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Chapter 5

"Joan," Mr. Giraridi said. "Why don't you come down to the station and tell your story again and answer some questions."

"What's going to happen to Gaia?" Joan asked her father.

"We won't know for sure until we hear her story."

"Will she go to jail?"

"I highly doubt it."

"What if you don't catch her?"

"What do you mean? Of course we'll catch her."

"Dad, she's fast. She'd win the gold if she raced. And she fights like Jacky Chan. I mean, she was amazing."

"Joan, when we have cases like these, it most likely means there is an ugly truth beneath it all."

"You think she killed someone, don't you?"

"I don't know what I think honey."

"Would someone who kills someone save a girl from two grown men?"

"Joan, I'm not disagreeing with you."

"But, you're not agreeing, either."

"Joan, now is not the time for this."

Joan was silent. "Dad, when Gaia and I were talking, before the fight, I was trying to get her to tell me her secr- to tell me what was bothering her, she went nuts on me, saying something about 'Loki sent you didn't he?' and something about how she should have know he'd catch up with her."

Joan waited for her dad to say something. She hoped she hadn't messed things up for Gaia.

"It sounds like she's running from someone," he said. He turned to look Joan straight in the eye. "Joan, we need to find Gaia if we want to help her. If you hear from her or remember anything else, you have to tell me. Can you promise me?"

"I- okay, yeah."

"Okay, how about I drop you back off at school? You'll be able to make your last class."

Joan nodded.

Instead of going to her last class when her dad dropped her off, Joan walked to Adam's class. She needed someone to talk to. Joan waved frantically in the window when the teacher wasn't looking. Adam didn't notice, but the girl who was next to him did and poked Adam in the shoulder and whispered something to him. Adam looked at the window at Joan. Joan indicated for him to get out, so after a minute or so, Adam had convinced his teacher he needed to go to the nurse's office.

"Joan," Adam said. "What's going on?"

"Adam, we need somewhere where we can talk in private."

"Yeah, okay, follow me," Adam said. "Well?" he asked when we were in the school's kitchen.

"I have something to tell you."