Strange things have been happening since the last week.
Hailey and Ashley have both kept their distance from me. Celine was surprisingly not bothering me too.
She would even smile at me. Not an evil smile or anything, just a genuine smile.
Max tries to be happy and show that he is fine even after what happened with Coco, but I have heard him sniffling in his room many times.
School has become really peaceful and for once, I felt my life being normal.
Awefully normal.
Everything was so fine that I started doubting it. Is it the calm before the storm?
Chill, blob fish. Nothing's gonna happen.
How do you know.
I just do.
"Oh my God!!" Max squealed like a crazy girl.
"It's snowing!!" He continued and ran out of the house.
"Snowing?" A sleepy Liam yawned.
"Yes, babe." Charlotte said, coming out of the kitchen with some freshly baked cookies.
"Babe?" Both Liam and I asked at the same time.
Charlotte's cheeks flushed which made us laugh.
"God, look at Max." Liam said and shook his head at the silly boy who was rolling on the ground in snow. We were both staring at him from the window.
"Where are the others?" I asked.
"Damien and Celine are still asleep, I guess. Zack is taking a shower." Liam answered and stuffed his face with Charlotte's cookies.
"Thwse awe awesome Chaw." Liam mumbled, his mouth full of cookies.
I chuckled and left the two there alone.
I walked inside Zack's room and saw him standing there, looking at his reflection in the mirror.
He was only wearing a towel that was wrapped around his waist.
My eyes widened a bit and my cheeks must have blushed. Zack looked at me through the mirror and smirked. "Like the view?" He grinned.
I didn't say anything. I couldn't bring myself to lie and I didn't want to say the truth either.
Well, I didn't like the view, I loved it.
What?
What what?
You said what?
I said what you heard.
Zack turned around and started coming towards me.
And I started walking back.
"Where will you go now?" He amused.
He caged me in between his arms and the walls. "Everyday I find you getting more and more beautiful." He traced his index finger from my temple down to my jaw.
He then rested his arms on the wall on either side of my head as he pressed his body on mine. "You're making it harder for me to resist myself, Jennifer." He whispered in my ear and slowly rubbed his cheek against mine.
I closed my eyes and savoured the moment. I put my hands on his chest, one of my hands, placed where his heart was beating.
He placed his hand over mine and kissed my cheek. "You wanted to say something?" He asked after gazing in my eyes for a few seconds.
"Uh.. Yeah.. I came to tell you that Uh.. It's raining.. No.. It's snowing outside." I nervously stuttered out.
Why was I nervous?
"What?" He asked with a twinkle in his eyes.
"Yes." I grinned.
"I love snow! Lets just quickly get ready and go!" He searched his closet for something and pulled out a black hoodie and threw it at me.
"Put that on." He answered my confusion.
I shrugged and put the hoodie over the sweater I was wearing. Zack's hoodie was big on me and I felt so cozy in the warmness of it.
It smelled amazing, just like him. I turned around to face the wall as Zack started to put on his clothes. The sleeves of his hoodie were obviously big for my arms.
I brought the sleeve up to my nose and sniffed it.
What are you doing, dumbo?
I don't know.
I think you've lost it.
Lost what?
Brain. But you didn't even have it in the first place.
"Let's go!!" Zack grabbed my arm and we ran out of the house, passing by Liam and Charlotte who were playing games on Liam's phone.
"It's snowing and you two are playing games on a phone?!" Zack gave them an unimpressed look and we were out of the house to join Max.
"Hey, Jen! Zacky! Your favorite time of the year! Snow!" Max picked up some snow and threw it at Zack, hiting him right on the face.
I burst out laughing and so did Max when we saw Zack's expression.
Before I knew it, the two of them were already in a snowball fight. Laughing and enjoying like little children.
I couldn't help but smile widely at the adoring face of Zack, who looked so content. He quickly dodged Max's snowball and threw two of his, aiming at Max's face, and both of them hit the target making Max gasp.
"You're still a loser at this!" Zack moved his hand up and down showing a thumbs down to Max, grinning widely.
Max stuck his tongue out to him.
I was still admiring Zack when a snowball hit me, making me gasp.
"Jennifer! You're on my team and we have to defeat Zack!" Max yelled and motioned for me to go to him.
"No! She's my girlfriend so she's in my team." Zack pulled my arm.
Max stomped his foot and came over to us, tugging on my other arm.
"Before being your girlfriend, she's my sister. So she's in my team."
"No. Mine." Zack pulled me to himself.
"No. Mine." Max imitated Zack.
This continued for sometime until I was finally done with their silly childish behavior.
"Stop." I ripped my arms from both of their holds.
"Let's ask the others to play as well. It would be more fun." I suggested and just then, Liam, Charlotte, Damien and Celine came out of the house.
"Liam! Snowball fight! C'mon! We have to defeat Zack." Max yelled and dragged me away before Zack could.
"My sister is in my team." He smirked at Zack.
"Alright then. But it's still me whose team will win." He dragged Damien and Charlotte with himself and already started discussing their team strategy with them.
"And Celine?" I asked as Liam joined us.
"She won't play." Liam said and nodded to her belly.
"Yeah! It becomes more than just a snowball fight when we play in teams." Max grinned.
"What does that mean?" I asked.
"You'll see." Liam winked.
Just then, Max grabbed my hand and took off running away from everyone, dragging me with him.
"Don't let them run away!" Zack yelled and Damien started running after us while Liam distracted Zack by throwing snowballs at him.
Charlotte and Zack had both cornered Liam who looked ready to take all the snowball attack.
"Max! Slow down!" I suddenly stopped running which caused Max to trip and fall face down on the ground.
I was gasping for air, trying to calm down my beating heart.
"Jennifer! Duck!" Max yelled and pulled me down on the ground just as a snowball went flying from above us. It was Damien.
"C'mon sister do something!"
"What should I do?"
"Throw snowballs at him what else?!"
Both of us started making snowballs and threw them at Damien who was really good at dodging all of them. The two of us couldn't manage to get even a single blow at him while he had thrashed us in snow.
"You're even aweful than me, Max!"
"I know!"
Soon, Liam had also ran over to our rescue with Zack and Charlotte on his trail.
It was all chaotic but each one of us was enjoying every bit of this.
While the others were all too engulfed in the snowball fight, I was standing and watching them, only to get startled by a snowball that flew from right in front of my eyes by Damien. I flinched and started running away from him.
"You can't run away, Jennifer!" He yelled but I was just too busy laughing.
Out of nowhere, I felt myself getting lifted up from the ground. I squealed while Damien laughed as he had grabbed me in his arms.
"Put me down, Damien!" I yelled feeling flustered from being in his arm.
"How about no?" He amused.
Just then, Zack came running to us, grinning widely with twinkling eyes but as soon as he saw me in Damien's arms, his grin fell and his eyes darkened.
"What are you doing Damien?" Zack asked in an angry tone, loosing all the joy from his voice.
"Stealing your girlfriend." Damien smirked.
Why was he teasing Zack? I don't want him to be angry...
But a part of was enjoying this too.
"Don't you already have one with a baby on the way?!" Zack yelled and snatched me from Damien's arms.
His fists were clenched tightly as he was giving a murderous look to Damien.
"Relax dude. I was just kidding with you. I love Celine and I know Jennifer is all yours." Damien put his hands up in surrender and gave a sly grin to Zack.
Zack didn't say anything and he still looked pissed.
"Chill baby. Why are you getting mad? We were just kidding."
Did I just call him baby?!
Did you just call him baby?!
Zack's head snapped towards my face and all the anger dissipated from his handsome features.
"What did you just call me?" He asked with an excited grin.
"Uh nothing." I looked away with bright red cheeks.
Zack chuckled and swung his arm around my shoulder, pulling me closer to him as I melted in the warmth of his body.
"LET'S MAKE A SNOWMAN!" Max yelled and cheered at himself.
We did ended up making a big snowman, in which Celine had joined us too. Even she looked happy to be spending time with all of us and surprisingly Charlotte wasn't mean to her either.
*****
We were all sitting together in the living room, chatting and drinking hot chocolate. I was cuddled up with Zack as I was sitting on his lap, laying my head on his chest with his arms wrapped around my stomach. Charlotte was doing the same with Liam.
"So, I was thinking that maybe Jennifer and me could go for some winter shopping today?" Charlotte wondered.
"Yeah. Sounds fun." I replied.
"Do you want me to come with you?" Zack softly asked me.
"No. You need not. It's girls day! No boys allowed. Celine can join too, if she wants." Charlotte said, surprising all of us.
We all looked at Celine, awaiting her response.
"Oh! Thanks Charlotte for the offer but I'll pass." Celine smiled politely.
Charlotte just shrugged. "Okay so, Jennifer. Stop lazying around and get ready. We are going to the mall." Charlotte ordered and went to change before I could reply.
"You really don't want me to come with you?" Zack asked with worry.
"Zack. I'll be fine. Why are you worrying. Besides, Charlotte will be there with me." I smiled and pecked him on his lips.
"I don't know, I'm having this weird uneasy feeling." He muttered.
*****
"Let's go home already, I am tired." I whined to Charlotte who was too busy, selecting through some hoodies for Liam.
"Just 5 minutes more."
5 minutes. She said 5 minutes...
I never knew 5 minutes meant an hour and a half.
I didn't either.
We were walking towards the car while talking about random stuff when I received a message on my phone.
A different unknown number again.
14 days were over. Was I in danger? Was this person serious with these threats?
'14 days are over. Time to say goodbye to your perfect life, Jennifer.'
I froze.
This person knew my name.
But what are they planning now? Was it a mistake to not bring Zack with me?
"What happened Jennifer? Why are you so pale all of a sudden?" Charlotte asked in concern.
"Oh! it's nothing." I waved her off.
I think you should tell her about this.
"Where's the car?" I asked in horror when we didn't find our car where it was parked.
"I-I don't know. I remember I'd parked it here."
"Where did it go then?!"
I had a sinking feeling in my stomach. As if something is seriously about to go wrong.
The two of us searched for the car everywhere but it was no where to be seen.
"What do we do now?" I asked.
"I think I should call-" Charlotte stopped mid sentence and stared behind me, with wide fear filled eyes.
"Char? What happened?" I asked and slowly turned around to see what she was looking at.
My breath got caught in my throat as I stared at the 6 scary looking big guys behind me, approaching us.
"JENNIFER RUN!" Charlotte yelled and grabbed my hand and we both dropped our shopping bags and started running away from the guys, who were now chasing us.
"Why are they after us?" Charlotte frantically asked.
"I think I know."
"What do you mean?"
"I've been receiving these weird messages from some unknown numbers, threatening me to snatch everything away from my 'perfect' life."
"WHAT?"
"Yeah. Two weeks ago,... I received a message from this unknown number,..... threatening me that they'll take everything away from me... And then.... A week later... Another number warned me of the same thing..." I said in between my breaths.
"Why the fuck didn't you tell any of us about this?!"
"I thought it was some wrong number or someone was messing with me." I cried.
"Why the hell are you so stupid, Jennifer?!"
Just then, I tripped over a rock on the road and fell down, yelping in pain.
Why is no one here!? Where are humans when you need them!?
"Jennifer!" Charlotte yelled and came to pick me up. "Shit! They're coming!" She tried to get me up but I had sprained my ankle.
"Go Charlotte! You run away!"
"WHAT?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!"
"I have sprained my ankle, Char! I won't be able to run! Just go! You can't get caught because of me!"
"HAVE YOU LOST THE LITTLE BRAIN THAT WAS FUNCTIONING IN YOU?! I AM NOT LEAVING YOU ALONE!"
The guys were nearing us. We would both get caught!
"Charlotte please understand! If you manage to run away, you can get help for me! You can tell the others what happened! Otherwise we'll both get caught!"
"No! I am not leaving you alone, Jennifer!"
"JUST GET LOST CHARLOTTE! GO AWAY! WHY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!" I pushed her away from me and she looked at me through tear filled hurt eyes.
"LEAVE! I'LL BE FINE! JUST GO!"
The guys were deadly near us and I kept shouting at Charlotte to go but the girl was just too stubborn.
"Please, Char.. Run away.. For me.. Please.. Just go." I cried.
She finally gave in. She gave one look at me and started walking backwards, then turned around and ran away.
"I'll get you soon, I promise! Please forgive me, Jen!" She cried.
Two hands gripped my shoulders tightly, pulling me to stand up.
"That one ran away!" One of the guys shouted.
"Let her go. She wasn't the target anyway." The one who was holding me smirked.
"Please. Let me go." I whimpered but they just laughed.
Oh life, what have you kept in store for me now?!
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A/N: Hey guys! I am back, that too with a double update B)
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