll spy each of Henry's moves and you'll take an eye on Jenny. Then we'll see each others in the evenings to exchange ideas and inform the other about something new we've discovered. ThenI guess we have to go to that house againfor the third time. To see how things work there." he explained.

Rosalind was looking at him quietly, but her expression suddenly changed.

-"Third time? I thought it was the second" she pointed out, drinking her coke.

He invited her out for dinner. Henry was still angry at him, so when Kin and Rosalind passed by the shop to go out togheter, he said:

-"You should buy her dinner, like you did with the other girl last week"

So he felt obliged to pay for her burger and coke. He ordered a bottle of water and a sandwich, he wasn't hungry that much.

-"There was no other girl last week anyway" he said.

-"Who knows, you're hiding some secrets, I can feel that" replied Rosalind.

He couldn't answer that time. She guessed right. He had to tell her everything he'd kept until then.

They organized everything but he hadn't told her anything yet. They came by train because Henry needed the truck, who knew why. So, while they were coming back, he decided to be honest with her. They were sitting in front of each others and she had her head bent on one side. She seemed tired, he didn't want to bother with those insignificant details, but he had to.

-"Listen, I forgot to tell you somethingI think I've messed up everything. One night a girl walked into my room from the window. She asked me to keep a key for her. She seemed to know my brother, so I guessed she was part of this business too. Some nights ago she came to visit me again and, maybe I forced her too much, but I just wanted to know more about the situation. I told her that she must tell me something about it if she still wanted me to help her"

-"What did she say?" asked Rosalind, staring at him.

-"She took the key and left, I couldn't make her talk to me."

At that point, their stop was the next one so they prepared to get off of the train. Rosalind was thoughtful. He had some more things to tell her, but there was no time. He decided to left those for the next time. It could be too much for that night