LIE

Chapter 58

At school Indra approached me all Cloak and Dagger.

"Hi Luc." He said. He was all up on me too. "What is it?" I asked. Is he hinting at me again?

"So you know how you put down my number at the child takers- I mean daycare center?" He whispered.

"Yes?" I said.

"Well, they called me, because they couldn't reach her parents, and they told me Alexandria had a, um, break down."

I shook my head at him. What? What's he trying to say?

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"She won't tell them why, but she's very upset.

Is that why my phone was going off?

I grabbed Indra and pulled him close to my face, "what did they say?!"

"They said we should come to the center and get her." Indra strained. I had grabbed him by the scarf and was basically strangling him. Reminder: he wears it very tightly for whatever reason!

"Oh god what did she do?!" I asked.

"They wouldn't say." He gasped. He hit my hand.

"Sorry." I let go of his scarf.

He started breathing heavily.

"Okay, we gotta- we going." I said.

I got up and walked out. Indra followed.

"Let's get back before fourth block. We still have that test." I reminded him.

While we were in the car I was talking, wondering what she could have possibly done.

"What what- did she scream and shout? Fight a kid?" Oh god, that would've been my fault.

"We won't know until we talk to the people." He reminded me.

"You have got to be kidding me." I said when the teacher told us.

Let me lay out the scene for you: here we are, boyfriend and brother, in the principal's office doing our best to be "parents" about it, trying to be adults and not laugh, but the child did not make it easy. She was upset because a kid told her her parents didn't care about her and that someday they'd abandon her. I guess the brats picked up on how they weren't often there to pick her up.

Alexandria is sitting outside.

"We think she should stay home until this is sorted out."

"This is just- wow." I started speaking all "parent-y." "Yes. We will sort this out." I slowly got up.

"Thank you for your time." I smiled as politely as I could. Indra got up and I backed out of the principal's office with him.

"Alexandria, come on." I called. "Grab your bag."

Alexandria hopped out of the seat and grabbed my hand. We left the building. In the car, it was a nuclear shitstorm.

"What am I going to tell my parents?!"

"What's gonna happen when she comes to school again?! She's gonna be ridiculed." I got paranoid quickly. "Those children are gonna tell their parents what happened! Now our parents are gonna get dragged through the mud just because they're hard workers and saving people's lives!"

"Nooooohohohoooooo!" I bawled.

"God! Why couldn't my parents just answer!" I screeched.

Indra and I just breathed heavily as we continued to panic. Well, I was panicking. I think Indra was panicking to offer some weird mutual support. Or something like that.