"Johnnn" Ashley whined "I don't feel well"
"You don't look so good ma" John said.
"You aren't helping" she glared at him.
"Sorry baby why don't you lay down and I'll bring you some crackers" John suggested.
"I'm pregnant it's not like I'm dying" Ashley replied to his request.
"Please just humor me" he said.
"Fine but don't get used to this" she said.
"I won't" he teased.
John led Ashley to the bedroom and stood there until she laid down. He watched as she picked up her notebook what contained their wedding plans. So far they had decided they wanted a small outdoor wedding in either April or May of next year. Their wedding song would be Thank God I Found You by Mariah Carey, Joe, and 98 Degrees.
"Now I remember why we got married in Vegas" she said.
"It can't be that bad" John said.
"Ok I need to book a location, call caterers, photographer, get Father Bob to marry us and a bunch of other things" she listed.
"Well Chaos is gonna DJ so don't worry about that" John said.
"Yeah I know I talked to him yesterday about it" she replied. "I thought you were getting me crackers"
"Ok I'm going, is there anything else you need like some Ginger Ale?" he asked.
"No just the crackers" she answered.
John ran down to the kitchen to garb the cracker and was about to go upstairs when he heard the phone ring.
Ashley answered the phone on the second ring.
"Hello" she said.
"Is John there?" an all too familiar voice asked. Ashley knew it from somewhere but she couldn't remember where or how.
"Umm yeah just hold on for a second" she said.
"John phone" she yelled.
John grabbed the phone and said hello. The speaker waited until he heard Ashley hang up before he spoke.
"She has a beautiful voice don't you think?" the speaker asked.
"Listen I've had enough of you calling and sending letters I want to know who you are and what you want" John demanded.
"I'm having too much fun so I'm not going to tell you my name but as for what I want all I want is what you took from me"
"Listen you sick fuck I didn't take anything from you" John yelled.
"Now Johnny boy it's not nice to call people names" the speaker taunted.
"How about I call the police" John threatened.
"You won't because you don't want to scare your wife"
"How do you know so much about me?" John asked.
"I know your whole life, I even know your children's social security numbers"
"Why are you doing this?" John asked.
By now he was way passed freaked out and moved into scared shitless. He was afraid that this maniac was going to harm his wife or his children.
"I want you to stay away from my wife and kids" John demanded "they have nothing to do with you"
"Oh but John that pretty wife of yours has everything to do with me"
"Stay away from her" John ordered.
"You aren't really in the position to make orders now are you John"
John let out an exasperated sigh and ran his hand through his hair.
"Well as much fun as this has been I'm going to let you go John but I enjoy knowing that we will speak again"
The phone line went dead and John ripped the whole entire phone off the wall and threw it across the room.
Ashley heard a loud bang and got up to make sure everything was ok.
"Didn't Russell Crowe get arrested for doing the same thing?" she joked.
"Not a good time for a joke" John said.
Ashley noticed he was gritting his teeth as if trying to keep himself from flipping out at someone.
"Are you ok?" she asked.
"Yeah I'll be fine but I have made a decision we're moving to the New" John said.
"Why?" Ashley asked.
"Because with the new baby coming it will be nice to live close to my parents" John lied.
"We're you going to discuss this with me or wait until it was too late for me to stop this?" Ashley asked getting upset.
"Ash please don't fight me on this for once in your life just trust that I know what I am doing" John told her.
"What the hell our whole life is here and now you want to pick up and move" Ashley said.
"We are going to be living 90 minutes away" John said.
"What about Randy and Trish?" Ashley asked.
"They can always come and visit or we can come down and see them" John said.
"Yeah well what if we want to go shopping, Trish isn't going to be 10 minutes away anymore" Ashley pointed out.
"Well it seems like you don't care what I have to say fine we'll move but you have to tell all the kids" she said.
"They only one who will care is Gracie" John pointed out.
"Hello Talon isn't going to like it either, this and the house in California are the only homes he has ever known" she said.
"You move around a lot as a kid and you survived" John said.
"I hate moving around" she said.
"Well they will get used to it" John said.
"That is what you think" she countered.
"What is so wrong wanting to raise my kids where I grew up?" John asked.
"Are these not your own words, West Newbury is a small town and all it has is a post office and a gas station with no gas?" Ashley asked.
"I might have exaggerated" he replied.
"Yeah sure John" she said "now give me those crackers". She snatched the crackers out of John's hand and went back upstairs, slamming the bedroom door behind her. This in turn woke up Frankie from his nap. John went to quiet him down and get him back to sleep.
"Hopefully you guys will realize that I'm just trying to protect you" he whispered after he got Frankie back to sleep.