CONTINUANCE - John B Routledge

005.

"𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠." Emerson said as she walked out of the bedroom to find JJ drinking a beer.

"Uh, why are you all dressed up?" JJ asks, looking at Emerson who is wearing a white bikini top, jean shorts, and one of John B's floral button ups. "I'm visiting Ms. Lana today. I told her I would come by to have some tea." she replies.

JJ just nods and tells her to be safe as she walks outside. Emerson gets on her skateboard, and starts to head to the local flower shop to pick up some flowers for Ms. Lana. She decides to get daisies, since she remembered Ms. Lana saying her favorite flowers were daisies when Emerson was younger. Emerson misses the times when she went over to Ms. Lana's colorful house to have some cookies Ms. Lana often made for her.  

"Hi Ms. Lana!" Emerson said as the door opens to Ms. Lana's house. "Hi Emery, sweetie, come in." 

"I got these flowers for you." Emerson said, handing the white daisies over to Ms. Lana. "You remembered my favorite kind of flowers?" she asked. "Of course, how could I forget?" 

Ms. Lana smiles at Emerson, surprised she still remembered after all these years. Ms. Lana brewed some tea for Emerson, and they sat down to talk about what has happened over the past year. They haven't really talked much since Emerson's parents disappeared. 

All of a sudden, Emerson sees a white boat and two burly looking men walking up towards the house. 

"Ms. Lana? Who are they?" Emerson asked as she pointed out the window. When she looks over at her, her eyes widen as she begins shoving Emerson out the back door.

"Ms. Lana?" 

"There's no time sweetie. You need to get out of here, I promise I'll explain everything another time." Ms. Lana urges as she pushed Emerson out the back door. 

Emerson was really confused and worried for Ms. Lana, so she sat below the window on the side of the house. All of a sudden, she heard the men screaming at Ms. Lana and breaking a bunch of stuff. 

"Where is it Lana?" one of the men yelled.

"I don't know!" Ms. Lana screamed. Emerson really wanted to go in there and help her, but she didn't want to make things worse. Emerson silently cried and covered her mouth to stiffle her sobs. 

"Bullshit!" 

"I'll sink you in the fucking-" 

"Emerson?" a voice called out. She opened her eyes and saw John B and JJ running up to her. "Shh. Shut up!" Emerson whisper-shouted. 

John B and JJ sat either side of Emerson and held her hand. As JJ kept encouraging the three of them to leave, John B immediately told him off and told him to shut up. Emerson was worried for Ms. Lana until she heard the two men say they were leaving.

"Dude those were the guys that shot at us!" JJ whispered, as they watched the two men drive away from the house. Emerson immediately stood up and ran inside the house to find a sobbing Ms. Lana.

"Ms. Lana are you okay?" Emerson asked her, as Ms. Lana flinched from her touch. "Emery, I told you to get out of here." Ms. Lana sobbed. "There was no way I was leaving you with those two men."

"Hey Ms. Lana. Do you need a doctor? Hey, let's call the sheriff's department."

"No, no, no, no, no cops, please." Ms. Lana begged. Emerson was confused as to why Ms. Lana didn't want to tell the cops.

"Mmm, that's not good. Let's go." JJ said.

"You shouldn't be here." Ms. Lana said to Emerson and John B. "That's enough for me, come on."  JJ said, trying to pull the two away from the crying woman. "What do you know about these guys?" John B asked.