Shannon's Hope by Josi S. Kilpack

Author:Josi S. Kilpack
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Newport Ladies Book Club, LDS, fiction, addiction, family, drama, drugs, depression, support system, rebel, unconditional love, obsess, repair, relationships, rescue, step family, Olivia, Daisy, Paige, Athena, Victoria's Promise
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2013-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

I took two Tylenol PMs in order to make sure I didn’t wait up for Keisha and make myself crazy. When I woke up at eight the next morning, however, I peeked in on her before I did anything else. She was there, wrapped in the comforter, and it was a lead weight off my chest to know she’d come home. Well, it was one lead weight off my chest. There were three or four other ones still in place.

John and Landon went to his parents’ house in Anaheim again. John’s dad wasn’t feeling well, and I knew that John helping out was his way of staying connected. I’d had several hours to replay last night in my mind and was becoming more and more bothered by it. Why had Keisha put me on the spot? Why would she want to hang out with Jessica at all? Why had she kissed up to John, and why had he responded to it like he had? I’d asked her to write her schedule on the calendar when she started working, and she’d done it for a while, but she hadn’t kept up with it so I didn’t know if she was working today or not. Noon came and went, one o’clock, two o’clock. Why was Keisha sleeping so late? Was she hung over again?

I couldn’t stop thinking about Aunt Ruby’s missing laptop. If Keisha had stolen it, it had to be because she needed money, but I’d paid Tagg off a few days before Ruby came home and discovered the theft. If Keisha had pawned the laptop, why hadn’t she paid Tagg off with the money she’d have gotten from it? Did she owe more than she’d told me about? Had she needed the money for something else?

I was obsessing, so I called Aunt Ruby. I asked her how she was doing, and we talked about yesterday for a few minutes until she changed the subject, opening it up for me to ask for specific information regarding the break-in. I’d meant to ask about it yesterday, but the conversation had taken a very different turn. She had the times and dates of all the alarm disarmings, and I wrote them on the dates they’d occurred on the calendar as she reported them to me. I knew right away the date I hadn’t gone—Friday the 18 at 6:54 p.m. Keisha had worked at eight o’clock that night, but I couldn’t remember if she’d left for work early or not. “Did you find anything else missing?”

“No,” Aunt Ruby said. “Just the laptop, but it had my banking information on it and there was money taken from my accounts. It’s been very frustrating, especially since I’m trying to figure things out over a weekend. But the bank says they’ll return the funds—it’s part of the fine print, I guess. I just had to pay a hundred dollar protection fee.”

“How much money did they take?”

“There was about twelve hundred dollars’ worth of charges.”

“Did they buy things, or just get cash?”

“Some of both,” Ruby said.

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