Top Floor
Forward
Through the gap in the drapes 16
year old jenny could see it all, plain and simple. They had lied. Every last
one of them. Not only to her but among themselves they had lied. About that
night in the theater and the moment that they had become friends. The lies
poured through his little innocent grin, acting like nothing was going on, when
obviously there was something and it wasn't little…. In fact it was quite the scandal.
He told her that she would always come first. Little did she know at the time,
that trusting him meant putting trust in alliances she never knew she had. She
felt like a fool for believing him at this moment. Not knowing whether to burst
through the doors and out in to the vulnerable open word to stop them, or to
just sit tight with the photo evidence and go on acting like she had seen
nothing, waiting for a more beneficial opportunity to arise to sabotage them. Jenny
chose plan B.
As she
rushed back to the spiraling staircase located in the front hall, where she had
been asked to wait for Carson, she stumbled and came face to face with her soon
to be newest ally. He was tall, with
that kind of contagious yet genuine smile. His vibrant blue eyes met hers as he
frantically asked if she was alright.
“Oh I
am so sorry! I tend to get in to a hurry and things always go downhill from
there!”
“It's
quite alright; we all get ourselves in to these situations on occasion.” Jenny
replied, relieved that something exciting had happened for once.
“Well
good night misses……..?”
“Hodges...
Jenny Hodges.”
“Ahhh
well goodnight Miss. Hodges.”
“Farewell”
At that moment Carson strolled up with a look
of mischief in his eye.
“Are
you ready Jenifer?”
“Yes of
course dear. Though I wish you would call me jenny as everyone else does.”
Carson
was silent. Jenny knew not to push the matter and so she walked to the car in a
forced silence.
As they
pulled up to door of Jenny’s apartment building and she started to get out, he grabbed
he hand whispering he said “Your in this to deep to quit now. Stay away from
him.”
Chapter 1 1
Year Earlier
Jenny
Hodges had grown up knowing that you got nothing unless someone worked for it.
Weather that someone was you or since pass relatives, someone had worked to
support her expensive Manhattan lifestyle. Although this wasn't the brightest
of days in jenny’s world she was certainly obliged to be headed to the reading
of her uncle’s will. He was the only resemblance of a father that she had had.
He had passed a month ago but the lawyers had to sift through the legal mess
and obtain the proper paper work.
As
jenny reached the office building and entered, she was astonished by the cookie
cutter shape everything had. This was supposed to be a Manhattan law firm not
some uncultured and monotonous law firm from out on the west coast. All the
same she reached the front desk and was directed to floor 33. She could smell
the uptown hierarchy before the elevator doors even opened. She was greeted
with a brief but again, monotone “hello” and whisked away to the conference
room.
“Now,
shall we begin?”
She sat at the long, rounded table unsure of
what was going to take place next. One of the lawyers slid the door shut and
walked to the head of the room. Opening the blinds, and standing in awe of the
view for a moment, he finally began.
“Miss.
Hodges, I am sorry for your loss however this matter must be attended to. You
Uncle explained that everything be signed over to you under one condition…. “He
paused unsure how to present the next piece. As if he was uncertain to how she
would react. “You must get your father to sign off on it.”
She sat
shocked. Her father had abandoned her when she was still in diapers and now her
uncle wanted him to sign the agreement. What kind of cruel punishment was this?
Jenny
gathered the papers and left the law office, still in shock. Her uncle had
always despised her father for leaving her. Now he wanted him to sign the paper
work. Jenny was sickened by the thought of trying to track down her father; in
fact she felt her stomach flip the more she dwelled on the situation.
She didn't even know if it was possible to find her father and whether
she could ever get him to sign a paper for her. The truth of the matter was
that she didn't even remember him. Making her wonder if he even remembered her.
Either way this was going to be a bumpy ride.
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