“Hey, buddy, what’s up?” I asked him.
“Nothing, but can you do something for me?”
“Depends. Why aren’t you asking Jacob or your father?”
“Lucy doesn’t want them to know. She keeps saying she was going to ask you, but I noticed she hasn’t, and I am tired of her keeping me up at night.”
“What do you mean?”
“Doesn’t matter, but can you meet at school today? I will sneak out early,” he said.
“Fine. Text me what time, and I will be there. Is Lucy okay?” I asked him.
“Lucy is coping,” he said.
For some reason, that wasn’t the answer I was hoping for. What the heck did he mean by it? Before I could ask, he closed the link before I got a text message telling me where to meet him. I kept mindlinking her all day, but she always said she was busy, making me wonder what she was busy doing?
“Ace, I am going to meet Rayan. Do you want to come?” I asked him. I heard him grab his keys before walking toward me.
“I’m driving,” he said, and I growled. He drove like a maniac. I hated it when he drove but followed after him anyway. We arrived at the school, and Rayan was waiting in the park across the road.
“How do you get out all the time?” I asked him.
“Alpha’s son has its perks,” he said before handing me something. I looked at them and found them to be antidepressants.
“Lucy ran out two days ago. She won’t go to the pack doctor to get more because she’s worried mom would find out. I would have gotten them for her, but the pharmacist isn’t going to give me a class A drug, seeing I am just a kid,” he said, and I could tell it irked him that he couldn’t sway a doctor to his will.
“Okay, I will get them for her,” Ace said, grabbing the bottle from my hands before pulling his phone out to ring the pack doctor, as he walked back to the car.
“What did you mean earlier, when you said she was coping?”
“That every night she is awoken by nightmares. I usually end up jammed on the trundle with her, and I noticed she has a tendency to sleepwalk without her meds. Probably not the best thing when mom is off her meds,” Rayan said.
“Your dad still had no luck?” I asked him, and he shook his head.
“Jacob told Lucy she was on medication,” he said.
“Lucy is her daughter. She has the right to know,” I told him.
“Yeah, but if she finds out she is the reason why mom went off the deep end, I worry for Lucy. She isn’t in the best place.”
“What do you mean?” I asked him, confused.
“Nothing. It’s just… Amanda, she was always nuts. It doesn’t matter. Can you bring her pills tomorrow, please?” he said, yawning. “I better go, I have to meet Lucy soon, and I don’t want her to know I gave you those. She would be embarrassed.”
“She is coming to meet you?” I asked him.
“Yeah, she goes to school across the road. Didn’t she tell you?” he asked, and I looked at the high school.
“No. She didn’t,” I told him before nodding. I wondered why she kept that from us.
“I will see you tomorrow. Maybe you can stay at ours on the weekend? Lucy might actually come over if she knows you will be there,” I told him, and he nodded.
“Sounds good,” he said as the bells rang. He ushered us to leave, and I saw Jacobs’s car pull up as we were reversing out of the parking lot. He waved, looking confused, before sitting on the swing beside Rayan.
“I have a feeling there is a lot we don’t know,” Ace said, and I had to agree. We stopped and picked up Lucy’s medication on the way home.
For the majority of the night, I tried to get a hold of her, but once again, she shoved us out after a few words. When it hit midnight though, I could sense Rayan was up. The buzz of the teether when I reached out to him was alert before I pushed forward.