Previously:
"Joe?" Zach snapped while the girls all gasped.
Liz nodded and continued,"Yes, and it says he died last Thursday."
"No he didn't," a voice behind them all said. They all turned to find Grant standing there with his and Bex's phones in his hands.
"What do you mean Grant?" Jonas spoke up for the first time.
Grant walked towards them all. "I mean, he isn't dead. I just talked to him about five minutes ago."
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All the boys, all the girls
All the madness in the world
All the boys, all the girls
All the madness that occurs
All the highs, all the lows
As the room is spinning, oh
"No you didn't," Bex shrugged, laughing it off as if she actually believed Grant had made the whole thing up.
Grant sighed and shifted his stance. "No I really did."
"And what did he say shit head?" Macey mocked and placed a hand on her hip.
"Here," Grant huffed, handing Macey his phone. "You call him and ask him."
"Hell no!" Macey shoved the phone back at him, hitting him in the chest.
"And why not?" he snapped back. "Because you all obviously don't believe me."
"We believe you man, but..." Zach said trailing off when he didn't know what point he was trying to make. He honestly didn't believe his best friend.
"Oh shut up everyone!" Liz practically screamed, already frustrated with them all and how they forgot why they were there in the first place.
"Who's the kid?" Grant snickered after a few moments of silence Liz had created.
Cammie crossed her arms. "That's not the point right now. Why did you talk to Joe?"
Grant shrugged, shoving his hands in his pockets and looking around the cemetery. "I donno. He just called me."
"But why?" Jonas wanted to know.
"He just said to go to the cemetery and that you all would be there," Grant informed them all.
"Maybe," Liz started thinking. "Maybe we should dig up the grave. You know, like, look and see if there is a coffin."
"Okay, I am not digging up some dead people...bloody hell," Bex snapped dramaticly.
Liz huffed heavily. "If Solomon isn't dead like Grant says-"
"And I am right," Grant interuppted her proudly.
"Yes, if Solomon called Grant like he says-and yes Grant, we know he did actually call you-then there won't be anything in the coffin, if there even is a coffin," Liz finished.
"Well come on then," Macey urged. "Let's get digging!"
"Woah, woah, woah," Jonas stopped everyone. "We can't just go and start moving everything."
"Why not?" Macey questioned.
"Yeah," Zach chimed in picking up Isabella's sippy cup she had thrown on the ground. "It is obvioulsy new, so what's the worst that could happen? We find some ancient artifact down there?"
"Let's be reasonable Zach," Cammie said, not amused by his lame attempt at a joke.
"Just trying to lighten the mood Gallagher Girl," he smirked down at her, making her knees go weak and he heart to pound faster.
"So, what, are we all going to dig?" Macey asked. "Because I just got a manicure three days ago and I am not ruining it."
"You just yelled at everyone to start digging!" Bex said to her and Macey just shrugged.
"Jonas shook his head. "It doesn't matter who digs and who doesn't."
"Well Zach and I have to go buy a whole bunch of baby crap," Cammie reasoned.
"Oh! Oh! Can I come Cam?" Bex pleaded emotionally. "I am her godmother after all..."
Cammie looked at her, knowing it was a joke but confused either way. "When did we decide that?"
"Oh I did. Just now," Bex said while taking Isabella out of Zach's arms and started walking to his car.
They all watched Bex steadily walk down the hill with heels on, and holding a baby, knowing she could fall at any second.
"Does she know the car is locked?" Zach smiled and pointed down the hill to the car far away. "Ya I should probably go and make sure the kid doesn't get an injury."
Liz chuckled and waited until he dissappeared before walking up to Cammie with big bug eyes. "I'm going to be her godmother right?"
"Hell no," Macey inturrupted, strutting over to the pair. "I am right Cam?"
Cammie laughed. "I know who her godmother is going to be...but I'm not telling!"
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Cammie took a deep breath as she, Zach, Bex and Isabella strolled into the gigantic baby superstore.
"Well, this is overwhelming," she commented as she set the baby in the cart and gave her her hippo.
Bex grimiced. "Yeah, the overpowering stench of baby food and poop is enough to make my eyes water."
Zach and Cammie laughed. "Get used to it, Grant smells like it all the time," Zach joked while Bex didn't find it all that funny and gave him an icy stare.
"So what all does the kid need?" he continued.
"Why don't we get her a crib first?" Cammie suggested, and turned down the long and large isle full of every kind of crib imaginable, only to almost run into an old lady.
"I am so sorry!" She said to the woman.
"Don't worry about it dear! Oh and what an adorable baby! She looks like her father!" She smiled and nodded, looking from Zach to the baby.
"Thank you so much! I guess good looks come in the family!" Cammie laughed and continued down the isle chuckling to herself.
"Did you just call me good looking?" Zach smirked, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Maybe I did...and maybe I said the baby was cuter," she smiled, teasing him and shrugging her shoulders.
"Oh my god!" Bex squealed from down the isle. "This one is precious!"
Then the lights went out.
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"Ugh!" Macey groaned as she tried to stick her shovel in the ground for what seemed like the hundreth time that afternoon.
"More dirt under your nails?" Grant guessed, wiping the sweat from his forhead with the back of his hand, and laughing at Jonas who could barely pick up his shovel full of dirt.
Macey stood up and sighed, inspecting them thouroughly. "Yes! Oh well, it's an excuse to get another manicure!"
Then she shoved her shovel into the deep pit they had managed to create. Liz had commented about how profound the hole was, and how he didn't think a coffin would be that far below the surface.
Liz jumped a little surprised when Macey's shovel hit something that definitly wasn't a rock.
"I think I hit something!" she pounced, suddenly finding more strength to dig some more.
Grant did the same. "No shit Macey."
"Just dig," Liz huffed, out of breath.
So they dug in silence around a large, brown and rectangular object.
"Wow," Jonas commented when they had it all almost uncovered. "I'll be honest, I didn't think there was going to be anything down there."
"Well help me pul it out," Grant commented, slinding into the hole while Jonas jumped in as well.
"Gosh dangit," Jonas grunted, trying to pull it out with no luck. "That thing is heavy."
"Woah Jonas watch your mouth!" Macey mocked and Liz giggled.
Grant sighed. "Let's just open it down here."
"Alright," Jonas said and got to work on the larget lock on the side, taking longer than usual to pick it. He didn't want to mess anything up.
The silence filled the chilled air along with the sounds of distant sparrows and cars. Leaves fell beside them and into the hole, bright orange and red. Half of the trees had already shed theirs, but some still had some to spare, sending them off with the light wind that swirled around their faces, making their ears and noses a faint shade of red.
As Jonas lifted the heavy top, Macey gasped and just about fainted.
"What's wrong Mace?" Liz toughed her arm comfortingly.
The tears couldn't be helped in anymore, as she stared in shock at what was in the coffin. Her heart rate shot up, all while she felt it stop. Suddenly her whole body ached, from her head to her toes and back again. She couldn't believe it. "That's-that's-" she stuttered, losing all thoughts and words.
"Who?" Grant wondered, shifting to the other side of the hole to get a view of the contents.
Jonas tore his eyes from it for the first time since opening the coffin and tried to breathe normally. "You know who this is Macey?"
She shook her head and covered her face with her hands, feeling them gather all the tears that she didn't even try to stop.
Finally able to breathe between sobs and wishing all her hurt would go away as Liz wrapped her arms around her, she whispered, "That's Pete."
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...Hi.
I know what you are thinking.
WHY DIDN'T YOU UPDATE THE DAY AFTER LIKE YOU PROMISED?
About that...I am so so so so soooooooooooooooo sorry! Please don't be mad at me because I am just as upset and aggrivated as you are! It just about killed me, not being able to write!
I was so excited to post the next chapter, then three things happened:
1) MY COMPUTER BROKE-AGAIN!
2) I lost my flash drive...and I couldn't find it anywhere.
3) School is a bitch. Nuff said.
So...please forgive me?
Love you bunches,
~The really sad and hopeful version of me :( - :) ?