Inferno Part 2

~81~ Third Degree

Evan nods, and doesn't ask for more details.

"McKenna, do you know any makeup tricks to hide it? My daughter tried to help, but she got annoyed and said she was never helping again."

Mason snorts. "Ok, Ellie, you're leaving out a key piece of info. Don't blame Sasha." He laughs.

"She deserved it"

He laughs as he takes a drink of soda. Lance looks at me, confused.

"I kinda dumped some of her expensive powder on her head"

"Why?" He laughs.

"Because she said I'm looking old, and it was going to take a lot of her powder to hide my wrinkles"

Mason starts to spit out his soda.. "She was kidding" he cackles.

"Not funny. Never tell someone that they have wrinkles. She's lucky all I did was get powder in her hair."

The conversation turns, and we enjoy the rest of our lunch. Evan leaves, and goes back to his class. Lance grabs my arm gently as I'm about to leave.

"Is he ok?" He asks me seriously.

I smile. "Yes, boss. He's not a psycho."

"You sure?" He asks me again.

I just nod.

He breathes a sigh of relief as he walks me to my office.

The next day after school, I get home and give Taylor the biggest hug. He wasn't home from work yet when I left for work.

"Man I missed ya" he says, kissing my cheek.

"What's wrong, Chief?" I ask after looking at his face.

"Not a good shift" he says seriously.

"What happened?"

He sighs and shakes his head. "Liam had to write up Tony"

"Why?"

"He didn't vent the house properly, and it blew"

"WHAT?!?" I yell.

He nods. "Liam and Tatum got burned. Tatum has third degree in a ton of spots. He's out for a month"

"And Liam?" I asked getting panicky

"Got his neck. He's ok. He saved Tatum's life"

"Why are you just now telling me about this?" I ask, getting mad.

"Because he was fine"

I look at him, mad, and get out my phone.

"Hello?" Liam answers

"Get your ass over here" I say as I hang up the phone.

"You're in trouble" I say to Taylor, absolutely furious.