Scattered and Broken, Book 3 of Wingless Series

Head bang

The sudden silence is what made me awaken. Kenny hopped out of the car fast not even alerting me we were there. I wasn't sure what there was as I stepped out taking in the familiar looking garage. We were back in Piper; I followed him inside looking around for Ari or anyone for that matter. The house seemed empty.

"Let me grab some clothes, and we need to get a hold of Ari." Kenny said in a rush pulling a big duffel bag out of the hall closet.

I stared helpless running my hand against the wall as I came closer.

"Do you think we could go over?" I asked quietly for fear Kenny would be upset with me.

"I don't see why not, you need your things." He said nodding as he headed to the bedroom.

I stared outside the window taking in what was left of familiar memories; I wasn't even sure what would be normal anymore at this point. Everything had changed so fast and I had lost so much there wasn't a lot I could do. I glanced over my shoulder making sure Kenny was still in the bedroom and slipped out the front door walking as fast as my feet would carry me to our home. The house seemed as if it was miles away as I started to panic, as if I were in a spotlight about to be exposed.

I wondered to myself when I would stop being so stupid and not take such big risk, such as going out in the open for the goons to find me and make me pay for all that had gone down back at Carlo's. I clambered up the steps hoping Kenny hadn't figured out where I was turning the knob and going inside, the door was open as I figured it would be.

Instantly everything reminded me of Evan all the way down to the scent in the air. His cologne always had a way to hang around. I made my way to the living room staring at our pictures, clutching one of my favorites to my chest. The one where Evan had the biggest smile on his face, and I had my lips on his cheek. It was goofy and relaxed and just cried out how much love there was between the two of us. Evan never was that much into smiling; it took so much to make him to beam. He had always said I was the key to make him do that. I carried the picture to the bedroom, opening the closet with a sigh. I didn't think it would be this hard to leave Piper, when I had first found out I was coming here I remembered how upset I had been with Evan, and it all seemed so silly now.

"You can do this." I said to myself as I zipped up my duffel bag heading down the hallway the bag almost too heavy to carry. After going a day without something to wear, I was going to keep as much as I could with me from now on.

"My purses." I said running back into the bedroom, as I made it to the closet I could hear the door slamming shut. I panicked knowing Kenny probably was furious with me for taking off.

"I'm in here Kenny; I just wanted to get my stuff!" I yelled on my knees pulling my purses out. I got no reply; I rolled my eyes knowing this probably meant he was beyond irritated with me.

"Do you always take that much when you go on the run?" Sheer panic poured over my body then shock. I collapsed for a split second and finally jumped up as my brain finally made sense of what I was looking at and what I was hearing.

I stood up like lighting whacking my head on the clothes rack falling backwards into the wall, finally I just gave up and let my body slide rather awkwardly to the ground scraping my back all to hell on the way down, but it was all worth it because the one person in the world I wanted to see was standing right there before me, with the biggest smile on his face ever.

"Evan." I said trying to form more words but nothing more would come out. He stepped over the purses pulling me up and wrapping his arms around me, so tight I thought I would die if I had cared. He could have crushed my spine and left me paralyzed it wouldn't had mattered at that moment. I touched his face repeatedly, tears spilling out all over my face as I stared at him in shock. His smile seemed to shrink but his eyes held that same sparkle they always did when he was looking at me and only me.

"Yeah it's me, and you're Eve." He said trying to move past all the emotions coming out of me.

"I can't believe you're here." I said taking in some air as I cried harder.

"I can't believe you're here in the house alone." He said.

"I'm sorry." I blurted out for the first time sorry wasn't so bad.

"Don't worry about it; get your stuff Kenny knows I'm over here." He said watching me closely.

"This is amazing, how did you get here?" I asked not paying any attention to anything I was picking up, not taking my eyes off him.

"Your lip looks horrible, here let me take it." He said taking my bag piling all my purses on the top shaking his head at me.

"I know, but what happened?" I asked following him in a hurry afraid he would take off if I let him out of my sight.

"Let's just get to the car and I'll tell you guys everything." He said heading over to Kenny's and Ari's. I spotted Ari standing near the car her arms crossed as Kenny threw some bags in the trunk. She seemed to light up at the two of us approaching.

"I'm so glad you two are ok." She said as we approached.

"I'm glad myself." Evan said tossing my bags at Kenny.

As we all piled into Kenny's car, I grabbed Evan's hand not letting it go for even a second. He ran his thumb across my palm seeming more relaxed now that we were in the car.

"So I know we are all wondering what went down dude." Kenny said keeping his eyes on the road. It was obvious that none of us in the car had a clue what was going on, Ari probably the most clueless.

"Yeah well I'm not dead." Evan said looking over at me with a grin.

"I never thought you were." I said back to him he touched my face zeroing in on my lip; I touched it raising my eyebrow at him.

"That's good because I think I would have been a little disappointed. You're the one person I would hope would not think that." He said giving me a wink.

"Alright enough of this romantic crap, how did you get out of there?" Kenny cut in; Ari looked back at us her face blank waiting. I stared at Evan as well; he squeezed my hand letting out a long sigh.

"I shot them." He ran his hand through his hair keeping his eyes on me. "And I mean Carlo too."

My mouth fell; Ari turned white shifting in her seat suddenly uncomfortable.

"And to think I was the one always threatening to shoot that old man." Kenny said not bothered in the least. Ari turned to Kenny looking rather annoyed.

"That's not funny at all." She said glaring at him.

"What, he didn't say he killed him, you didn't kill him did you?" Kenny asked.

"I don't know, I highly doubt it, but it was him or me." Evan said shrugging; I held his hand tighter trying to silently let him know he wasn't wrong for shooting Carlo. I knew no matter what he said he felt bad, that was his father.

"It doesn't matter any way; as long as we stay away I think we could be in the clear." Kenny said not sounding to convincing.

"How do you guys know that? It's not as if this has ever happened before. And what about Mark?" Ari said in a panic, she threw her head back taking some sort of white pill.

"Because we got something on our side this time, something that was working against Carlo all this time." Kenny said to her with a goofy grin. Ari stared at him annoyed and confused, she hadn't a clue that Kenny was referring to me.

"Mark will follow eventually I think." Evan spoke up staring out his window.

"Who knows, if Mark has any brain left in his head he will follow us." Kenny said.

It only took an instant for Evan to put everything back together again. It didn't matter that we could be heading into the biggest mess any of us could ever imagine. It didn't matter because he was with me.