Chapter 25:

Disaster

Raye smiles as she wakes up. She gently pets Rayne and then moves to moves to her wheelchair. She wheels herself into the living room and looks around. She calls out for her brothers, Emma or anyone in the house to find it empty. She sighs and pulls out her cell and calls Matt.

"Hello?" Matt asks when he answers the phone. He hadn't bothered to check the id when he picked it up.

"Hey Matt, where is everyone? I am all by myself here at the house." Raye said as she combs through the fridge.

"Well I don't know where Emma is but Jeff and Shannon are with me." Matt tells her.

"I am going to call Em's cell. I will call you back in a sec, okay bro?" Said Raye as she munches on Matt's stash of chocolate chip cookies.

"Kay." Matt says as he hangs up the phone.

Raye pulls up Emma's number and hits the call button. She waits for her sister to respond.

From somewhere in the house, Raye hears a phone ringing. She doesn't really think anything of it at first.

Raye goes to investigate the ringing. She mentally praised Matt for getting a chair lift built so she can get upstairs. She raises her eyebrow when she finds her sisters phone. She quickly calls Matt.

"Well, that was fast." Matt comments when he picks up his phone.

"Emma left her phone here and she isn't around." Panic was creeping into Raye's voice.

"I'm sure she's just in the back yard and forgot to bring her cell-phone with her." Matt tells her. This wouldn't be the first time that she had done that. She did it all the time.

Raye looks out Emma's window to the backyard. "I don't see her Matt." Raye had become paranoid during her times being abused and hated to be alone. She is on the verge of tears.

"I'm sure that she's just on part of Jeff's track that's hidden away from the house. When we get home, we'll look for her if she hasn't shown back up." Matt says soothingly. He didn't want to her have a panic attack.

"Can I call Shane over? I do not want to be alone." Raye asks as she fought back tears.

"Yeah. You can call him over."

Raye hangs up and calls Shane Helms.

"Hey shortie." Shane says when he answers.

"Can you come over and keep me company. No one is here." Raye says fast.

"Yeah, just give me two minutes." He says. There is the sound of things rustling around.

"Did you fall asleep under your comic collection again?" Raye asks with a soft giggle.

"Oh hush you." Shane says in a playful voice.

"I can't help it. You have more comics than I have hairs." Raye said. Shane was like a brother to her.

Shane laughs at that. "Okay, well I'm getting ready to leave my house, so I should be there in a couple of minutes."

Raye says okay and hangs up. She goes over to the stair lift and gets too close to the edge. Her wheel slips and she falls down the stairs. She swears.

Since there was no one at the house, she had to just chill there for a few minutes so that Shane could help her when he got there.

Raye glares up at the ceiling as she waited for Shane. She hated having to rely on others when she fell.

"Honey, I'm home!" Shane yells jokingly as he walks through the door. He was the one known for being a dork in their little group.

"Over here. I need help." Said Raye. She was on her back and looked severely pissed.

"Aw shortie what happened?" He asks as he walks over and begins to help her up.

"I slipped trying to get on the lift down here and I fell. Oh my back." Raye groans as she gets in her chair. She had a nice bruise on her back.

"I'd hate to tell you this shortie, but uh, you're kind of a klutz." Shane tells her as he plops down next to her.

Raye glares and shoves Shane playfully. "I know where Matt hides his cookies."

"Yeah I do too." Shane grins at her.

Raye smiles. "You are a good friend Shane. I just wish I knew where Emma went off to."

"I have no idea. But doesn't she do stuff like this all the time?" He asks her.

"Every so often, but normally she lets me know where she is going."

Shane shrugs. "Maybe you were asleep or something and she didn't want to wake you up."

Raye shrugs and flinches. "Ow"

"What?"

Raye pulls up the back of her shirt to show him the bruise on her back from the fall.

Shane sees it and winches. "Oh god, that looks painful."

Raye glares. "Nah, it feels like sunshine."

Shane rolls his eyes playfully.

Raye smiles and yawns softly.

"You should take a nap. Matt, Jeff and Shannon should be here soon." Shane tells her.

Raye snuggles up to Shane and falls asleep.

A few minutes later, the guys walk through the door of the house. They wanted to know if Emma had shown up yet.

Raye is still asleep on Shane's lap. She was face down, which is awkward.

Jeff sniggers when he sees the position that Raye is in. Matt smiles and Shannon was barely holding his laughter in.

"It is not what it looks like. She just fell asleep this way." Said Shane.

"Yeah, we know. That's why Shannon looks like he's about ready to burst open at the seams." Jeff sniggers.

Shane sighs and shows them the bruise on Raye's back. "She fell down the stairs again."

All three of the guys winch at how bad it looks. Jeff looks around the room. "Where's Emma?"

Shane shrugs and Raye snores.

The guys all snigger this time.

Raye groans as she wakes up. She slowly sits herself up and waves to the guys.

They all smile and wave back. Jeff is still looking around the room, trying to figure out if Emma is there.

Emma is nowhere to be found. Raye looks tense.

"Hey, Raye, have you tried calling your sister?" Shannon asks her.

Raye nods and shows them Emma's cell phone.

"She never goes anywhere without that thing." Shannon says, pointing out the obvious.

Raye looks close to hysterics. "I want my sister." She whimpers.

"We will get her back. She knows better than to run off." Jeff says soothingly.

**********Scene Change*********

Emma groaned lightly as she came too. She tried to move around but when she did this she discovered that she was in a chair with her arms and legs tied to it. She groaned again and lifted her head up from her chest. She looked around the room but it was kind of dark so she really couldn't see anything. It kind of looked like a basement from the things that she would see. There was a workbench in the corner of the room with some kind of tools on it but Emma couldn't make anything else out. It all looked like shadows to her.

"Finally the little lamb is awake." Said a voice from behind her. The man behind the voice flips on the lights and walks to where Emma can see him. He had short sandy blonde hair and grey eyes. He was only slightly muscular. "You owe me some money princess."

"What? I don't even know you. How could I owe you anything?" Emma asks as she squints slightly. The light was kind of bright.

"No, but your parents did. Since they are dead, I have to get the money from you." He said silkily.

"We didn't get any money from them. They didn't care about us. They weren't even our real parents. I'm pretty sure they couldn't stand us." Emma says, lying about the money and hoping that he doesn't notice.

"Tsk, tsk little lamb. I know you got money. I have had people watching you two rugrats since you found your real family. Just hand over the money and I will let you go."

"The only money that we get is from the gigs that we do. And quit calling me little lamb." Emma says angrily. She was well aware she was just digging herself into a bigger rut but continuing to lie but she had too.

The man picks up a blade and runs it down Emma's arm, barely cutting it. "I can cause you great pain if you keep lying."

Emma glares at him.

"You need to be more truthful lamb. I can order my boys to go get that useless sister of yours and make her feel the pain." Said the man.

"You stay away from my sister. I swear if you touch a hair on her head I will make you wish you were never born!" Emma snarled. She was very protective of her twin.

"Then hand over the money lamb." He said, studying the blade in his hand.

"There is no freaking money! Why won't you just believe me?" Emma asks him, close to hysterics.

"I told you. I have had men watching both of you. I know you have my money"

Emma sniffled slightly. "So what, are you stalking us now or what? Because we don't have the money. And you would know that if you had been watching us. We got rid of it."

"Where did it go lamb?" The man asks.

"We gave it to charity. We didn't want anything to do with the money because it belonged to those devil people we called parents." Emma says firmly, lying right through her teeth.

The man watches Emma. "Why don't I believe you?" He said, running the blade along her arm. It barely cut.

"Maybe 'cause you're an idiot." Emma tells him

The man slaps Emma. "Brat."

Emma's head snapped to the side with the force that he slapped her but as she turned her head back to look at him, she was glaring.

"You will give me the money, or no freedom for the little lamb." Sneered the man

"I'm not giving you anything." Emma sneered right back.

"Fine, then have fun down here." The man said and goes to leave.

Emma waiting until she knew he was gone and then she sniffled. Tears filled her eyes as she thought about her family and Shane and Shannon. She wanted to go home.

*********Scene Change*********

Raye sighs and fidgets in her chair. She was worried for Emma.

Matt saw her fidgeting and sat down next to her and put his arm around her shoulders.

"What if she's hurt? I have to save her." Raye whimpers. She was a nervous mess with her sister gone.

Matt tightens his arm around her shoulders slightly, not really knowing what to tell her.

Raye tries to wheel herself to the door. She wanted to go looking for Em before the cops got there.

"Raye, where are you going?" Jeff asks her as he walks into the room.

"To find my sis." Raye said as she goes to open the front door.

"Um, no you're not." Jeff tells her as he walks over to her.

"And why not?" Raye snaps.

"Because the cops are going to be here and they can look for her." Matt says from his spot across the room.

Raye pouts as Jeff wheels her back in the room and puts her brakes on.

They all sit there for a few more minutes before they hear car doors shutting outside. None of them make any attempt to get up though.

"Matt, door." Said Raye. She was tense.

"Kay." Matt says as he goes and answers it, letting the cops in.

Raye lets Matt talk. She inched towards the door to go find her sis.

"Raye." Jeff says warningly.

Ray pouts and goes back to her spot. She let her brothers be questioned first, then it was her turn.

The cops asked her a bunch of questions about her sister and what they had been doing. You know the usual questions, but it was starting to get to her because she wanted Emma back.

Raye just seems more agitated after the questions. She goes to her room and sits on her bed, hugging the bear Em had given her from their last gig. Em had won it from a vending machine.

Matt and Jeff send the police away and then share a look. They were honestly confused on what to do. They wanted Emma back just as much as Raye did but they didn't want her to get hurt if she somehow managed to sneak past them to look for her sister.

Raye plays on her bass angrily. She wanted her sister back. To her, it wasn't fair that Emma had been kidnapped.

********************************Authors Note********************************

*Shakes head* Well that took forever.

Well mostly because I had graduation and then looking for a job is killing me. Believe it or not, writing is not my job. It is just a hobby at most. What about you Angel?

Well, remember I've had to try and get my temps and get a job too, both of which I have not done yet lol. I've been too busy sitting on my ass and reading :;)

I just hope our loyal readers are still there. I once again say I am sorry about the lateness of this chapter.

Yes, I'm saying sorry about that too. So, this is WWE-Little-Angel saying peace out peeps!

This is your ever job hopeful Heartbreak Girl. I have left the building