Dumb Love (completed)

(16) Back Home

"Are you packed?" My mom asked.

"Ya, ya I'm packed." I answered and sat down on the bed.

"He's being sent to Greenwood, you have nothing to worry about." She reassured me.

"Yes but we still haven't found Johnathan. And I'm still trying to piece together why Kate sent me here and Charlie just happened to know I was here too. And if Charlie burned my house down." I said.

"I know there's alot on your mind but you will be safe now." She said.

"But I'm not the only one that's in danger. It wasn't just me in that house, Landon was there too." I told her.

"You're right. But you need to listen to me, everything will get sorted out, for now you need to stop worrying, it's not good for you." She said giving me a hug.

I threw away the 100th ice pack I've used and grabbed my bag.

"Let's go home." She smiled at me.

We went to the elevator as I waited I looked at the door, and the glass shaft, reminding me of what went down yesterday.

"Johnathan. Johnathan did it." I told her, sure of myslef.

"Burned our house down?" She asked.

"Yes." I said.

"How do you know?" She asked.

"Charlie only wanted to hurt me. He tried to shoot me, and that didn't kill me. He told me that when we were in the garage. If he burned my house down, he would've admitted to that too." I told her.

"So why would Johnathan do it. I doubt he did it without a reason." She asked.

I just shook my head.

"He didn't want anyone to know what he did to me, us." I said looking straight forward.

The elevator stopped and the doors opened as we walked out.

"I'm going to return the key." She said as she walked to the front desk.

I sat down and pulled out my phone.

20 missed calls from Zander.
18 missed calls from Meg.
10 missed calls from Max
8 missed calls from MacKenzie
9 missed calls from Rachel

I've been meaning to call all of them back, I really have, but I didn't know what to say to them.

Especially Zander. I constantly thought about how he was the reason I should be dead right now.

But it was also because I'm the person that ment the most to him.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to talk to Zander. He was the reason I should be dead right now.

But also, it was because I was the thing that ment the most to him.

I took a deep breath in, and called Meg.

She answered immediately

"Carter! Everyone was so worried about you, Zander telling us you were in New York, you not answering any of us including me, your bestest friend!" Meg yelled.

"I am so sorry! There's just so much to tell you!" I said as I took a deep breath out.

"Zander said someone burned down your house and you thought it was the same person who shot you." She said.

"Ya that's.., that's all true, and it's also true that the guy who tried to shoot me came here to New York and tried to kill me." I told her.