Saturday
November 4th
Something Wasn't Right
I woke up the next morning to find Bobby gone. He probably left sometime when I was still sleeping. No big deal, right. I did my morning stretches and walked out into the kitchen. I could hear snoring coming from the living room. I looked in and Jack and Nikki were still passed out on the couch. Nikki was clutching on to Jack as if he was a teddy bear. It was cute.
I walked back in the kitchen and turned on the coffee pot. I love coffee I couldn't live with out it. My mom always used to say to me, "Don't even talk to me till I had a cup of coffee." She was a little too addicted if you ask me.
I rummaged through the fridge trying to find something to eat for breakfast. I could make my self French toast, maybe waffles, or just have a bagel. Decisions, decisions I didn't know what I wanted.
"Morning" Said someone walking into the kitchen. I turned around to see Jack scratching his head.
"Good morning would you like some breakfast?" I sounded like a crazed mother.
"Yeah sure, where's Bobby?" He took a seat at the table.
"I'm not sure; I guess he left sometime when we were sleeping. What would you like for breakfast?" I was beginning to feel like his mother.
"Anything as long as it's edible." Jack laughed to himself.
"Alright how's some French toast."
"Good."
I grabbed my supplies and went to work on the French toast. I never really made breakfast for anyone else but my siblings. When I was dating Chris we usually never had breakfast, only on some occasions would he cook breakfast for me or take me out. Those are the good old days when at least he was sober enough to remember my name.
As I cooked breakfast I wondered where Bobby would have gone. Probably home to take care of things, but he didn't even leave a note or anything giving us a possible clue where he went. I don't know why it began to bother me so much. I mean he was just a guy I met and happened to become I guess friends with sort of. I mean it wasn't like I was falling for him. That was it, my problem I was falling for Bobby Mercer.
"Madison I think the French toast is burning."
"Oh shit!" I quickly grabbed the spatula and flipped the French toast. They weren't too bad just a little too brown on the bottom.
"Sorry Jack my mind is somewhere else." I smiled.
"It's alright. So are you and Nikki going to come to the house for some dinner?"
"Huh? Oh yeah sure I guess so."
"Yeah, sorry I forgot to mention that to you last night."
"Oh ok." I handed him the plate with his French toast.
"Thanks, do you have any syrup?"
"Yeah, here." I handed him the syrup bottle and the butter dish.
"You know Bobby can't stop talking about you." I felt my face turn red.
"Yeah ok, eat your French toast and be quiet." I laughed.
Later that day after Nikki woke up; I decided that we should go shopping. I dragged Nikki and Jack away from the TV and we went down town for some new clothes. We first stopped at my favorite place "From Rags To Riches." It was a cute thrift shop with the best mix and match clothes.
Nikki and I had so much fun dressing Jack up in outfits that fit his personality. Everything we tried on him gave him that rock star type look. "Yeah I'm bad and dirty but I have a sweet side too." That type of look was perfect for him.
I made Nikki try on some really cute shirts that showed of her assets (her boobs). She looked really good in them. I watched Jack as his eyes moved towards her chest. I slapped him in the arm, and laughed. "She has a face you know." Jack smiled.
After we shopped we stopped for lunch at a café. It was pretty neat, when you walked inside there was colorful upside down umbrellas hanging from the ceiling. There was so many odd awkward lamps, decorations, tables, chairs and my favorite of all is that there was a tree right in the middle of the restaurant. It was my type of place, I loved it.
We sat at our table, and waited for our waitress to come. Jack was fooling around with the lamp that looked like a butt. He kept turning it on and off laughing like a little kid.
"Are you having fun Jack?" I couldn't help it I had to ask.
"It looks like a butt." He started cracking up.
"Are you sure this shirt looks ok?" Nikki kept tugging at her boobs.
"Yes, stop tugging at it."
"Hi my name is Ash I'll be your waitress today. Can I start you off with something to drink?"
"Yeah I'll have a beer."
"I'll have a root beer."
"And you what would you like."
"A sprite would be fine, thanks"
As I waited for my drink to come I watched all around the room. I saw this cute couple with a baby, an older couple holding hands, and then I saw some girl she looked so alone. I could see tears developing in her eyes as her boyfriend whispered things across the table. She reminded me of myself, I know exactly how she felt.
Our waitress Ash came back with our drinks and then took our order. I couldn't help but to keep glancing at the girl. I felt like I needed to help in some way.
Jack and Nikki were to busy talking about stupid things, I don't even know what they were talking about. I was waiting to see what was going to happen to this poor girl.
"Madison did you even hear a word I said to you?" Nikki nudged me in the arm.
"Sorry what did you say?"
"I was talking about Krista and how she was so annoying."
"Oh yeah how she lied all the time to you, and was so jealous of me for nothing. Yeah she was a bitch."
"I feel the love for her." Jack laughed.
I looked back over to the girl, her boyfriend was gone. I had to do something so I did.
"I'll be right back." I walked over to the girls table.
"Hey, how are you." The girl looked up at me.
"Who the hell are you?"
"I'm Madison nice to meet you…"
"What do you want, is this some kind of joke?" The girl was pissed.
I sat down next to her, "Listen lets just keep this between you and me. I saw you before; your boyfriend was probably saying some mean shit to you. Am I right? I'm just here to tell you that there is a way out of a bad relationship. You ever want to talk here's my cell number don't be afraid to ask me anything." I handed her a piece of paper.
"Whatever." The girl took the piece of paper and I got up.
"Nice to see you again."
As I walked back to my table Jack and Nikki were looking at me.
"What?"
"What the hell was that all about?" asked Nikki
"Just an old co-worker that's all. So what are we having for dinner tonight?"
After that afternoon the girl that I talked to body was found in her bath tub. She slit her wrists and held herself down. Her relationship was so bad that the only route she could find to get out of it was killing herself. I wish I could have helped her in some way, but I realized that I really couldn't.
That night as Jack walked us to his house, I got that eerie feeling again. I looked all around to see if Chris was any where, but he wasn't. Thank god, for now at least.
"Here we are the Mercer house." Jack led us inside.
"Hey Jacky you're here, finally." Jerry greeted us with a big smile. "Hello ladies, come on in."
"Daddy, Daniela stole my Barbie doll," cried little Amelia
"I did not daddy she took mine because she can't find hers," Daniela protested.
"Girls we'll find your Barbie's later, now come and say hi to some people for me." Jerry led them over to us.
"Hi Amelia, Daniela, I'm Madison a friend of the family. Nice to meet you both, this is my sister Nikki."
"Hi" Nikki waved.
"Uncle Jack where were you today?" asked Daniela
"I was out with Madison and Nikki."
"Oh so that's where you were." Camille said walking into the room.
"Mommy, these are friends of the family. This is Madison and Nikki." Amelia pointed to us both.
"Nice to meet you, I that your working for my Bobby now Madison."
"Yeah, I've been there for maybe a week or so."
Camille smiled, "Well come on take off your coats, and go take a seat in the living room, dinner should be done soon."
I sat down on the couch next to Nikki. I couldn't believe that I was in the infamous Mercer house. I looked over towards Nikki who was rummaging through the stuff on the coffee table.
"Nikki what are you doing?"
"What I'm looking for a magazine to read."
"Excuse me, excuse me." Said Amelia tugging on my leg
"Yes Amelia."
"Can you read this to me? She handed me a book.
"Sure." Amelia climbed on my lap.
I opened the book and began to read the sentences as Amelia pointed out all the pictures.
"What do horses do?" asked Nikki
"Neh, Neh." Replied Amelia
"That's right. What does a cow do?"
"Moo, Moo!"
"Madison I want to show you something." Daniela grabbed my arm.
"Here Amelia how about Nikki reads to you." I handed Nikki the book.
"Ok let's see what does a pig do?"
"Oink, Oink."
I smiled my sister was always so good with kids. I knew that one day she would be such a great mother.
"So where are we going?" I asked as Daniela dragged me up the stairs.
"You'll see." She stopped in the hallway and pointed to a room.
"That was Grandma Evies room. Come on I want to show you something." I followed her into the room. There were clothes all over the place; I was guessing that one of the guys took over her room.
"Whose room is this Daniela?"
"Uncle Bobby's, come here I'll show you what I found."
"Daniela I don't think you should be in here."
"See I found this." She was pointing to an old shoe box. "It has pictures of everyone and then people I don't know."
"Did you show this to your daddy?"
"No, daddy will get mad if he knew I was up here."
"Ok then lets just leave it and go back downstairs."
"You won't tell daddy or mommy that I was up here."
"Don't worry our little secret." I smiled followed her back down the stairs.
We waited another hour till dinner was ready to be served. Jack tried calling Bobby and Angel to see what was holding them up, but as always no answer. We decided we were too hungry and started with out them. Right after we all said grace and began digging in Bobby and Angel came storming through.
"Little brother next time you don't listen to me I swear to god your going get yourself killed." Bobby walked into the dinning room.
"Yeah well maybe you should have come up with a better plan Bobby. See that's your problem you don't think before you take action." Angel came in after him.
"Hey, what's for dinner?" Bobby sat down at the table.
"Hi Madison, Nikki didn't know you guys were here for dinner." Angel sat by Sofi.
"Where were you Angel I have been waiting all day for you to come home?" Sofi actually sounded concerned.
"I had to take care of something. Can you pass the potatoes?"
Sofi surprisingly didn't say anything else. She just smiled and handed him the plate of potatoes. There was something unusual about Angel and Bobby. I made me wonder what was really going on in their heads. Maybe they killed a few people today and know their just erasing it from their minds.
I looked up at Bobby; he was too busy stuffing his face with food. He seemed bothered; I wanted to know what was bothering him.
The rest of dinner, everyone was asking Nikki and me questions about our family and shit. You know getting to know you type talk. It was nice and all but Bobby just seemed so distance from everyone. I had to ask him what was up.
After dinner Bobby said he'd be back, he was going to take a shower. I sat down stairs waiting for Bobby to get out of the shower.
"Hey Madison why don't you go up their and um help him clean off." Nikki whispered to me.
"No! Oh my god, I mean I would like to." I started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Asked Jack
"Oh you know some dirty jokes."
"So Jack do we get a tour of your house?" Nikki asked
"Uh yeah sure, this is the dinning room where we just ate. The kitchen, this over here is the laundry room, the living room."
"What's upstairs?"
"Nikki stop!" I nudged her in the arm.
"Can we see your room?"
"My room," Jack sounded nervous.
"Yeah why do you have a dead body up there or something? Nikki laughed.
Jack blushed and smiled.
As we followed him up the stairs we could hear the shower running. Bobby sounded like he was singing or talking to someone, who knows.
Jack led us into his room, typical guy there were clothes everywhere. His walls were painted some ugly green and there were so many posters of bands that I never heard of. Sitting on his bed was a guitar; from the look of it he used it a lot.
"Interesting room, do you play your guitar often?" I asked.
"Yeah I have a band actually, were called Element. Were a mix between classic rock and some heavy metal."
"Wow that's an interesting combination."
"Can you play something for us?" Nikki wasn't one for rock stars but who knows.
"Hey little fairy I see that you brought some of your fans." Bobby stood in the doorway; he was fully dressed (unfortunately) with his hair slicked back.
"Heh, let it go man." Jack began strumming on his guitar.
Bobby smiled, "You didn't show them my room did you."
Bobby seemed to have transformed back into his normal self, well the Bobby I met. It didn't make sense to me how one seconded he can be so nice warm, and then he can be cold and angry.
"No, we were really looking forward to rummaging through your stuff." I smiled.
Bobby laughed and came and sat next to me. I felt like a teenager again, hanging out with my b.f and his friends. It was weird.
Jack strummed on his guitar some more and sung us a songs. His voice was amazing, if I was a talent agent I would have signed him. I felt very at home, more than I have ever felt in my life.
That night as Bobby and Jack walked Nikki and I home I asked Bobby were he went this morning.
"I had some things I needed to take care of. I didn't want to wake you."
I had a feeling that he was lying but you know I didn't say anything.
That night Nikki and I said good bye to the guys and went back into my apartment.
"What's wrong Madison?" Nikki asked
"Nothing just thinking that's all. Do you want the bed?"
"Yeah sure, you're ok then."
"Yeah, don't worry about it."
That night I couldn't sleep, I just kept thinking about how weird Bobby was acting. Maybe there was something going on that he just doesn't have the guts to tell me about. Whatever it was I hoped that Bobby would just tell me.