dirty little secrets

emergency leave

Michelle's pov:
It's finally the weekend, and emily is currently making breakfast for the two of us. The two of us actually had a good night together last night it was the first one in a while that's actually just felt chilled.

As she brings me over a plate of food and a coffee, my phone suddenly starts to go crazy

Who is that at this time of the morning?

But when I open my phone to see tons of texts from Jones, I instantly know that something is wrong. He isn't a big tester. A lot of the time, we only ever call each other when nobody is around.

So, to have this many messages from him at this time of the morning, something has to be wrong.

I open up his messages to see very urgent sounding messages for me to call him.

"Who's that?" Emily chuckles at my phone going crazy.

"Just a friend." I lie.

Jones is certainly more than a friend, and if he needs me, I'm going to find a way to be there for him.

"I'll be right back, okay?" I say before standing up from my seat and rushing into another room.

I head into the downstairs bathroom, closing  the door behind me and putting a towel next to the gap in the door so that nothing can be heard.

I quickly dial his number, and almost immediately, he picks up, "michelle?" He sounds panicked.

"Jones, what is it? I'm with emily right now." I let him know.

"Michelle, you need to get here right now." He says, a serious but panicked tone to his voice.

I'm so confused right now. This seems urgent, and he seems so panicked, but he won't say what the problem is.

"Why, what's wrong?" I ask, beginning to panic myself.

But suddenly, my heart drops when he says this, "Scarlett got out. My dad's going crazy!"

Oh my god...

She actually did it...

I've been told that she's dangerous, and now that she's out there, anything could happen. Even though she is nine months pregnant, this is actually worse than I thought.

And it's also partly my fault...

I heard her plan and I didn't tell anybody.

I begin to pace the bathroom, breathing heavily as I do so. "Fuck!" I shout loudly, angry at myself for letting this happen.

"Michelle, what's wrong?" Jones asks.

"Are you okay in there, mich?" I then here Emily's voice.

Ignoring emily, I begin talking to Jones once more, "I'm on my way."

But before I can hang up the phone, he says this, "One last thing."

"Make sure emily stays at home." He tells me.

I sigh, "I will. I'll be there as soon as I can." I say,  now rushing to get him off of the phone.

After hanging up, I remove the towel before opening the door to see emily standing outside.

"Are you okay?" She asks. "I heard you shouting."

"I'm fine. I have to go out. Its an emergency." I tell her.

"Oh..." she looks disappointed.

"I'm sorry, em." I apologise.

"But please, stay in the house." I beg her.

But when she doesn't reply, I begin to panic, "em, did you hear me!?"

She rolls her eyes, "Yeah, yeah, saty in the house."

I can tell that she's upset about me leaving, but little dies she know I'm doing it for her. Scarlett knows who she is and what she looks like, and even though emily and I have had a bad time lately, I can't let anything happen to her.

"I promise I'll be back later." I promise her. I wrap my arms around her, hugging her tightly and kissing her before I leave.

I do feel awful. I promised her that we would have a chill day together, and now I'm just leaving her.

But until she does eventually find out about scarlett, she may have to get used to it.