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given me the time of day
were asking me to parties and letting me bring a plus-1. It didn’t
bother me since none of these boys were my type and Tabitha didn’t
seem impressed either. It was fun to see them stumble all over
themselves in order to get close to her.
    Since my mom wouldn’t
be home until late and I didn’t, in fact, have any homework, I
turned on the TV and got something to eat. The funny thing about the
brain is that there is never anything interesting on TV when you have
a lot of things on your mind. I couldn’t shake the feeling that
something was wrong or that something was on the verge of happening.
You know how people from California say that the weather gets strange
right before an earthquake? They call it earthquake weather. Well, I
felt like my world was about to shake in a very major way.
    I had several questions
running through my head. One of them was why didn’t I just
wrestle the ticket out of Tabitha’s hand? I am taller and weigh
more than her, but I somehow knew that those facts didn’t
equate to being stronger and faster. The second was why in the world
would someone say they were my mother and send me a ticket? Or, worse
yet, what if it really was my mother? What could she possibly want
after all of these years? I knew that I wouldn’t get any
answers tonight and resigned myself to talking to my mom the next day
after school.
    It was Thursday night,
why school started on a Thursday was anyone’s guess, and my mom
had most weekends off which made Friday the perfect time to talk to
her. Besides, I would turn 18 in three months and I would be getting
my bio-mom’s information then, anyway.
    Hours later I found
myself asleep on the sofa with the TV tuned to Late Night with Jimmy
Fallon. I was hesitant to click it off because he was in the middle
of one of those musical skits with Justin Timberlake, but I knew I
needed to get to bed. As soon as the sound went off I heard hushed
talking from the side yard. I walked closer to the window to see who
was out there when I heard my mom’s voice. That was strange
that she was outside at this time of night. Usually she came straight
in and got ready for bed due to her tight schedule. She had incurred
a lot of bills over the years and, even though I knew that her
financial situation hadn’t been directly my fault, I still felt
guilty about it.
    I leaned forward until
my ear was pressing against the window. I felt like such a child by
eavesdropping on my mom, but curiosity got the best of me. I stood as
still as possible and held my breath as I heard my mother’s
voice.
    “ Listen,
I have done what you have told me. I have kept her safe and out of
trouble until her 18th birthday. It’s not my fault that this
blond chick is messing up your plans. How was I to know who she was?”
    “ Ms.
Redding,” said a smooth voice. “We have no intentions of
going back on our word. We simply need you to keep Cheyenne away from
Tabitha for the next three months. Once Lord Oleander arrives, we
will take it from there.”
    “ Well,
how am I going to keep her from her best friend?”
    “ You
will figure it out or you simply will not get paid.”
    “ Oh,
I’ll do it alright. I spent the last 5 years earning that
money.”
    “ And,
remember, you must not interfere when we come to take her. That is
the agreement.”
    “ Oh,
I won’t. Just tell your ‘lord’ that I want my
money!”
    I knew that I was
hearing my mom’s voice but I had never heard this much venom in
it. My mother had taken me in for profit? This must be a mistake. I
would just go outside and ask what was going on. She was probably
auditioning for a play or something, even though she had never acted
a day in her life. I started to open the side door that was next to
the window when I saw the face of the person with the smooth voice
and I froze. I was staring at the profile of the boy with the white
hair from my History class. I ducked out of sight right before he
turned in my direction