1 Ch.5 A Little Bit of Chaos



After I left Book Lovers, I went home to pick up a few things and then I left to go to the radio station. I had forgotten all about Grace's problem. I had my mind focused on my meeting with the syndicators. I was nervous about that. I was trying to get Les to cancel it. I was also preparing for it. Just incase he wouldn't cancel it.

I was there for about a half-hour or so when chaos walked back into my life. I heard Jake before he even entered the room. The door flew open and there he was. I sensed that he knew. I hoped that Jake hadn't seen me. I didn't want him to make a bigger scene. Bigger than the one that he just made.

Jake walked over to me. That was after he spotted me. The room was so still. Nobody would move. It was as if they were stuck in time. Their eyes were so wide.

"Lily, what the hell is going on here?" He screamed.

"Jake-." I said as he began to cut me off.

"No-I have a right to know." He screamed as his voice began to calm down.

"Come on." I said as I grabbed his arm and pulled him towards an empty room. I closed the door. I knew that this whole thing wasn't over. I closed my eyes as I began to go on a bumpier ride. "Jake . . . sit down." I said still facing the door.

"No! You better tell me what exactly is going on here." He said angrily. I turned around to face my ex-husband, who had a baby with a girl who was not much older than Grace. Out of all the people, I thought that he would understand this more. I looked at him, and I told him what I knew.

"It's a rumor-Jake . . . We don't even know that it's true. We don't even know what happened." I said almost breaking into tears. There was some silence before we would talk again.

"When did you know? When . . . did you . . . find out about this?" He said as if he were about to cry. He was leaning against the wall and looking at the floor.

"About a day . . . or two-ago. But Jake, we-" I said as I started to look at the floor. He looked at me and took a couple of steps towards me and he began to cut me off.

"You didn't tell me." He said.

"We can't jump to conclusions. We cant. Not until we know what actually happened." I said still looking at the floor. I need to get back to work." I said as I turned around and opened up the door. I took a couple of steps down the hall when I realized that Jake was at my side. We stopped before we got into the main room. I turned to him and I asked him. "How did you know about all of this?"

"This woman who is the mother of some Alexa girl, called me . . . at work. She told me, just incase you hadn't. Which you didn't." He said as his voice started to get louder.

"She called you? I can't believe that woman called you." I said.

"I can't believe you didn't tell me this yourself." He said as he started walking again. "I had to hear this from a complete stranger."

"I thought it would be a good idea to figure out what was actually going on." I said giving him a reason why I hadn't told him.

"You want to know what's going on, I'll tell you what's going on, that teacher's a dead-man. That's what's going on." He said as he stopped at the window right in front of Les's office. "And after I kill him, I want him fired-permanently." He said as I grabbed his arm and pulled him away. "Fired then dead, in that order." He said as he walked his way through the room and up the stairs.

Afterwards, I had a conversation with Les about the syndication meeting on Friday. I left shortly after. To home.