Desperado

part 17

a few more days till this masquerade ball and hopefully a few more days till i see my kids

i still feel so empty without them but i know i'm a step closer then joey is. it's like a competition to me, to find the kids before he does and leave

i sit down on the couch and turn the tv on, i grab my phone and check my notifications

lexi:
elena, joey really needs you.
he's drinking again
come to 324 avenue
elena? please! he's threating to kill me

i turn my phone off and look at the tv

"good morning" mads walks down the stairs with her hair tied in a pony tail, "i have a meeting today and i won't be back till later tonight, feel free to have ethan over"

i shake my head, "not happening"

"it will" she winks at me before leaving the house

i grab the phone and see lexi has texted me again

lexi:
elena
he has a knife

i bite my bottom lip and wait for another text, just one more and maybe i'll get up. lexi has been lying to me a lot lately so i don't know if i should believe her right now

i stand from the couch and grab madison's car keys from the table, i put the address into my phone and drive off

i don't know why madison has 2 cars but i'm glad she does because i hate taking ubers everywhere

the place they are staying at is 30 minutes away which isn't as far as i thought it was going to be

i don't know how i'm going to face joey. i haven't seen him since he came and begged for my forgiveness

i'm only going there because lexi needs me. i don't care about joey or why he is drunk, i just want to make sure lexi and everyone else is safe

i arrive earlier then i thought i would. the outside of the house is very modern, it's beautiful. michael always loved having a modern home

i hear glass shattering inside making my eyes widen. i knock on the door a couple of time but get no response so i open the door

it creeks open, when i step inside the first thing i smell is weed. i close the door and walk farther in and see jeremiah sitting on the couch with his head down and his hands in his lap

"jeremiah" i run to him, "are you okay baby?"

he shakes his head, "no, joey is scaring me"

"what's wrong. tell me what happened" i hold his hands in mine

he is shaking like crazy making my heart race. joey would never do anything to hurt jeremiah, drunk or not jeremiah is like another son to him

"he keeps shouting and breaking stuff, h-he said he's going to kill m-my mom. he keeps screaming your name a-an-"

"look who decided to show up"

jeremiah squeezes my hands and i look up to see a shirtless joey with a gun in his hand, his body covered in scratches

i look back at jeremiah, "look, my car is outside. just stay in there and i'll tell you when everything is safe okay?"