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The next morning.
Erin had made food for all the kids, she and Dave were taking Ashley, Cassie, and Spencer out to the cabin to join the older kids. JJ had asked that they go out first because the guys were going to clean out the fireplace and she thought the less people that were in the cabin the better it would be.
"Do you know what they have to get from their house?" Dave asked walking into the kitchen.
"No, I didn't get the chance to ask Jen but I would assume their clothes and laptops." She told him as she finished packing the food.
"Is she okay? This morning she didn't look like she had slept."
"She will be, after getting the girls settled we have to find Sandy. Jen needs her mom."
"I have people looking for her, I also found the girls a good school and paid for it."
"Dave thank you. I know that you didn't know Sandy well but those girls don't deserve any of this."
"We both know that we are not hurting for money and I just sent off another book, I would like to get the girl's new computers and anything else they need. Sandy is your friend and she has two amazing girls; I think she has just gotten a little lost."
"Dad, Erin we should get going." Ashley called from the hall.
"You and I will talk to Jen later today about everything." She told him before grabbing some of the food.
"Okay, I don't want to overwhelm her. Let me grab some of that."
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JJ, Emily, Beth, and Penelope went to the store grabbing some plastic and cleaning supplies, while the guys moved the furniture.
"Jay, maybe we should grocery shop for you." Emily told her.
"Why?" she asked.
"This way if your dad does report that you and Cassie are gone, no one can say that you were grocery shopping. It wouldn't be strange for me to shop for my grandparents." Emily explained.
"We are going to need other things too."
"Like what?" Beth asked.
"Bedding and there doesn't seem to be any dishes or silverware."
"There is a thrift store another town over we could go there." Penelope
"We could see if my mom, Cassie and Ashley want to go too. It might not be that strange then." Beth
"Let's get everything clean first, I still have to get our stuff from the house and I was hoping to do it at night."
"Let's get back to see what the guys have done." Emily
The girls all climbed into Dave's SUV that Beth was driving.
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"Now all we have to do is wait for the girls." Morgan as he and Will moved the couch.
"We let them go shopping that could take all day." Kevin sitting at the kitchen table.
"Jay wants to be in here tomorrow, they won't be that long," Will told him.
"We should have grabbed something to eat." Aaron
"I think my mom is bringing some." Will told the group.
"I have a question for you." Morgan looking at Will.
"Go for it." Will sitting down next to Kevin.
"When are you going to admit your feelings for JJ?" he asked.
"I've told you that were just friends." Will replied.
"I want you to know I love your sister but you are full of it." Aaron laughing.
"What do you mean?" Will
"You have dated some of the hottest girls in school and none of them have lasted more than three dates because none of them measure up to JJ." Aaron explained.
"You all have lost your minds and now is not the time for all this." Will told the group of men.
"Have you thought about the fact that you are not going to see her every day?" Kevin asked.
"Why wouldn't I see her?" Will confused.
"We are all going to need to be careful for a while." Kevin
"I haven't thought about that and I would bet she hasn't either." Will
The girls walked in.
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"Mom and Dave are here. Can one of you go help them with the food?" Beth as she walked in carrying a couple of bags.
"I'll go." Aaron, getting up.
"I will too." Morgan, following Aaron out the door.
"All the furniture is moved." JJ walking in, Cassie was right behind her.
"Did you think we were just sitting around?" Will.
"You never with you guys." JJ replied before sticking out her tongue.
"Nice." Will laughing.
All the food and cleaning supplies were in the cabin.
"Kids eat first." Erin.
"Glad we grabbed plates and forks." Emily.
"Me too." Penelope
"Thank you Mrs. Rossi." Kevin
"It was no problem." Erin smiling.
JJ sat on the couch watching everyone start to get food; Dave sat down next to her.
"Kiddo are you okay?"
"Yes, I was just thinking."
"Do you want to talk about it?"
"I don't want anyone to get in trouble for helping us."
"Nobody is going to get in trouble."
"You can't be sure."
"I promise it will be okay."
"Thank you for everything."
"It's no problem."
/
Later that day.
The cabin was clean and the furniture moved around, everyone was sitting around the living room.
"Now we just need to get your stuff from the house." Penelope, yawning.
"I can get it tonight."
"You all are going to need sleep." Erin told the kids.
"Jen, what do you need from the house?" Dave asked.
"Our clothes, computers, and some other personal stuff."
"Jen, can we bring pictures?" Cassie asked.
"Yes, I will get some."
"Have you thought about how you are going to stop your dad from looking for you?" Erin asked.
"Pen suggested that we write a letter saying that mom came back and took us." JJ told them, looking at Cassie.
"I can write the letter, making it look like Sandy wrote it." Erin
"I still don't want anyone to get in trouble." JJ
"We will deal with anything that comes up." Dave told her.
"How are we going to see Jay and Cassie?" Beth asked.
"You may not be able to for a while, everyone is going to need to be very careful." Dave explained.
Everyone was silent, none of them had that about that part.
"We can still talk online, I'll set up a private chat room." Penelope told the group.
"We can also come to my grandparents once or twice a week and then take the back way here." Emily
"Whatever it takes to keep you two safe." Morgan.
"And we have our phones." Aaron.
JJ and Will both stayed quiet, neither of them could remember a day that hadn't seen each other.
"I need to go get dishes and a couple of pots and pans plus bedding." JJ
"And groceries." Cassie.
"Why don't you do that tomorrow? Tonight after you rest go to the house and get your stuff, you both can stay at our house tonight." Erin
"Okay." JJ, she wasn't in the mood to argue.
Before she could make any more plans her phone went off.
I'll be home in the morning, your attitude better be better than it was before I left. Dad."
JJ read the message a couple of times before looking at the group.
"We have to do everything tonight." She told them.
"What's going on?" Will asked.
"My dad will be home in the morning, I want to make sure we have everything and we are going to stay here starting tonight."
"Are you sure?" Dave asked.
"Yes, your house will be the first place he looks."
"Then let's split up." Emily suggested.
"Dave why don't you take JJ, Will, and one of the other boys to get the girls stuff. I can take Cassie, Ashley, Penelope, and Kevin to go get the stuff the bedding, dishes, and bedding. The rest of you can go to the grocery store." Erin told the group.
"I'll go with Dave." Morgan told them.
"What about the letter?" JJ whispered.
"I'll write it now and you can leave it when you go." Erin told her.
Emily found some paper and a pen, while Erin sat down at the small desk; she thought about it for a minute before she began writing.
Dear Jake,
I came back to check on the girls, I realize now that you wrote me that email instead of Jen. I also realized that I should have never left my daughters with you. How could you put your hands on her? The day she was born you promised that you would always keep her safe and never let anyone hurt her but that's what you did. Do you even know how amazing our daughters are? If you did you would have cherished the time you had with them. I truly believed that you would never hurt either of them the way you did me; I even told Jen that when I left that you would never hurt her. Jake, I am sorry for the pain I caused you and I am sorry for the next part.
I took the girls with me and I am not bringing them back. Jen and Cassie deserve better then what either of us have done for them up to this point; I have a job and a nice home they will be happy. Please don't look for them, if the girls decide to contact you then it will be up to them and I will ask them not to tell you were we live. We both know that a custody battle would not be a healthy for either of them and that's want it would take for you to get them. I am sorry that you are not going to be able to say Goodbye, but I believe it's for the best.
Sandy
"Jen do you want to read the letter?" Erin asked.
"No thank you, I am sure it's fine."
Erin folded the letter and wrote his name on it before handing it to Jen.
"Okay, let's go."
Everyone loaded into their respected cars, Dave took the SUV, Beth and Emily took Emily's car and Erin took her car. JJ gave each of them money for the stores although Erin tried to give it back to her, she insisted on them taking it with them.
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Dave, JJ, Will, and Morgan pulled up to her house.
"Jen, I want you to grab only want you need." Dave told her.
"Okay, can someone grab some of the pictures of Cassie and me from the living room?"
"I'll get those." Morgan as they walked in the house.
"Jay, I'll help you." Will told her.
"Kids, I don't want to be here more than an half an hour." Dave as he looked out the door.
"Okay." Will, Morgan, and JJ replied.
Morgan went to the living room while JJ and Will went up the stairs; they entered her room first.
"Can you grab my laptop and the pictures in here? I'll get clothes." She asked while going to the closet and pulling out two suitcases, two bags and her laptop bag.
"Sure, which bag do you want them in?"
"This one." As she tossed him a bag.
She took a suitcase over to her dresser and started throwing her clothes in it, she was going drawer by drawer through clothes in the suitcase.
"Will, I am going to Cassie's room." She told him as she dragged the suitcase down the hall.
Will grabbed all the photos off her walls and night stand, he also made sure he grabbed her stuffed animal. He finished as she came back in the room.
"Where's the suitcase?" he asked.
"In the hallway, I managed to get everything out of our drawers in there. Now, I am going to get as much out of the closets as possible."
"I am done in here."
"Could you do the same in Cass's room?"
"Sure. Are you doing okay?"
"Yes." As she started putting clothes in the suitcase.
He waited the couple of minutes for her to get gone before they both went into Cassie's room.
"Do you think they would let you stay tonight?" JJ whispered as she started grabbing clothes out of the closet.
"They might, I'll ask once everyone is gone." As he put Cassie's laptop in the bag.
"I think we have everything." JJ told him.
"Let's go."
Will carried the suitcases downstairs were Morgan and Dave, while JJ carried the bags as they reached the dining room she took the letter out and went and sat it in his recliner. She looked around the living room trying to remember the good times and not the bad times.
"Jen, we need to go." Dave told her.
"Okay."
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