Red Rose

Chapter Five

                                                        When i wake up I'm in Rodney's arms in his bed. I looked around and i saw Shawn standing over us. "Why?". He mouths to me. "Why what?". "Why Rodney?". "It just happened". "Have you too ever.....you know?".  "Have sex?". "Yes". "Oh God. Why did I ask?". "Because your my brother and you feel like you've missed a lot". "I have missed a lot but I am deeply sorry i hurt you so bad and trust when I say I never hurt you again". He assures me. "You better keep your promise". "I will". Rodney began to wake up this time. He opened his eyes and found Shawn standing over us and me looking at him. "Can you two please shut up and let me sleep". Well I wasn't expecting that. I got up and checked my phone and I missed a call from the police. I called back and it was officer Donald from the other night, he told me to get ready and meet him at the airport. "Did they find your dad?". Asked Rodney. "Yes and we were suppose to leave today to go to Illinois to go get him and her". "Then what are we waiting for lets go". Said Shawn. We all get ready and grab our bags for the flight from South Carolina to Illinois. I'm nervous and scared at the same time because I want them to be okay. I want to be in one piece. But as for that bitch Honey I hope she dies tonight because to me jail is too easy of a slap on the wrist for me. We get to the airport and everything was set a blaze, the whole building was on fire. There were screams everywhere and blood and body parts. I wanted to throw up so bad. I saw the cops who were suppose to me hold his hand up. I ran to him and kneeled beside him. "What happened here?". I asked him. "Your mother and some guy came back her and I was running after her.........". He had to cough and get a breathe in. "Take your time". I said. "We were running after her and the guy and her had starting shooting at us and one bullet shot something in the building and it blew up the whole place. These poor people are all in need of some serious help please". "We will get them some help worry about you for right now think bout you". "In this field you got to put yourself before others". "Rodney we need to call for help, we can't leave them like this". He pulled his phone out and began to called the police and hospitals and the fire department. "They on their way". "Go". Said the cop. "Go find them, they need you". "But I dont know where they even went". "Think. If they came back that mean they came for you and if they know the police is on to them that means they are going to destroy any evidence. Your dad and friends need you. Go". I looked at Shawn and Rodney and they said 'We got your back'. I looked at the cop one last time and he assured me it was going to be alright. I got up and headed to the car. "I guess road trip". Said Shawn. "Yeah". I said. I came up with a plan as we drove down the road. I wanted to make her pay for what she did to me and friends. I want her gone and I don't care what i have to do to make her disappear. "Don't ruin the road trip with your over thinking and evil eye". "I can't help it". I look out the window and I think about them, my dad, Tonya and Javi. "We got to stop to Tonya and Javi parents house, we got to tell them we found them". "Babygirl we can't stop on something like this we got to get a good distance if were going to get to them". Said Rodney. "Okay". I just can't deal with anything right now. I'm scared and I'm afraid to admit im scared. I look out the window and think back to simpler times. A time when Shawn, mom, dad, and me where happy to be together. It was 2010 and we took a trip to Disney World and tried to ride all the rides and Shawn took it upon himself to look around the park on his own. We looked everywhere for him but we just couldn't do it alone the park was too big. I eventually found him in the tea cups ride. "Hey what are you doing?". I asked him. "Hiding". "Why?". "You wouldn't understand your too young, but mom and dad hit rock bottom. And eventually it will just be you and me". "Well that's not so bad. I love you". "I love you too happy meal". "Are mommy and daddy gonna be okay?". "I don't know". "Are we gonna be okay?". "Yes we are because we have each other. I wont let anything happen to you". "Okay". "Every wondered how fun it would be to become international spies?". He laughed at my question. "No I have not". "How about something cool like that supernatural mess you like". "Okay how bout Demon for me and Havana for you?". "Because its sounds magic-y and girly". "Havana it is then". That was a day too remember. I miss days like those, days my family would be happy or at least close to it. When I finally got out of my head I realized it was really dark outside and Rodney pulled over to a motel for the night. "Rodney we can't stop now we gotta keep going". "Baby girl we can't keep going like this it time to rest". "But what about Javi, Tonya and my dad their waiting". "I know and we will get them don't flake out on me now okay". I nodded my head. He's right we will get them. We get our rooms right next to each other and got our bags out of the car. When I opened the door to the motel it looked raggedy just like in the movies. "Well this is....interesting". "It's just for the night". Rodney said. I sucked it up and started to unpack my bag. "How do you feel?". He asked me. "I feel fine". "That's not true". He knows me so well doesn't he?. "I just don't feel like talking about anything". "I understand". "I mean im just tired, scared, in a dark hole, and it just keeps getting darker and darker and for some reason there seems to be no way out and I'm screaming for help and yet no one comes, no one shows up, n one pulls me out. I'm just alone with my fears and pain". He stood there for a while in silence not really sure what to say. He never did say anything afterwards he just let it go while I finally spiraled out of control. After that moment we just got ourselves ready for bed. I curled up next to him and instantly I instantly felt safe. As I drifted off to sleep I felt someone stand over just starring at my sleeping body. I opened my eyes just to find no one but then I heard something like a chair hitting against the wall outside the hotel. I checked on Rodney and quietly and slowly got out of the bed and walked over to the door and stuck my head outside and saw them standing right across the street. I began to walk to them but they walked away. "WAIT". I said as I sped up behind them. "WAIT SLOW DOWN". I was just bout to run across the road when a big truck came speeding down the road and the light blinded me and I felt someone snatch me away from the road. They were dragging back away from them. "No wait, wait. WAIT PLEASE. I NEED TO GET TO THEM WAITTTT". At this point I'm crying historically and every time I watch them take another step away from me I cry even harder. "OPEN YOUR EYES". The person who snatched me away from them said. "OPEN YOUR EYES....WAKE UP". When I opened my eyes I was outside in the cold in the parking lot of the hotel screaming. I stopped and looked around hoping to see them but they weren't there. "It's okay we will find them okay....we will find them". Rodney said as he cradled my shaking body as I cried into his chest. "Come on". He said as he picked me up and carried me to the hotel room. He sat me on the bed and turned on the television. I sat there motionless, hurt, scared. He kissed me on my forehead and tells me it's alright. Maybe in another world it would be okay but in this one everything sucks and it honestly it won't stop sucking. The next morning we get up and get ready and head out on the road again we made a bunch of stops trying to make sure we do everything the legal way and make sure we have a good plan to take down my so called mother. It got dark pretty fast and that's when we finally went for them. We arrive at this abandon warehouse and honestly this makes me so happy I just want to run and find them and take them home with me and forget this ever happened. "Don't do anything that will put people in danger". Said a man next to me. "I can see it in your face. I get it, I do but dont do anything crazy right now we are your family don't jeopardize us". I shook my head at him and tried to hold my body in place. Everyone was loaded and ready and i was just there looking around and that's when i saw her. Starring back at me and that's when my heart just filled with hate. I really wanna take her head off. That's when i can't take it anymore I run into the building. I ran up some stairs and looked everywhere for them and for her. I turned around a corner and there they were hanging from the ceiling with ropes tied round there hands and they were beaten and bloody. I covered my mouth and tried not to cry out loud. I was gonna run to them but I heard foot steps so i stayed where I was. There was this tall buff man who came out the shadows and walked up to them. He took them down and made them sit on there knees. "You are very hard headed and stubborn aren't you". The cop from earlier said. He scared the crap out of me. "Yeah im not the best". I said to him. We watch as the man got a gun and cocked it and pointed it at my dads head. I did it again, I ran out (without a plan....again). I tackle the big man to the ground and got up quickly and grabbed the gun as fast as I could. I pointed it at him while standing guard over my dad and friends. All 3 started yelling through the tape and I'm trying to understand but I couldn't so I untapped their mouths and let them speak. "Don't do it Erin". They said in unison. "Why? He tried to take y'all from me, do you know how I have been?, I have been losing my mind. I almost got hit by a truck cuz I thought I saw you guys walking across the road". They all looked sad and pained to hear me say that. "Erin". Tonya said. "Just look at him please". I turned and slowly looked at the man I was ready to kill. I looked at him and my face fell. Tears erupted in eyes. "Shawn?". "Hey baby sister". He quickly pulled me into a hug and I was instantly transported back to that day. The day he was on the ground bleeding to death, just laying on the ground lifeless. Me crying gon  Iover his body and I was drenched in his blood just to for him to be standing here hugging me right now. "Erin?". He called out to me. I looked at him and back away. "Once again....wait for us". The cop said as he untied my dad and my friends. "Sorry". I said to him. I allowed Shawn to get up off the floor and straighten up. "You were suppose to be dead". Everyone was quiet, watching us. "Erin let me explain". " you left me". I could feel my walls coming up and I was going back into my hole. "Erin please". "You left me". "I had no choice". "You left me". He tried to come close to me. "I'm sorry but I was forced I had to protect you". "You left me". "Erin?". Said Tonya. I turned to look at her but I wasn't there anymore I was gone just like the day I was over his dead body. It was like everything went blank. I heard clapping in the distance and there walking towards me was Honey. "This can't be I saw you already, you was with me yesterday". Honey started to laugh out loud. "See sisters don't know everything. This is Quanie, Shawn's twin". "Twin?". We all said in unison. "Yes twin. I kept him from you guys for a long time but him and Shawn talked like brothers do. He been my biggest secret". "Why are you doing this?" I asked her. "Because I want too. There is no reason, no motive. Simply because I want too". Shawn comes from behind me and stands next to his twin. It just made me so mad all over again to look in there faces and see the lies and betrayal and all the pain they put me through. I had enough. I raise my gun to her head. "I dare you to try something. I will blow your brains out". "Am I post to be scared". "I don't care what you are but you bet not test me". The policemen came from behind the boxes and stood next to me. "Come on Erin she ain't worth it". "You don't understand. She comes into our lives and turn it upside down because she cans, because she doesn't care about anything but her damn self and I'm sick of her". "But Erin your young don't ruin your life like this". "SHE ALREADY RUINED IT. She ruined everything". "Please put it down we all here have your back. Come on". He took the gun from me. I was just standing there looking at the people I called family. I got so angry all over again and I tackled her to the grown and punch her in her face repeatedly. Blood was everywhere but that didn't stop me this time. They tried to pull me off her but I just wouldn't let go. She deserved every punch, every kick, every slap that she got. "LET HER GO". I heard the policemen say. "WHY?. SHE DESERVES IT". "Your gonna kill her". "THEN SO BE IT". The policemen, the twins, my dad and friends all came to get me off of her. My dad pulled me close. "It's okay. It's okay. She won't hurt us anymore". Honey started laughing and spitting up blood. "You think your free from me. Guess what your not". As soon as she was finished saying that red lasher beams formed on my body. "You were always the target". She said. "You were who I needed to take out so he could except me and your brothers in his empire and I could get his money and riches. I just had to get rid of you". I was frozen. Scared to move out the way of the bullets flying towards me. "NOOOOO". I heard Shawn say. He came and knocked me out the way. The policemen and his team started firing back and bullets where all I heard dropping to the ground. I got up and looked around and there she was standing in front of me with her gun pointed at me and her bloody face pulled into a smirk. "You thought it was gon be that easy?. Take your family back and lock me away and throw away the key. Little girl you don't know who you messing with". "I'm messing with a psychopathic bitch who needs a no good asshole to take care of her so she won't end up in the slums where she started". The smirked disappeared at my statement. I saw Tonya get up and grab a police stick. I kept talking to honey til Tonya came up and hit her in the head just as she was bout to shoot me. I grabbed her and ran away. "Come on" I said. I was running up the stairs, pulling Tonya along. We got to the top of the building and bust through the doors of the warehouse. I looked around frantically tryna find an escape but I couldn't. I turned round to go back but honey was right behind us. She pointed a gun to my head ready to kill me. "You know your so slick aren't you". She said. "You running around playing victim. 'Oh my brother died in my arms' boo hoo hoo". "Why are you doing this?". "I already told you why". she got close to my ear and said, "Because I want to". "This isn't right Honey". "Oh it's very right you see everything was set into motion the moment you came along I installed in you everything you know now, I turned you into the women you are today. Don't forget where you came from either. I made you not the other way around. Go head. Tell your little friend here how you was about the scheme the whole time. Pretending to care for them just to be the one to kill them". I looked back at Tonya. She looked at me shocked. "Tonya". "What is she talking Erin". "I don't know this women is crazy as hell". "Oh am I?? So you never came crawling to me begging for my aide when that happened to Shawn??, came to me for help and I helped you, I let you in on all my plans even to take down your own family and friends". I just hung my head down. "Exactly now who's crazy". "You....you were in on her plan??, you betrayed us like that. WE HAD YOUR BACK, WE GOT OUR ASSES KICKED FOR YOU AND YOU BETRAYED US. YOU SICK SICK BASTARD". "Tonya wait I can't explain". "What is there to explain. You risked our lives and for what?? For money". "No that's not it". "Times up you two". Honey said as she pointed the gun at us again. Me and Tonya back up to the ledge. "Tonya". "Don't Tonya me. Look at what you've done, you have killed us, our blood is on you". "I'm not a regular girl Tonya". "Your right your back stabber and unloyal bitch". "Tonya I work for the CIA. I'm an Agent, the youngest there is. I was hired for this case because of my history with it. They have been trying to track Honey everywhere. I'm sorry you had to be pulled into this, I really am but I had to get her. I had to be the one to take her down and bring her in dead or alive". She just stared at me. "You little bitch I knew there was something off about you. I had a hunch about your from the beginning". Honey said. "I had you followed but you always seem to lose me so then I sent in a spy just for you". She said that as she looked at Tonya. "What??". "I'm sorry Erin I really am". "But why". "I needed the money". Tears started forming in my eyes, I was hurt. "Look how the tables have turned". She said while she laughed. "Thought you was the only smart one huh". I was shocked, just shocked. I couldn't look away from her. Just as Honey was bout to pull the trigger on me Shawn came busting through the door. "Put it down ma". She looked surprised and so did I. "Come on, that's my little sister ma". She looked at Shawn unapologetically. "And she's my daughter". "Which means you shouldn't be doing her like this". "Listen nigga she don't mean nothing to me, she ain't my daughter". She cocked the gun and Shawn did too. "So you turning on me too?". "Ma she's my little sister". She turned so quick and shot Shawn and I was about to shoot me but Tonya came running and tackled me over the ledge. Honey came running behind us and shot more bullets so I turned so Tonya can be on the bottom towards the ground and the bullet hit me in back. It was so painful I let out a loud scream all the way down to the ground. Good thing the police had a blow up landing mat ready. Everybody came rushing to us and help and take me to the hospital. They caught Honey around the back trying to Escape. They let my brother Shawn go because of me and arrested everyone else including Tonya. I'm still in shock but I'm just happy to have my family and my life back.