CODE RED (Book 1)

Reasons

" So you say that's she's changed?" Alex's voice spoke from the other end of my phone.

It was currently the next morning around 11:30Am.

"Yeah. Last night, you saw her, how different she acted." I clarified marking words down on my homework assignment due Monday.

Alex didn't answer me right away so I had to call his name to make sure he was still there.

"Alex, you still there?"

"Yeah, I was just thinking. . ."

"About?" I inquired.

"I'll admit she has. . .uh, changed ."

I lifted an eyebrow at the way he had said it, his voice sounded unbelievable. "Why'd you put it that way?" I asked stopping my pencil from writing.

" Don't you find all this to be strange, that yesterday morning she was completely out of it and wasn't herself but then suddenly she's all over it as if it never happened." he replied back trying to prove his point with facts that pretty much did make sense.

I didn't know why, but I kind of felt offended by the way he had said this." What is that supposed to mean?" I asked the annoyed edge in my voice clearly heard.

"Don't get the wrong idea, I just think she's. . .not completely over her drinking thing even if she has just started it."

"Oh, really, then why didn't I find a single bottle of alcohol under her bed last night when I went to go check, plus she even told me she was over the drinking thing."

"Gareki, I'm just not sure about this. I don't think she's fully over it all, I mean think about it, how hurt she was when Jared left her and not to mention your dad being taken away to jail.

The offended feeling grew inside of me making my fingers tighten around my phone. was he honestly trying t o make this even more worse for me. I wanted to believe things were over and I had but now his words made me think my mom wasn't completely over her pain. I just wanted to forget and relax knowing that I didn't need to worry about her being home alone and drinking and doing something potentially that could end her life but why did he have to make me second guess myself?

"Are you an expert on this?" My voice came out deep and slightly angry despite me trying to hold it back. I didn't want to be mad at him but I just wanted my life to be normal and not stressing over problems in my life such as this one. But having him make me second guess what was actually happening made me stress all over again.

"No, but- "

"Then I think we should stop talking about this." I interrupted quickly.

He sighed before answering slowly, " alright."

We both were silent and the awkward feeling started. Something neither of us had felt in a long time it seemed.

"I'm sorry." He said quietly.

"Alex don't, I shook my head looking down at my homework before replying, none of it is because of you. . . I just don't want to think about it any more. Sorry."

"It's fine. he said before adding, what happened between you and Nai yesterday?"

I paused and frowned." How did you know about that?"

"D.C told me. Only part of it anyway."

"Oh." Was all I could say.

Alex inhaled a breath on the other end before asking." I heard that you and him pretty much almost got into a fight."