Take It Down A Notch by Weston Parker

Author:Weston Parker [Parker, Weston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2019-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Declan

“Mr. Hobbs, may I see you for a moment please?” Wayde didn’t make it sound like I had much of a choice about how to answer his question. He didn’t even wait for a response before he pivoted and headed into his small office at the Big Brother hall.

Sighing as I wondered what stick was up his ass this time, I followed him and shut his door behind me. The space looked more like a paper storage facility than an office, but it had two dingy chairs and a desk that looked like it was about to collapse under the weight of all the paper on top of it.

Wayde sank into the chair at the far side of the desk, not motioning for me to take the other. I sat down anyway. “What can I do for you, Wayde?”

“Connor Lake. I saw you speaking with him on your first day here.” He crossed his arms over his chest and stared me down as he brought one ankle up to rest on his knee.

My eyes narrowed in confusion. “Yeah, so?”

A satisfied sort of smirk appeared on Wayde’s lips. “He was also here because the court sent him to us. Did you know that?”

“Yes. He mentioned seeing me in court.” My lips curled in distaste as I remembered my encounter with the dude-bro. “What about him?”

“He’s behind bars.” The satisfaction in Wayde’s expression grew, but there was also an undercurrent of anger and frustration bubbling right below the surface. “It serves him right for what he did and for blowing his chances here with us.”

“I agree.” I didn’t know what he had done to land here, but I didn’t really care. Just like me, he’d been sent here because he’d committed a crime. He skipped out on the one shot he had at avoiding prison.

It wasn’t my fault, and it wasn’t like I’d done the same thing, so I still didn’t understand why Wayde was talking to me about this. A faint voice in the back of my mind reminded me that I had come really close to doing the same thing, but I ignored it.

Yes, I’d considered walking out, but I hadn’t. All that felt like it had happened a lifetime ago anyway, not mere weeks ago. “I’m sorry, but why did you call me into your office to discuss Connor?”

“Because you’re just like him,” he spat, then sucked in a deep breath that did nothing to curb the sudden lashes of anger he was dishing out with his tongue. “Kids count on their Big Brothers, and the entire program is put at risk when filth like you is allowed in. Consider this your final warning, Declan. I’m not playing around. You step one foot out of line, and I will report you. You can join Connor Lake in a six-by-nine cell for the rest of your days for all I care.”

I lifted my hands in surrender, splaying my fingers open and showing him my palms. “Calm down, buddy. I haven’t stepped a foot out of line, and I’m not going to.

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