DANGER.....Curves Ahead!!

CHAPTER 19: I Will Find Her Answers

JON

After waking up the next morning and getting ready for the day, I knew she was going to ask me about what her dad and I had talked about before he left. 

In fact, during breakfast while sitting at the table and eating, about halfway into breakfast she asked me. 

"Did my dad say anything to you before he left?" 

"Yeah. He told me to tell you that he loved you and that he never meant to hurt you back when he left you the first time and this last time. He said he felt like both times he was protecting you more by not being close to you. Although this time, he left because he said he needed to finish this. I'm not exactly sure in what all he meant by that but, he did give me this." I say as I pull out the flash drive. 

"What's that?" She asks. 

"He said that it has everything on here that his friend will need in order to clear not just your dad's name but also, to bring awareness to the U.S. President in what is going to happen in the near future and what certain people's plans are. He then gave me this." I start to pull out the piece of paper from my pocket with the address on it. 

"Is this my dad's house or where he's at?" 

"No. Well, it's not where he's at right now but it was his place. He told me to make sure and bring you there as soon as possible and to meet up with his friend to give him the flashdrive, in Venice." 

"Venice? Why there?" 

"I don't know. But listen to me, your dad is and always be one of the best spies this country has ever had. I know that your father has good reason for all the things he has done and is doing right now." I try and assure her as I take hold of one of her hands for comfort. 

"But I still just don't understand why he even came back at all if he was just going to leave again. Was he doing it just to give you the flash drive? As if it were another mission? None of this shit makes any sense to me. All I know is that my father left me, twice now, and I have to live with that and go through all of that pain again. I'm so sock of these secrets and lies and I don't even care if he's a spy or not. I just want my father back." She starts to cry out and I can feel pain in my heart as it pains me to watch her being this upset. 

"I know but...." I began but cut me off. 

"No you don't!" She snaps as she pushes out the chair and stands up. "You couldn't possibly understand what this feels like. Because unless your parents left you and then came back years later just to leave you again with the only explanation being because it was protecting you, then you couldn't possibly fathom what I'm feeling or going through at this moment." She then turns around and sprints upstairs into the bedroom, shutting the door behind her and I'm not sure in what to do right now or what to say. 

There's a part of me that's upset with him for doing this to her and putting her through this hell all over again but then again, from another Spy's POV, it isn't that we purposely want to hurt the ones we care about and love or lie to them, we just have to because we are also trained to think in a way that it's for their own good, even when deep down inside, we feel otherwise sometimes. 

My phone then begins to ring and I see it's an UNKNOWN number and at first I'm not sure if I should answer it, but I do remember her dad telling me that him or and his friend will be calling me in letting me know the next step of what to do, so I answer it. 

"Hello?" I answer. 

"Is this Jon?" I hear a husky deep older male's voice ask. 

"Yes. Who's this?" 

"This is Vick. I'm Mr. Keaton's friend. He told me to contact you with further instructions." He says. 

"Yes?" I reply. 

"You are to go the address he gave you and be there no later than tomorrow night at eight. Then once you're there, I will contact you again to let you know what the next thing for you to do is." He says. 

Before I could ask or say anything else, he had already hung up. Everything felt like it was happening so fast and that there wasn't much time. However, I needed to not only tell Evangeline that we needed to leave tonight but I also needed to let my friends know too that we had to leave. They were going to stay here while Evangeline and I left and I would of course keep in contact with them while we were gone but I'm not sure in how well that will sit with all of them, including Payton. 

"Was that our contact?" I hear Wendi ask from behind me. 

"Yes. But I need for you to stay here and protect Evangeline's best friend and all of mine." I tell her. 

She just nods her head and then in walks Joseph and Payton. 

"Oh hell no. You aren't leaving us while you and Evangeline go off and become heroes. I'm not letting you take my best friend away from me that easily, buddy." Payton Protests.

"Payton she'll be okay." I try and reassure her but it's no use. 

"No! We are all going with you! Or at least I am." She proclaims. 

"I can't...." I try and explain but she of course cuts me off. 

"No, I'm going rather you like it or not and if you have a problem with that then you will need to just deal with it, cause I'm going." She says with assertiveness. 

"Me too." Joseph smiles at me and then all of a sudden all my other friends came in the room and all said they were going as well and there was nothing I could do about it. 

I had to think for a moment and then realized quickly that my boss was dead and the agency is in danger of existence, if it hasn't already been demolished. So I eventually decide to have them come along. Although now, I need to take care of some business with Evangeline and make sure she is okay. I will do whatever it takes to protect her rather or not she understands any of this now or later. I want her to know that her father has always and will always love her just as much as I do and I will go to great lengths in finding her any answers I can that she has because she does have the right to know. 

Next chapter will be posted soon! :);)