I walked into school prepared for seven hours of boredom but at least I had Nicki to talk to. Her opinions were always bringing up arguments that had not once ceased to entertain me. I dropped off my backpack in my locker and headed to my Algebra class with . I walked through the door and saw Nicki in her usual desk in the front of the room. I took the available seat next to her.
"Hi,Nicki."
"Hey Hannah."she replied.
Something was wrong. Usually when I said hi she would start a conversation but today she looked extremely deep in thought.
"Okay,what's wrong? youre never this quiet."
"Sorry",she answered like my voice had surprised her," My uncle Danny just got off a really bad case, his partner was kidnapped by someone he arrested a couple years ago, the only way he could save her was to handcuff himself to a bomb and let himself get driven to a cemetery. He had to dig his own grave, Hannah."
I couldn't help myself from gasping. Nicki probably heard about this stuff everyday but since my dad was an accountant all I ever heard about was how the taxes were going to go up.
"I'm sorry to hear that. Is he okay?"
"Yeah his partner was able to save him,but it kind of made me realize that he is in danger every time he goes into work."
"Well I don't know what that feels like but I do know what it's like to see someone you care about put there life on the line for their job."
My mom had been a helicopter pilot for the Air Force. When I was about 6 years old there had been technical problems with the helicopter she was flying that made it crash.
"I think the important thing to remember is that your uncle has an important role to keep people safe,"I said,"besides your uncle is way to stubborn to let some criminal beat him at his job."
Nicky laughed. I had met her uncle a couple times and even argued with him once. From what I could tell he hated loosing and he was a little hard headed at times but he was a good cop who cared a lot about his family.
Just then walked in looking tired as usual. He put his bag on his desk looked at us and said,"Good morning girls. You're looking energetic today, like you have a lot of life ahead of yourselves.