Surge - Maya Nicole Page 0,63
Friday. I had texted all three and got no response. I didn't know why I cared, but it felt important to keep tabs on them at all times.
I had tested the knife on countless things, including the marble counter in the kitchen. It cut through it like it wasn't a solid piece of rock. The imaginative side of me wondered if it could cut through a bank vault.
My phone rang right as school got out on Friday. It was Mr. Nguyen, who I hadn't heard from him since we met about the secret money my mom had stashed away.
After exchanging brief pleasantries, he got straight to the point. "The judge who was supposed to sign off on releasing the money to you went out on a leave."
I stopped and leaned against the bank of lockers, shutting my eyes. "I needed that money. They already took my car."
"These boys you're dealing with, their families do not like your father." I heard a door close on his end of the phone. "How much has your mother told you?"
"Nothing. How do you know anything about what's happening?" I was starting to grow suspicious of every single person now.
If the Tritons could pay off security at the school, just what else were they capable of? I knew that had to have something to do with where my mom was and the financial issues I was now going through.
"I was good friends with your mom in high school." He sounded distraught. "But as soon as she left Finn and started seeing Robert, she changed."
"Changed how?" My feet carried me toward the parking lot where Ivy was waiting.
"Cut off ties with everyone, and Robert became her sole focus. I hadn't heard from her in years until she came to my office one day with you when you were just a few months old."
I slid into Ivy's car and turned down the music. She gave me a questioning look and then pulled out of the parking lot and drove toward the dance studio where she would drop me off.
"Did she share anything else with you besides what you told me already?" I looked at the dark clouds in the distance and thought it was fitting to my mood lately.
"She said that Robert had dangerous information about Finn, you, and her. She was scared he was going to do something if she stepped out of line and she wanted to set up a safeguard for you just in case."
"What information about Finn?"
"She told me it had something to do with his family and her family. She gave me as little information as possible because she feared he would find out and come after me. Those with money will do anything to protect their names and themselves." He cursed. "I have to go. I'm working on getting this in front of another judge."
He hung up and I stared at my phone. "Fuck." I shut my eyes and then slammed my fist against the dashboard, causing Ivy to swerve a bit.
"Hey, what's wrong?" She reached over and put her hand on my arm.
"What isn't wrong, Ivy?" I choked on my tears as they started falling. I wanted to be strong because that's what my mom would have wanted, but I was scared. "When are they going to get to you and take you away from me?"
The sheer loneliness I felt from not having my mom around was suffocating me. I never realized how much I relied on her for emotional support until she wasn't there to listen to me or for me to hear her stories.
"I promise you they won't. I don't care if they film me taking a shit. Let them post it on the internet." She turned into the dance studio parking lot.
I laughed and started coughing. She rubbed my back and handed me her water bottle. "Thanks."
"Aiden will come back to us. If only he was still seventeen he could go to the police for child pornography." She turned toward me. "Speaking of seventeen. Your birthday is next Saturday. Do you still want to have a kickback party?"
I put my head back against the headrest and wiped at my face with a tissue. "I don't know. My electricity might not even be working by then."
"I can talk to my parents about letting you borrow some money." Ivy had already done so much for me and my tab was over five hundred dollars with her.
It wasn't that I was opposed to accepting her help, but the way things