Amber failed once again to contact her mother. The next obstacle was finding out who was at the door. Amber slowly realised in a short period of time that she was making things out to be a lot more than they were actually. She took a breath and an advil for her headache and methodically opened the door.
Standing there was a young police officer. When your mother is one, and one is standing on your doorstep while your mother is incommunicado, it's not always a good thing, Amber thought. The officer looked too relaxed for bad news so she was relieved.
"Hello, Amber." He said, as if the last time he saw her was when she was four. "Don't worry about your mom, she's fine. The operation she was involved with took longer than planned. She asked me to take you to school." Amber didn't recognize him and things that sounded as fishy as this usually were.
"Sorry," Amber said, stepping out onto the porch and closing the door. "I'm going out." She locked the door and started down the pathway, the officer following her.
"Amber, I am responsible you as per your mother. Now, would you please get in the car?" the officer nudged askingly. Amber reached the sidewalk and saw the cruiser, now questioning her judgement.
"I'm sorry, I really am" Amber said apologetically, "but if I can't verify specifically with my mom, I'm not going. Obviously if I can't reach her on her cell phone, nobody can and if she's undercover, even you can't have spoken with her." She reasoned. She immediately felt bad for this young guy who was probably given specific and stiff directions to look after her and she was making his job about thirty times more difficult.
"I'm glad you are so mistrusting." The cop finally said, as if he was choosing his words but the way they came out still wasn't right. "But your mom said to me before she left that I was to take you to school if she wasn't back in time." He assured her. Amber studied him for lies. What an easy loophole. Or he could simply be telling the truth.
"My mom said nothing about it." Amber said, as she crossed the street to the bus stop. The light turned, thus causing a heard of cars to spring forth and preventing the cop from following her. A bus pulled up, Amber got on, and was gone.