"Shh come on baby please stop crying" John walked around the room with one of the twins in his arms. He was so tired and he wasn't even sure which baby he was holding.
"Eve which baby is this?" John asked.
"Braylen" she replied.
"How can you tell they are identical?" John asked.
"Look at his foot" Eve told him "does that baby have a birthmark?"
"Yes"
"Then you are holding Braylen" she said "besides a mother can always tell the difference between her children"
"Why is he crying?" John asked shifting Braylen to his shoulder in an attempt to burp him.
"Because he likes making us miserable" Eve replied from the bed where she was currently trying to get Jonathan to sleep.
"I need sleep" John wanted to collapse.
"Give him to me and take a 15 minute nap and then we will switch" Eve said.
"Cool with me" John said putting Braylen down in his bassinet before jumping into bed. He was out like a light as soon as his head hit the pillow.
"Ok come on you guy lets let daddy sleep" she said picking up Braylen and carrying both babies out of the room.
Eve sighed tiredly she had a seat on the couch and enjoyed the quiet. After about 30 minutes she had gotten both babies to sleep.
"Mama" Jayson yelled "Zoey stole my baseball glove"
Jayson's yelling woke up Braylen who began screaming which in turn woke up Jonathan.
"Jayson I am going to kill you" Eve said picking Braylen up from the porter crib which was set up in the living room "send your sister down here"
Jayson returned upstairs and about 5 minutes later Zoey bounded into the room. Eve wanted to laugh because it seemed that Zoey tried to dress herself this morning. Her shirt was inside out and backwards and the pants didn't match the shirt and to finish the look only the way Zoey could she was wearing two different shoes each on the wrong foot.
"Have fun dressing yourself this morning Zoe?" Eve asked.
"Uh huh" was Zoey reply.
"Why did you take your brother's glove" Eve asked still trying to calm the boys down.
"I wan Jayson to play wif me" she said.
"Did you ask him to play with you?" Eve asked.
"Yea, an he said no cause he wanna play baseball"
"Dey loud mama" Zoey said referring to her two little brothers.
"Believe me I know" Eve said now trying to sooth Jonathan because she had managed to get Braylen back to sleep. She put Jonathan on her shoulder and began to rub his back.
"I wan dat mama" Zoey said.
"Ok lets go wake daddy up and they you and me can lay down and I will rub your back"
"Otay"
Eve picked Braylen back up and began walking with them to the bedroom of their home. She placed them in their bassinets and went to wake up John.
"John" Eve shook him gently.
He groaned a little but didn't wake up.
"John!" Eve raised her voice a little.
Still nothing. Eve was getting annoyed real quick with this man. Then it came to her, she ripped the blankets off of him.
"What the hell" he said groggily. He sat up and began rubbing his tired eyes.
"Your turn" Eve said smirking.
"I'm still tired" he said going to lay back down.
"John come on I let you sleep for 45 minutes" Eve whined.
"Fine" John said getting up.
Zoey stood in the doorway giggling, she thought it was very funny that her mom ripped the blankets off of her dad.
"I suppose you think this is funny" John said to his daughter.
"Uh huh" she said getting into the bed beside her mother.
"You only need to take Jon I got Braylen to sleep" Eve said.
"Ok come on Johnny Boy we can have some manly bonding time" John said picking up baby Jonathan.
"Those two spend more time in our arms then they do anywhere else" Eve observed.
"That's because they have ch..."
"Don't even finish that sentence my babies do not have the C word"
"The sooner you face the fact that both boys have colic the better we all can sleep at night" John said walking out of the room with the baby.
"Zoey never get married" Eve said as she began rubbing Zoey back.
Zoey looked at her mother and then yawned. She turned over so she was now lying on her back and cuddled closer to her mother. Eve kissed her daughter's forehead.
"I love you baby girl"
"I wuv you mama"
"I don't want you to think that just because Jonathan and Braylen are here that me and your father love you or Jayson any less ... it's just that the babies need more attention because they are so little and helpless"
"How dey helpless?" Zoey asked.
"Well they are to young to talk so they can't tell us what they need so they need their mommies and daddies and older siblings to take care of them"
"I gonna help wif Jon and Braylen"
"That's because you are already a very good big sister" Eve brushed a few strands of hair out of Zoey's face. She remembered when Zoey was only a little older than the twins were, now her baby would be turning 3 in November which was 4 months away but even that seemed too fast for Eve.
"Ok little guy is that better" John said feeding Jonathan a bottle "I know you and your brother aren't fans of the bottle cause the nipples are too big for your mouth but mama needs her rest so you'll have to make due this time"
The doorbell rang. John looked apologetically at Jonathan before putting him into his porter crib.
"Daddy will be right back little man" John said to the baby before leaving the room to go answer the front door.
He opened the door to find a UPS man standing on the other side.
"Package for Genevieve Cena" the man said.
"She's sleepin right now so I'll sign for it"
"Ok no problem" the man said handing John the clipboard to sign. John signed it and then handed it back to the delivery guy.
"Have a nice day" the man said before leaving.
"You too" John said turning to enter the house again.
John looked at the package suspiciously, he hadn't forgotten the last package that had been sent to Eve. He doubted that this person was going to stop just because he wanted them to. He wasn't going to stress Eve out anymore than she had to be. He checked on Jonathan once again only to find his baby boy peacefully sleeping he wrapped the blanket tighter around the baby before heading to the kitchen to grab a knife.
He slid the knife into the taped part of the box and ran it along till the two sides came apart. He looked inside to find a light blue blanket. He cautiously took the blanket out of the box, a card fell to the floor when he did this. John picked up the small card and opened it, written on the in medium sized black print was a poem.
Precious one,
so small,
so sweet.
Dancing in
on angel feet.
Straight from
Heaven's
brightest star.
What a little miracle
you are.
John opened the inside of the card and read what was written on the inside.
Too bad you will never know
how it could have been
if you were allowed to grow.
John dropped the card on the floor. What had started out to be a sweet little poem had turned into something disturbing. He looked at the blanket again and then back into the box. There was what looked to be an album. He took it out and ran his fingers over the golden lettering, the word memories was etched into the front cover. John hesitated for a minute. He wasn't sure if he wanted to open the album but pure curiosity got the best of him. On the first page was a picture of John, Eve, Zoey and Jayson that was taken on one of the beaches in Puerto Rico about 5 months before, the only weird thing about that was that the only copy of this picture known to him was sitting in a frame on the mantle of his father's living room. He turned to the next page and identical copies of the twin's birth certificates were placed on side by side pages.
"What the hell" John said.
The next page made John's blood run cold. It was a newspaper clipping, it read.
Mother and Children Brutally Slain
A 30 year old mother of 4 was found stabbed to death multiple times in the bed of her Tampa, Florida home. Genevieve Cena, wife of WWE superstar John Cena was found dead by her husband early Thursday morning. Mrs. Cena, the couple's 3 children Zoey, Braylen, Jonathan Cena and also Mrs. Cena's son from a previous relationship Jayson Masterson were all murdered in their home. Police have no suspects as of right now.
John looked at this article and wanted to be sick, what kinda of psycho mother fucker would do something like this. His first instinct was to go and check on Jon, which he did. The baby was sleeping peacefully still. He felt the need to hold the baby so he picked the sleeping baby up. He decided to go check on the rest of his family. Jayson was in his room reading a book.
"Hey dad" Jayson said looking up from his book when he heard his bedroom door open.
"Everything ok in here?" John asked trying not to freak out.
"Yeah why wouldn't everything be ok" Jayson said.
"Just wanted to make sure"
Jayson sensed his dad's nervousness but decided on commenting on it. Instead he smiled at him and told him that everything was fine. John seemed satisfied and left the room. As he got to the bedroom door he heard music from within the room. He opened the closed door and walked into the room. Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen was playing from Eve's laptop.
"What's with the Boss?" John asked Eve.
"Well Braylen woke up again and I was reading in one of the baby books that babies are calmed down by music so I turned on my laptop and began playing one of my iTunes play lists and it worked he's sleeping again ... also the little weirdo seems to like classic rock music"
"What do you mean?"
"Well I started off by playing some of Zoey's Disney songs that she likes but Braylen cried so then I tried some Jessica Simpson ... still he cried, then I tried some Tim McGraw but of course your son has no taste in good music and then Sweet Child of Mine started playing and he stopped crying so that got me thinking maybe he likes the guitar so after the song ended I put on Freebird by Lynard Skynard and I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith and now a medley of Bruce songs and he is asleep"
John laughed "Only our kid"
"Maybe he'll be a musician when he grows up"
"That's fine as long as one of my boys carries on the family name in the ring then I'm happy"
"My sons aren't going to be brainless morons" Eve said.
"Hey I resent that!" John exclaimed.
"Whatcha gonna do about it" Eve taunted him.
"You are lucky baby girl is asleep in the bed is all I gotta say" John said placing Jonathan into his bassinet.
"Last time I checked July 17th was only 2 weeks ago" she smirked at him "and it's 6 weeks so go take a cold shower"
"Go and spoil all my fun" he pretended to pout.
"I know because I deny you so much of what makes you happy" she said placing her arms around his neck.
He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her tightly to him. It was his way of making sure she was ok, that article had really freaked him out.
"Is everything ok?" Eve asked when she noticed that John had no intention of letting her go.
John debated on whether or not to tell Eve the truth but they had promised each other that their marriage would be built on honesty. John's mind was screaming at him that he had already broken that by sleeping with Shelly.
"Nope just wanted to be close to you" he said.
"That's fine" Eve said relaxing in his arms.
"You still look really tired so go back to sleep and I'll take care of everything" John suggested.
"If you insist" Eve said unwrapping her arms from around John's neck.
John watched as Eve climbed into bed beside Zoey, he stayed there till he was sure she was asleep. Then he went back into the kitchen where he left the album. He grabbed himself a beer and opened it again. After the page with the fake newspaper article the album contained death certificates. John scanned them over and was amazed at how real they looked.
"Zoey Kovell Cena ... born November 27, 2006" John read aloud. "Cause of death: suffocation"
He had no idea why he was reading this because he knew that this shit wasn't true and that this sick person was just trying to scare Eve but he couldn't figure out why someone would want to hurt his wife. Then he thought of TJ maybe he did this ... but from what Eve told him the man was in love with her and John didn't think that he would want to do this to her ... but if it wasn't him then who was it?
John picked up the phone and dialed DT's number.
"Carter" DT said answering his phone.
"Hey it's me" John said "I need your help with something"
"What's going on?" DT asked.
"Someone has been sending Eve some creepy shit" John explained "and I can't figure out why"
"Can we meet up somewhere or is that out of the picture now that you have two newborns living with you?" DT asked "Congrats on the two new additions by the way"
"Thanks man and I'll meet you in about 30 minutes at that little coffee shop by your house"
"Alrighty see you then" DT said hanging up.
30 minutes later ...
John sat drinking a cup of coffee. He looked over at Braylen who was sleeping in his little carrier seat. Braylen had been awake when John went in to tell Eve that he was going out so he decided to give Eve a break and take the little guy out. He had fallen asleep again in the car but John had a feeling he'd be awake soon because he will want to eat.
DT walked into the coffee shop and scanned the area. He saw John sitting towards the back of the shop. John looked up and gave him a nod. DT walked over to the booth and sat down across from John. He leaned over to see the sleeping baby.
"Cute kid which one?" he asked.
"Braylen" John said "Jon was asleep when I left"
"I have known you for a long time now John and I can honestly say I didn't ever picture you as a family man"
"You and me both but what can I say they kinda grew on me" John made the attempt to keep things light for a little while.
Although DT laughed at John's little joke there was a seriousness in his dark eyes that was unmistakable. The police detective in him made him know that this had the potential to get very ugly fast.
"So getting down to business you said someone has been sending things to Eve" DT said "what kind of things"
"Well first was this stuffed elephant but the thing was gutted of all the stuffing and filled with all this gross stuff ... it cause Eve to go into premature labor but they managed to stop it and then today we got this" John said sliding the album and the card across the table for DT to see.
DT pulled a pair of latex gloves out of his coat pocket and put them on. John wanted to ask if DT carried a pair of gloves everywhere he went but he decided against it.
"Are you the only one who has touched this?" DT asked looking up from the card that he had been reading.
"Yeah"
"Ok then maybe these things might have some kind of fingerprints to help us out"
"Hopefully because I wanna know who this sick fuck is"
Braylen began to cry. John took him out of his seat and rocked him a little in his arms.
"Shh Braylen Daddy's here" John whispered to the baby "Daddy's got you honey"
"I promise you John we will find this person" DT said.
"We have to this is my family that is at stake" John said holding his son close to his heart "if you can't do anything I will take care of this asshole myself"
"John please let the police do their job" DT tried to reason with John. He had known John since they were teenagers and he had seen John fly off the handle more than once, John was fiercely protective over the people that he cared about and knowing John he'd either get himself killed or make the situation even worse.
"I can't promise anything my friend" John said putting Braylen back into his seat and getting up to leave "I'll give ya some time but if the police can't help then I will do it on my own ... either way I'm not going to let my family get hurt"
A/N: After months of torture of not knowing who the woman is I will reveal her identity in the next chapter ... let's just say someone is going to die.