Don't Leave Me (A Bajan Canadian Fan Fiction) (Watty Awards 2013)

Chapter Twenty-Five: Dead...

Chapter 25

I held Reegan in my arms as she slowly fell asleep. Graham walked up to me as I set the sleeping girl on my couch.

"Can I ask you something?" he asks.

"Yeah, sure. What's up bud?" I ask. He looks at his feet before breathing out air.

"When I get older, do I have permission to be Reegan's boyfriend?" he asks. My heart melts in happiness.

"Yeah you have my permission, but I'm just her uncle. You need to ask Mat that question. I'll come with you," I say, taking Graham's hand and walking him downstairs. Mat, Adam, Rob, Dustin, Ty, Tyler, Kyle and Jason look at us. Jason smiles.

"Hey guys," he says. I smile back at him as the rest of the guys turn back their attention to the computer.

"Mat, can Graham and I ask you something?" I say. Mat turns around and walks over to us.

"What's up?" he asks, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"Graham, do you want to ask him?" I ask. He nods with a smile before turning to Mat.

"When I'm older, may I date Reegan?" he asks. Mat looks at me with wide eyes.

"Is he serious?" he mouths. I nod with a smirk. He looks back down at Graham.

"Yes. Yes of course you can," Mat said with a smile. Graham hugs his legs before hugging me and running over to Adam.

"Someone needs to adopt that kid," he said, smiling. I smile too.

"Yeah totally," I say, walking back to the group with Mat. Adam was tickling Graham as Graham squealed with laughter. I took out my phone.

To Mat: Maybe Adam?

Mat takes out his phone as I send it. He looks at the message before texting me back.

From Mat: I'll ask him later big

To Mat: Hockep

I put my phone back in my pocket as Mat texts Adam. They go back and forth for a while before Adam smiles and whispers something to Graham. Graham smiles the biggest smile a little boy could muster before he hugs Adam.

"What's going on?" Ty asks. Adam and Mat go back and forth, explaining everything. Everyone smiles, even Dustin, who is parentless. That's when I had an idea.

"Dustin come with me," I say, getting up. Dustin follows me.

"Do you want to live with me and be my younger brother. I'd take legal rights and everything," I say. Dustin nods his head vigorously.

"YES!" he says before hugging me.

Adam got a son and I got a brother. Awesome.

I walk back with Dustin and he sits back in his chair. I turn to see what's on the computer. Skype. Jerome's face was on the screen.

"WHO CALLED JEROME!" I yell at the guys. Jerome breaks out laughing as all the guys start accusing each other of calling him. I start laughing with Dustin. He could be my brother, even though we aren't biologically related.

He had the same eye color as me, same hair color and same personality. Yeah, he's definitely going to be an awesome brother.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Jerome yells. Everyone froze. Mat was pointing at Rob and Tyler, his finger almost up Rob's nose while Rob had his finger in Mat's ear and Tyler had his finger in his mouth. Adam was holding Graham while Ty was pointed an accusing finger at them. Jason and Kyle had each other's fingers on each other's faces.

Yeah, we're interesting.

"Who really called me?" he asks. Everyone points at Rob. Rob makes a face, like a little child would when he gets a toy.

"Hai," he says, his fists by his chin, pushing up his cheeks. We all laugh at him, putting down our fingers. Graham gets off Adam's lap and runs upstairs. He screams.

"Graham!" Adam gets up quickly and runs upstairs. Ty ran after Adam along with Jason. I look at Mat and Rob before running upstairs with the both of them. Dustin, Tyler and Kyle stayed downstairs with Jerome. We all made it upstairs to see Reegan's little body with bullet hole through the middle of her. Mat's face fell.

"MY BABY!" he yelled, running to pick her up, cradling her dead body in his arms. Dustin ran upstairs. I quickly covered his eyes.

"What's happening?" he whispers as everyone is frozen, watching Mat cradle his dead baby in his arms, Graham hugging his waist.

"Reegan was shot. There's nothing we can do," I whisper back, uncovering Dustin's eyes. His eyes well with tears as he hugs me. He lets go of my waist and runs downstairs, telling Tyler, Kyle and Jerome what happened. My phone rings. I quickly answer.

"Hello?" I say as everyone looks at me.

"Hello. Is this Mitchell Hughes?" the man asks.

"Uh... yeah... who is this?" I ask.

"This is Deputy Jones at the police department. We found a girl named Samantha Jane Johnsons on Main Street hit by a car. Do you know anyone that has any relations to her," he said. My heart sank.

Sam was hit.

Reegan was shot.

What next?

"Yeah, her little brother is here," I say.

"Okay, sir I will need you to bring yourself and him down to the police department immediately," he says.

"Alright... OH! Officer, I actually I have something to report," I say.

"Yes, Mr. Hughes?"

"My niece was shot tonight. We couldn't here the gun but apparently Samantha's little brother could and he found her. She's dead," I say, bowing my head.

"We will put investigation into it, thank you Mr. Hughes," he says before hanging up. I look towards Graham.

"Graham we need to take a ride quickly," I say. Graham nods and follows me out the door and to my car.

"Where are we going?" he asks as I buckle him in his seat.

"We need to go see the policemen," I say. He nods, understanding what I'm saying and probably having an idea of what's to come.

I quickly drive over to the police station, unbuckling Graham and running inside with Graham in my arms.

The police take us through questions and we were out of there in about 1 hour. We drive back home and see the ambulance in my driveway. Graham presses his face to the window.

"REEGAN!" he yells. I quickly let him out as the doctors take Reegan away.

"NO REEGAN!" Mat and Graham yell at the same time. Mat falls to his knees.

We lost two people today...

And they aren't coming back...