Absinthe
Chapter 57: Still Here Waiting
"Will you sit down?" Faye complained, "You've practically walked 20 miles just by pacing back and forth! You're giving me a headache."
I stopped walking and turned to stare at Faye.
"No!" Faye said loudly. "You don't get to make that pitiful face at me! Let's go out and grab some coffee."
I nodded absentmindedly and allowed Faye to drag me by the hand outside the police station.
"God, that place was gloomy as fuck," Faye said.
We walked for a few minutes before we saw a Starbucks. Faye pushed the door open and hauled me inside.
"Go get a seat," Faye commanded. "I'll order your usual."
I took the empty seat closest to the door and just beside the store's floor to ceiling glass windows. The chairs were the hard, wooden ones and not the cushioned type. I was fully aware that Faye hated sitting in such an exposed area, but I wanted to be able to see the police station from where I was, just in case Jiwoo or Rob comes out looking for us.
"Hell no," Faye said. "We are not sitting there!"
"But..." I tried to protest but Faye cut me short.
"Rob will call the moment something comes up," Faye said. "You don't need to watch the station's entrance like some sentry!"
Reluctantly, I followed Faye towards the softer cushions and bean bags at the center of the coffee shop and sat myself across her. Faye handed me a hot chocolate. I was looking forward to an espresso but I guess this hot cocoa would do the trick, too.
"Relax," Faye said, "Your boyfriend was taken in as a suspect because he was wearing the exact same outfit as the perpetrators. I'm sure he'd be out soon."
"How'd you know that?"
"Robert told me," Faye answered. "The jewelry store owner at the mall already submitted the CCTV files. The perps were all wearing white shirts and jeans, possibly to blend with the crowd. But their faces were captured and as soon as they finished taking up Jiwoo's statement, I'm sure he'll be released."
However, I still could not help but worry, especially since I saw how the police brutally hit
all I could
hours, did I call Faye for support. Robert
though?" Faye
genuinely unsure of what Faye
steaming mug. "You know that this will turn out
I've debated on whether to call Rob or not. But there was
haven't fully talked about my new relationship
patronizingly. "God! You have
collapsed against the comfortably soft chair and melted both in
your reaction, you haven't told him of your relationship with Jiwoo
as to what words will come out of Faye's
talking about Jiwoo. Just think how this
do you mean,
think Jiwoo would feel when his rich boyfriend's highly successful lawyer
didn't like the way she emphasized select words, nor did I like
burst like the fragile bubble that all male egos are, the moment he finds out that it was Rob who got
could make sense about what Faye said, her
mouthed
could see Rob waving at us, Jiwoo in his white shirt, and
called out loud as we approached them. "Everything okay
nodded in response. "It wasn't a
I said, offering up a smile. Robert
clothes so he
the love of god, I wanted to slap him right then and there. So this was what Faye was saying a
at Faye. "Surely,