Chapter 25

Mark stirred from his sleep the next morning and looked at his alarm clock, it was 10 o'clock. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and yawned. He looked over and saw Hailey sleeping next to him curled up like a little baby. He smiled as he ran his hands through her hair. He loved the soft feel of it. He leaned down and kissed her on the shoulder, she smiled as she was awake. He moved up to her neck, Hailey moaned as he got to her sensitive spot. She turned over and smiled at him. "Morning." She smiled. "Morning, beautiful." He smiled back and leaned down and kissed her on the lips. "What time is it?" She asked yawning. "10 o' clock last time I checked." He replied. "Oh we slept in, can I have some breakfast please?" She asked. "Of course sweetheart, what do ya want?" he asked her. "Umm, some pancakes, French toast and oh yeah some doughnuts too!" She smiled. Mark raised his eyebrows "Wow you must be hungry." He laughed. "Yeah well not usually, but this little fellow here is making me." She laughed back rubbing her stomach. He chuckled and kissed her on the lips again. He got out of bed and walked over to his wardrobe and put some sweatpants on. Hailey went to get up to when Mark said "No baby, stay here." "Mark, I want to come help you." She snapped. "Well, this baby must be making you very snappy as well." He smirked. She started laughing. He smiled at her, he was happy to see her smile again after what she had been through yesterday and the day before that, and he be damned if anything happened to her to wipe that beautiful smile off her face. He took her hand in his, and headed downstairs towards the kitchen.

"Err, Hailey I'm not really a great cook." He said to her while trying to read the directions on how to make pancakes. "What do ya need help on?" She asked, while popping some toast into the toaster. "Urrr, well how much is ¾ of a cup of milk?" He asked looking at all the cups on the table. Hailey starting giggling. "Aww, come here and let me do it." She said walking over to him. "No, its ok I can do it really." He said. "You're sure." She smiled. "Yeah, I want to make you breakfast." He explained. "Oh, ok then." She smiled up at him. He leaned down to give her a kiss when there was a knock at the door. "Wait a minute baby." He said as he walked over to answer the door.

"Hello I'm Officer Fitzgerald and this is Officer Stevens are you Mark Callaway?" Two police men said standing at the door. Mark gave a confused look; Hailey wrapped her dressing gown around her and walked over to stand next to Mark. "Err, Yeah why?" Mark asked confused. One of the police men nodded his head to the other cop and he grabbed Mark and cuffed him. Hailey screamed. "What the fuck are you doing?" Mark yelled out. "Mr. Callaway you are under arrest for sexual actions towards a female under the age of 18." The cop said. "What? I'm not a fucken pedophile!" Mark yelled at them. "Do not continue to use that tone of language or you will be charged further more with verbal assault to a police officer, do you understand?" The cop said and led him out to the car. Mark looked over at Hailey who had tears in her eyes. "It's gonna be ok Hailey!" He yelled out to her as the officers push him into the car. She watched as the police car drove off down the road. Hailey dropped to her knees and started gasping; she looked down to see her hands shaking. "I hate you dad!" She screamed out at the top of her lungs with all her might.

Mark walked inside the police station with his hands still cuffed behind his back. He looked over behind the desk and saw Kirk. Mark gritted his teeth at him. Kirk did the same. "You sick son of a bitch, putting your hands on my daughter! Oh you're going to jail Callaway!" Kirk yelled at him. "You asshole, kicking her out of home, not giving a damn of what could happen to her!" Mark screamed back at him. "Mr. Jones please don't use any aggressive force to him as you might find yourself in trouble too." One of the cops said to Kirk. Kirk frowned and sat back down. The other officer shoved Mark into a cell and slammed the door. Mark sighed, as the cops told him that he'd remain in here for a few days.

Meanwhile back at his house Hailey just starred shocked of what had happened. She saw a car pull up and saw her mom get out. Hailey sat up. "Hailey we need to talk." Her mom said walking towards her. "Go away; I don't want to see you!" She yelled at her. Her mom stopped. "Hailey get inside I need to talk to you!" Her mom yelled. "No, this isn't your house, we'll talk right here." Hailey said with heavy breathing, unable to still believe of what had just happened.