Forbidden Love
Chapter 21
“Thank you Mrs. Johnson, my husband and I will talk to her when she gets home. I assure you we will get to the bottom of this. Goodbye.” Rose hung up the cordless phone and walked to the husband’s studio and knocked on the door. She pushed it opened and walked in. “Hector, the girl’s school just called.”
Hector turned from JC to his wife. “Which school?”
“The high school.”
He shook his head. “What did Amber and Alex do?”
“Nothing. The school called because of Adrienne.” Getting JC’s attention, he looked up at Rose.
Hector gave his wife a surprised look. “Adrienne? You mean my sweet and shy Adrienne? There has to be some mistake.”
“No there is no mistake. Apparently Adrienne hasn’t been turning in her homework and she’s received several detentions for it, but she hasn’t showed up for a single one, and also Mrs. Johnson thinks Adrienne and several other students, she has names have been…” She paused for a Moment and said, “I don’t even want to say it.”
“What skipping school?” Hector said, hoping it was just that.
Rose shook her head and covered her eyes with one hand. She didn’t want to see her husband’s face when she told him what their daughter had been doing. “Adrienne and the other students have been using empty class rooms as their own little private…hotel room, I guess you can say.”
Hector eyes widen in anger and in surprise. “WHAT?!”
She lowered her hand. “The kids supposedly called it the sex room. Mrs. Johnson has names of all the kids but she doesn’t have proof but soon as she gets it Adrienne will be suspended from school for a week.”
Hector stood up. “I was going to wait, but I want those cameras down. I need to look at them and Adrienne is grounded. I want everything out of her room. Computer, TV, stereo, phone, everything that is worth something to her I want out.”
“Did we come in at a bad time?” Ashley and April said walking into the studio.
Rose looked at her daughter. “It’s your sister.”
“Which one?” asked April.
“Adrienne.” Ashley and April glanced at one another, a glance that their Dad caught.
“What do you girls know?” he asked.
“Nothing,” they said a little too quickly.
“Don’t give me that. If you girls know something I will find out. You girls don’t know this but I set up cameras around this house. I have been spying on all of you because I had feeling you were all up to something. So either you tell me now or I’ll get the truth from watching the tapes.”
Ashley’s and April’s eyes widen in horror. They turned to one another and they looked at JC. “How long have you had cameras up?” Ashley asked, looking back at her Dad.
“Does it matter?”
April pressed her palm against her forehead, feeling a sudden headache come on. “I don’t feel so good.”
“Maybe watching the tapes with me will make you feel better.” April looked at her Dad. “Last chance. Do you want to tell me anything?”
She looked at her sister. Ashley gave her a nod. “We’ll tell you about us,” said April “but we can’t speak for the others.”
“Okay that’s fair.” He turned back to JC. “We have to cut this session short today. I’m sorry.”
“Don’t worry about it.” He stood up. “I’ll see you tomorrow.” He locked eyes with Ashley for a brief Moment and left the studio.