Coming Back for You

Try Again

Ethan

Now just wait here a minute.

Before you start to yell at me because you figured out that I lied, just hear me out.

You don't know the whole story yet...

Peter warned me that Barbie was going to show up sometime.

Julia and Peter weren't at his sister's house like I told them, but Peter had told me to tell them that.

I know what kind of man Peter is and that's the reason I could not tell Barbie where Julia really was.

I anticipated hearing that knock on my door.... I knew Barbie was not always a good guy. I knew he made some mistakes in the past.

I hid my pistol behind my back just in case he decided to pull anything. But after hearing the real story of what happened to him and Julia, I decided to save my bullets for Peter.

I trusted Barbie. By the look in his eyes I could tell that he had a rough past. But every time he said Julia's name to me, his face lit up. The faded color brightened his eyes again.

One thing I do not understand is how a man can treat the woman that he loves with such ignorance.

Barbie proved to me that he would never hurt Julia, despite what Peter had said about it.

That's why I couldn't tell them where Julia was. That's why I lied.

Because I knew Barbie would never hurt her.

But Peter would.

He could slit Julia's throat any second if he really wanted to. He would be the one to do that, too.

If Peter could not have her, then no one could.

I was afraid for Barbie. I knew how much Peter could hurt him.

So don't go around yelling at me for betraying Barbie and being the bad guy here.

I am on Barbie's side, remember??

Anyway, Now that you see the reasons behind my madness, back to the story.

Afterwards when the two men had gone to rescue Julia, Peter called me again. I stopped the ringtone on my phone with the answer button and Peter's voice came through the line.

"Deed... thay come... yet?" Peter sounded drunk as he mumbled his question. Oh God I can't wonder what he is doing to that poor Julia.

"Yeah they just left. I told them everything you said too."

Peter let out a another heavy breath and hung up.

I regretted not telling Barbie the truth, but that didn't mean I couldn't help him.

I grabbed my keys and sped away in my car to Peter's sister's house.

Barbie

"Follow my lead Sam. Peter can be difficult sometimes."

"Got it."

I ran up to the little house with Sam shuffling behind me.

He had never had the pleasure of meeting Julia's ex-husband, but I had.

Peter was just a big joke. He bluffed to scare me away. And look where that got him. Dead.

Julia always told me that everything happened for a reason. It was because of Peter that I met the love of my life. He was the reason I was in Chester's Mill.

So it must have been Peter's time because Julia was sure as hell finished with him. He was never a husband to her. And that is exactly what she needed. A person to share her passion and love with, because her heart was full of it.

And I allowed her to do that.

Me.

No one else.

Not Peter.

Not Sam.

Just me.

I knocked on the front door and rang the door bell a few times. A blonde haired lady, maybe in her twenties walked by the window and stood at the open door.

"Um can I help you gentlemen?"

"Yes. Are you Peter's sister? I was told that him and Julia were here," I asked the confused woman. She stared at me shaking her head.

"Um no I dunno a Peter or Julia. Maybe you have the wrong address. Sorry."

And with that, the door was slammed in my face and my heart broke into even more tiny pieces.

Yeah. I have decided to kill that freaking I don't even have any words for him anymore Peter.

Ugh. I can't even say his name.

Sam and I circled the house, peeking through all the windows and cracks just to make sure that lady was really telling the truth. When we made it back around, Ethan was standing by the car.

"You bitch." I ran for him. I slammed him against the car door. Then pushed him to the ground, kicking his rib. "You lied. Why did you lie to me"