Live Simpler

Chapter 20

I have been having an obsession with transparents and overlays lately so those are going to be the pictures for a while.

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Caila's POV

Hailey pulled out of our hug when a gunshot went off. I followed her down the stairs. She was stopped at the bottom of the stairs. In front of her was a pool of blood that was slowly growing larger and larger in size. The source? Carter's body.

"What happened?" I asked as Hailey walked to Aaron. I followed her and stood in between Hailey and Aaron and Matt. This was awkward.

"He shot himself." Matt said. I felt his eyes on me. I turned and looked into his brown eyes. His eyes were enchanting.

"Call 911." I said. Matt pulled out his black iPhone 5s and called. He answered the operators questions and hung up. We all stood there in silence, looking at Carters body.

"911!" A man screamed from outside. They kicked the door open and walked in with their guns ready to fire. They talked to Matt and and Aaron. I watched two of the police officers zip Carters body into a black body bag.

"We'll get someone to clean that blood up for you." A nice lady said. I nodded and thanked her.

"My name is Detective Johnson and I was just wondering if you had any valuable information that would help us determine the reason Mr. Reynolds committed suicide." She asked. I thought back.

"Carters always wanted to be with Hailey, but she never agreed. This is the second time he's captured Hailey, if that helps." I said. She wrote what I said down and shook my hand.

"Thank you Ms. Ryder." She added as she turned and walked away. Slowly the police officers left and we were left int he house, like nothing had happened.

"Well, wanna call the guys and have them come over?" Aaron asked. Matt nodded and Aaron called Nash.

"Caila." Matt said coming over to me. "Can we talk?" I nodded and followed him upstairs. I sat down on the bed.

"I'm sorry. I don't like Bella that way, honestly. I was just protecting her." Matt said standing in front of me.

"You couldn't have protected her without kissing her Matt? Did you ever think of that?" I spat at him. He frowned.

"I panicked. Caila, I want you to know that I love you and only you." He said. I stood up and he pulled me close to him. His hands were around my waist and our lips connected. I've missed this.

"I'm sorry, for not believing you." I said into the kiss. Slowly his tongue entered my mouth with out asking for entrance. We were interrupted by Kylee crying. I pulled away and picked her up, Matt taking Camille.

"We have the most beautiful daughters." He said to me. I smiled and kissed him.

"Yes, yes we do."

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Everyone came over except for Cameron. Natalie was here but she didn't seem like herself. She hasn't since her and Cam had split. We were playing twister and I was sitting out. I got up and walked over to Natalie.

"Hey." I said sitting down next to her. The girls were sleeping.

"Hi." She said, not looking away from the twister game.

"Are you okay?" I asked: she shook her head fast and looked at me.

"Yeah. I've never been better." She said smiling. Something was up.