What A Tangled Web You Weave

Chapter 6 Fortune

A/N: This chapter kind of opens up the other elements this book is going to have to offer. I'm super excited that this book isn't going to be JUST a student/teacher book, there is going to be a murder mystery, and a lot of suspense tangled into the plot of this book and I really hope its enough to keep everyone interested! 

Blaire

Finally, it was Saturday. The longest week I'd ever lived through was finally over with, I swung my legs over the side of my bed and stood up, stretching before leaving the room and walking down stairs to the oddly quiet kitchen. This kitchen had not been this quiet since I moved in a couple weeks ago. Emma was at the table reading the back of a box of cereal.
"No five star breakfast?" I asked.
"Nope. Mom and dad are in bed still." Emma shrugged.
"They're still sleeping? Its 9:30." I said.
"I didn't say they were sleeping." Emma said without missing a beat before shoving a spoonful of coco puffs in her mouth.
I scrunched up my face.
"Gross."
"Yup. Fend for yourself today." Emma smirked.

It was like music to my ears. No awkward breakfast table conversations. I practically skipped into the kitchen to pick my poison, which happened to be fruity pebbles, I filled a cereal bowl and grabbed a spoon and went back towards the stairs.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to my room, I'm going to eat cereal and watch Gargoyles and live my best fucking life today." I said.
Emma spit cereal out to avoid choking as she laughed.
"Okay then. You do that." She said.
"I'm Gonna." I said and took my happy self back up the stairs.

I hadn't moved from the spot I'd settled into during breakfast, except to take a quick shower, for at least two hours. I heard something clink against my window. I raised my eyebrow and looked over at the window and waited and sure enough a few seconds later something else hit the window. I groaned and got up from the spot I hadn't moved from in two hours and walked to the window. I looked down at Will standing in the yard. I opened the window and climbed out and sat on the flat part of the roof.
"Whatcha doing there Will?" I asked.
"Trying to get your attention." Will said and smirked.
"You know there's a front door." I said.
"I know, but I didn't think your police officer uncle would be too into the idea of me showing up."
"I'm sure he'd prefer it if you went to the door, instead of throwing pebbles at the window." I chuckled. "How did you even know this was my window?" I asked.
"Emma's is on the other side..I figured this one was yours." Will shrugged.
"And..how did you know which window is Emma's?" I said, raising both of my eyebrows.
"Are you just going to ask questions all day Nolan, or are you going to come down and hang out with me?"
"I don't know. It would be cutting into my plans of doing fuck all for the rest of the day." I said.
"Come on Nolan, I want to show you something." Will said and sighed.
"Fine." I whined. "Give me a sec." I climbed back into the window and shut the curtain to get dressed. When I went back to the window David was outside talking to Will. I climbed back out the window. David followed Wills gaze up to the roof.
"Blaire! Get off the roof before you fall!"
I shrugged and climbed down to the slanted part of the room and slid a little ways to the edge before jumping the rest of the way down and brushing myself off. David blinked at me.
"What? You said to get off the roof." I said.
"I meant back through the window." David sighed. "I don't know how I feel about you being able to jump down from the roof so easily."
"Think of the positives. If the house was on fire and the only way out was through my window, the drop down is not so bad." I shrugged.
"Girls got a brain." Will shrugged. David narrowed his eyes at Will.
"What are you even doing in my front yard Scarlet?"
"Ah, I came to collect Blaire for a bit." Will replied. David looked at me.
"Yeah, so..I'm just gonna go for a little while." I said.
"Okay, thats fine. I'll call to check in." David nodded. "Be careful."
"Will do." I said. "See you later." I added and Will and I walked away from the house.

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"You dragged me away from my TV..for this?" I asked. Will had taken me to his side of town, and now I was staring up at a building that appeared to be being rebuilt. I looked up at the sign swinging in the slight breeze. It read O'Malleys.
"Come on love." Will said and opened the door for me. I gave him a skeptical look before I stepped inside. The inside smelled of fresh paint and there was construction equipment all around, there was a few booths set up and a couple arcade games. In the corner.
"What is this place?" I asked.
"Well, it was a nightclub, It burned to the ground about 16 years ago, at least according to my old man. It was this huge deal back then. One of the owners Niece was trapped in the building when it went up in flames. They say it was arson but no one ever found out who did it."
"It's a small town, it's highly unlikely they don't know who did it." I said.
"Some say it's a cover up." Will shrugged.
"So..what is it now?" I asked.
"O'Malley is turning the place into a pizza place and arcade. Says it might bring some light back to this side of town." Will said. "But this.. Is what I wanted to show you." Will said and lead me over behind the bar that was being built. He pointed at a picture on the wall. In the picture was a ginger headed man with a friendly smile, A younger woman, with matching hair, in the middle, and to the left...my dad?
"Looks like your uncle and O'Malley used to be in business together."
"That's not my uncle..thats my dad. They're Identical twins." I said and pointed to the tattoo on my father's forearm. "I know this is my dad because of this tattoo."
"Will, I didn't expect you here today." A voice from behind us said. Will and I turned around, the ginger haired man who's hair was now streaked with silver here and there stood in the entrance to the building.
"You come here every day?" I asked.
"I'm helping with the construction." Will said and we walked around the bar.
"Who's your friend?" the man asked and smiled at me.
"This is Blaire." Will said. The man extended his hand to me.
"Thomas O'Malley." He smiled. I put my hand in his, and shook it.
"Blaire Nolan."
"Nolan?" Thomas asked.
"I see you know my Dad." I said and nodded towards the picture behind the bar.
Thomas' eyes brightened.
"Oh you're James' Blaire! I haven't seen you since you were born! James and Jack packed up and moved shortly after you arrived." This man was the only other person I'd heard call my mother Jack besides my dad. Her name was Jaquelin but my dad often just called her Jack so this man must have been very close with both of my parents.
"You two sit, I may as well use you two to test out a few things I want to put on the menu, and test to make sure the kitchen is running smoothly."

Thomas guided Will and I to a booth and we sat down.
"Sit tight I'll be right back." Thomas said and disappeared into the kitchen.
"I didn't realize you were actually from these parts." Will said.
"Honestly..neither did I really. My dad never told me." I said.

Thomas came back shortly with a tray. He set a couple drinks on the table, and a platter of different appetizer-like foods.
"I figure if I'm catering to your age group, might as well have your opinions on the food." He chuckled. "I'm thinking of a few of these and of course pizza."
I picked up a cheese and bacon covered french fry and plopped it into my mouth.
"Cheat code: Put cheese and bacon on everything and teenagers will flood the place." I smirked.
Thomas chuckled.
"You are definitely Jimmy's kid."
"You must have been close with him and my mom." I said. "You're the only person I've seen besides my mom call him Jimmy and your the only person besides him I've seen call my mom Jack."
"We were thick as thieves." Thomas smiled. "I'm going to have to give your old man hell for not telling me he was back."
I frowned and looked down at my drink.
"It's actually just me. I'm staying with my uncle David.."
Thomas frowned and pulled up a chair and flipped it around sitting with his arms over the back of it.
"What happened there...nothing too terrible I hope."
I sighed and glanced up at Will, No one except for Emma, David and Mary-Margaret knew what was going on but I trusted Will not to say anything, and this man very clearly knew my parents well enough to deserve to know what was going on.
"My mom went missing and they think my dad had something to do with it. So he was arrested, and I was sent here. I have no answers about my mother, and very little contact with my dad."
"Bloody hell.." Will mumbled.
"Please.. Don't say anything about it. No one besides my cousin, my aunt and uncle know."
"My lips are sealed, love." Will said.