Chapter 6

Author: Ok…so I have some great ideas for the next couple of chapters. Haha..maybe if I don't forget. But anyways…I hope everyone liked the last chapter. There is some drama coming in this chapter and a lot of flashbacks. Some good, others bad. I took the plot from Rascal Flatts video so if you notice anything that's where I got it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Four Brothers or the Rascal Flatts video or song. Thank you!

That night was the worst night of Arieannas life. They went and found the boys who shot their mother. They were a casino in town just sitting at a bar when Jack saw them and pointed them out. They pulled guns and just started shooting. Jack tackled Arieanna on the ground knocking the wind out of her. He jerked her up and took off running to the back on the casino. Some fat man grabbed her arm and jerked her back causing her to fall and Jack let go. "Jack!" she yelled, but she felt someone grabbed her and jerk her up. It was Bobby. He had his arm around her waist and they jogged the rest of the way. As they came outside Jack was outside shooting at a car.

"You go girl!" Bobby said grabbing him and pulling him to the car. They get into Bobby's car and speed off after the car. It was snowing pretty badly so Arieanna knew that Bobby couldn't see shit. It was so hard for her to put her seatbelt on because they kept going back and forth on the road. She just grabbed hold of Jacks hand and squeezed it. Jack saw his knuckles go white. Just then Bobby wrecks in another car "Aw! Wrecked the whole side of my fucking car! "
"You gonna get these guys before you kill us?" Jack yelled
"Sit back and put your fucking seatbelt on, Jack." Bobby yelled back. "Angel put your gun out and pop the sons of bitches."

Angel unbuckles his seatbelt and starts shooting at the other car. They see the car start swirving. "You got one!" Bobby yelled

"Bobby slow down!" Arieanna screamed

"Put your seatbelt on!" he screamed at her. She quickly did what he said but was shaking she couldn't get it buckled. Angel sticks his gun out of the car again and starts shooting. All of the sudden they hear an explosion. Angel almost falls out of the car. "ANGEL!" Arieanna screamed grabbing his shirt. Jack helped her pull him back in.

"Shit! My freaking tire just blew!" Bobby yelled hitting the steering wheel.

"Bobby, let's just stop the car. Okay, Bobby, let's just stop." Jack kept begging him
"Shut up, Jack. Gonna ride this out on the rim."

"Please I don't want to die!" Arieanna begged. "Please just stop….just stop!" she was sobbing by this time. Angel turned around and grabbed her hand.

"Look at me!" he told her "We are going to be fine. Nothing is going to happen. It's just like old times in our go cart."

She shakes her head "No…no."

"Yes it is….just picture us on the go cart. We are going to be fine." Angel squeezed her hand again.

"Screw this!" Bobby yelled. He hit the gas and just rammed into the back on the other car and made them spin. "You two got your seatbelt on? Watch this!" he rammed into the side of the car and made the car flip. Arieanna covered her eyes. Bobby and Angel quickly got out of the car and ran over to the shooters. Jack followed

"Don't let her see anything!" Bobby yelled to him. Jack just watched as they ran over and started beating the hell out of the killers. Just then they pulled out guns and Arieanna hears two gunshots. She quickly covers her ears and starts shaking her head. "No…no!"

Her brothers came running back to the car and quickly speed off from the site. Angel looks back at his sister who was staring at him. He went to grab her hands but she quickly pulled away. She was scared. She had never been scared of her brothers before.

Flashback:

Arieanna was 9 years old when she witnessed her first fight. Bobby and Angel were outside playing hockey and Arieanna was on the sidewalk playing with her new barbies her mother bought her. She heard Bobby and Angel arguing over who was the best hockey player. She didn't seem to notice when 2 black guys came walking up. She was too much into her barbies to notice anything around her. When she heard yelling she looked up to see her brothers in a brawl with the 2 guys. She jumped up and tried to hide against the wall. No one was home but Angel and Bobby, Ma had went to the school with Jack and Jerry was over at a friend's house. She watched as one of the guys jumped on the back of Bobby and knocked him to the ground.

"Bobby!" she screamed. She started sobbing "You're hurting him!" she yelled.

The boys just kept kicking him and hitting him. Angel was on the ground bleeding. "Stop!" she sobbed. Angel looked over at his sister who was sobbing on the steps, she looked so scared. He jumped up and just tackled the boys off of Bobby. Angel was on top of one just beating him in the face over and over again. "Angel….stop!" she yelled "STOP!" she screamed. She was clenching onto her barbies scared to death. She watched as her brother continued to beat the guy in the face until he quit moving. Bobby got up and limped over to his sister who was on the ground huddle against the steps crying. "Come here…." He told her holding out his hands. She crawled out of her little space and walked into his arms and just sobbed into his shoulder. Angel got up from the boy he was hitting and walked over to his sister. "Hey….."

She just backed away from him "I am so sorry that you saw that. Please forgive me?" he asked. He looked like he was about to cry because his own sister was afraid of him. She looked at him and just ran into his arms. "So sorry!" he told her.

"Its ok….." she told him "I was so scared. They were hurting you." She told him looking up at him.

"Me….please…I had them." He told her. She starts laughing "You're not scared anymore?"

"No…..I know you'll protect me."

"That's right. We will always protect you. I promise I won't let you see something like that again."

"Good….." she replied.

"Let's go inside and get some ice cream."

End Flashback.

They arrived back at the house and Arieanna went running into the house and up to her room. She locked the door and just sat on the bed watching it. Angel went upstairs after her and knocked on her door. She couldn't take this anymore. She needed to get out. She opened her window and grabbed the tree limb and crawled out. She went running down the street to Dylan's old house. She just fell onto the steps a sobbed. She missed Dylan, she missed everything about him. They were going to have a future together, but that ended one summer night 2 in a half years ago.

Flashback:

"You going to stay with me forever?" Arieanna asked her boyfriend while laying on his chest. He just twirled her hair in his fingers and smiled

"You want me to stay forever?" he asked.

"I'm serious Dylan."

"I am too. I'll stay with you as long as you want me too. If its forever….so be it" he smiled. She just started smiling at him. He was the one she felt safe with now. Every since the rape, her brothers pulled away.

"You ok?" he asked lifting her up.

"Yeah I am just thinking."

"About what?"

"The future….if I have a future"

"You will. We both will. We are going to get out of Detroit and make it on our own. Show everyone in this dumbass place that we can make something of ourselves. Me and you are going to make it together."

She smiled at him and leaned in and kissed him. He wrapped his arms around her and laid back down. She looked at her watch and groaned. "I need to go. I was suppose to be home 30 minutes ago."

"Here let me walk you home. It's the least I can do." He smiled

"The least…" she replied getting off the car. He grabbed her hand and they walked slowly to her house. She knew her brothers would be waiting outside for her so it didn't surprise her that they were. She just smiled to them. "I'm sorry. I'm not going to give any excuses, just say im sorry" she replied

"Where were you?" Angel asked

"We were at his house outside talking and I just got caught up in the moment. He walked me home so nothing would happen."

"Thank you!" Angel replied to Dylan. Dylan nodded his head. Bobby just glared at him

"What's your name?" Bobby asked

"Dylan…I'm Arieannas boyfriend."

"Are you now?" he spat "What's your last name?"

"Rog…Rogers." Dylan stuttered.

"Dylan Rogers…" Bobby stood there and thought for a moment. "Are you related to DJ Rogers?"

"Yeah….he's my brother."

Arieanna rolled her eyes "Can we stop interrogating him now?"

"DJ Roger is known around these parts for drugs and shit." Bobby ignored Arieanna and just kept on "You in to that?"

"No sir….i..have never done drugs before in my life"

"Bobby leave him alone." Arieanna yelled "Why do you do this?"

"This is the boys house you came from at 3 in the morning. 3 in the morning nothing good comes from a guys house. Trust me I know."

"We fell asleep. I told you that"

"What are your intentions with my sister?"

"I have total respect for her. I love her with all my heart. I wouldn't try anything unless she wants to.."

"Really?"

"Yes sir. I would never hurt her." Dylan replied still holding on to Arieannas hand

"You let her get hurt though." Bobby replied

"Bobby stop!" Arieanna yelled. "This is getting ridiculous."

"I didn't know. She just took off running because she was scared you guys were going to be mad at her."

"Really? So you couldn't have gone running after her. You could have stopped that man from raping her but you didn't did you. She has to live with that for the rest of her life. Did you know that my mom had to buy her sleeping pills for her to sleep at night because she sees that man over and over again." Bobby was getting carried away with himself. Tears welled up in Arieannas eyes.

"I think I should leave." Dylan replied

"Yeah I think you should too. And never come near my sister again. I don't want her seeing you anymore. You re a bad influence and I don't like that."

"You cant make me do that!" Arieanna replied "I will not stop seeing him!"

"Yes you will!" Bobby yelled. Arieanna jumped back against Dylan. She turned around and tears just streamed down her face.

"Don't go!" she replied.

"I need to."

"Don't listen to him Dylan. It doesn't mean anything to me."

"I will always love you with my whole heart. No matter what happens. You will always be right here." He replied holding her hand to his heart

"Don't go…" she sobbed in his chest. Bobby went down the steps and grabbed Arieannas hand and pulled her away from Dylan.

"You need to leave!" Bobby replied holding onto Arieannas waist.

"Let me go!" she yelled "Dylan….." she watched as Dylan smiled one last time at her and turned around and walked away forever.

End Flashback

She looked up from the steps and saw a man standing there staring at her. She wiped the tears from her face and just stared at him "I'm sorry…someone I knew lived here. Some bad memories. Got caught up in myself"

"Its ok. Are you ok now?" he asked

"Yes sir. I'll be fine." She replied. She walked away shaking her head with embarrassment. She decided to make her way to the park and just sit on the swing. It was snowing so some kids might be there. She entered the park and saw a few kids having a snowball fight. She walked over to the swing and just started swinging.

Flashback:

Dylan started pushing her on the swing as she was talking to him. "Then Ms. Carnes was just screaming at him and he was just smiling the whole time. It was like he meant to do it…." She kept going on and on about school. She was watching a little boy on the jungle jim the whole time making sure he was being safe. His foot slipped and he hit the ground. Without even stopping Arieanna jumped out of the swing and ran over to him. Dylan followed her. The boy was screaming and crying for help. "Hey hey its ok. Its just a little scrape. Does anything else hurt?" she asked helping him up. She wiped the leaves off of him and walked him over to a bench. "Here let me look." She looked down at his boo boo. "Dyl will you go get the first aid?" she asked. Dylan ran over to the first aid kit and grabbed the container. "This might hurt a little but I promise I wont let it hurt a lot." She told him with a smile. She put some hydrogen peroxide on it but started blowing so it wouldn't sting too much. Dylan watched her and just smiled to himself. When she finally let the boy go after lecturing him about being careful on the playground, Dylan walked her back over to the swing. "You were awesome!" he replied smiling

"What?"

"With that boy. You were amazing. You are going to make a great mother one day."

"Well I got it from the best." She replied, referring to Evelyn. He smiled again and kissed her on the nose before pushing her again in the swing.

End Flashback

She felt her phone start vibrating in her jacket. She opened it up and saw it was her house that was calling. She just ignored and continued to swing. She didn't care how much trouble she would get into, she just wanted to be alone. What was the world coming to? Her brothers killed 2 men, that killed her mother. It just didn't seem right. She decided to walk some and get the blood flowing in her body again. She just walked not knowing where she was going and still thinking about Dylan. The tears started to sting against her cold face, but she couldn't stop crying.

Flashback:

Arieanna jerked away from Bobby once Dylan was out of sight. "You have no clue what you just did!" she told him. She walked past her other brothers and up to her room. She slammed the door and locked it. She sat on her bed thinking for a moment. She went to her closet and pulled out her duffle bag, but stopped when she heard footsteps coming towards her room. "Im not talking to anyone so you can just go away!" she yelled. The footsteps stopped, but didn't do anything. She knew it had to be Jack, but she didn't care who it was. Angel or Jack didn't even defend her. They just stood there and let Bobby talk to Dylan that way. Dylan would never hurt her for any reason. She knew that. He loved her. They were going to have a future together. Tears welled up in her eyes again and she just sat back down on the bed and just sobbed into her pillow. She was up in her room for an hour in a half when there was soft tap on the door. "Go away!" she yelled.

"We need to talk!" Angel replied. He sounded like something bad happened so she walked over to the door and unlocked it but left it closed. He opened the door and walked in followed by Bobby and Jack.

"What do you want?" she spat

"Packing?" Bobby asked

"Was…..dont know why I stopped."

"Areianna we need to talk…." Angel started.

"I don't want to talk I want to leave…" she told them going back to the duffle bag. She started stuffing clothes in there not listening to any of them.

"Something happened….and its not good." Angel began again. Jack went to the bed and sat down still staring at her. He looked like someone had killed his dog.

"There was a shooting outside a house and while Dylan was walking home he was shot…" Arieanna stopped what she was doing and looked through her mirror at Jack.

"Hes dead Rie. He didn't make it." Arieanna just started shaking her head, she watched as her duffle bag him the floor along with a picture of her and Jack. The picture shattered across the floor. "I don't believe you. You are just saying that so I will stay away from him!" she told them, but she couldn't get herself to believe it.

"He's gone sweetheart." Angel replied softly.

"No…I don't believe you. Its not true!" she yelled. Tears came to her eyes and she just stood there at stared at Bobby who was still in the entrance of the door. "You did this! You made him leave! I hate you! I hate you!" she screamed. She ran over to him and started beating him in the chest. He tried grabbing her and calm her down but it was no use. "Tell me! Tell me you hated him! You did this!" she was screaming to the top of her lungs. She fell to the ground as Bobby was holding her. He was stroking the side of her head. She tried pulling away but he just held onto her as she kept beating him until she couldn't anymore. "AHHHH!" she screamed while sobbing. She just continued to sob in his chest while Jack wiped a tear that escaped from his eyes. Angel just leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes. "Its ok. Its going to be ok!" Bobby whispered "I am so sorry….im am so sorry!" he whispered in her ear still stroking the side of her head.

End Flashback

Arieanna found herself in the graveyard staring down at Dylans grave. On his way home from her house, a man and woman were arguing over her cheating on him. He pulled out a gun and just started shooting. The woman, along with Dylan were killed. He was just walking home, he didn't do anything and they killed him. Exactly what happened with mom. She didn't do anything to anyone but help them, and they killed her. "You would have made a great father.." she whispered "You would have made a great everything. You will always be right here." She told him laying her hand across her heart. "always!" tears streamed down her face. She felt a hand on her shoulder and noticed that Angel was right beside her.

"They did get what they deserved!" she replied "They killed an innocent woman. But you know she would have been the first to forgive them. She would have taken them under her wing and just said that all they needed was a brother."

"Yeah…she would have. You shouldn't have been with us at all during all this."

"I knew you guys would get revenge. I just didn't think it would affect me this much. I am so scared you guys are going to leave me again. Your not going to are you?"

"I don't plan on it. I'm here for good."

She gave a little smile. She kissed her fingers and laid them on Dylans grave. "Come on lets go home!" he told his arm around her shoulders.

"Is Bobby mad?"

"You know Bobby. I told him though..i knew where you would be."

She nods her head "He's changed Angel.. I don't like it"

"He's just pissed off."

She nods again "I cant wait for things to go back to normal. Where I can actually live in peace and quiet for once."

Angel laughs "We are the Mercers. Theres no such thing as peace and quiet in our house." She laughed and just hugged him.

Author: Yeah so I actually liked this chapter. I did take the video from Rascal Flatts. I bawled like a baby during that video and I thought I would be good to use it in my story. Sorry there was a a lot of flashbacks but I like flashbacks. Gives you more information about the character. I hope everyone liked this chapter! PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW!