First Friendly Face

I'm Telling Him Lies

Ok so I got away for like a week or something like that and I come back and I have 21 reads! Yay tysm! I really hope you are all enjoying the story! Who's excited for Doctor Who tonight! Flatline! Thanks again enjoy x

What if he wanted to see it? 

"How do you get enough money to buy food and clothing if you don'y have any parents?" Alec asked her. It was a fair enough question. 

"I work on the paper route on the weekends and I bag groceries on the weekdays. It makes me just enough." "Do you go to school?" Jenny leaned back in her chair and stared up at the ceiling. 

"No, I haven't gone to school in eight months." She replied. Alec could hear the shame in her voice. 

"How long have you been in Broadchurch? Your whole life?" He asked. 

"No, I traveled here after my parents died. For a fresh start." She said. Alec began to push back his chair. 

"Ok, that's all I need." He said as he stood fully up. Jenny jumped up. 

"Why did you need to ask me those questions?" She asked. Alec paused for a moment. 

"I just needed to back up the evidence with answers. That's all." He turned around to head out the door. 

"I'll need you to come by the station tonight. I need a DNA sample." Jenny followed him. 

"Why do you need that?" She asked him puzzled. 

"It's all procedure." He said as he walked away. 

"Fine." Jenny mumbled as she watched Alec walk across the road and back to the station. 

"How's it going?" A man asked Jenny. They were down by the beach sitting on a rock. 

"He keeps asking me questions. I keep telling him lies." Jenny replied to him. He was a tall thin man with floppy brown hair and dark brown eyes. He was always kind to Jenny and protected her but this time she was on her own. He couldn't help her. 

"You know I can't help you." He told her sternly. Jenny laid back on the flat rock. 

"I know. I just feel horrible lying. The questions bug me. What if he figures it out?" Jenny started to yell. She covered her eyes as a tear rolled down her face. 

"It's just traveling. We can leave when we want to. We could go now if you want." He asked her. He lay down next to her. Jenny turned to face him. Tears came freely now. 

"I can't go yet. He wants to take a DNA sample." She said. The man took a deep breath. 

"Then we stay. But not too long ok. Tell him that you can't keep doing this." He told her gently. He reached over and brushed a strand of her hair from her eyes. 

"Ok, I will." She replied with a slight smile. 

Jenny walked to the police station at five o'clock. Everyone else was having dinner but her and maybe Alec. She wore her jacket over her shoulders to protect her from the high winds that were now coming off the shore. 

When she reached the police station she walked in the front door. She hadn't noticed Alec up above on the porch watching as she entered. 

She went up the stairs after she checked with security. The hallway was small and it made her feel small inside. When she came to the top of the staircase there was a long hallway. She made her way down it to a door that said 'Main'. She carefully pushed open the door. She entered a big room with lots of desks and people. Some of them stopped to look at her as she made her way through the office. 

She finally came across an office door that said 'Alec Hardy'. She carefully knocked on it afraid that she was going to disturb him. 

"Come in." She heard him say. She pushed open the door to see Alec sitting at his desk with his glasses on. There was a chair over in the corner buts he wasn't sure if she was allowed to sit so she just stood there in front of the door. 

"You know you can sit down." Alec nodded to the chair in the corner. Jenny slowly nodded back and went over to sit in it. 

"You alright?" He asked Jenny. She was sitting very straight and posed in the chair. 

"Yes, why?" She replied. 

"Well...you..seem a little stiff." He told her. Jenny noticed and relaxed a bit. She sank into the chair. 

"Ok. We are going to take a sample in a few minutes so you can sit and wait." He told her. He picked up his pen and began to write. Jenny sat there and thought. Did Alec think she was a suspect? Not in a billion years would she kill him! She barely knew him. She had never actually talked to him.