Iced in Paradise_A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery by Naomi Hirahara

Author:Naomi Hirahara [Hirahara, Naomi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Childrens
ISBN: 9781945551604
Google: YLaZDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 45030881
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Published: 2019-09-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

I WISH I COULD SAY that I don’t know what it’s like to be riding in the backseat of a police car, but I’d be lying. During my senior year of high school, there was an “incident.” It involved another student who happened to be stalking Emily, who was a junior at the time. Kirk would be waiting for her every day when she was dismissed from her last class. He would follow about five yards behind, stop where she stopped, and even wait for her to emerge from a friend’s house. Later I would discover that Kirk was neglected and sometimes abused at home, but I still wouldn’t have done anything different. Mom had spoken to our high school counselor, but since what Kirk was doing was outside of school grounds, there was little they could do. As he was a minor, only sixteen, the police didn’t want to get involved. Mom went to his home to talk to his mother, but she defended her son, saying we were lying, crazy Filipinos.

So I had to take things into my own hands, right? Those hands took hold of the shoulders of the military jacket that Kirk was wearing and slammed his back into a chain-link fence at our school. I verbally beat him up, threatening every act of bodily harm that I could imagine if he continued his stalking ways. Court was begging me to stop, but I didn’t listen to her until Mr. Yamagishi pulled me off of Kirk. Right behind him was Kirk’s mother, who had been watching the whole time.

Mr. Yamagishi tried to calm the mother down, but she insisted on calling the police. It must have been a slow day at the Kaua‘i police station because lo and behold, who should show up but Dennis Toma, who was a lieutenant at the time. They didn’t lead me out with my hands in plastic ties that day, but I did get a chauffeured ride in the back of a police car. I had just turned eighteen, and I guess was technically an adult. I was taken in for questioning, perhaps to appease Kirk’s mother.

I was never charged with any crime, but I was marked as a troublemaker at the Kaua‘i police department. Marked as a girl who was out of control, a local vigilante. Toma gave me a good talking-to, told me that I needed to break my family’s rebellious cycle. I had no idea at the time what he was talking about.

I was close to getting expelled, but as it turned out after the “incident,” all these girls from my high school came forward. Kirk stalked them, too, and on top of that, left morbid notes in their lockers. Each one of them was scared to come forward until they saw me confronting him on school grounds. Mr. Yamagishi worked it out with the principal, and I had to serve detention for three months, but there was nothing on my school record that would have affected my acceptance to UW.

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