Final Nightmare

14. Cheers to Happy Beginnings

Thanksgiving day.
Zari.

I haven't talked to anybody since the I pulled that stunt at the breakfast table a couple of days ago. It was like they were all ignoring me.

Pops would look at me with disappointment and continue with his day. My mother didn't even try to insult me in anyway and Darrin stayed cleared of me. I mean I don't blame him. I put the death of my daughters on his shoulder.

It was bad enough that I told him he meant nothing to be but to add on something so serious was on another level, and I knew that he'll never forgive me for what I said.

I didn't know what was going through my mind at that moment, but me being unpredictable was not going to cut it. Not anymore.

It was currently five in the afternoon and the dinner starts at eight and I have yet to leave the room or house to find anything to wear for the formal dinner. I left the dress that was sent to me back in North Carolina and I don't have any money to buy me another. I was better off not going to begin with.

I should have stayed my ass in Charlotte and enjoy the creepy demons that haunted my life.

"Oh Z!" A familiar voice sang loudly at my door. I nudged my eyebrows together as I got up from my bed and went to go open it.

There stood Carmen with a huge smile on her face and behind her stood mama J with a big box in her hands.

I stepped aside and allowed them both in. I closed the door after them and smiled lightly.

"Hey Carmen, hey Mama J."

"Hey besto." Carmen screamed with excitement as she kissed my cheek and gave me a tight hug. "Your childhood bedroom is so gosh darn cute," She squealed as she broke away from the hug and toured the room herself.

I looked over at mama j as she put the box down on my bed and looked at me with disappointment.

"Mama I know and I'm sorry." I ran my hands through my hair. She's the last person I wanted to disappoint.

"Now what were you thinking?" She placed a hand on her hip with her eyebrow raised.

"I wanted to get back at him for lying on me."

"So, you thought that lying on him about something that serious was going to make things better?" She eyed me with daggers. She was extremely upset with me, and I couldn't blame her. "Then on top of that you threatened your life while we're trying to protect it?" Mama J grabbed my hands and squeezed them.

"Why be so inconsiderate of that?"

"I was only trying to be unpredictable so that their father couldn't predict my next moves since he's using Darrin and other things to spy on me. I wanted everything to look realistic as possible," I sighed lightly.

"And your plan backfired on you before it even started. Be careful my child you have to be smarter than that." She kissed my hands and smiled lightly. "Tonight, I don't want any drama. I'm cooking too hard over there to have anything messed up or ruined," She laughed lowly as I did the same.

"Yes ma'am," She kissed my cheek and then headed for the door.

"Oh, the dress is from your dear husband, I have nothing to do with that," She laughed again. "And you make sure you wear that wedding ring tonight. Tonight, you have to make a statement that you're the only person that can have my sons last name." She winked at me as she closed the door behind her.

When she said that I could feel the butterflies in my stomach. That means that Rahme and his father were going to try their best to ruin the night and that I had to fight hard against it. But what if they succeed?