Sorry to keep you guys waiting. My schedule has been very hectic again and wasn't able to work on the stories as much as I wanted to. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I kinda had fun writing it.
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"One more picture!" Joe happily said, taking her phone out of her jeans.
Mark groaned and threw his hands in the air. "This is the fifth photo for fuck sakes!"
"Shut up and get in the picture," Joe pulled him towards her and Kat. "And bend down a bit. Half of your face showed in the last one."
Kat chuckled at her friends antics. "Just do what she says Mark. You know that there is no winning with her when it comes to pictures and clothing."
"Fine," he grumbled, wrapping his arms around them. "But this is the last one."
"Yeah sure whatever. Now smile!" Joe said before taking the picture.
A second later Joe checked the picture and made a small happy jump. "Yay! We came out perfect…well almost perfect. Mark you didn't smile. You look grumpy."
"Maybe is because we have been hitting the stores almost all morning without food in our bodies. My stomach has been growling for the past hour or so."
"Hey!" Joe exclaimed, not looking up from her phone. "When was the last time we ditched school? Like in middle school. We just had a bunch of tests the past few days and we deserve a free day of classes."
"Have you forgotten that the last time we ditched we almost got caught by Kat's mom and her old partner," Mark huffed. "So I'm sorry if I am just a bit worried of been caught."
"We won't," Kat said. "As long as no one knows that we are here, we will never get caught."
Mark seemed to relax a bit but not much. "Let's just hope that someone doesn't post the pictures on their page right now," he threw a look towards Joe but she wasn't paying attention to him.
Joe seemed to catch her eye in her phone.
"Uh, Joe?" Kat poked her friend on her shoulder.
The blonde was shaken from her thoughts and stared at her friend. "Did you say something?"
"What are you staring at?" Kat smirked, looking down at her friend's phone. She noticed a picture of Ed, Joe's crush, with a friend of his. "Did he ditch too?"
"Yeah," Joe sighed. "One of his friend's is having a birthday. They decided to go celebrate instead of going to school today?"
"And they decided to celebrate at the mall?" Mark frowned as she also looked down at the picture.
Joe nodded and stared dreamily at the picture again.
"Did you upload the pictures on your Facebook?" Kat asked.
"Yeah."
"Why would you do that?" The brunette exclaimed. "If one of our parents see that they—"
"Relax," Joe said still staring at Ed's picture. "None of our parents have an account. And if they did they wouldn't be able to see it. I set the pictures so only friends can see them."
Mark sighed heavily. "Are you sure?"
"Positive," Joe mumbled.
Kat and Mark shared a look before they turned their attention back to Joe.
"You're drooling again," Mark snickered, forgetting about the pictures.
Joe looked up from her phone and threw a venomous glare at him. "Your point is?"
"Let's get something to eat. I'm starving too," Kat quickly said. She didn't want her friends to start arguing in the middle of the sidewalk. Some people have stopped to stare at them.
"I know where," Mark said, before grasping Kat's hand.
Joe wiggled her eyebrows at the brunette behind Mark's back. Kat felt her cheeks go warm as she followed Mark, not breaking his grasp on her hand.
"I still can't believe that Everly let that—that person saw her leg off," Nick shook his head in disbelief. "For money. This is just too weird."
"Just when you think you seen it all," Olivia lowly said.
They had talked to Lisa about her leg but it didn't give them much lead. Nick had called Cragen on the little information that they gotten from the woman before they started to head back to the precinct. The detectives were almost close to the building, just a few blocks away.
Nick rubbed his eye. "I have a buddy who may know where she might have gotten her leg amputated. I'll give him—"
Liv's phone started to ring and the detective stared at it in confusion when she noticed who was calling her. "Mary?"
"I'm sorry to bother you, Olivia." Joe's mother said from the other line. "But I think it's urgent. It's about the kids."
"Are they okay? Did something happen to—?"
"They are fine," Mrs. Trejo cut off the detective. "But I think we have a problem in our hands. I received a call from the school about Joe. I call them back and they told me that she didn't arrive to school."
Olivia sat there and listened to Mary talk.
"I told them that she left the house early because she, Kat and Mark were going to stop by to get some coffee before school," Mary whispered as if she didn't want other people to hear the conversation in her work. "The secretary told me that they didn't show up either. Olivia, they ditched school again."
The detective grip on the phone tightened. "Are you sure?"
"I didn't believe it myself until I asked one of Joe's cousins to see if she put anything up. And she did?"
"Do you know where they are?"
"Time Square," Mrs. Trejo informed the detective. "I recognized one of the stores in the background. Olivia, I have to go before my boss catches talking on the phone."
"Thank you for informing me about the situation Mary," Olivia said.
"Can you keep Joe in the precinct with you until I can pick her up?"
"I will. Don't you worry about that," Olivia promised the other woman before ending the call. She scrolled down her contacts and found the one she was looking for. She waited three rings before her call was answered. "Fin, tell Cragen I had a family emergency and will be back at the precinct later."
"Is—?"
"Can you do that for me?"
"I can."
"Thank you, Fin."
"No problem."
The call was ended shortly after. Seeing the tense look on Olivia's face, Nick step on the gas a bit more.
"Where do we go next after here?" Kat asked, taking a bite off her cheeseburger. "We still have time to kill before we should leave."
"What about the arcade?" Mark asked. "It's closer to the school."
Joe groaned. "Don't feel like going there."
"Where then?"
"The mall?" Joe glanced hopefully to her two best friends.
Mark scoffed. "You only want to go there because of Ed."
Joe started to blush and took a sip of her soda.
"Black hair and green eyes," Kat chuckled. "You fell hard didn't you, Joanna."
"There is only one person that can say my full first name and that is my mamma," Joe playfully glared at her best friend.
"You call me by my full name sometimes," Kat rolled her eyes. "And you don't see me complaining about it."
"Why don't you just ask the guy out?" Mark leaned back against the chair. "Too afraid?"
"Psh! I'm not scared," Joe frowned.
"Chicken."
The blonde narrowed her eyes. "What did you called me?" She growled.
"I said…chicken," he smirked at her in a challenging way.
Joe took out her phone and started to find Ed's number. She founded quickly and started to type out what she had in mind. Kat and Mark shared a look before starring back at their friend. Joe's fingers flew rapidly on the phone's screen.
"You're asking him out via text message?" Kat chuckled, taking a sip off her lemonade.
Joe closed her eyes and groaned. Her phone dropped to the wooden table with a soft 'clack'. "Stupid. I should have called him instead."
"Don't worry," Mark popped a French fry in his mouth. "He will say yes."
"How do you know?" Kat raised an eyebrow at him.
Mark smiled at her. "He stares at her when he thinks we aren't looking whenever we pass by him. He also—"
"Shut up!" Joe grasped his arm in a tight grip that Mark let out a small yelp. Her other hand reached for her phone. "He just texted me back."
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Kat smiled. "Read what he said."
Joe took a deep breath and let it out shakily before reading Ed's text. Mark and Kat were startled when Joe started to jump up and down on her chair, letting out a small shriek of happiness. "He said yes! He said yes!"
Kat laughed and hugged her friend. Mark smiled apologetically to the people that were staring at Joe's commotion. "Congratulations," Kat chuckled.
"He sent me another message," Joe let go of Kat and calmed herself.
The three teens looked down at her phone and read the message. They didn't see the restaurant's door opened and two people spotting them soon after.
"Looks like we are going there after all," Mark grumbled.
"Oh boo hoo," Joe stuck out her tongue at him. "Suck it up."
"Let's finish our food first," Kat suggested, "Then we can go to the mall and meet up with your man."
"No you are not." A voice behind them said.
The teens tensed up when they recognized the voice. Kat slowly turned around and felt the blanched when she saw who it was. Her mother was staring at them with a livid look on her face.
"Uh…hi mom."
Next chapter will be up soon and I'm just having too much fun writing it.
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