I Have No Excuse

Untitled Part 37

"Blaster! Blaster, I was right!" I announced loudly as I entered the apartment. "They were lying and they are doing something! With mers! And the ocean! They're going to do something- ow!"

The apartment was dark and the first thing I did minus my shouting was whack my leg on something in the dark and then trip over something else to crash rather noisily on the floor. I hissed a curse before scrambling back up. Maybe we should organize and clean up a little... Na. This was way too important to be put off by some out of place items. I mean why put it away if we were going to bring it back out tomorrow?

"They were probably never going to give me anything useful! He works with my parents! And I know where he works now! Kinda!"

There was no answer as I opened the door to Blasters room. I flipped on the light and Blaster just groaned in response.

"Blaster, this is important! Get up!"

"Geez... What time is it?"

"One am! Get up!"

"Why? What is wrong with you?"

My friend curled in on himself as if to protect himself from the light. I however just came up and took a seat on his bed with the same furious excitement I had since I left the party. I mean this was serious. Nat had given me some real information. And this was something that could have been the life of your mer friend. They were doing something that they shouldn't be doing and we could catch them. We could stop them. We just needed evidence and bam. They would be screwed. I wouldn't have to play along anymore. Prowl would be safe. That guy who kept making Prowl upset would be gone. This was Big.

"This is important!"

"Everything is important. Why are you even up?"

"I just got home! Now ya need to hear this!"

"What I need is more sleep. You do realize that we both work tomorrow? You should sleep while you can too."

"No time! The world could be ending as we know it! Right now!"

"Did you drink anything weird at that gathering?"

"What? No of course not! This is about Shane and my parents and what they're doing and How they're probably doing it!"

"Couldn't this wait until tomorrow?"

"It Is tomorrow. Now wake up and listen! Quit falling asleep!" I shook him and he reluctantly pushed himself up.

"I'm up. I'm up. What do you want?"

"For the love of- Shane. Parents. Ocean. Mers. Prowl. Do. Ya. Get. It. Now?"

"What about Shane? What did your parents do this time? Start from the beginning."

"Ok so I went to the party as ya already know. Nat, ya know my sister, came up to me and we started talking. A lot of us debating on what life is like and people. Then we got onto what I was looking for. Why I was there in the first place. Anyway we got onto how my sister and her friends, and I use that term loosely, knew Shane. He works with my parents, Blaster. And he brags a lot from what my sister said and he's doing something with mers, which means my parents are doing something with mers. They're targeting Prowl, Blaster, I know it. I mean a rare mer that's smart enough and well tempered enough to learn things from us and be willing to teach us their language. He's a freaking gold mine. They're working with the guy who has that huge building, ya know the one that kind of looks like it doesn't belong with how tall it is compared to the other buildings. That's Shane's boss. We need to do some recon. We need to figure out what they do in that building and more about the guy who runs it."

Blaster didn't say anything for a minute after my rant. It was just him staring at me like he wasn't really paying attention and me panting.

"It's about time you took a breath. I was wondering if you forgot to breathe."

"Blaster! Did ya even listen to anything I said?!"

"Yes. Your parents are still lying assholes. Knew that. They're screwing you over. Knew that from the get go. Shane's an asshole too. We knew that. Everyone does. Then there's a guy in a building that is Shane's boss."

"Not just Any guy, Blaster! This guy is in that huge building on the west coast! They're working with my parents or my parents are working with them!"

"Great. That's something to deal with when we wake up because oh look. It's one am."

"They're after Prowl! They have to be with how he's skulking around and asking questions about Prowl!"

"Again. We can't do anything about it now. Because it is One AM. Who is going to be awake at this hour besides teenagers who have no care for school and drunks?"

"Oh we could pay some teenagers to check the building out so they don't know we're on to them. I doubt they guessed that I would talk to Nat about it with how we treat each other."

"Jazz, I swear I am going to slap you."

"Why? It was a good idea?"

And then Blaster pinched the bridge of his nose with a sigh before standing up. Grabbing my arm he led me to the door.

"Jazz. You're my best friend. I love you, I do, but it is one am. I cannot deal with your crazy who knows what driven ideas right now. We can deal with this when we get up. We can bring some of this up to everyone at the facility if you want. But right now it is One Am. One in the morning and there is absolutely nothing we can do now. No one is up at this hour. No one reasonable who has to work or go to school anyway. Now go to bed or you're really going to hate yourself tomorrow."

"Blaster-"

"Good night."

Then the door closed, encasing me in the darkness of the rest of the apartment.