Jenalyn: Crossing Lines (#4) [Complete]

Chapter 57: Dane

Monday, 6:28 P.M. EST

I’m getting really sick of people today; Everybody better get their shit together before I pick one at random to sacrifice as a threat, and outlet for the anger they’re all causing me.

“Look, I know you’re busy, man! Want me to just head up there so you can finish taking care of Jahleel?” Rob offers, sensing my frustration. “I’ll drive up to the cabin and start rounding the girls back up. I’ll have half of ‘em back before you even get up there… Maybe all, if I can swing it right! If I could get to Jess, I could probably get some info on where the rest are. She orchestrated this whole… mass runaway.”

I only listen to half of what he says. My mind is racing in so many directions, causing my blood to pulse forcefully through my veins as I grow more and more frustrated. 

I’ve got to take care of Jahleel before anything. I know him- and I know he’s aware that I’m after him now, so he’s probably already preparing to flee. I can’t have that shit.

I’ve already got word on his whereabouts; I’m headed there now. It’s about two hours, both ways, that's why I got Rob watching the fucking delinquents at my apartment.

I sigh in frustration.

“What the fuck am I supposed to do with Jena, Ev, and Sierra?!” I snap as the thought, among many others, crosses my mind. “If I could leave them un-fucking-supervised, I wouldn't have had you bitch-sitting!”

Rob groans like he had forgotten to take that into consideration. There’s no fucking way he didn’t think about that- is he fucking stupid?

“I mean- if you don’t want to swing back here and get them before heading up to the mountains-” Rob says almost wearily through the phone. He trails off for a moment before continuing. “... I guess I could bring Ev and Jena up? Sierra’s still on her run, but I can arrange for Skimp to pick her up after, and she could stay with him?”

How did I know that’d be his fix-all? He damned well knows swinging back to Creekside after taking Jahleel out would tack on another hour and a half to the three hours I’ve already got heading to the mountain!

Something about Rob and Jenalyn just… rubs me the wrong way. It has for a while now; That's why I got all the cameras active at my place today while he’s bitch-sitting. I really don't want to let them take a three-hour road trip with her unsupervised…

I guess I have no fucking choice though. 

I’ll head up there as soon as I take care of Jahleel. I can’t afford for those girls up at the mountain to get into any more shit than I’m sure they already have. I can't afford to lose any of them either- and the longer I wait to either send Rob up there, or go myself risks them getting further and further away.

I’m going to have to trust the fact that they both supposedly have fucking brains in their heads, and couldn’t possibly be stupid enough to have anything going on…

“Fine. Whatever. Get it done,” I snap into my phone, gripping my steering wheel about as tight as I’d like to grip someone’s throat right now. “-and dose Jena with a few xannies so she’s too stupid to try anything slick. She’s not allowed to be seen, got it? She lays in the back of the truck.”