Hit and Run by Norah McClintock

Author:Norah McClintock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

CHAPTER EIGHT

I flung open the screen door so hard that it clattered against the brick. I burst into the house, feeling like my heart was going to explode in my chest.

“Jeez,” Billy said. He appeared so suddenly in the doorway to the living room that I almost collided with him. “I thought we’d been hit by a tornado or something. Where have you been, anyway?”

“The cops are going to reopen Mom’s case,” I told him. “Riel is going to talk to them about it, get them to take another look at what happened.”

“Yeah?” Billy didn’t sound nearly as excited as I was. But then, the main things that excited him were a night out with his friends, a night in with his girlfriend, or the chance to make some easy money. “How did that happen?”

“I was talking to him. I told him about Mrs. Jhun. It turns out he didn’t know about that. So he said he’d look into it.”

“What about Mrs. Jhun?”

“She saw Mom the night she died.”

I had the weird feeling that I was speaking a language Billy didn’t understand. He was staring at me, but he didn’t seem to be registering anything I was saying.

“What are you talking about, Mikey?” he said.

“I thought they knew. I didn’t know myself until a little while ago, but I thought they must have known because they’re the cops, right? They’re supposed to know stuff, that’s their job.”

“Slow down, sport,” Billy said. He took a step closer to me. “What’s all this about Mrs. John?”

“Maybe it’s nothing, but Riel told me the cops ran out of leads and that part of the reason for that was that they couldn’t find anyone who remembered seeing Mom that night. They know she went to the drugstore, but that’s all they know. But she saw Mrs. Jhun at the restaurant.”

“The restaurant was closed then, Mike,” Billy said. “It closed right after the old Chinese guy was killed, remember? They closed it down and never opened it up again.”

“I know. And Mrs. Jhun decided to go back to Korea to stay with her sister. She left that night. Mom dropped by her place to say good-bye to her. Then Mrs. Jhun took a taxi to the airport. She never even knew Mom had that accident. Or that the police were trying to find people who had seen Mom that night. By the time Mrs. Jhun came back here, the cops had given up on the case, and I didn’t even think about it until I was talking to Riel and—”

Billy put his hands on my shoulders and sort of squeezed me.

“Hey, calm down, Mikey,” he said. “You’re getting pretty worked up over what will probably turn out to be nothing.”

“But Riel said he’d look into it. He said—”

“Looking into something isn’t the same as doing anything about it,” Billy said. His face was all mashed up, like it was painful for him to have to say the words. “Jeez, it was a hit-and-run over four years ago now.

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