And then there were Malo and Faye sitting in front of a deputy's table in the Gamma Police Force station…
They had been arrested after what happened at the fuel station.
They demanded that they call their guardian to come bail them out and sign their release. The officer at the desk tapped his pen impatiently, his posture rigid while Faye took a long, sharp exhale through her nose to stop her temper from boiling over right in the lobby.
Faye didn't want to call her brother to come to her rescue because he wouldn't stop talking.
Saying it hadn't been a year since she moved out and she already had a criminal record. She could already picture his dramatic, wide-eyed look, her lungs heaving with a deep, frustrated huff as she imagined him shaking his head and hand in total disappointment.
