Fated

Chapter 11

Jason waited for Emma to come back down stairs after she put her mother to bed but she never came back down. Just as Jason was starting to stand to go find her, the generator lost power causing the house to be plunged into darkness. When he heard Emma scream he raced up the stairs frantically searching for her.

When he found her she was in her bathroom on the floor, huddled in the corner. "Emma it's ok now honey I'm here." Jason said as he sat next to her taking her in his arms and putting her on his lap. "Honey you're freezing, let's get you warm." Jason picked her up and carried her to her bed. He found her night shirt on the edge of the bed and started to undress her. When he had her in her night shirt and under the covers he leaned down to kiss her on the forehead. "I will be right back I'm going to make sure the boys are ok and hunt up a flashlight and candles."

As he left the room he thought of how she looked sitting in the corner of her bathroom. She looked defeated and broken; as though someone had taken her soul from her and left her an empty shell. He thought he would never get that picture of her out of his head as long as he lived.

When he got down stairs and found some candles and the two flashlights in the drawer in the kitchen he set out to find the boys. He found them in Logan's room. "Hey guys you ok?" Jason said stepping inside the room.

Logan looked up and ran the flashlight he had in his hand over Jason's face. "Ya we are fine just trying to find my lighter to light some of these candles." As Logan went back to looking for his lighter Jason looked over the room and saw it looked as though a tornado went through it. Just as he was about to say something Logan jumped up with his lighter in hand. "Found it!" He exclaimed and started to light the candles he had placed around his room.

"Hey Logan does Emma ever have nightmares about the night your father died." Jason asked trying not to trip over anything as he walked farther in the room.

Logan looked up from what he was doing to stare at Jason. "Ya she does; the night he died he was on the way home from work. It was storming like it is now and he was at the office late. I guess he had called Emma before he left his office to see how she was doing. Before he hung up Emma told him to be careful driving home that she had a bad feeling about the storm it was storming in New York that night too. On his way home a tree branch came down and he tried to swerve to hit it and went off the road and smashed his car into a tree and died on impact." Logan stopped telling the story to take a deep breath.

When he was sure he could continue without starting to cry he went on. "The power had gone out and my cell phone rang; it was Em she asked if dad was home yet that she talked to him before he left the office and she had a bad feeling that something bad had happened. That's when I started to hear sirens, at the same time Emma started freaking out and screaming that he was dead, that she could feel it. I assured her that he was just taking extra caution on the roads and he would be home soon. Then I stated to hear an ambulance siren and went to the window to see what was going on. I could see that down the road was an accident where a tree had fallen in the road and a car smashed into a tree. And then I noticed it was dad's car. I didn't even think all I could do was drop to the floor.

"I heard Emma on the other line crying. That was the first and last time I ever hear her cry. He was right down the road from the house not a half a mile down the road and he would have been home. Whenever it would storm in the city Emma would call me just to tell me where she was and that she was ok. She would make me stay on the phone with her until she fell asleep. And when she was with that ass Pete he would hassle her about being scared, he never understood. I guess I never understood how Emma knew about dad. But ya she has nightmares when it storms.

"She doesn't like to let people know though it makes her feel weak; that's why she doesn't cry either. She keeps a lot of her feelings to herself, if she ever found out I told you about the night dad died she would hate me. Right after dad died is when we found out mom was sick. Emma didn't want to come home for fear that if she did it would make everything real to her." Logan looked from Evan to Jason and then back to his hands and saw they were shaking. "I am going to check on my mom." He said and he left the room.

After he left Evan and Jason just stood there. "He never even told me about the night his dad died he refuses to talk about it with anyone." Evan said looking at his brother with sadness for his best friend.

"He's lucky he has a good friend in you Evan. I have to get back to Emma if you guys need me I will be down the hall in her room with her just come get me if you need me." Jason walked to his brother and gave him a quick hug then left the room.