We Are A Family

Chapter 08

We ended up stopping at Tsubaki on our way back to L.A. Jace had been bugging me about going there, and since I had money; I saw no reason to reject him. Shay didn't care where we ate, or what we ate as long as she got food.
We walked into the restaurant and Jace was grinning, a lady walked up to us with a smile. "Three?" She questioned as I nodded.
"Oh my god its Haley Coma!" Some girls exclaimed in the restaurant, in seconds they were at our side with grins. I forgot about the popular life, I smiled and talked to them for a bit before we were brought to our table; we took a seat and Jace was smiling.
"This is really cool." He told us, I smiled softly; I honestly have missed Jace.
The waitress returned with our teas and Dr.pepper, we soon gave her our menu's after telling her what we wanted. Jace wanted to try curry, he asked for the sweet kind since it looked good on the menu.
It took about forty five minutes before she returned, our food was placed in front of us; it all looked really good.
Jace was looking at the curry in confusion, "this is curry..?" He questioned.
I frowned. "You wanted it, you're going to eat it." I told him.
Shay grinned softly. "You heard your mom." She said taking a drink of her tea.
I rolled my eyes, Jace frowned; he lifted up the spoon. He placed it in his mouth, his eyes were squeezed shut with the look of disgust; his eyes slowly opened that grew wide.
I rose a brow as a grin appeared on his face.
"This is really good!" He exclaimed, he began to devour everything on his plate.

We got back to L.A. faster than I thought; I froze seeing all of the lights on inside of the house. I looked to Shay who was already frowning, I looked to Jace who was still asleep.
I frowned. "Wait here." I told her, unbuckling my seat belt; I quietly opened the door then slammed it shut. My eyes widened seeing a light go off, Shay frowned.
"Call the police." She hissed.
I shook my head, reopening the door; I stepped out.
"Haley, get back in the fucking car." Shay snapped.
I flashed her a glare, my feet began to move on their own; what the hell was I doing? I walked up the stairs, then pushed open the front door.
I didn't see any movement, I looked around walking deeper into the room.
My breathing was heavy and I knew stress and fear was not going to be good on the baby, I walked around the first floor. I swallowed hard, walking up the stairs; I frowned looking around. Sweat rolled down the side of my face, I opened each door on the second floor; nothing. I ran a hand through my hair, was I being paranoid? I frowned looking around.
After making sure the house was empty, I walked back to the front door but stopped; the sound of glass breaking in the kitchen made me freeze.
I could feel breath on the back of my neck; like someone was purposely breathing down my neck.
Tears filled my eyes when a knife was in the front of my face, I felt the cold blade being pressed onto my neck.

"Do you have any idea how easily I could kill you? Make Christian suffer and my world would be whole again? Of course, we have to kill Mark first; that's our first plan." The voice belonged to a guy, his voice sounded way more familiar now; I winced feeling the blade digging deeper into my neck.
"LET HER GO YOU SON OF A BITCH!" My eyes snapped open when I saw the front door getting kicked open, it was Ricky.
He ran at the man before tackling him to the ground after shoving me out of the way, Ricky kept punching the guy in his face. I sat there on the ground, tears were falling down my cheeks; blood was hitting the carpet.
"R-Ricky.." I stuttered shaking, the sound of sirens echoed throughout the neighborhood; it wasn't two minutes later and cops were racing into the house. They ripped Ricky off of the guy who wasn't moving at this point, oh god; did he kill him?
A cop turned to another. "Get a stretcher, hes still breathing." He snapped.
Ricky was at my side, comforting me at all costs.
I scrambled to my feet before running over to the stretcher. "W-wait, let me see his face." I said frowning.
A cop frowned looking to another, he removed the mask and my eyes grew wide with disbelief.
"Buddy." I said before falling to my knees.

It's been hours since the scene in the living room happened; I was still in disbelief and didn't want to believe any of what just happened.. Buddy was the one after Mark? Then who was after CC? The voice belonged to a female.. I frowned before my eyes grew wide.
"Lauren." I said out loud, Shay and Ricky looked to me as I removed myself from the couch; suddenly this was all making sense. The crazy exes wanted to our husbands dead, because they didn't get the lives they wanted with them..
Buddy was after Mark because he was still in love with Kayla, and Lauren was after CC because she knew I was in love with him and she wanted him dead.
This was insane, I could feel laughter taking over me; I began to laugh which wouldn't stop.
Ricky and Shay exchanged worried looks, I wiped a tear from my eye before looking to my two friends.
"I asked for adventure, and this is the adventure I was given.." I said.
Jace was up in my room, after I mentioned video games; he dropped his stuff then headed upstairs.
I ran a hand through my hair, I guess I should be grateful Ricky came in when he did; or else there would have been no telling how earlier would of played out.
Buddy was still alive, that was one thing I knew; that meant Lauren was still out there..
I walked over to the window with my arms crossed.
At times like this, I was glad CC and the guys were on tour.. they were safe.
I placed my hands on my stomach with a soft frown.
"Three month's to go.." I murmured.