Similars Repel

Fourteen|| Her Team

Chapter 14

    My thoughts swirled around my brain as if they were liquid. I couldn't decipher my emotions. Anger? Sadness? Dread? Which one was it? My thoughts kept taking me back in time, back to my childhood. It was complicated yet so simple at the same time. Being a child, I hated it. I had no authority, I had to do what I was told, or else a beating would be on its way.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?"  Laura communicated through sign language with me. Being mute, that was her only way.

I looked back at her from where I was trying to pick the doors lock, "Good idea? No. Does it matter? No. Mom has been hiding something for years now, and I need to know what. It's making her miserable. I know you can hear her crying at night, too." I growled and the lock finally gave in, allowing me to get on my feet and enter.

Her office wasn't as tidy as it usually was, with stacks of books and papers on her desk, as well as random stuff like a set of keys and bags filled with white powder. If we were in a movie I would have thought it was cocaine. I almost laughed at the thought.

Laura tapped me on the shoulder, "What about the cameras?" She asked and pointed to the security cameras.

"Don't worry, I hacked them. They'll be playing the same footage for ten minutes. We have like seven left, so let's see if we find anything and then leave. I'll let you know when it's time to go."

She nodded and we both began snooping. We tried not to make more of a mess, and leave things the way they were before. But we had yet to find anything of importance, so Laura just gave up. "She probably cries because we all get beatings from father. I don't think she has something to hide. She would have told us." She signed.

I shook my head, "There has to be." I opened more drawers, more bills were in there. Bills to pay were almost everywhere. What was odd was that all of them had a different address, not only ours. Yet I didn't think too much into it.

She tapped me on my shoulder again, "Let's just go. We'll get in trouble if they catch us." She pointed to the door.

"You go, I'll do this. I just feel like there's something more. You won't get in trouble if you leave now." I said and searched another drawer. More bills. I threw a quick glance at the clock, I had less than four minutes.

"There's no way I'm living you alone. Even if I do leave, they'll blame us both. We're twins after all." She signed and looked around anxiously.

I opened the last drawer, "Don't worry, I'll take the blame and you won't get beat. Just scolded." I reassured and took out papers. More bills. And a folder was deep into the drawer for a change. I took it and opened it. The first thing in it was a prescription. Prescription for schizophrenia.

"Mom is schizophrenic?"

"Eva!"

I flinched at the loud voice and looked up. Joe was looking at me as if I've grown a second head, "Are you alright? I've been calling you for about a minute." He asked, his tone worried.

Everyone in the conference room was now staring at me. We had all gathered to talk to FBI's director, director Sandler. Team X4 as well as Maria and Robert. I hadn't really spoken since yesterday, when Alexia was taken away. Nor have they tried to make me talk, which I appreciated. Joe was the one to stay by my side at all times. Manbun on the other hand hadn't spoken a word to me, he wouldn't even look at me. Unless he thought I was not looking, that was when he would stare and look deep in thought. I didn't know if it was because of Alexia's departure or the argument we had before that. Or maybe both.