A Perfect Storm

Chapter-Twenty Four

-January 8, 2015-

-Elizabeth's POV-

"Mozzie! It's been a while" I smiled when I answered the door.

"I know. I just had to take care of things"

"Of course" I responded, closing the door behind him. "What brings you by today?"

"Oh, well I won't be stopping by anymore, so I just brought Jaxon a going away present"

I smiled, "Jaxon, Mozzie's here. He brought you a late Christmas present" I had to tell him that small lie to keep some part of his world intact. After I yelled that up the stairs I heard him come running from his room.

"Mozzie!" He yelled as he ran to him.

"It's nice to see you too, Jaxon" Mozzie tells him, hugging him a bit too.

"I heard present" Jaxon stated as he stepped back to look up.

"Yes" Mozzie handed him the bag he had in his hand.

Jaxon opened it up and took out a walkie talkie, "awesome!"

Mozzie smiled sadly since he did say it would be his last time coming by, "I know you've always wanted one of these and I have one too, they are both connected so you can talk to me whenever you need to"

"Thanks Mozzie" Jaxon smiled and hugged him again, "I'm gonna go finish painting. Bye" he said then ran back upstairs.

"There's no reason you have to stop visiting" I informed him after I heard Jaxon stop moving upstairs.

"I know I don't need to. But I need to work on get through the grief and that I can only do with distance"

"Alright. Stay safe Moz" I said as he went to leave, he said a final goodbye before he shut the door.

-Jaxon's POV-

After I finished painting the wooden letters to spell out Neal, Peter hung them over the crib in the nursery. On the 13th break ended and I went back to school, when I got home June was visiting. It turned out Elizabeth didn't want to be alone during the days since she was going to have the baby soon. Peter had been picking me up after school so I was getting home later since I had to wait for him to be done with work, luckily my school had daycare for that, the only bad thing was that none of my friends were there so nobody really talked to me. But they had coloring pages so I really didn't care. It was the first Wednesday back and I had realized I had forgotten my lunchbox in my cubby, it wasn't to late and I knew some teachers didn't leave right after school got out, I needed it, I left my backpack near the table so if one of the caretakers saw I was missing they'd think I just went to the bathroom so that meant I had time to go back downstairs to my classroom. Nobody was paying attention to me so it wasn't difficult to slip out of the lunchroom. The school seemed so scary now, lights were off in some halls and the further I got from the cafeteria the quieter it got so I ended up just running down the stairs.

Because the lights down there were off I was able to see that my room's light was still on. Once I got to to the door I saw my teacher was there and it wasn't just the janitors so I knocked on the door, "Ms.Mae?"

She looked up and smiled, "what are you still doing here, Jaxon?"

"I forgot my lunch box, sand I was in aftercare so I came to get it"

"Alright, they know you're here, right?"

"Yes" I lied.

She nodded, "okay, just wanted to be sure so they know where you are"

"I know. I don't like it there...can I stay here" I asked with a smile once I grabbed my lunch box from my cubby shelf.

"No, sorry, you have to go back there. That's where you're supposed to be right now. And I have to grade your book reports"