Fixing Lia by Jamie Bennett

Author:Jamie Bennett [Bennett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

I was at my desk packing up to leave for the gym when I picked up one last phone call. Amy had already left to go to a party, but I had amazed myself by staying even when my boss was gone because I needed to finish a few more things. I had knocked Dayana for her stealing, but it had turned out that the woman had also done a lot of work and without her there, crap was piling up.

Picking up all the calls and then responding to all the dumb questions behind them was maybe the reason Dayana had lost it a little and turned to crime. But now, since I had to do it myself, I was learning even more about how the whole accounting business worked, how to find information for people, and how to solve some of their problems. That part I didn’t mind so much. “Amy Whitaker and Associates, this is Lia,” I said again, for the fiftieth time that day.

This call I minded. “This is to inform you that your student…” The pre-recorded voice paused while another person plugged in, “Jared, um, Bissett,” then the monotone returned to tell me that Jared was absent from his after-school program today—he had never shown up at all. My heart fell down into my comfortable waitress shoes and I ran out, forgetting my coat on the back of my office door and dropping the keys to the truck twice in the hall outside because my hands were shaking so badly. I ran to the elevator, hitting the button repeatedly to try to make it come faster, then ditched it and bolted down the stairs, two and three at a time until I was almost falling.

Jared. Oh, my God. The whole week he had been on edge, both of us had been. But I had thought we had it under control because of the progress we had made on the house. I had bought all the pipes, miles of them. I had broken off the rest of the plaster on the ground floor and carted it away in the truck, the plumber-ish guy was working there today, and I was ready with bales of insulation to stuff into the walls. I had even bought a furnace (also with my credit card, a purchase which meant that I wouldn’t be paying off my balance for the next few years.) “See?” I had told my brother the night before. “We’re getting close! We’ll be moving in soon,” and he had nodded, like he agreed and was ok with it.

And now he had taken off. Where was he? Where had he gone? He had to be back around our apartment. He had run back to the guys he had said he was afraid of, the ones he was supposed to stay away from. I went through a light, totally by mistake, not even noticing until another car blared its horn and we almost had an accident as I skidded to a stop on the wet pavement.

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