Keeping Secrets by Treasure Hernandez

Author:Treasure Hernandez [Hernandez, Treasure]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2013-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Secret was beginning to think that her best friend was right; perhaps she really did need a cell phone. She needed a phone right now more than anything. From the looks of things, they just didn’t make pay phones anymore.

“You all right?” Secret heard a voice ask her as she exited the gas station lot. She’d gone there hoping to find a pay phone on the grounds but had no such luck.

“No, I’m good,” Secret said on instinct. It was the middle of the night. Good people weren’t out lurking in the middle of the night unless they were up to no good. Then she thought for a second. Heck, she was out lurking in the middle of the night and she wasn’t up to no good.

“Actually,” Secret said as she turned around to face a woman who was pumping her gas. “Do you happen to have a cell phone I can use?”

“Sure. Hold on a sec. It’s on the car charger.” The woman, dressed in scrubs as if she worked in a hospital, finished up pumping her gas and put the nozzle back. “You bold to be out here in the middle of the night in a mini skirt,” the woman said to Secret. “Figure it wasn’t by choice, especially with that distressed look on your face like you’ve lost your best friend.” She went and opened up her car door. She reached in, grabbed her cell phone, and then handed it to Secret.

Speaking of best friend, that’s exactly who Secret planned on calling. If Shawndiece was still out in her mother’s car, she could come swoop her up. She dialed her best friend’s cell phone. She was excited to hear it ring, but her excitement was short-lived, murdered to be exact, when it went straight to voice mail after just one ring.

Secret sighed heavily. She dialed again and again it went straight to voice mail. Shawdiece’s phone was apparently turned off.

“No answer?” the woman surmised. “Is there anyone else you can call or somewhere I can drop you off at?”

Secret closed her eyes and tried to think hard about who else she could call. After just a few seconds, her eyes opened, full of renewed hope. She reached in her purse and pulled out the piece of paper she’d been fondling earlier while on Shawdiece’s porch. She proceeded to punch the numbers from the piece of paper into the borrowed cell phone.

“Yo,” Secret heard a voice say.

“Hey.” She hesitated in her response.

“Secret?”

“Uh, yeah, hey,” she said, looking down, away from the good Samaritan who was staring down her throat.

“What’s going on, girl? Let me guess; your little plan backfired. You done got a taste of me and now you got midnight cravings?” Lucky’s laugh flowed through the receiver, putting a half smile on Secret’s face for the first time in a minute.

“Something like that, I guess you could say.” Secret tried her best to keep her voice from cracking, but she couldn’t help it. Lucky’s voice was like a safety net right now that she just wanted to fall into.

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