Forever And Always (HCBTO Sequel)

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Its 3:43am and Xavier's phone starts ringing loudly. With Imani laid on top of him, he reached over and grabbed his phone. Too tired to answer it, he put it on silent.

3:45, his phone rings again "Turn it off" Imani mumbled, rolling off him and moving to the other side of the bed. He silenced it again, only for it to ring at 3:53.

"What the fuck" he groaned, taking out the battery and letting it fall on the wooden floor. He reached out for Imani, and pulled her into his chest.

Jayceone laid on his back with an arm behind his head and the other on Lonas leg that was over his waist. A small noise downstairs made him stir, but he didn't wake up.

Sydney walked out the bathroom, scratching her as she made her way back to bed. She also heard the small noise, but didn't think anything of it until it sounded like someone was walking upstairs.

Quickly, digging in her nightstand she grabbed her gun "Damian, get up, someone's in here"

His eyes opened slowly "What?"

The room fell quiet as the sound of someone walking up the stairs got closer and louder. Damian sat up and grabbed his out his nightstand also and him and Sydney slowly walked towards the room door.

Carefully, with his gun still up, Damian opened the door. He could see a dark shadow going passed his room and towards Jayceone room, and before he could shoot, the creaking of the opening door made the shadow turn, and fire 2 shots, knocking Damian to the floor.

Sydney sent her entire clip towards the shadow, hearing the body fall down the stairs. "No no no" she mumbled, turning on the room light.

Damian laid in his pool of blood with a bullet to the stomach, and another in his ribcage.

The loud shots woke up the entire house. Imani and Xavier were the first ones to walk out the room, to find Damian bleeding out.

A loud scream came from Imani as she dropped to her knees, by her fathers side. "Call the police Xavier" Sydney said, trying to stay calm.

He rushed off for his phone as Lona and Jayceone walked into the room, with Sky. "Oh my God" Lona mumbled, covering her mouth.

Sky let go of Jayceones hand, walking closer "Daddy?" She called.

"Jay, get her" Sydney said, holding Damian's head in her lap. But he couldn't, he was stuck.

"Daddy, u ok?" His eyes stayed on Sky as she got down by him. The tears filled her eyes "Mommy, daddy ok?"

"He's fine baby" she said with a shaky voice, wiping her face. Lona grabbed Sky, and they walked downstairs, to find the body of a man at the bottom of the steps. "Lolo, who's that?"

"Nobody sweetie" Taking a step outside, police and ambulances were pulling up and rushing inside the house.

Being in a waiting room twice, in less than a month isn't something anyone could get used to. The sad faces mixed in with the smell of death in the cold air, no wonder people can't stand the hospital.

Everyone was still in their night clothes as the painful silence continued to rip them apart inside.

Sydney was on the far end with Sky sitting in her lap, asleep. Her chin rested on her head as the tears slowly ran down her cheeks.

Xavier sat beside them, with Imani resting her head on his shoulder as she stared at nothing. He held both Imani and Sydney's hand and they held it back.

Next was Jayceone. He was hunched over with his head in his hands and Lona rubbed his back slowly. Her chin rested on his shoulder as she rubbed his arm with the other hand.

Back at the house, the police continued processing the crime scene. The shots Sydney fired all landed into the dark shadow, which killed him almost instantly. His body collapsed and instead of going towards the right, his body went left and fell down the stairs.

Detective Long and Detective Dean stood over the body which was covered in a thin white covering.

Squatting down, the covering was pulled back to reveal the face of the intruder.