A/N: Late again! By now I think my update period has moved from the last day of the week to "sometime between Saturday and Tuesday." I'm super sorry, and I don't know if I can get out of this habit but I'll try... lol. -whoosh19
Neliel shook her head as her raven-haired friend tailgated Mr. Jaegerjaquez's car.
"Don't follow too close, Tatsuki," she warned. "He'll notice."
The car slowed a bit.
"Nel, hook up my GPS for me. It'll tell you "Draw Current Route". Click that."
They followed Mr. Jaegerjaquez all the way down into West Shore, an expensive town on the outskirts of the city.
"What the hell is he over here for?" Tatsuki mused under her breath. "This is Rich Territory. I really do hope you set the GPS up right."
"I did, it's saving it," Nel defended.
The white Chrysler 300 turned into a subdivision named "Langston Estates".
Tatsuki followed.
"Hey, zoom out on the GPS. I wanna see if I can take another road but meet up on this one again. Don't you think just following is suspicious to him?" she asked Nel.
"Please," the green-haired woman scoffed. "He enjoys this shit."
After three minutes of maneuvering, the Chrysler slowed to almost a complete stop. It turned in a driveway to a very expensive-looking white house.
"Damn."
Tatsuki drove past the house so she wouldn't look stupid staring at it.
"That's one hell-of-a crib," the green-haired woman murmured.
"Tell me about it. Click "End Route". We'll come by this joint later," Tatsuki told her.
Grimmjow scratched his head.
See, yesterday, someone followed him home in a black Accord. He wouldn't have thought they were following him, since it could've been a neighbor or someone who got lost.
The problem was Grimmjow lived quite a ways from the University of Soul Society, about an hour away without traffic. And he knew that no one who came to USS, be it for teaching or for learning, lived down in West Shore.
Except maybe the Kuchiki Siblings, who obviously didn't drive Hondas.
And yet he was staring at the same Honda that followed him home the night before.
Where was he?
He was in USS Cafeteria's parking lot, about to run in to get breakfast, and stopped abruptly in the middle of the road to stare down the Accord.
Someone purposely followed him, he was sure of it. The car had the same graffiti on it as yesterday's car.
So he decided to wait a bit to see who would enter the car. The blue haired man leaned on a Chevy across from the black Honda. After fifteen minutes, a black-haired female he couldn't identify unlocked the doors of the Accord, opened the driver's side, and got in.
She was definitely a student.
But how did she find him yesterday? He only went to Starbucks.
After the car drove away, and Grimmjow had pondered for a while, he chose to think nothing of it.
It was probably one of those crazed-fan girls who wish they took his course.
Well, doesn't life suck, he thought.
Nel busied herself during her shift so her mind wouldn't wander.
She just couldn't believe Mr. Jaegerjaquez lived in West Shore! How could someone like him afford it?
Someone like him?
What exactly was that supposed to mean?
There were too many questions floating amidst her head, and she didn't want to get distracted during work.
"Neliel!" her boss called.
"Yes ma'am?"
"Um, I believe this is for you," she responded. In her hands was a white envelope addressed to "Nellie".
"Thanks," Nel told her as she took the envelope from Miss Mayumi. She put it in her uniform pocket, where it began to weigh a hundred times as much by lunch time. Why was she so eager to open a simple letter?
Because she knew who it was from.
She sat down at an empty table and slowly opened the envelope. Inside was a note.
Hey,
Whenever you're okay to talk to us, call. 975.9139
Regards,
–Pesche and Dondochakka
Nel sighed and folded the letter closed. She should've known this was coming. It wouldn't be a big deal to tell them; it was their reaction that was going to be a big deal.
She didn't want them to overstress it; to her, it didn't really matter anymore. Her parents were gone, end of story.
Well, at least now she had something else to think about instead of her mysteriously rich computing instructor.
She groaned; she was reflecting on it again!
But really.
Could Mr. Jaegerjaquez be rich?
It had to be an inheritance; there was no way he could afford a West Shore home with just a college paycheck.
Like Byakuya Kuchiki.
… Definitely an inheritance.
But then, who did he inherit it from? Nel had never heard of another Jaegerjaquez before, so whoever it was probably wasn't that popular. Maybe he was related to a back-in-the-day aristocrat she didn't know of. Or maybe he changed his last name.
Whatever it was, Nel wanted—no, needed—to find out.
Otherwise, it would kill her.
And that was how Neliel found herself in front of her laptop at 9:00 pm, people-searching the web.
Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez, she typed.
His Facebook account came up, but everything else was useless.
"Ugh," she groaned.
She typed in "Jaegerjaquez".
A couple of names popped up, but no one she clicked on was famous or tried tracking relatives through those annoying "family tracer" sites, but even she knew Mr. Jaegerjaquez wasn't married and didn't have kids.
… Right?
"Hey, Nel," Tatsuki said, opening her room door.
"Tatsuki? Do you think… maybe Mr. J has kids?" Nel wondered absentmindedly.
After a few seconds, Tatsuki made a snorting noise.
"What?"
"I was thinking that maybe he had a secret second life he kept from everyone or something."
"… You're incredibly dumb, Nel."
Tatsuki sat on Nel's bed, shaking her head.
"Like we wouldn't hear about it if he had kids!" Tatsuki reasoned sarcastically.
"Well, you never know," Nel replied.
"… Fine. We don't know. But to find out… you gotta go to Miss-es Halibel Tia."
At the sound of that name, Nel shut her eyes hard as unwanted memories flew through her thoughts.
Nnoitra Jiruga's ex…
Nnoitra Jiruga.
She shook her head to try and clear them out.
"You okay?"
"… Y-yep, my head spun a bit, I'm a little tired. But why Ms. Tia?" Nel whispered.
"Well, apparently she and Mr. J were quite the pair in high school."
"Eww, they were together once?!" the green-haired woman exclaimed. She tried to picture them holding hands and nearly threw up.
"Uh, I think so. At least that's what Mila told me," Tatsuki replied.
"Mila?! You listened to Mila?! She's the world's greatest gossiper!"
"She knows Tia like the back of her hand!"
"Are you sure it's not the other way around?" Nel inquired. Tatsuki closed her mouth for a few seconds and thought.
"Well… maybe… I don't know. But I do know that if we ask her to ask Tia, we'll get a truthful answer. I'm sure of it," the petite woman reasoned.
"Okay, well… call her up tomorrow or something so we can find out; it's really bugging me. I don't even know why I care so much. I gotta go to bed; I have a certification exam tomorrow."
Nel closed her laptop and set it on her dresser as Tatsuki stood up.
"Frankly, I don't know either. Goodnight," she said.
"Goodnight."
Okay so I totally tried this "Single Line Breaks" thing because I am the type of author who makes really short paragraphs (like one sentence long) but when I want to make a new... group of related sentence paragraphs lol, anyway when I try to do that by making a double space instead of a normal "enter" it will only show up as one "enter" and makes it look like everything else. Do you get what I'm saying? Lol. I've tried everything, from redo-ing it on Word and then re-pasting it on here, and I've tried adding line breaks (br) in html but it still won't record it. Does anyone know how to help? It would be greatly appreciated lol :))) Sorry if this new Single Line Breaks thing doesn't look nice/isn't effective/doesn't work! -whoosh19
