Back in Time

Chapter 34

Monica P.O.V

I gripped dad's waist when I saw the lights of the house all on, "Alex look!" I pointed to the house happily.

He let out a sigh of relief "Look, they're here" he said pointing to the car, it was parked outside in a very wrong way, like if whoever had parked had been in a hurry to get out.

My hopes jumped up, oh please! I prayed, let them all be here!

We hurried to the house and entered quickly, it was very late but dad still called Uncle Joey's name loudly, "Joey! Joey?" he hollered loud enough to wake anyone up.

I heard a couple of gasps and suddenly footsteps running to us quickly, "Monica!" Roxanne appeared first, she threw herself on me so hard I stumbled back a bit and dad had to hold me so I didn't fall over.

"Monica you're alright! Oh Monica!" she hugged me so tightly it hurt, "Roxanne" I hugged her back as hard as I could manage. She continued to squeeze the air out of me "Monica you're alright, you're okay" she continued to chant.

Uncle Joey appeared next with Emma next to him, he let out a big sigh of relief when he saw us and he hurried over to give dad a hug "Shit Alex! We thought we would never see you guys again!" he cried rushing to us too and enveloping us into another tight hug.

We all hugged tightly for a long time and eventually Uncle Joey pulled back, "What happened? How? How are you guys alive!" he exclaimed frowning slightly when he saw how bruised dad was

"We were going crazy with worry! Oh God, what happened?" Roxanne exclaimed also gasping when she saw my bandaged arm. Aunt Emma hurried over also and gasped when she saw us "Did they hurt you? What did those men want?" she asked.

It was chaos for a couple of seconds, everyone began to speak at the same and ask questions. I couldn't even answer one question when they had another one!

Finally dad yelled "Hold on a second!" and everyone fell silent, "Joey where's mom?" he asked him.

He opened his mouth but Roxanne beat him to it "She's at the police station," she answered quickly.

I frowned "What? The police station? Did they take her or something?" I asked worriedly.

"No, no one took her, but she got worried when we came home all breathless and well scared. We told her everything that had happened and that you guys had been taken by some weird men, she went over there to report they had kidnapped you" Uncle Joey added seriously.

"We waited," Aunt Emma bit her lip looking close to tears "We had the hope you guys would come back sooner but the more time that passed the more we thought they would never let you leave," she said.

Roxanne gripped my hand giving me the most apologetic look "I thought they were going to lock you up for a long time," she sniffled "Oh Monica I'm sorry! For leaving you there, I-I didn't want to...but, but the men were chasing us and we didn't think. I mean...we were driving away without thinking! We-"

"No don't apologize, I'm glad you three got to escape," I told them honestly.

"We all ran towards the car, but you two ran the opposite direction, and we were going to wait but..." Uncle Joey trialed of looking almost as sorry as Roxanne. "We shouldn't have left, we should've waited. I'm sorry," he looked up at dad with teary eyes "I'm sorry Alex," he said.

The sight of the tears in his eyes made me gulp, I had never seen Uncle Joey look so upset.

Dad hugged him "Hey don't worry, it's okay Joey, Monica is right, I'm glad they didn't take you guys," he said not looking mad at all.