Trafficked: a novel by Sophia Rey

Author:Sophia Rey [Rey, Sophia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: IN DEVELOPMENT
Publisher: Jollington Press
Published: 2018-07-23T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

MOM WAS HOPPING MAD. She looked out the window of our apartment and our van was gone. She went down to the parking lot, thinking maybe she’d parked in some spot further away from the apartment. It was late when she’d gotten home the night before. She’d gone to church, taken us to the dollar theater, and gone grocery shopping the night before. When she got home she was tired.

She looked and looked. Nope. It definitely wasn’t there. So we called the police and they told her the car had been towed. Her face turned red with anger. She vaguely remembered parking the car a bit crookedly so that her tires might have angled into another parking spot.

“No!” she told the cops. “They wouldn’t tow my car just for that, would they?” They suggested we talk to our complex management. She got even angrier. We went to the office. There she saw two employees she didn’t want to talk to. There was Mike, who told us when we moved in, that if we didn’t like our location near the street we could change it for a $100.00 fee. It ended up being $500.00. Mom was not thrilled with him. And Gigi, who was fairly new, but made it clear she didn’t want to waste her time helping people. We walked back to the apartment to get some CDs that needed to be returned to the office. And she called the towing place. They told her it would be $300.00 to get the van out of the impound lot.

By then she was really upset. “We just don’t have an extra $300.00,” she cried. “You try to do things right and look what happens.” She went back to the office, forgetting the CDs, and complained loudly, telling them they needed to refund her the expense of the towing charge.

She was so upset that I had to call for the Lyft driver, who got lost on the way over to the apartment. Then I had to call another taxi because the Lyft guy never did make it. By the time we left it was 11:00. “Why are you so mad?” I asked. “It’s just $300.00.”

“$300.00 is a lot of money right now. And it’s not just the money. Everything is adding up. I had to work so many hours last week, grading papers. The school district doesn’t pay me for any grading or correcting of papers that I do outside of school. I had to spend hours and hours reading those papers, then correcting and grading them. And I still had tutoring and the .98 Cent Store. I think I might just need more sleep.”

“I really wanted to give you kids a day out. I was going to take you all kayaking in Prescott – you and Kai and Maurine and Carol. Give our brains a bit of a break from all the stress and worry. A true Christmas break. And now I don’t think I’ll have money for that.”

Mom looked thoughtful. “I don’t want you to worry.

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