Find a hacker

“You can stay if you like. I don't really have anything I want you to do for me”.

Melody told him that she wanted to stay with the girls as he had nothing he wanted her to do for him, and that was exactly what she did. Throughout the day, she kept on thinking about why Hunter suddenly came to see her in the morning and what really went down at her club.

The girls refused to tell her, and she couldn't understand why they were quiet for most part of the day. It was almost like they had done something wrong and were feeling guilty about it. In the afternoon, Melody left, saying that she had important things to do, and she also wanted to meet up with Morgan for something.

“You are late” that was the first thing Morgan told Rebecca as she stepped into the restaurant she wanted to meet with him and walked down to his table

“I'm not,” with an eye roll, Rebecca drew out a chair and slid into it. Her stomach growled with hunger as her eyes fell on the table that was filled with her favorite food. Morgan had already ordered for them, but she won't be able to eat until she is done with what she came out to meet him for. “I did not give any specific time”

“You said in the afternoon, and it's almost evening, so you are late”

Rebecca sighed," okay I'm late, and I apologize for that” she did not have much strength to argue as she was here for something important.

Morgan's brow furrowed with a small frown. It was so unlike Rebecca to agree that she was wrong and apologize immediately without an argument. He peered at her face and saw that she did not look too good. Her eyes were not the shining black he was used to. They were from today, like someone had put off the light in them.

He leaned over the table to grab her hand in his, “Are you okay?”

Rebecca was going to say that she was okay but went with the truth, “I'm not okay. I think I just got myself in trouble with my brother” she shook her head and corrected her words, “no, I know that I got myself in trouble with my brother”

“Oh?,” Morgan cocked his head to one side," what kind of trouble did you get into? Are the girls involved? When did this happen? I thought you girls were asleep until early this morning because you all looked pretty drunk to me when you left the club”

Rebecca swallowed thickly, “I got into trouble because of Melody”

“What did Melody do?”

“She got drugged last night. It wasn't just any drugs, it was an aphrodisiac”

Morgan went still for a second as he stared directly into Rebecca's eyes to see if she would laugh and say she was just fooling around. But, she held his gaze and he knew that she was serious.

His hand dropped from hers, and he relaxed back in his chair. He used his hand to rub his jaw, “Melody was drugged last night” it wasn't a question.

Rebecca nodded as she clasped her hands together, “yes and Hunter found out from Matthew”

“Matthew?”

“Matthew is Hunter's doctor. I had to call him last night to help me with Melody because I didn't know what to do. He asked me to tell Hunter or he would. He told Hunter before I had the chance to. Hunter was at our hostel this morning”

" Shit” Morgan cursed as he pressed his hand to his forward before leaning forward, “how did it happen? How did she get drugged? I was with her last night, and she did not go close to anyone”

“ That's precisely why I came to you. You were with her, that's why I left her to go to the dance floor. Apart from you, who else was at the table? I need to know because Hunter might skin me alive”

“ You don't know that”

Rebecca nodded with certainty as the image of Hunter going berserk in the past because of Melody flashed in her head, “I know that. He did not say anything this morning when he arrived because Melody was there, but it doesn't mean that he won't say anything later. He hasn't called me to return back home because Melody said she wanted to stay with me. I lied to him that we were going to be having a girl's night with the girl's, but instead I took her to the club. He is surely going to kill me”

“This is fucked up," Morgan groaned as he racked his brain for who was at the table with him and Melody. Someone who could have drugged her, “I don't think anyone from our table could have drugged her”

“ You don't know that yet. If not from the table, then from where? She never got up from the table and I know Melody, she won't talk to someone she doesn't know not to talk of taking something from them”

“ Paul, Bernard, Evans, Timothy, and a number of girls were the only ones at the table when you left for the dance floor. We know this first. They were close friends and would never do such a thing”

“ We don't know that yet. They have not done it before doesn't mean they can't do it to Melody”

“ What if that drink was meant for someone else and not Melody?" Morgan asked, "She is new to our circle and she hasn't even gotten any enemy yet”

“ I don't care, nor do I want to know if the drink was meant for her. She drank it and it got me and the girls in trouble. She might not have an enemy but I do have a bunch of them. Maybe someone wanted to use her to get to me. I just need a name for when Hunter would finally want to punish me and the girls for taking Melody to the club”

“ What makes you so sure that he is not doing an investigation about it already?"

“ It doesn't matter. I also want to know the motherfucker and beat that person up before Hunter gets to them”

“ I think we need to start by asking Melody if she ever took drink from any of the guys or girls around”

Rebecca shook her head with a defeated sigh," she doesn't remember anything that went down last night"

“ Oh hell. If she can't remember, then our work just became harder. We would be needing someone to hack into the security cameras”

Rebecca's eyes brightened at this new idea, and she snapped her fingers together, “I know someone who can help us with that” she was already bringing out her phone and placing a call as she spoke.

When the person she was calling picked up, she briefly explained everything and the other person said he would get to work immediately.

“I was going to say that we should ask Paul for his help. You know that he is a good hacker" Morgan said when she dropped the call

“ Paul is among our suspects, remember?”

“ That's right, but I still don't think he would do such”

“ Doesn't matter” Rebecca jumped on her seat in the next second when her phone rang. She sighed in relief to see that it wasn't Hunter or any of her family members. It was just an admirer she gave her number to recently at the shopping mall because the man kept disturbing her for it. She declined the call.

“Was that your brother?” Morgan asked after he observed her behavior to the phone call.

“Nope, just a random guy who won't leave me alone”

Now that she had asked the hacker to help them with the security footage at the club, she had the appetite to eat. She picked up her fork.

“What is the relationship between hunger and Melody?”

Rebecca choked on her food and went into a coughing fit.