Chapter Two:
Foxy Tales
"He right, how did you know about Charity's visions?" Miguel repeatedly asked Matt.
Now, Noah, Whitney, Chad, Miguel, Luis, Antonio, Fox, Gwen and Ethan were patiently waiting for Matt's response.
"Damn, I never thought about this. How can I explain this without revealing my secret." Matt thought, "Ah!"
"It was in the paper back in Vancouver.. IT was something about a girl seeing stuff in the future from a small town - I think it was Harmony." Matt quickly explained.
They didn't look too convinced.
"Why would they write about her in Canada if they don't write about her here, in her hometown?" Miguel quipped. This man was hiding something, he could feel it.
Matt was starting to feel the hard sights everyone was posing on him.
"Little boy," Matt said to Miguel, "And everyone here, I might add, you need to learn where to stick your nose! I do not ask any of you about your problems so hands off mine!"
"And how would you know about any of our problems, 'friendly' stranger?" Fox replied, "I mean, it doesn't seem you would know much about me, or anyone else here for that matter."
"Fox is right. How would you know about our problems? You have been here for only two days, not even!" Noah slid in.
Matt started to rethink his plan. He couldn't tell them about his secret, or Brian Merry would be mad at him.
"Can I tell you all a story, just as long as you don't tell anyone else?" Matt said.
"We asked you a question, now you better answer it, we don't want no stories!" Chad exploded. Whitney went to comfort him.
"After this tale is done, you won't be suspicious of me, because this story is the truth.
It all started back in February. Phoebe Fledger, one of the women disappeared, was dating Brian Merry, who got her pregnant. When she told him about the bundle of joy, he said 'why are you telling me?'. She told him he was the father, and that he should marry her.
He got mad, and he took his old high school baseball bat. He said he wouldn't marry her, that he was using her just to 'get what he wanted', and now that he got it, that he would never speak to her again. He had taken the bat, and hit her stomach with it.
She went to see the doctor the next day, heart broken, and the doc told her that her baby was injured, and could have problems at birth.
Phoebe told me about this a week after it happened.
That is why Phoebe fled to the first place she could find on a map - Harmony." Matt concluded the tale.
"That explains not of how you know about us - and about Charity." Miguel observed, mad at the man before him.
"Well this will. Phoebe told me where she was going - making me promise to say not a word - and then Brian came to me. He said he wanted her back, that he wanted to father the child.
I told him she had gone to Harmony - pardon me if I am not a good friend - and he said he would give me info about its inhabitants so that I could go there and get her to go back.
I didn't want to do it - but he left me with no choice. He blackmailed me."
"With what information?" Gwen replied.
"It wouldn't be wise for me to tell you, but if he fathers Phoebe's child. That child will have so many mental problems." Matt observed, "I must stop him from finding her! The reason I really came was to get her to be safe with me - not with that jerk who doesn't love her. I do love her." Matt said with stars in his eyes.
"So she must mean a lot to you?" Luis asked.
Matt simply nodded.
"And I think I know why she fled Harmony." Matt said looking at Fox.
"What did I do?" Fox asked, putting his hands up in defense.
Matt chuckled.
"Nothing except look like a replica of Brian Merry. She just doesn't take any chances." Matt said, in depression now, "I miss her."
"Like I miss Kay, Jessica and Theresa." Miguel said.
"Like we miss Theresa." Luis and Antonio said.
"Like I miss mother, Jessica and Kay." Ethan said.
"Like I miss Theresa and Simone." Whitney said.
"Like I miss my sisters." Noah said.
"Like I miss Phoebe and Theresa. And supposedly I should miss my mother..." Fox said.
"I guess we all have reasons to miss someone on that 'trip'". Chad said in depression.
(Behind the Plant where Tabitha is)
"Poor Harmony! It really is sad everyone is gone. NOT!" Tabitha chuckled.
"Time to go home and look into that old bowl again!" Tabitha said, returning home.
During this time, Fox agreed that the stranger could stay on Crane Grounds. ---
(Back in New York)
(A week later)
"This was a stupid idea." The six Merced thought.
Their "brilliant" idea was to work free of charge as bartenders at the JAVA CLUB, in returning getting a home. They were abused there, so they quit.
"I have eight quarters, we should call someone back in Harmony." Kay said.
"Why?" The others said.
"Well, how do you suggest we survive HERE! I'm sure there is someone back in Harmony that could come down to give us some money to start us back off!"
"Like who!" Phoebe said, "I don't know anyone back in Harmony!"
"We don't either now that you think of it." Kay and Jessica said.
"Don't stare at me, I don't know anyone!" Simone yelped.
Everyone stared at Theresa and Ivy.
"What?" They said at the same time.
"Ivy, you were the Social Queen a few years ago!" Simone said, "I remember those parties! Thought they were boring." Simone mumbled the last part.
"Theresa, being Mrs.Crane for that while you were also Social Queen! One of you must know someone who can help us out!" Kay said, remembering how Theresa was tricked into marrying Julian.
"What about someone who is really related to anyone of us?" Ivy suggested.
"Knowing Harmony, everyone there is related." Jessica mumbled.
"I say Sheridan." Theresa said.
"What? Why! Antonio and Luis will single handedly get the information out of her, she is so weak!" Simone said. It was true, Sheridan was sort of a push over.
"Beth Wallace?" Ivy suggested.
"Are you going insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Simone yelled, shaking Ivy with her hands playfully.
"She hardly has enough money to get her and her mother to live, she won't have enough for six OTHER people!" Kay said.
"What about Fox?" Theresa suggested.
"True, he said to you he loved someone else, and he isn't really related to any of us.." Jessica remarked.
"Gosh, you are ignorant! He is my son!"
"Son or not, he has the money we need and he isn't related to the half of us. Come on!" Theresa begged. Fox was the only person in town that was trust worthy.
"I guess so." ---
A phone rang in the Crane household.
"That isn't any of the house's phones, Fox, I suggest you answer your own cell phone." Julian said, sitting in a chair of the Crane living room, with his magazine in hand.
"Fine, father." Fox said, answering.
"Hello.. Phoe-Paige? How nice to talk to you . you what?. You were messing with the wrong people. What info did you have?.. Come on, you can tell Nicolas. Fine don't! hahaha.. You need me to what? Are you crazy, I can't go to NYC to save your sorry buts! . Fine. I will, on one condition.. Yes. I won't come without it.. Okay, see you in a few hours, Pho-Paige." Fox said to the phone.
"Father, I must use one of our private jets to go on." Fox said to his father, "a work trip to New York. I would also need a few grand please."
Julian Crane was taken aback. The Blue Note did not require him to go anywhere. And asking for a few grand? What was his son up to?
"Sure. Here," He said, handing the key to the jet and three thousand dollars, "See you when you get back."
Fox got his car, and left for the airport.
Julian got in his car to follow his suspiciously acting son.
---
"Fox is coming!" Phoebe announced to her new friends.
Foxy Tales
"He right, how did you know about Charity's visions?" Miguel repeatedly asked Matt.
Now, Noah, Whitney, Chad, Miguel, Luis, Antonio, Fox, Gwen and Ethan were patiently waiting for Matt's response.
"Damn, I never thought about this. How can I explain this without revealing my secret." Matt thought, "Ah!"
"It was in the paper back in Vancouver.. IT was something about a girl seeing stuff in the future from a small town - I think it was Harmony." Matt quickly explained.
They didn't look too convinced.
"Why would they write about her in Canada if they don't write about her here, in her hometown?" Miguel quipped. This man was hiding something, he could feel it.
Matt was starting to feel the hard sights everyone was posing on him.
"Little boy," Matt said to Miguel, "And everyone here, I might add, you need to learn where to stick your nose! I do not ask any of you about your problems so hands off mine!"
"And how would you know about any of our problems, 'friendly' stranger?" Fox replied, "I mean, it doesn't seem you would know much about me, or anyone else here for that matter."
"Fox is right. How would you know about our problems? You have been here for only two days, not even!" Noah slid in.
Matt started to rethink his plan. He couldn't tell them about his secret, or Brian Merry would be mad at him.
"Can I tell you all a story, just as long as you don't tell anyone else?" Matt said.
"We asked you a question, now you better answer it, we don't want no stories!" Chad exploded. Whitney went to comfort him.
"After this tale is done, you won't be suspicious of me, because this story is the truth.
It all started back in February. Phoebe Fledger, one of the women disappeared, was dating Brian Merry, who got her pregnant. When she told him about the bundle of joy, he said 'why are you telling me?'. She told him he was the father, and that he should marry her.
He got mad, and he took his old high school baseball bat. He said he wouldn't marry her, that he was using her just to 'get what he wanted', and now that he got it, that he would never speak to her again. He had taken the bat, and hit her stomach with it.
She went to see the doctor the next day, heart broken, and the doc told her that her baby was injured, and could have problems at birth.
Phoebe told me about this a week after it happened.
That is why Phoebe fled to the first place she could find on a map - Harmony." Matt concluded the tale.
"That explains not of how you know about us - and about Charity." Miguel observed, mad at the man before him.
"Well this will. Phoebe told me where she was going - making me promise to say not a word - and then Brian came to me. He said he wanted her back, that he wanted to father the child.
I told him she had gone to Harmony - pardon me if I am not a good friend - and he said he would give me info about its inhabitants so that I could go there and get her to go back.
I didn't want to do it - but he left me with no choice. He blackmailed me."
"With what information?" Gwen replied.
"It wouldn't be wise for me to tell you, but if he fathers Phoebe's child. That child will have so many mental problems." Matt observed, "I must stop him from finding her! The reason I really came was to get her to be safe with me - not with that jerk who doesn't love her. I do love her." Matt said with stars in his eyes.
"So she must mean a lot to you?" Luis asked.
Matt simply nodded.
"And I think I know why she fled Harmony." Matt said looking at Fox.
"What did I do?" Fox asked, putting his hands up in defense.
Matt chuckled.
"Nothing except look like a replica of Brian Merry. She just doesn't take any chances." Matt said, in depression now, "I miss her."
"Like I miss Kay, Jessica and Theresa." Miguel said.
"Like we miss Theresa." Luis and Antonio said.
"Like I miss mother, Jessica and Kay." Ethan said.
"Like I miss Theresa and Simone." Whitney said.
"Like I miss my sisters." Noah said.
"Like I miss Phoebe and Theresa. And supposedly I should miss my mother..." Fox said.
"I guess we all have reasons to miss someone on that 'trip'". Chad said in depression.
(Behind the Plant where Tabitha is)
"Poor Harmony! It really is sad everyone is gone. NOT!" Tabitha chuckled.
"Time to go home and look into that old bowl again!" Tabitha said, returning home.
During this time, Fox agreed that the stranger could stay on Crane Grounds. ---
(Back in New York)
(A week later)
"This was a stupid idea." The six Merced thought.
Their "brilliant" idea was to work free of charge as bartenders at the JAVA CLUB, in returning getting a home. They were abused there, so they quit.
"I have eight quarters, we should call someone back in Harmony." Kay said.
"Why?" The others said.
"Well, how do you suggest we survive HERE! I'm sure there is someone back in Harmony that could come down to give us some money to start us back off!"
"Like who!" Phoebe said, "I don't know anyone back in Harmony!"
"We don't either now that you think of it." Kay and Jessica said.
"Don't stare at me, I don't know anyone!" Simone yelped.
Everyone stared at Theresa and Ivy.
"What?" They said at the same time.
"Ivy, you were the Social Queen a few years ago!" Simone said, "I remember those parties! Thought they were boring." Simone mumbled the last part.
"Theresa, being Mrs.Crane for that while you were also Social Queen! One of you must know someone who can help us out!" Kay said, remembering how Theresa was tricked into marrying Julian.
"What about someone who is really related to anyone of us?" Ivy suggested.
"Knowing Harmony, everyone there is related." Jessica mumbled.
"I say Sheridan." Theresa said.
"What? Why! Antonio and Luis will single handedly get the information out of her, she is so weak!" Simone said. It was true, Sheridan was sort of a push over.
"Beth Wallace?" Ivy suggested.
"Are you going insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Simone yelled, shaking Ivy with her hands playfully.
"She hardly has enough money to get her and her mother to live, she won't have enough for six OTHER people!" Kay said.
"What about Fox?" Theresa suggested.
"True, he said to you he loved someone else, and he isn't really related to any of us.." Jessica remarked.
"Gosh, you are ignorant! He is my son!"
"Son or not, he has the money we need and he isn't related to the half of us. Come on!" Theresa begged. Fox was the only person in town that was trust worthy.
"I guess so." ---
A phone rang in the Crane household.
"That isn't any of the house's phones, Fox, I suggest you answer your own cell phone." Julian said, sitting in a chair of the Crane living room, with his magazine in hand.
"Fine, father." Fox said, answering.
"Hello.. Phoe-Paige? How nice to talk to you . you what?. You were messing with the wrong people. What info did you have?.. Come on, you can tell Nicolas. Fine don't! hahaha.. You need me to what? Are you crazy, I can't go to NYC to save your sorry buts! . Fine. I will, on one condition.. Yes. I won't come without it.. Okay, see you in a few hours, Pho-Paige." Fox said to the phone.
"Father, I must use one of our private jets to go on." Fox said to his father, "a work trip to New York. I would also need a few grand please."
Julian Crane was taken aback. The Blue Note did not require him to go anywhere. And asking for a few grand? What was his son up to?
"Sure. Here," He said, handing the key to the jet and three thousand dollars, "See you when you get back."
Fox got his car, and left for the airport.
Julian got in his car to follow his suspiciously acting son.
---
"Fox is coming!" Phoebe announced to her new friends.