Chapter 23
When Kelly arrived at the school, she noticed two of the officers she met on Tuesday night were at the high school not dressed in uniforms. Shortly before first period begins she stepped into the main office to pick up her mail as Harry sees her, "Hey Kelly, I need to speak to you in my office."
"Yeah sure," Kelly replied following him and closing the door behind her.
Once they sit down Harry starts, "They have the permit for Mr. Cannon's arrest. I've asked that they don't do it while students are in the halls. I want to do this as quietly as possible. He's free third period, so I'm going to call him to the office. There will already be uniform officers here with me that will arrive shortly after first period begins. There are two undressed officers out in the lobby that will be following him and keeping a close eye on things this morning, I'm sure that you saw them."
"Yeah, I recognized them, so will Naomi and Silver," Kelly tells him.
"Okay, that's good to know and also I would like for you to be here when I call him into my office. You think you can do that?" Harry asks.
"Yeah, I can be in here. Hmm there's one more thing though, Silver and Naomi are suppose to take his final exam during second period. I want to request that they be able to take it in here or in my office," Kelly asks.
"Yeah, that's no problem; let's have them go in your office. You can escort them and I'll get the exams," Harry says.
"Thanks," then Kelly asks, "Is there anything else we need to go over?"
"Yeah, after this is all over, get some sleep this weekend okay. You really look like need it," Harry comments.
"I know…I'll try. See ya in a bit," Kelly says as she exits out of Harry's office.
As the end of the first period as bell rings both Harry and Kelly leave their offices and walk down the hallway towards Mr. Cannon's classroom. Shortly before the next bell rings, they notice Mr. Cannon walking steady towards Naomi and Silver halfway down the hall. As they are still 10 feet away and behind the girls, they overhear Mr. Cannon tell them, "Ladies, if you're not in your seats by the time the bell rings you may not take the exam."
"Miles, that won't be necessary, I need to speak with you. Girls please follow Ms. Taylor," Harry says seriously.
"They can't do that they have a final exam to take in my classroom," Mr. Cannon objects.
Harry nods to Kelly as she says, "girls follow me please." Kelly escorts the girls down the hallway to her office.
Harry speaks again to Mr. Cannon, "Under my authority, I and Ms. Taylor will be administrating the exams to Ms. Clark and Ms. Silver and I would like to see you in my office at the beginning of third period."
Miles Cannon lowers his voice and looks Harry square in the eye, "you have no proof of anything."
Harry replies with the same tone of voice, "You implying that I need proof for something?"
Harry then walks into the classroom picks up two exams and as he walks out, "Oh, we have a visitor from the district office that would like to sit in your classroom this period."
As Harry walks away, the undressed police officer sits down in the classroom and Mr. Cannon angrily goes into his classroom as the bell rings.
Once Silver and Naomi finish their exam Kelly tells them, "I need you guys to stay in here until I come back, Silver….Okay?"
"Kel, why, what's up?" Silver asks.
"Silver, just please, I'll be able to tell you everything later, but please I'm not asking as the guidance counselor but as your sister instead," Kelly pleads with her baby sister.
"Yeah, we'll stay. We don't have an exam anyways, just watching a movie in the next period," Silver says.
"Good, I'll be back as soon as I can," Kelly says and then leaves to go to the principal's office.
When she arrives two police officers are already in the office talking with Harry. Harry greets her, "Hey Kelly thanks for being here."
"Yeah, it's no problem. Let's just get this over with," Kelly says.
The first officer speaks up, "Okay, hopefully it won't be too bad, but I need both of you not to say anything to him because he could try to use it as a defense in court. You're being here is primarily for being a witness," the officer finishes right before the secretary speaks over the phone's intercom.
"Mr. Wilson, Mr. Cannon is here to see you."
"Thanks…send him in please," Harry speaks into the intercom.
As soon as Mr. Cannon steps in the office he begins to yell, "What the HELL is this about Harry? What kind of bull are you trying to pull?" Then he suddenly realizes that there are two uniformed police officers in the room and one of them closes the door and stands directly in front of it.
The other officer speaks up, "Miles Cannon, or should I say, Douglas Atherton, you are hereby arrested under false identification, rape of a Ms. Clark, and an attempted rape of Ms. Silver."
"You have NO proof; this is complete bullshit. You really believe what that slut Naomi said? And Kelly, how can you really trust Silver? Since she is bi-polar, you never know what's going through her mind," Mr. Cannon yelled and pointed a finger at Kelly. Before she could try to defend her sister, the officer began to read Mr. Cannon's rights as the second officer puts handcuffs on him.
As the officers escort him out of the office and building, he continues to yell, "You aren't going to win! You'll see, you have nothing on me!"
Back in the office, Kelly rubs her face with her hands as Harry notices he asks, "You okay?"
Kelly responds, "Yeah, I will be. It's true, I didn't think about how this would affect Silver's bi-polar. You think any students noticed?"
"No, there's no one out there. And don't worry about Silver, she's been doing really well with that remember," Harry assures, "Hey, why don't you take the rest of the day off. I know you could use it go spend time with your son."
Kelly thinks for a moment, "I wish I could, but I'm afraid that I have a huge stack of papers on my desk and tons of emails that I need to go through." Even though she only wants to busy herself with work at the moment so she doesn't have to think about what Mr. Cannon said to her about Silver as well as anything else at the moment, "I'll see you later Harry."
When Kelly arrives back at her office, she is now getting angry because Silver and Naomi is on her computer without permission.
"Silver, how did you guess my password this time?" Kelly asks annoyed.
Silver responds, "I didn't….last time I added a guest account so I can still use the internet."
"I see, just please don't download anything this time, okay."
"Yes MOM," Silver jokes then turns serious, "So can you tell us now why we have been held hostage in here for the last hour?"
Kelly sits down facing her desk with the girls behind it wondering if she should question Silver about her medications, but then decides against it, "only if you promise not to say anything about it to anyone, unless if it is with either myself or Mr. Wilson in private. This doesn't need to be around the whole school mainly because it does involve both of you."
"Yeah, does it have to do with that bastard Mr. Cannon," Naomi asks as Silver just nods her head yes.
"Yeah, it does. Police were just here in Mr. Wilson's office to arrest him. They are driving out of the parking lot right now. He also denied everything and we will have to fight against him in court. But I don't want to two to worry about anything okay. We can talk about the details later; Mr. Wilson has already contacted lawyers and Naomi you will have to contact your lawyer as well. And I want to two to enjoy your last day of school go out and have a good time tonight, okay."
Silver gets up and hugs her sister, "Thanks, Kel. I don't know what I would do without you. I love you."
"I love you too, Erin. Now get out of here, I have lots of work to do," Kelly says and then decides that she needs to get busy tackling the pile of papers on her desk. Even though she only wants to go through them just to distract her from everything else going on.
