And here is the next one, my Loves. Enjoy and let me know what you think.


~Chapter Twenty-Eight~

~Jade's POV~

The next afternoon I found myself at tour rehearsal. I know everyone around me could tell I really didn't want to be here, but I promised Kendall that I would come and not spend all day at home plotting my mother's death or something as equally as stupid.

"Let's get out of here." I turned and looked at Alexa.

"I don't feel like doing anything."

"And you don' want to be here either, so let's go do something else."

"What?" I raised an eyebrow at her.

"I don't know, do you have any shopping left to do?"

"A little."

"Then let's go." She grabbed my hand and stood up.

I rolled my eyes and let her pull me up, I had a feeling I really didn't have much of a choice in that matter. She had learned the puppy dog face from Gracie we all know I can't say no too.

"I will come along, as long as you feed me first."

She rolled her and pulled me over to the boys.

"We're leaving, be good and have fun okay?" They just nodded. "Good, well bye."

I just waved to the boys as Alexa pulled me out of the room and out of the building.

"We're taking Los's car."

"That's good, since Kendall dragged me here, I have no money or keys to his car." I shook my head. "Maybe I should go get some money from him."

"Nah, you're fine, I know you're good for it."

"I don't want you to have to pay for everything."

"We can swing by the house and you can get your purse, how about that?"

"That's a good idea." I grinned at her and climbed into the car.

It didn't take her long to ask me why I was in such a funk.

"Okay what's going on with you?"

"Would you drop it if I said I didn't want to talk about it?"

"I won't bug you if you don't want to talk about it, but I'm here if you do."

"Thanks." I smiled at her. "So you excited for your first Big Time Rush tour?"

"Yes, I have never seen them in concert before. This should be a fun summer."

"Yeah, oh my God, did I tell you that Kathy met Ryan yesterday?"

"No, you didn't tell me that. What happened?"

"She was her charming self." I rolled my eyes. "But Kathy saw right through it."

"That's funny."

"But oh my, her brother is yummy."

"What about Kendall?"

"I love Kendall to death and would never ever cheat on him. But damnit, Alex is a cowboy, boots and all." I looked over at her. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, I just can't help it."

She just laughed and shook her head.

"I blame Billy Ray Cyrus, okay."

"Do I even want to know why?"

"He was my first crush. My Aunt used to say I would sing 'Achy Breaky Heart' at the top of my lung, just because I could."

"Oh I would love to see that."

"Ask Cass, I'm sure she has it on tape somewhere."

"I will have to do that." She laughed.

"I was three okay?"

"We all have embarrassing things like that."

"Yeah, I guess." I sighed and looked out the window.

"So what do you think Kendall's gonna do when he find outs about you going on tour?"

"He's gonna be pissed."

"Then why haven't you told him yet?"

"I don't know, I've asked myself that a million times."

"Then just tell him."

"I should, but I just can't."

"Why?"

"Honestly, I have no idea. I've come close a few times, but I just can't." I looked at her. "I know it doesn't make any sense, but I just can't."

"I get it, trust me I get it." I smiled at her. "We'll just have to get something that will make him forgive you."

"He just destroys all my nice stuff." She raised an eyebrow at me. "He does. He can't seem to take the time to take it off the right way, he likes to rip it off of me."

"That was more then I really needed to know."

"Oh well." I laughed as she pulled into my drive way.

My heart sunk when I saw my Mother sitting on the front porch. Thank God Kathy decided to take Gracie for the day. She did not need to see this.

"Who is that?"

"My Mother." I got out of the car and walked over to her.

"Where the hell have you been?"

"Not here. What are you doing here?"

"I need money."

"And what makes you think I'm going to give you any?"

"Unless you want these to go public, you will." She handed me a folder. "Give me what I want and those will go away."

I know my face lost all color. I was going to be sick.

"Where did you get these?"

"Does it matter?"

I had no idea what to say or what I was going to do. There was no way I could let these pictures get out. But I was never going to get them all back from her if I didn't give her what she wanted. I also knew if I did give her the money, she would release them anyway just to spite me. She has never forgiven me for talking Cassie way from her. This was a loose, loose situation.

"I called the cops." Alexa walked up behind me.

I nodded and closed the folder.

"Even if I am in jail, which I won't be for long, you won't be safe unless you pay."

"Go to Hell."

"As long as I can drag you along with me."

I had to hold myself back from hitting her, that wouldn't do me any good, no matter how much better I would feel. I pray the cops get here soon, before I lost all self-control.

"I want my money now."

"I will never pay you a penny. You can't black mail me. If you think you can, you are so mistaken." I stepped closer to her. "I will not let you push me around anymore."

"We will see about that." She smirked at me as another car pulled into the drive way. "We will see about that."


~Kendall's POV~

Even though Jade was with Alexa, I was still worried about her. This whole thing with her Mom had really gotten to her. She tried to hide it from me I could tell she was really upset about it.

"So what's going on with Momma Bear?" Logan handed me a bottle of water. I took it from him and raised an eyebrow. "Don't give me that look, did you really think that we wouldn't notice that something was wrong with her? I think we know her pretty well by now. So what's wrong?"

"Her Mom's back." I really didn't want to tell him the whole story. "She's taking it pretty hard."

"Damn no wonder she is out of it."

"Yeah." I took a long drink of water.

"So what are you going to do?"

"I don't know, she really didn't want to talk about it last night and I didn't want to push it."

"That was most likely a good idea."

"You have no idea." I shook my head.

"Cock blocked?"

"Yup."

"Dude, I'm sorry."

"Me too. Hopefully she'll be in a better mood tonight."

"You talking about Jade?" Carlos sat next to me on the floor.

"Yeah." I looked at him.

"She okay? She really seemed out of it."

"Her Mom's back in town."

"Damn, no wonder."

"Yeah. I'm so worried about her being here alone while we're on tour."

"She'll be fine. You know your Mom will keep an eye on her."

"I know, but I'd just feel better if she was with me." I shrugged. "I get why she's staying. Not only does she have work that Ted wants her to do, but also Sky will be moving in soon."

"Who is Sky? And why is she moving in?"

"We're gonna have a baby."

"I'm sorry Kendall did we hear you right? You're going to have a baby?"

"Yes." I looked at all three of them, they all looked shocked.

"What, you guys had to know it would happen sooner or later." I laughed. "Stop looking at me like that. We have a lot of time off coming up and I figured why not."

"And Jade's okay with this?"

"Like I'd do it without her." I rolled my eyes and slapped Logan on the back of his head. "She's fine with it."

"Are you ready to have kids?"

"Of course I am. Plus don't forget about Gracie."

"Yes but Gracie was 6 when you and Jade got together, babies a lot different."

"I know that." I rolled my eyes.

"So what did you Mom say?"

"We haven't told her yet. I wasn't even supposed to tell you guys." I rubbed the back of my neck. "So will you guys keep it to yourselves?"

"There's no need for Jade to kill you." Logan laughed.

"Ass hole." I laughed as my phone started to ring.

I pulled it out of my pocket and saw it was Alexa calling.

"What happened?" Was the first thing out of my mouth when I answered my phone.

"How do you know something is wrong?"

"You wouldn't be calling if there wasn't."

"Right, so her Mom was here when we got here. The cop came and took her away, but now Jade's kinda locked herself in the bathroom."

"I'm on my way home." I hung up and headed out to my car without a word to the guys.

I knew they would understand.

God I hated knowing that Jade was hurting. It pissed me off that her Mom could still get to her like this. I wish there was something I could do to help.

When I got home Alexa had gotten Jade out of the bathroom. She was curled up on the couch, crying. I walked over to her and pulled her into my arms.

I didn't say anything as I rocked her and rubbed her back. God I could kill her Mom for this.

After a while I Jade fell asleep. I laid her on the couch and covered her with a blanket. Alexa was out sitting by the pool. I sat down next to her.

"What happened?"

"Her Mom was here when we pulled in. Jade got out to talk to her, her mom handed her this folder, and that's when I called cops. Then I got out and her mom was demanding money. She will do anything to get money out of Jade, even blackmail." She handed me the folder. "I think it was the pictures more so than her Mom being here."

I opened the folder and looked through the pictures. I knew what they were. I felt so sick.

"They that bad?"

"Her ex-husband made her take them." I closed the folder and handed it back to her. "His parents tried to use them to get custody of Gracie after he died last year."

"Why?"

"Because they hate her and blame her for ruining his life."

"Poor Jade."

"She didn't even want to marry him, but they were forced to." I shook my head. "If he wasn't dead, I would kill him."

"I would help you."

I laughed and shook my head.

"Don't worry, she's strong she can get past this."

"I know, but I'm just worried that it will take its toll on her."

"She will be okay. She has a strong support system. I know the other three would do anything to make her happy."

"Yeah I know. I just hate that's there's nothing I can do to help."

"You help her by just being there for her. She may never ask for help, but she will always need you by her side."

"Thanks Alexa."

"No problem Kendall." She stood up. "I'm gonna go, do you want me to do something with these?"

"I have a feeling we will need them for the lawsuit."

"I'll drop them in Jade's office then I'll head out."

"Thanks Alexa."

"No problem, it's what family is for."

I just nodded as she went back inside. I sat there for a minute before I headed back inside.

I picked Jade up off the couch and carried her up stairs. I tucked her into bed and then climbed in next to her and pulled her to me.

I really hope Alexa was right.

I kissed Jade on the side of the head and drifted off to sleep.