"She what?" John yelled. They were right outside his office
"Now you can't get mad at her…" Rex whispered.
"Can't get mad at her? She lied to me, went to Ziggy's where I told her not to go, and now ended up at the station and her boyfriend is being questioned. Give me one good reason why not to get mad at her." He demanded. Rex looked him straight in the eye.
"Because she's scared. Besides, if you want to gain her trust, you can't go in there and yell at her. You have to talk to her calmly. Trust me on this alright? I've gotten into trouble many times so I've learned from experience." John looked at him, knowing he was right.
"I don't know why I'm taking advice from you, but I'll give it a try." John stated as we entered with a knock. He noticed that she wasn't wearing what she wore before she left. He also noticed she was cold. It was a little chilly in his office. He took his jacket and gave it to her.
"I don't want it. I'm fine." She said not looking at him. Throwing it back.
"Quit being stubborn." He said strictly giving her the jacket back. Noticing his tone in his voice, she took it back, wrapping it around her. John sat on his desk.
"You want to tell me what happened." He looked off into space. Amber brought her knees up to her chest.
"Not really."
"Well guess what," He looked at his watch. "I don't have to be going anywhere, and neither do you so we have all the time in the world. Were not leaving until you tell me what happened." Amber sighed.
"After we left Joel and I went to Ziggy's, and then we saw Rex. I knew I was going to get in trouble if he found me so we tried to go out the back without him seeing us. I almost got away with it but I ran into some guy and spilt his drink on him. He wasn't too happy. Joel tried to reason with him but he hit Joel and then they started a fight. All the commotion caused Rex to see what it was about. Then he found me took me back here and then told Bo. Bo told me to call you to come and pick me up." There was an awkward silence for a few minutes. Amber looked up at him.
"Are you mad at me?" John looked down at her.
"I'm not mad. I'm just…disappointed that you went against my judgment. It will take some time to earn your trust back." His voice was deep as he spook.
"Alright, I guess I deserve that. Do you think you can get Joel out?" She quickly changed the subject. John scratched his head, then brought his hand over his face.
"Let me see what I can do." He said walking out of the room. Bo stopped him as he was walking down to the cells.
"John I think you ought to see this." Bo said with seriousness in his voice.
"See what?" John looked to Bo's hands, it was a file. He jerked it out of his hands and opened it. He saw Joel's first and last name followed by a mug shot.
"He's a Juvenile Delinquent?" John's eyes bulged. How could his daughter be dating a juvy kid?
"Driving while under the influence, robbery, assaulting a police officer?" John was reading off the chart out loud. He marched back into his office, slamming the door. "HE'S A JUVY KID?" He yelled looking at a startled Amber.
"What? What are you talking about?" Her face was blank with confusion. John slammed the files on the desk. She looked at them, and then started biting her lip.
"Oops…Guess I forgot to mention that." She said with a nervous laugh, looking up at him. She started twisting her fingers.
"Forget to…" He was so angry he didn't finish his sentence.
"I can see you're very…very angry so…um I think I'll just wait outside…" She said heading towards the door.
"Amber Marie you will sit back down and you will listen to what I have to say." She cringed. 'Ugh…Middle name' she thought. She always knew when she was in trouble with John because he would always say her middle name.
"I forbid you to date him." The look on Amber's face was shocked. How could he do that to her?
"What? You can't be serious." She said, her mouth dropped.
"As serious as a heart attack." He said with sarcastic ness in his voice. He folded his arms against his chest and deeply inhaled.
"Well you can try all you want to stop me from seeing him, but you can never stop my love for him." She said running out of the room. She ran out of the station and outside. The rain was poring down. Amber liked the rain. No one could see her tears. She started walking off into the emotions that she felt inside, kicking a couple of stones along the way. She thought she heard someone behind her, she quickly turned around.
"Hello?" He voice was shaky. She turned back around thinking it was nothing. She started walking again. Suddenly feeling cold steel against her neck she screamed. A man with strong hands cupped her mouth and whispered in her ear.
"If you don't stop I will kill you now." His voice was raspy and cold. Taking the knife away from her neck he started dragging her away to his car. Amber struggled as hard as she could to get away from his grasp but he was to strong. Thinking quickly she tugged off John's soggy, wet jacket and let it fall to the ground. She still tried her hardest to get him to let go off her but it wasn't any good. He smothered her face into a cloth. As she in haled she started to feel dizzy as she fell unconscious in the man's arms.
XOXOXOXOXOX
John heard Amber's high pitched scream. He quickly ran to the direct he heard it from. The rain was blurring his vision, and it was getting hard for him to see. He felt something mushy underneath his feet. Looking down he saw his Jacket. He felt something was wrong with her.
"Amber" he yelled. "AMBER!"
