My Brothers Possessive Best Friend 17

BLAKES POV

Going to the trunk of the car I grabbed my bag and chucked Logan’s at him. In my back pocket I could feel my phone vibrating. Recognizing the number I answered immediately.

“Grandma?”

“Blake! Listen to me and listen to me carefully okay. There is a woman in your house. She is not safe and  will have a gun on her and probably a few knifes. What I need you to do is act as normal as possible. Don’t raise any suspicion. And stay together! She knows that Logan is with you. I’m on my way sweetie, stay safe!”

She hung up stay after that. I stood frozen on the spot for a second before everything sunk in. Fuck Lacey!

“What’s up Bro?” Quickly telling him the brief version of what Grandma just told me. His stance went rigid, probably just like mine. We walked in to the house, trying to keep as calm as possible. I could see Lacey standing in the doorway to the kitchen. She didn’t look like herself.

“Lacey?” She didn’t look my way so I ran over to and shook her. She still didn’t look at me.

“Don’t worry about her dear. Just a little shaken up that’s all.” The lady stood there with the picture that Grandma took of me and Lacey when we were at the beach years ago.

“And you would be?”

“I would be your Mother dear.”

“That’s bullshit!”

“Darling, use language of that sort with me again I will see to it that you get consequences.” She is not safe and will have a gun on her and probably a few knifes.

“Well you’ll have to understand when my sister is in this state and you’re trying to say that you’re my Mother when you clearly are not.”

“How can you be so sure?” I felt Lacey step behind me and wrap her arms around me waist. Damn Lacey I know you’re going to be pissed and I’m so sorry.

“Because the last time I saw my Father a year ago he gave me a photo of her.” There was a silence in the room. Lacey’s hold on the back of my shirt loosened and she went to stand next to Logan who wrapped his arms around her immediately. Looking back at the women I noticed that her whole demeanour had changed. I took a step closer to Logan and Lacey.

“Jesus Christ what made he give you a picture of that old hag? Father son heart to heart? Something to cry at whilst you sleep at night?” She laughed and threw the photo unexpectedly at the wall behind me. Making me duck to hit the flying glass. “How fucking pitifully.”

“Let him take her away.” I said instantly, pointing at Logan and Lacey.

“No! She stays and so does her boyfriend.” From behind me I heard Lacey gasp. Really? She really think that I didn’t notice?

“Fine. What do you want?”

“I want the revenge that I’ve been waiting for the past 20 years. And you and your sister are my way of getting it.” She began to walk around the Island, dragging her finger along the counter top.

“Revenge for what exactly?” Just keep her talking until Grandma gets here. Dear god I hope she’s called the cops.

“Now now now, that would reveal the story to soon. And we don’t want that do we?”

“You tell me you’re the one who broke into my house and started throwing shit.”

“What did I tell you about your language!?” Her fingers twitched towards the inside of her jacket. To her gun no doubt. I could feel my heart rate picking up.

“Okay okay he’s sorry.” Logan piped up from the corner. “What are you going to do?”

“Aw, so the boyfriend does have a voice. And in answer to your question darling, everything that she did to me, just ten times worse.”

“What who did to you?” Lacey let go of Logan and stood next to me. Logan was straight behind her and stood on the other side of her.

“Your Mother dear. Your birth mother. The one that gave birth to you and ran out of fear because she knew that we would come looking for her, and for you two. You belong in the family. But she thought she was better than the rest of us. She thought she was better than me! She took everything away from me. So I’m going to take the one thing away from her that she cares about. Well the two things that she cares about.”

“That’s not happening Jackie.” Grandma! “And I should warn you that he is on his way.”

“Let him! He can make this all the more entertaining.” She smirked and advanced towards the fridge, helping herself to a bottle of water before sitting back at the island, facing all of us. Grandma stood in front of all of us in a protective stance. It was only then that I noticed the revolver poking out of the back of her jeans.

My Grandma’s packing heat!

“Who’s coming?” Lacey asked. She had fully come out of her shocked state and to be honest, she looked pissed.

“Your Dad Lacey.” Grandma didn’t take her eyes off of the wom- Jackie, and stayed in her protective stance. And almost on cue the door bust open and my Dad come through. He hadn’t changed much over the last year. His black hair was slightly longer and I noticed a small scar, almost an inch and half long, going through his eyebrow.

He gently grabbed Grandma’s arm and pulled her back so that she was in line with the three of us. “Mum, please.” She nodded compliantly.

“Jackie I’m going to say this once and once only. For your own sake stay away from my kids. You should feel lucky that she’s stayed away from you for this long but I can assure you that her patience is running on thin ice Jackie. You know what she’ll do, you grew up with her, and you’re her sister.”

“No!” She screamed, reaching into her jacket and pulling the gun out, slamming it on the table holding the butt. “I am not nor was I ever her sister! I am not related to that ... to that scum! Derek she ruined my life! I want to and will end her!”

“Leave Lacey and Blake out of this Jackie! It has nothing to do with them!”

“It has everything to do with them! She was the favourite! She was always the golden girl. Daddy’s little princess and Mummy’s little star. Even Steven paid more attention to her than he ever did to me! For my whole life they pushed me out while they went out of their way to make the poor little adopted girl feel welcome. Feel like she was a part of the family. And then she has the mordacity to then turn my own children on me! No one loves me! No one cares!” Her eyes watered up as her voice cracked.

“She didn’t turn them on you. You did that by yourself. You beat your own children. And when you was too drunk to do it yourself you made them do it to each other! You made them believe that they were nothing more than a piece of meat for you to take your frustrations out on! All she did was made them see sense. She made them feel like a human being!”

“No! She took them away from me. So I’m going to take hers away from her and don’t think that you can stop me. I have people helping me.” She got up smirking to herself. “And they’re willing to go to any lengths...just as I am.” She began walking past all of us, heading for the door. “Don’t think you can stop me Derek. What’s coming will happen and there is no stopping it. And you can tell your wife to fuck off!” And then she was gone.

Everyone was silent and staring at Jackie’s retreating form as the door closed. Before I had time to think I was enclosed in my Father’s arms along with Lacey. We were stuck like this for a moment before Lacey shoved her way out of the embrace. “No! What the fuck was that!?”

“Lacey I’m sor-“

“No! No Dad! I haven’t seen you for nearly 2 years straight and I found out you made a special visit to Blake! And gave a picture of Mom!”

“None of that was planned. I know how you feel baby girl and I’m sorry. But you don’t know the whole story.”

“Oh so there’s a story! Oh please enlighten me!” I tightened my hold on Lacey.

“That was Jackie your auntie. Your Mother was adopted by a couple called Gerald and Sophia. They already had two children; Jackie and Steven. When your mother was 16 Gerald was arrested. Jackie had accused him of...abusing her, in more ways than one. The accusations turned out to be all lies but after that Jackie, she, she turned into something that wasn’t healthy. She started hanging around with the wrong group of people. Bad people. She had them follow your Mother, everywhere she went, and they would torment her, beat her to stupidity. She never did anything in retaliation. I was working at the hospital when I met her. She was near to death. I cared for here until the day that the casts came off. From then everything that happened between me and your Mother, just, well, happened. And before I knew it I was holding you both in my arms. When Jackie heard about you two, that’s when she started to get really nasty. It was after the whole mess with her children, which you already know about. She lit fire to our house, with you two and your Mother still inside. She made it out with both of you just in time before the whole place went down. Lacey, that scar you have on your right leg, Jackie did that with a knife. Blake, the headaches you get, she dropped you down three flights of stairs, head first, when you were 1 years old. It’s a miracle that you’re still alive. Jackie was, is so filled with hatred that she is not stable. We called the cops, we did the law route of trying to get rid of her, but there wasn’t sufficient evidence. How, I’ll never know, but she kept on and on. Your Mother knew that what she really wanted was to see her suffer. So she did what she thought was right, she separated herself from the both of you. That’s why you haven’t had a Mother all this time. It’s because she was trying to protect you. But Jackie has found you again somehow. We need to keep you safe, and you to Logan.”

I stood drilled onto the spot hanging onto Lacey. For all this time I believed that my Mother was simply someone who couldn’t give a damn about the two of us. All my Life I had thought that my Father was a man filled with grieve over a love that was returned by snapping him in two. Leaving him with children that he didn’t want. Making him a hollow man.

Now all of sudden I have a loving and caring Mother and Father and a crazed, bitch ass of an auntie.

“You do realise how fucked up this sounds right?” Lacey ran a stressed hand through her hair. “How am I supposed to believe a word that comes out of your mouth!?” Logan placed a warming hand on the small of her back. He obviously doesn’t care about my presence anymore.

“Lacey I know that I haven’t been in your life as much as I should but don’t think for one second that I haven’t made sure that you were safe. It needed to be like this. The more cut off we were the better. She wouldn’t have made the connection and found you. But a couple months ago, when I went to visit your grandma to give her some money, to help with, well you know. Jackie must have followed me.”

“That doesn’t answer my question.” She said sternly.

“Come.” He said, not waiting for a response and just walking straight to the door.

“We’re not going anywhere with you!”

He stopped in his tracks.

"I'm keeping my children safe."