Right In Front Of You

Chapter 24 - I Can't Walk Away

A few hours later; Home;
Heather's POV;

We were going to have a full house tonight; Matt, Shannon, Jeff, Gilby and Deano had all decided to come back to the house for a few drinks, which meant that Matt, Shannon and Jeff were going to end up staying over. Gilby and Deano were already staying because Gilby had no where to go, he was playing the club again tomorrow night, so he wasn't leaving town yet and Deano had no where else to stay, so Suzie had told him he could stay over.

No one minded because Deano was the kind of man that you didn't mind having around. It was almost like having a small part of our Dad around because they had been more like brother's than best friends. It had been too long since we had seen him and we were happy to have him in the house, it especially made me feel a little bit safer considering all that was happening with Shaun right now.

Suzie excused herself to go change out of her cloths, which had been covered in a pint of beer when some customer had been reluctant to accept that it was time for the club to close for the night. So the remaining eight of us moved in to the den, to get settled. We had all just sat down and gotten comfortable when there came a blood curling scream from Suzie's room.

"Jeff!" She screamed out followed quickly by another. "Barry!"

It was followed by a crashing but Jeff was already out of his seat before she had even called for him. Barry followed suit while the rest of us looked at one another before getting up and racing to our big sister's room to find her in Jeff's arms and sobbing; the window wide open the cold breeze flowing in the window.

"What happened?" Shannon asked looking around the room as Barry literally tore the window wider and looked outside.

"Fucking Shaun," He muttered pulling back in to the room. "I am done being Mr Nice Guy, this stops now," Clearing the room in a second he was out the door. "Who is with me?"

Everyone agreed that they were in, but as we all moved towards the front door, Deano turned and looked at every single face that was looking back at him.

"I think it best if Jeff, Matt, Shannon and Gilby stay here," He announced.

"What? Why?" Jeff asked his arms still wrapped around Suzie, holding her close.

"Because y'all are famous, if Barry and I get a hold of him; there is gonna be some serious damage, it's best you guys aren't there, you need to take care of the girls anyway,"

"Woah...wait a second; why can't we come?" I asked feeling Shannon slipping his hand in to mine; his fingers lacing through my own and giving me an extra squeeze.

"Because you don't need to see this," Barry admitted. "Now let us go; he's getting ahead of us,"

With that he and Deano headed out the front door leaving Gilby, Matt, Jeff, Shannon, Britt, Suzie and myself stood in the hallway wondering what the hell had just happened. My heart was pounding at the thought of Shaun actually having been in the house, the thought of him made my skin crawl, I felt sick and my stomach was churning out of control.

"It's ok honey, they will catch him...he ain't coming back here tonight," Suzie said slipping back in to the oldest role and moving to me and Britt; wrapping her arms around us, she held us close for a few moments. "Y'all go relax; I am going to try and tidy my room,"

"We'll help," Britt said.

"No! You go hang with Matt, Shannon and Gilby, Jeff will help me; won't you babe?"

"Of course," He replied readily.

So with the arrangements settled Matt, Britt, Gilby, Shannon and myself headed in to the living room while Jeff and Suzie headed on back to her room and closed the door behind them. Sitting down on the sofa, my hands were suddenly in desperate need of something to do so I grabbed the smokes and handed out to Gilby and Britt before lighting my own.