Teach Me

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Fired?

ALANA'S MOM POV

I hung up the phone with my daughter and stared blankly at the table. My husband wasn't home from work yet, so he didn't know about the incident concerning Alana. However, that boy that called me earlier had seemed pretty convincing, and Alana's voice on the phone didn't sound that convincing at all. I wondered if she was being held against her will and raped by that teacher the boy had mentioned. Was my daughter being raped at this very moment? I needed to do something about it, but I couldn't call the cops. They needed a warrant to enter someone's house, and they surely wouldn't let me enter since that would be considered breaking and entering. But I had to do it. I couldn't let anything happen to Alana.

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I was in my car and driving to the address I had been given by the boy on the phone, and once I found the house I parked across the street and got out of my car.

Walking up to the house, I noticed there was a garage. I walked up to it and peeked in the small windows of the garage, my heart speeding up when I saw my daughter's car in there. Could Blake really have been telling the truth? Was the teacher the one that was raping Alana? Had he forced her to come here?

I went around back of the house, seeing that the back door was unlocked. I knew it was technically against the law to do this, but right now I didn't care. I opened the door and slipped inside the house, appearing next to a stairway leading to the second level of the house. The whole first floor was dark, so I ascended the stairs slowly, careful not to make a noise. Once I reached the top I listened closely, and I heard muffled voices coming from one of the two doors across the room from where I was standing. I took a deep breath and got my phone out of my pocket, opening the camera and cautiously walking up to the door. I opened the door slightly to see two motionless figures on the bed wrapped in each other's arms. I felt like some type of pervert just spying on them, but when my eyes adjusted to the darkness I was sure it was Alana. And she was with a man that looked quite a bit older than her. Their backs were to me, the covers draped over them, but by the way they were holding each other I was beginning to believe what that boy had told me more and more by the second. I held up my phone with shaking hands, holding it in front of me. Should I take the picture? Should I report them? I took a deep breath and clicked the camera button, causing a bright flash to briefly illuminate the room as the picture was captured. I instantly shut the door and fled, running downstairs and out the back door. I had gotten my picture. Now I just needed to report this so-called teacher. I would've walked in the room and taken Alana out of there, but since I was on someone else's private property without their permission, he could call the cops and get me arrested. Alana was 18 and she could be with whoever she wanted to be with according to the law. I would have no excuse for being there, except for the fact that I was suspicious of something bad going on there. The police would need proof of that, and I had none. So I would have to wait until tomorrow when I could go to Alana's high school and show the principal the picture I had taken. Everything would be fixed then.

ALANA POV

I cuddled against Chris' bare chest, feeling him run his hands up and down my back. I was exhausted, and I was drifting off to sleep more and more by the minute due to Chris' calming touch. Just as I was about to slip into a peaceful sleep, a bright flash illuminated the room. The door shut loudly and I jumped up at the same time as Chris. I covered myself with a sheet as he walked towards the door, slipping on a pair of boxers along the way. He opened the door and looked in the hallway, but there was nothing there. I heard the roar of an engine outside, and then a car pulling off, but Chris' room was on the back side of the house, so I couldn't have gotten to the window in time even if I'd tried. I stood there, naked, for a few more minutes before I felt a soft touch on my waist.