6. Rain Settles the Dust

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       I rubbed my eyes when I checked my phone.

                It was 6 in the morning.

                I walked out of the records room when I saw that the lights were off and everything was closed up. I went back toward Genevieve’s office when her door was locked.

                I grabbed the handle but it didn’t move.

                I stepped back and knocked on the door then looked into the room through the little window next to the door.

                I grabbed my phone and checked it but nothing.

                I went down the hallway and found that the desk girl from last night was gone and now a guard was in her place.

                I looked around as he glanced up at me.

                “You need help?”

                “I'm just a little confused, where is the desk girl from last night?”

                “She got off at like 12.”

                I looked back at my phone.

                “What about Genevieve, did you see her leave?” I asked him back.

                He grabbed the book and flipped to the last page, “Genevieve left at about 10:48.”

                I nodded my head back at him, “Thank you so much.”

                He smiled back at me as I went for the elevator with my phone out.

                I called Natalie knowing that she would be up still.

                Natalie unlocked the door to her hotel room as I walked in.

                I glanced back at her as she held out the beer.

                “So that bitch just left you.”

                I sat down on the couch and looked back at her.

                Natalie nodded her head back at me, “Are you gonna be ok?”

                I looked back at her, “Through everything we have been through, why have you always picked up when I called you?”

                Natalie looked up at me, “Because you always were the first one to help me. You protected me through everything and you were there to protect me from my father. You were the only one to believe me when I said that he wasn’t nice.”

                I took another drink of the beer.

                “I mean Jordana, you have been the only person to love me like a person and not like I'm the drug dealers’ daughter.”

                “But you are the drug dealer’s daughter.”

                Natalie waved her hand back at me, “I'm talking about now, what are you gonna do now?”

                I shook my head as I finished up the beer, “Do you remember our senior year of high school?”

                Natalie glared back at me, “Why do you wanna talk about that?”

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