Chapter 41

Two weeks later

I sat in my bed staring at the ceiling fan spin around and round. My alarm went off.

Every night on the day before school I never get any sleep... Like at all. I'm wide awake all night.

"Adena time to wake up!" Mom shouts, "Julian made breakfast."

Since when was Julian ever up at this time?

Mom has been a lot better since Sabrina's funeral. She hasn't been mopping around the house in her pjs. So that's good. She starts going to work again today.

I got dressed and picked up my backpack. I ran down the stairs. I picked up a piece of bacon. Put it on the plate and got a glass of orange juice. Julian had made bacon and eggs. I waited for the eggs to be done. While I waited I ate my bacon. He finished and we all ate.

"Adena you gonna drive Julian to school?" Mom asked

"Mom... About that... I kinda totaled my car." I say

"Where?" She asked

"California." I say

"What?!?" She asked

"Is there a job at the hospital?" I ask

"The same job, you've worked there long enough as an intern... You'll get paid now." Mom says

"I'm sorry mom." I say

"All have to say is your paying for a new car." She said

"I know, when do I start work?" I ask

"After school, straight to the hospital." She says

"I'll call Lola to come pick us up." Julian says

We finish our food and walk to the door.

"Love you two." She said kissing Julian and I both on the forehead

She walked out and to her car to work. Lola pulled up a couple minutes after mom left.

Julian and I got out to her car and I sat in the back while Julian drive with Lola in passenger.

My phone rang. It was Jackson. I answered it.

"Finn and I need a ride." He said

I held my phone to my ear.

"Lola, Finn and Jackson need a ride." I say

"Where do they live?" She asked

"Down hollows street." I said

Which wasn't far from where we where. We picked them up. Jackson was in the middle with Finn and I on the sides. We started in the direction of the school.

"So Finn, nervous about starting high school?" I ask

"Nah, I heard middle school is worse." He said confidently

"That's good." I turn my attention to Lola, "Hey Lola after school can you drive me to the hospital after school?" I ask

"Sure, why?" She asked

"I got a paying job... Mom said I have to pay for a new car." I say

"Shit, since when was that her rule?" Lola asked

"I don't know... She seems different." I say

We pulled up to school.

"Ready for junior year?" Julian asked

Finn ran off to find his friends. The four of us walked in. Thank god for that camp or I would be in eleventh grade. We walked in and Stephen and Mandy where at their locker.

The perk of being in eleventh and twelfth grade is you get to pick who you share a locker with, tenth and ninth you where assigned. Jackson and I share locker 101 which is by most of our classes.

And if we don't have classes together then we'll see each other at out locker. Julian and Lola of course picked to share with each other as well. Their locker wasn't far from Jacksons and mine. Their locker is 110.

Ben and Killian started college at university of Kentucky as freshmen.

Classes went bye slowly. I was all about papers and permission slips. I stuffed it all in my binder and then took my binder and put that in my backpack along with fifty million pound books... It didn't make it better since I have four books.

The school day ended and my work days had just begun. Lola drive me to the hospital. I walked in and sat at my desk. It was nice to be back.

Today wasn't all that busy. So I just sat. Then something on my computer screen popped up. I clicked it, it led me to all of the hospital records dating all the way back to 1804.

I remembered learning about Zachariah Ports last year. Which also seems to be the subject this year as well. I looked through the dates around and before 1856. To see if Zachariah Ports had any medical information.

I couldn't find anything so I searched his name. Nothing came up. He had to have come bye for some reason? Unless he did all his medical treatments on himself. Which could possibly mean he found a way to cure anything and the greatest medical care could be buried with him.

"Hey Adena, when did you start here again?" Asked one of the nurses

"Today actually." I say

"Making money for that new car I suppose." She said

"Mom told you?" I asked

"She's told everyone." She laughs

"Great." I sigh

I kept looking at the computer. I searched online for someone he may have partnered with.

The only names that came up was Nathaniel Erwin and Dallas Parker.

Erwin? Parker? My family? Lola's family?

It can't be true? Can it? I went to ancestry.com and did a search on my family. There was a Dallas Parker. I did the same fo Lola's. Nathaniel was definitely related to Lola.

I fumbled for my phone. I took it out and dialed Lola.

"Yeah?" She asked

"I need you to get here like right now." I say

"I'll be there in a bit." She says

"No right now it's important!" I say

"Oh really?" She asked

"I found something on our families!" I say

"I'll be right there." She said

I hung up. I was curious so I looked up my family medical records. None of us even have a record not even Sabrina or I.

What is going on? I thought to myself