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I didn’t want to leave her. All I kept thinking was how much I had hurt her over the last few weeks and I might not get a chance to tell her how sorry I was.
I needed for her to open her eyes so I could tell her how much I loved her and how sorry I was for putting her last behind Aiden and Luke. I needed her to be all right. Tears gathered in my eyes and I rubbed them furiously.
“Come on son, let them do their job,” the officer said. I gazed at him, recognizing him as a friend of my dad. They had gone to high school together.
I followed Officer Romero to the living room. Delia Art was sitting on the sofa. Her arms were crossed over her chest, so her hands were hidden by her sides. “Hiding something?” I asked Delia.
“Shut up, Calvert,” she sneered.
Another officer had already started questioning Johnny.
“Any drugs in the house?” He asked.
“Only the prescription stuff my parents take. It’s in their bedroom.” Johnny was way cooler than I would have been than I was now. I kept looking in the garage, the door not far from where we were standing.
“Where are your parents?” He asked.
“Aspen,” Johnny replied. “Annual skiing trip.”
I stared her down. Half listening to the line of questions. Mostly not. She didn’t flinch away from my gaze. Delia had no conscious.
“Alcohol?” Officer Robert Henson the partner of my dad’s friend, asked. He was younger than they were by a few years.
“Not that I know of,” Johnny replied.
None of us drank. He always made it clear he didn’t want to know about it if alcohol was brought to his parties. His parents were going to kill him now that this had occurred. There would be no more blowouts at Johnny’s house after this one.
“Anybody see Abigail go into the garage with anyone?” Officer Henson asked.
“No, but his parents have cameras all throughout the house, including the garage. Right Johnny?” I said watching Delia Art’s face drop in horror, rage, then despair. She was caught and she knew it. All these emotions crossed her face and more. I couldn’t wait for her to get hers.
She whispered something to Sandy Heller who nodded. They got up thinking they could slip out while the officers were distracted with questioning us. I elbowed my Dad’s friend. “No one should be leaving now, right?” I asked.
Officer Romero turned and looked at the girls. “Sit down girls.” Officer Jessie Romero was a no-nonsense kind of guy. He had an eighth grader and a sixth grader. Mom always teased him because his wife was about ten years younger than they were.
Delia shot me the finger as she plopped back on the sofa. I didn’t care. She did this to Abby. I knew it without seeing any tapes.
“Todd, watch the kids here. Johnny come with me,” he said. I followed. “Calvert, I did not say you could join us.”
“Jessie…” He raised his eyebrows at me. I dropped my head. “Officer Romero that is my girlfriend in the garage.”
“Son, all the more reason you need to stay here.”
“Please,” I begged.
He sighed at me, but he relented letting me come with him and Johnny. Tyson followed too. We were heading to Johnny’s
dad’s office on the opposite side of the house. “And who are you?” Officer Romero asked.
“Her brother,” I answered.
He shook his head but allowed all three of us into the room. Johnny brought up the cameras behind his dad’s desk. “Why the heavy artillery kid?”
Johnny rolled his eyes. “Our house was broken into eleven months ago. The cameras somehow give my mother comfort plus she feels she can keep an eye on me while they are out of town.”
He pulled up the garage camera on the screen and went back an hour. Nothing was happening. The garage was dark. Johnny fast forwarded the camera’s digital recording ten minutes and we could see the lights were on now. He backtracked to Delia shoving Abby into the garage.
I wasn’t sure I could watch this. Tyson looked even more uncomfortable than I did. It didn’t take long until I was about to come out of my skin as Delia pounded Abby’s face with her fists. I wanted to hurt Delia and I had never hurt a girl in my life.
