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Bulletproof Heart

Chapter 18 - Guess Whose Coming To Dinner


Ray POV

The town of Yardley wasn't even a real town, just an unincorporated area with a population of about 100 people. Since it was so small, services like the Fire Department, Police, even Power and Sewage often had only 1 or 2 people working a shift. So if they happened to be on official business elsewhere, then you just had to wait. But nobody had seen a serious crime committed here since the establishment of the area, just the occasional bored teenager caught tagging cars and houses.

We were fortunate that the Y.P.D. were available and came right away. Detective Dewees started sweeping every room with bug detectors while Firefighter Radke searched the yard. Detective Bryer asked Frankie lots of questions and wrote everything down. I felt pretty relieved that these men were taking her seriously. They seemed to be paying close attention to what they were doing. I knew she'd had a lot of men try to use her in the past, for her money, to get close to her dad, because they thought she could get them a record deal. She's been through a lot but this has got to be the craziest. It made me sick really. That's why I had been so hesitant to give this relationship with Gee my blessing. I knew he would never use her. But I didn't want to see either of them get hurt.All I could think was,'They're both such sensitive people to start with and then add the vulnerable situations their both in.... Man, if this thing goes south, it could get real messy. I still want to have my best friend. Frankie will always be family. I don't want to be a child of divorce, figuratively speaking.'

After an hour long search, they'd found 2 cameras. One pointed at the front and one at the back exteriors of the house. Both were mounted to trees about 25' from the doors, just outside Frankie's the property line. Even though we didn't have physical evidence, we knew it was him. She didn't have enough for a restraining order because he hadn't touched her. That is the effed up law. He could threaten all he wanted, but until he did something you couldn't put a restraining order out on him. But the police were going to do regular patrols and we vowed not to leave her side. There was always safety in numbers. We thanked the police for their help as they left.

"Ok, so now what? It's only 5pm? We need to do something fun to take our minds off things. Ready for the drinking/get to know you/look stupid games?" Brendan was trying so hard to lighten the mood but Gee and Frankie were both stuck in their own heads and miserable. Then Mikey surprised everyone.

"Yeah. C'mon. Did we come here to let those fuckers win? Or to have fun? Ray? We can probably start with 3 right," he turned to Brendan.

"Absolutely. Mikes, why don't we start the pizza and drinks first. Maybe their momentum will have kicked in by then. I suppose we could.....play just the 2 of us. But, keep in mind, if you don't play, you don't get to drink my booze!" He threw the last bit over his shoulder then disappeared into the kitchen. Both guys start laughing. Hmm, this isn't Mikey at all. Should I be worried that he's hanging out with Brendan? Does one conversation plus helping him with pizza even qualify as 'hanging out'?”

“I'll come help too.” I headed to the kitchen wondering if I was in danger of losing my boyfriend. Strange thing was, I wasn't sure I felt so strongly about it either way. “What would you like me to do?”

Soon there were hot pizzas on the counters and sodas on the table. That brought the others in. Mikey and Brendan shook their heads a bit and laughed all the way to the table. Once the rest sat down, there was an easy silence. All that could be heard was the scrape of plastic cups being picked up and set down again, the squeak of chairs and the sound of hungry friends inhaling food.

"What was that noise? Did you hear that?"

"No, Gee. What was it?"

"Shh." A pause, then a whisper. "I think someone is outside. In front." Gee slowly stood, with all of us guys slowly putting down their slices and doing the same. But before we could do anything else, there is a solid knock at the door.

"What should we do?"

"Who do you think it is?"

"Should we answer it?"

"You really need a peephole, Frankie!"

We all just stood there around the table like idiots. The person knocked again. Frankie stood up and walked over to the door, everyone running after her. She stopped once her hand was on the knob. She turned around and smiled. At least half of us her shaking our heads no because we were all speechless. "Together, we are strong." So she unlocked the deadbolts and the lock of the knob.

Then she turned the knob and pulled it open.

Notes

I guess you could call this filler (almost?). I've tried very hard to avoid filler. This does give you info you need. :) I know it's short but I have the next few chapters set up and I'm working like crazy on my other story. Trying to alternate like GeesCluelessGirl, which is a great idea.

I've also been really sick for a week, but I'm back and you'll have a few updates soon. Love you guys. You keep me (going into the general direction of) sane.

B

Comments

@Gee'sCLUELESSgirl!
Thx. I'll eventually have something up there!

Sharpest_Life_B Sharpest_Life_B
2/22/17

OMG...I saw your name on AO3 when you commented on one of my fics there and I thought "I recognise that name", but I looked there and you had no fics...I was confused!...NOW I'M NOT!

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this, and seeing what you put up over there.
Welcome back, and I hope you and your family are well, or feel better soon.
xxx

Yeah. I rly am working on it.

Sharpest_Life_B Sharpest_Life_B
12/22/15

@Sharpest_Life_B
omg you re back!!!

emoqueen emoqueen
12/14/15

I'm working on the ending. I promise.

Sharpest_Life_B Sharpest_Life_B
12/10/15