Chapter 49:
                                                   {Kiwi}


   “Baby, calm down. I’ll go staright there.” Nick tired to say calmly to get Melissa to take a breathe. “No! Nicky, you can’t. What if he is after you too?!” Melly screamed still wound up. “Listen Mel, you two stay here, Bri and I will go make sure everything is okay with Bette. Agree?” Nick said grabbing his coat. “Um, I guess. Here, take the cell just in case.” Melly said as she sat down on the counter. “You’ll be okay?” Bri asked the two before they left. “Yea.” Val reassured everyone.

    “Okay, we’ll just go and see if her mom is okay and then come back and it will all be okay.” Nick said to himself as he walked out the door. “Nick, settle down man. Nothing is gonna happen.” Brian said catching up to his paranoid friend. “I know. Its just...” Nick trailed off. “It’s what bro?” Brian asked. “I know how hard Matt’s breakup with Mel was. And I know how crazy he can get.” Nick said to his best friend. “That bad huh?” Brian asked more about Matt and Melly’s relationship. “They were together since like the beginning of high school dude. They grew up together. I just popped up at the end of it when Melly realized who she was and she didn’t want Matt.” Nick paused then continued, “But Matt couldn’t handle that and didn’t know what to do since Melly was his first girlfriend and all. He didn’t know anything else and still refuses to.” Nick explained. “So what we need to do is make Matt realize there is more to life then what he doesn’t have.” Brian said. “Dude, that was deep!” Nick joked. “But, yea, something like that I suppose.” he added.

~Back at the house~

    “Are you sure you want to stay here? We could go to my aunt’s house or a hotel room or something.” Val asked Mel. “No, I will be fine.” Melly said taking an Advil. “Comeon, let’s go watch tv, to keep our minds busy.” Val suggested. Reluctantly, Melissa followed her into the living room where they turned on ‘Friends’. “Man, they have perfect lives.” Melly grumbled. “TV, Melly, TV!” Val joked changing the channels. She landed on NBC, Channel 4. “Just in time for tonight’s news.” Melissa said.

    “Coming up on the eleven o’clock news : Controversy continues with the Jay-Z trial. And also locally, a furious young man leaves one woman in a coma, another dead, then kills himself all in the pursuit of his ex-girlfriend.” The news anchor announced the upcoming news stories.

    “MELLY! DID YOU HEAR THAT?“ Val jumped up. “   Yea, you don’t think…” Melly answered trailing off. “Young man, one woman in a coma, another dead…mel…they are talking about Matt!” Val freaked out. “At least he can hurt any one else.” Val reassured herself which made her calm down. “Right.” Mel agreed. “Call Nick.” Val began to pace. “I’m on it!” Melissa rushed to the phone.

   “Hey, Nicky. Val and I were watching TV…” Mel began. “We heard Melly. We’re on our way back home and so are the police. They’re coming to your house for questioning.” Nick explained. “So then it was…” Melly was cut off my Nick. “Yes, Melissa, it was.” Nick said softly. “We’ll be home in ten minutes.”

   “Hey Valerie…it was Matt. Nick just told me.” Ghost-faced Melissa turned back around to Val. “Oh…my…God.” was all Val managed to get out. “What are we going to do now?” Val fell onto the couch. “There isn’t anything we can do.” Melissa said sitting next to her.

   ::KNOCK/KNOCK:: “I’ll get it.” Val got up and went down the narrow hallway to the door. “Hello ma’am. I’m Sgt. Moore from the police department. Do you mind if we ask you some questions?” The authoritative man said taking his hat off. “No problem, come on in.” Val said opening the door wider so that the two cops could come in. “Miss Stanford, I’m sure you heard…” Sgt. Moore started to say. “Oh no…I am Valerie Littrell. Melissa is in the living room.” Valerie said pointing to where Melly was sitting. “Melly, these are the guys that are going to question us about Matt, Ethan and Jason.” Val said introducing Melissa to the officers. “Wait, you two know Ethan and Jason?” Sgt. Moore asked. “Yea, why?” Melissa asked. “Well, if you know what Matt  was up to, then you also know that Ethan and Jason were behind this too.” Melly and Val just nodded. “And maybe you could tell us where we can find them!” Sgt. Moore completed his thoughts. “Last time we saw them…” Val said to say but was interrupted by someone walking into the house. “They were in the back of my squad car.” A voice said from the hallway. “Steven!” Val ran over to him. “Ah! Lachean. You’ve stolen our case once again!” Sgt. Moore laughed. “Brian called me on their way to check on Bette. I tracked the guys down right after they came off their flight.” Steven took his sunglasses. “You do know that it’s 10 o’clock at night. There is no sun.” Val joked with her brother. “Yea, yea. You two will have to come down to the station to go over some paper work and legalities.” Steven explained. “Okay, we can leave as soon as Nick and Brian get here.” Melissa said with a sigh. She was still digesting all that had just happened.


                                                 
~END of CHAPTER 49~

                                             
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