Complications

Chapter 22 - Light At The End Of The Tunnel

"Oh don't you start crying again." Rosalie said to me sternly, not taking her stare off of Keegan. "That could have meant anything."

"I know right!" Selina agreed. "Like seriously, you're gonna hear a girl's voice in the back and instantly think the worse?"

"How dumb do you think we are?" Angel asked Keegan, folding her arms.

"Well, clearly it doesn't take a genius to work out that Mitchell clearly found someone besides Aria." Keegan stated.

"That could have been his Mom in the back you know." Monika said firmly.

"It isn't." Keegan replied.

"How can you be so certain?" Rosalie asked.

"I think that's up to Mitchell to tell you." Keegan said, lowering his voice to a whisper as he began to walk off, before briefly stopping in his tracks and turning back. "In fact...I think it's up to Mitchell to tell you a lot of things."

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And so, in minutes we were knocking on Mitchell's door.

We went back to get Rosalie's car,

Yes Lord knows how she got her licence before us but that's besides the point, 

and so me, Monika and Angel sat in the car as Rosalie and Selina approached the door.

The door opened upon their knocking, and a tall man who looked about in his late thirties or early forties. His hair was slightly quiffed at the front, and he had dark stubble across his face. He was of a darker complexion than Mitchell, but resembled him in his prominent features...all except the eyes.

Selina had left her phone on speaker in her pocket so we could hear what was being said.

"Morning Sir, is Mitchell around?" Selina asked.

"Just missed him about a moment ago - sorry kiddo. You a friend of his?" He asked, chewing his gum.

"Yeah, yeah er just needed to collect my English notes from him, but I guess I'll visit later." Selina said.

"About what time is he gonna be back?" Rosalie asked.

"Can't answer that - could be a while." The man, who I assumed was his dad, replied vaguely.

"Not to be clingy or anything, but a while as in..?" Rosalie questioned.

"Could be a few hours, could be a few days, maybe weeks -- oh is that the time!?" He exclaimed after muttering as he looked down at his watch. "I have an important meeting to be off to, so if you'll excuse me."

"No problem.." Selina muttered, before the shutting sound of a door was heard, and Rosalie and her were back in the car.

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"Well that totally flopped." I said, breaking the 30 second silence.

"Not necessarily." Angel muttered. "Doesn't anyone find it the least bit suspicious that his own dad doesn't know when he's gonna be back?"

"Well he is a guy." Selina said.

"That doesn't mean his parents ain't gonna know where he is." Monika replied.

"Yeah and what about his Mom? About what Keegan said earlier; 'it's up to Mitchell to tell you that'?" Rosalie added, opening a tub of Pringles.

"Whatever it is, I refuse to believe he's cheating on you." Monika stated, folding her arms.

"I know right!" Selina agreed, reaching out to Rosalie's Pringles before getting her hand swatted away.

"What are we gonna do then?" I sniffed, trying to stop myself from crying again.