Chapter 37
Dean and Cassie were outside when I pulled up. They were lip locked again so I just sat and waited for Dean to get in the Jeep. When he finally did get in, he had a really goofy smile on his face. I asked him why he was so damn happy and he said he didn't have an answer. I just laughed at him and we headed for the fraternity.
We pulled up and parked behind the Impala. Dad was still sitting in the car when we got there. We walked up and just got into the car, Dean in the front passenger seat and me in the back behind dad. Dad asked Dean what was so important that he couldn't answer his damn phone and I was the one that answered him. I said that I had already told him that Dean was busy and to back off.
Dad turned around and glared at me and I just stared right back at him. Dad may have been able to intimidate most people, but he was at a loss when it came to his own daughter. He turned away first and demanded that Dean answer his question. I started to say something else, but Dean looked at me and shook his head. He told dad that he was with a girl and it took him almost an hour to find his phone after I had called him the first time.
Dad told me to go start interviewing some of the fraternity members while he had a little chat with his son and I told him no. He turned back to me with a "What did you just say?" look on his face. I told him that I wasn't leaving the car without my brother. I also told him that if he thought I was just gonna sit there and let him yell at Dean, he had a surprise or 2 coming. He looked at me for a few more seconds and then said fine and got out of the car.
Dean just shook his head and followed dad. I got out and caught up with Dean. He asked me why I had done that and I told him that I wasn't gonna let anyone make him feel bad for having a little fun once in awhile. He smiled at me and then pushed me sideways. I pushed him right back and then we got back to the job at hand.
I think we interviewed everyone in the building. No one knew where the girl's body was and we got a crap load of different stories on what had actually happened to her. We decided to try and con our way into the police station so we could get a copy of the police report. Dean and I couldn't get it. In the end dad had to go in as an FBI agent in order to get what we needed.
We were headed back to the motel, me and Dean in the Jeep and dad in the Impala, when Dean's phone rang. Cassie wanted to meet Dean for lunch. He started to say that he couldn't make it when I asked where she wanted to meet him. She said something about a restaurant across the street from the campus and I said he'd be there in a few minutes. Dean turned toward me and gave me a dirty look.
He started to say something about me pushing dad's buttons and I told him that wasn't it. Even I could see that he was actually really into this girl and wanted to spend more time with her. He rolled his eyes at me and said he didn't want to make dad madder than he already was. I told him I would take care of dad. He started to say something else and I cut him off by calling dad. I asked dad if he was ready for lunch.
We met Cassie at the diner. Dad recognized her from the bar the night before and wasn't too happy that we had tricked him, but he kept his mouth shut. Dean introduced her to dad and then we sat down. We had a pretty pleasant lunch even though dad didn't say much. Dean didn't take his eyes off Cassie the whole time we were there.
Cassie told us about her family and her home in Missouri. She talked about the job she had waiting for her back home and about working on the college paper. I asked her questions about the missing students and if she knew about the girl that had died when the fraternity was chartered. She gave us basically the same story we'd heard from everyone else.
When we were done eating, she asked Dean if he wanted to hang out with her for the afternoon cause she was done with her classes for the day. He'd started to say no, when dad said he should go ahead and go. Dean and I were both surprised and we showed it. Dad told him that he and I could handle everything for the rest of the day. Dean said ok, so I gave him the keys to the Jeep and left with dad.
I asked dad why he let Dean go when he and I got out to the Impala. He said that he saw that Dean was completely infatuated with Cassie. He also said that Dean needed a break and he thought the he and I should spend a little time alone. I just shrugged and said ok as I got into the car. We drove back to the motel and went to work on reading the police report.
Dad pretty much left Dean alone for the rest of the week. It took us another week afterward to find out where the dead girl was buried. Dad and I did the whole thing on our own without killing each other. We only talked about the case until it was done, then we talked about the next job we were gonna take.