'Oh shit' is pretty much all Gail can think at first because this is not good, repeat not good. She listened quietly as Dov explained how he and Oliver had been called to a nearby semi-undergound concert hall for a disturbance. That disturbance happened to be Summer and some of her friends.
"We wouldn't have had to bring her in if she had just given us her name," Dov explained, "and because we did, we had to search her and..." Dov trailed off and looked away from Holly and looked Gail in the eye. She gave him her best 'what are you looking at me for?!' face and spat out, "and", prompting him to continue.
"And...we found drugs on her," Dov said, looking Holly in the eye again.
"Where is she?"
"She's in 'Interview Two', I can take you in if you want."
"Yeah, thanks Dov," Holly replied with a weak smile. Dov nodded while motioning for her to follow him down the hall.
"Look, we haven't booked her yet, I'll see what I can do."
"Thanks Dov, I'm really sorry about this, she doesn't usually get into any trouble. I don't really know what's going on here."
"No problem," Dov smiled as he opened the door to the interview room, "I'll be back in a few." Holly stepped into the room, worried about what she'd find, who she'd find. Holly really couldn't see Summer causing a public disturbance, that wasn't her little sister. Holly was eleven when Summer was born and it was no secret that she nearly worshiped her older sister. Holly wonders if that's true anymore. Sure, Summer had always been more adventurous than Holly and their brother, definitely more creative; a wilder child, but not a "wild child". Holly always saw her sister as intelligent, caring, maybe a little eager to please, but overall she was cool, confident.
"Hol, thank god you came! I thought they were going to leave me in here forever." Holly was instantly snapped back to reality by her sister's exasperated voice.
"Summer, what is going on? You got arrested. Wait are you drunk?"
"Probs not anymore...Hol, no worries, it's not a big deal. "Disorderly conduct" is such a stretch, I like wasn't even involved."
"It's a Monday night, what were you doing?! You have school."
"I don't have school tonight."
"You have class tomorrow right? You're drunk. Summer, they said you had drugs on you? Seriously what's up?" This was seriously not where, or how Holly had ever imagined she'd be spending her night. Blindsided was one to describe it. But she was also worried about her sister. Summer had always been braver than she was, fearless almost, but not stupid or careless.
"Well technically-" but Summer was interrupted by knock on the door, and when it opened Steve Peck walked inside, followed by Gail and Dov.
"Oh no, Steve, what are you doing here?" Now Holly was really worried.
"Guns and Gangs babyy!"
"Steve!" Gail hissed through gritted teeth.
Silence.
"Rough crowd tonight? Sorry, I'm here to help actually. Summer, right?"
Summer looked up at Holly, who was this guy? Was she in super deep shit now? Holly nodded at her as if saying 'get on with it, idiot.'
"Um, yeah. Summer Stewart."
Steve looked back at Gail and smirked but turned back to Summer when we was just met with an exaggerated eye roll.
"Great, Ms. Stewart Officer Epstein informs me that you were found at the scene of a disturbance and that he tried to issue you a notice to appear but that you wouldn't supply your name or identification?" Summer nodded so Steve continued, "Thus giving him to no choice but to bring you back to the station, forcing you to submit to a search at which point Salvia was found in your belongings."
"Soulda ditched that at the club," Gail couldn't help herself, it was just too true. Dov cracked a smile, Holly not so much.
"Anyways, the legality of Salvia is still kind of...tricky, and possession is an even trickier, so long as you're not selling. It's really not worth our time or money to charge you for that. So we're gonna write you up for the disorderly and you'll have to pay a fine. You'll be eligible for a pardon in a few years. If you want to fight it you probably could, especially since Officer Epstein over here was vastly outnumbered by the hoodlums at the scene.
"Grool. But there's no way I letting that stay on my record. Evan can be my lawyer."
"Um, no he can't," Holly rolled her eyes at her sister, "he's only in law school. He hasn't taken, let alone passed, the Bar yet." Holly was getting impatient with how nonchalant her younger sister was being. Where was the sister who tried to keep up with Holly on her road bike with a one speed tricycle, who always tried to stay home "sick" when Holly was home on breaks from University. "Mom can get someone for you, I mean she probably can't do it, but she'll get someone good."
"Hol, have you gone mental?! We are not telling Mom and Dad, they'll think I'm even more of a screw up than they already do," Summer was practically crying at this point. Gail felt a little more in her element here. How many times had she asked Steve for help, making him promise not to tell their parents? How many times had Gail simply made Steve promise not to tell their parents? How many times had Steve made Gail promise not tell their parents something? Tons and tons of times. But she and Steve had never been arrested. This was kinda serious, 'get your head back in the game, Peck.'
"Come on, you're only 19, you're not a screw up, and they don't think you're a screw up."
"Well you and Ev sure make me look like one."
"Summer come on, I'm far from put-together." All Gail could think was 'well that's a lie. Good thing I kept that one to myself.'
"Holly are you kidding me?! Ev and you are like the perfect children, he graduated top of his class, went and saved the world, and now he's like killing it in law school. You've always been the perfect daughter, never gave mom and dad any trouble, graduated top of your class at med school, you've got like a real job. You're even gay which is basically cool now, you get points for that too."
Frozen. Gail Peck is frozen. Immobile. 'Do I have a pulse right now? Did that really just happen?' Even Dov had gone white as a sheet, and his mouth was hanging open a little. All Gail can do is watch as Holly silently rises from her chair and walks swiftly out the door of the interview room.

A/N: Yikes, Summer sure has a big mouth...what's up with this girl? Let me know what you think! The next chapter should be up real soon, maybe even tonight...