Salient Secret

Chapter 21

Kai just left with Sammy, and I can't seem to go back to sleep, something about seeing him after everything Sammy told me just made me restless. I decide to start my mini investigation now by figuring out why Kai is visiting this hospital. I try my best to remember every single word he said to me the first day we met and the day I bumped into him by accident. 

That day, he was said he was avoiding Doctor Mitchell, but if he has no aunt here then how would Doctor Mitchell even know him. Call it a hunch but I decide to open my lap top and search "Melanie Mitchell," she comes up as a doctor, the internet gives away her Facebook page, so I click on it, there's around one hundred pictures here, I go straight to the bottom to get as much background as possible. After scrolling through all her pictures, I learn that she has no siblings, she has a PhD, she's naturally a brunette but she dyed her hair blonde, she's in her late thirties, she really likes coffee, she lives on her own in a very nice apartment, all her friends are nurses or doctors, she has a pet cat named Doodles and she hates avocados. Nothing out of the blue, but then, this might be a false lead but there's one picture out of 124 with someone who isn't from work. I click on the photo, it's a picture of her with a lady around her age, with black hair, brown eyes and a visible tattoo on her wrist but I can't make out what it says, it looks like someone's name. The location of this picture is some restaurant in London. Then I decide to check for tags that might give away this woman's name or something...no way. It can't be. 

"Julia Jackson." Could it be??? My mom's ex best friend... 

I mentally scold myself for forgetting if my mom mentioned Julia's surname or not, and if she did, I forgot it. Well, there's only one way to find out. I pull out my phone and call my mother.

"Is everything okay?" That's the first thing she says when she answers. 

"Yes, I just have a question." 

"Sweetie, it's 1 am, what are you even doing up?"

"I couldn't sleep, just out of curiosity though, what what was Julia's surname?"

"Uhhhhh, Jackson...yes Jackson, why?" 

"No reason, but thanks, goodnight, love you." I hang up and give myself a mental pat on the back for acquiring this information.

I decide to create a fake account and request to be Julia's friend on Facebook because she has a private account, unlike Doctor Mitchell, and I just don't think Julia will accept a friend request from a Shaw. Hopefully she'll accept one from cute Mr Daniel Taylor, I made the account private but I added some pictures of random things and followed some people to make the account believable, but most importantly I made the display picture a picture of a random, cute, middle aged guy I found on the internet. No woman will resist a cute guy like that...I hope.

I have no idea where Julia will lead me but I just have to see what's on her page. I just have to. I close my lap top and shut my eyes. 

I wake up the next morning at 6 am, I don't know how and why because I didn't get much sleep last night but here I am. Perhaps it's because I am excited to see Doctor Mitchell later today, I have to find out more about her by asking her questions, but as a "friend." 

In the meantime, I get up and shower, I decide to braid my hair, I change into the hospital gown because today is my second immunotherapy session. I sit down on the bed and realize I'm a bit too hungry to wait an hour for breakfast. I slip on my night gown and bedroom slippers and make my way to the snack bar downstairs, I just get a chicken and mayo sandwich and sit in the lobby to eat it. It takes me about 4 minutes to finish it, don't judge me I was hungry, I get up to throw the wrapper in the trash and that's when I notice a tall figure, luring behind the same wall where I bumped into Kai, he takes his hoodie off of his head... I'd recognize that hair anywhere, it is Kai.