The Halfway Group (book 1)

Chapter 43: Whiplash

Haley's POV:

Please let this be a dream, please let this be a dream.

I'm laying in a park surrounded by flowers and as I sit up, the ground seems to keep pulling me back down.  I turn my head over and see Jimmy drawing something or writing something down.  Whatever it is he's way too preoccupied in it.  I turn my head the other way and Chloe is smoking her bong and chugging a bottle of vodka.  Classic Chloe, just what else is there?  Out of nowhere I hear a gunshot and look over to see Jimmys face inches from mine as bloods running down his face. 

"Why don't you love us Haley?  What did we do to deserve this torture.  What did I do to deserve this torment? I'm your brother, you were supposed to love me."  I jolt awake as his skin starts decaying to show his skull, as I sit up I'm holding Jimmys hand and he's passed out in the chair.  I move over and wake him up.

"Jimmy! Jimmy wake up! Please wake up."  He opens an eye and looks at me.

"Haley I just fell asleep, just a few more minutes."  I punch his arm hard.

"I said get up dammit."  He jolts awake and I hug him.  "I had the worst dream where you died. It was so horrible."  I let go and see Chloe standing in the door way with a cigarette behind her ear.

"Well well, sleeping Beauty rises from the dead."  I look over and see Jimmy more clearly and he is covered in bruises. 

"What happened to you?"  I ask holding in a laugh.

"Ask your girlfriend, apparently no one is supposed to know that she can owe favors...."  He turns around as Chloe cracks her knuckles.

"Chloe, leave the poor boy alone."

"Oh no, he told me he wouldn't speak about it again, and he did, he knows the punishment for breaking a promise with me."  Jimmy gets up and slides between Chloes legs.

"Bye amazon woman."  He recently started calling her that and she absolutely hates it. 

"Jimmy!!!! When I get my hands on you, you just better hope I don't catch you."  She runs off after him.  I look out my window and see her close on his tail but he does a 180 and throws her off.  Yeah, he's gonna get it big time when she catches him. 

"Haley? Good you are awake. Jimmy hasn't left your side once.  It's 9 am and you've been asleep since 8 am yesterday.  Chloe and Jimmy have been going at it for a few hours now." 

"Those two are exactly like brother and sister it's so odd.  It's also odd to think they will be brother and sister soon.  So I guess I should get used to it."  Jimmy runs inside and locks Chloe out.

"I'm not letting you in unless you promise you won't hurt me anymore."  He says as Chloe pounds on the door.

"Motherfucker I'm not going to hurt you, I'm going to fucking murder you and make it look like a fucking accident."  The neighbors come outside to see what's going in as Chloe has to explain what she means. 

Yeah, she's definitly going to kill him.  He's going to have way more bruises than I ever gave him.

When he finally let's her in she strangles him for about 5 minutes until she gets calmed down.  Jimmy coughs and then finally sits us down.  "Okay, so we know dad and Sean are planning something and it has got to involve us in someway.  So we need to figure out what the fuck it is they have planned.  I know of some possible places they could be so I'll go scout those out alone.  Haley, you go with Rachel to the liquor store.  Make sure he's not there.  Chloe, you'll go pick up Max and go check the bars and make sure the cars aren't there.  We have got to fucking put an end to this before it gets any worse.  We have our plan, any questions?"

"Yeah,"  chloe raises her hand.  "What do we do if we do find them?" 

"Call or text me and I'll be there within a few minutes.  I'm not letting this motherfucker get away.  This is the time we take his ass down for good." 

"What will you do when you find him?"  Rachel asks Jimmy.

"You guys don't want to know, only that he won't mess with anyone ever again."

Now he's just scaring me.  "Jimmy, please don't do anything that could land you in Jail, I'm sure Rachel won't appreciate that and I certainly wouldn't appreciate it. So please think about this before you actually do what I know you are going to do..."

Jimmys POV:

"Guys, I know what I'm doing just call or text me when you see him and I'll be there that's all there is to this."  I walk out the door and head to my car.  I sit there for a moment and actually wonder what I'm going to do. This is going to go one of two ways, I'm going to live and John is going to die, or I die and John gets what he wants. Either way one of us won't live past the week....

I light up a cigarette and sit there and just think, Chloe, Rachel, And Haley all walk out as they head to Chloes truck. Rachel gets in my car and looks at me.  "Did you really think I'd let you go alone? Are you that dumb?" She kisses me and smiles.  "That's one of the many reasons I love you so much."  She puts her seat belt on before I even have time to object.  "Don't even think about telling me otherwise."  Damn just like Haley once her minds made up there is no changing it." 

I sigh, "Rachel, you do know how fucking dangerous this is going to be right?" 

"You think I'd let my fucking boyfriend do something that's liable to get him killed?  Nuh uh, not today honey, we  are in this together.  You are my ride and die now, we've come too far to throw that away now."  She grabs by hand as I pull out of the parking lot and speed towards our old house..... 20 minutes away.  Dad and I lived here so long ago, that house was thr first house I remember him beating the shit out of me in when I was 6.