Chapter 21
Becki's cell phone rang again five minutes later, reaching for it she checked the id through her tears.
"Dad" she sobbed
"Do you know where she is?"
"Dean" a fresh wave of tears escaped her eyes.
"Ssssh sweetie, I'll find her, did he say anything to you?"
"He wanted to know where I am" Becki curled up in ball against her wall.
"You didn't tell him did you"
"It cut off before I could"
"Don't you dare tell him you hear me?"
"But …"
"But nothing, your friends told me what Melody said so you stay right there and do not tell him anything!"
Becki sniffed and wiped her eyes, she frowned as she realised what her dad had just said
"What do you mean they told you what Melody said? When? What did she say?"
"I thought you knew, when did you speak to him?"
"About ten minutes ago" Becki replied swatting her tears away
"Oh"
"What?"
Her dad paused, he didn't know what was going on, "They called me about an hour ago, I've been looking for her since"
Becki couldn't believe what she just heard "Who called you?"
"Randy, Joanne and John" Becki started to sob.
"Honey stop crying, I know where I'll find her now"
"What did she say?" Becki sobbed
"Not to let you come here"
"Well I am" Becki said trying to pull herself off the floor.
"You will not"
"Dad!" Becki protested
"Young lady you will stay where you are!"
"But dad I cant…."
"You will stay there you hear me?" Becki knew from his tone there was no arguing with him.
"Yes dad"
"Good, I'll call you when I find her, stay with your friends and don't answer your phone unless you know who it is"
"ok, be careful"
"I will sweetie, I love you"
"You too" her dad hung up.
Becki crawled off the floor and onto her bed. She laid there staring at ceiling trying to hold in her tears.
'they knew?' she thought. At that moment John walked in.
"Hey" John said then froze when he looked at her.
Becki couldn't speak, when she looked at him she burst into tears. John rushed over to her and wrapped his arms around her as she fell against him and cried against his chest.
"Ssssh its ok" he whispered as he rubbed her back.
"No it's not" Becki sobbed into his chest.
The room was silent apart from Becki's sobs. John could only assume her Dad had called her and told her what had happened.
Once Becki had stopped crying she pulled away from John.
"You knew" she said simply wiping stray tears away.
John didn't know what to say other than "Yes"
"When did she call?"
"About three hours ago"
Becki stared at him in disbelief "So when I came to your room and Randy was being weird, you knew?"
"Yes" John felt awful, he watched as she started to sob again and reached out to her.
"Get away from me!"
"Bex!" John pleaded
"You knew something was wrong and you didn't tell me! If he's hurt her I'll never forgive you"
"If who's hurt her?"
"It doesn't matter anymore"
"Becki I'm sorry I didn't tell you but we wanted to find out what was going on before we told you"
"If you had told me I would have known! Instead of having to find out from him!"
"From who? Your dad?"
Becki snorted "No!"
John tried to reach for her again "From who?"
Becki slapped Johns hand away "Just get out John"
"Becki!" John pleaded again
"GET OUT!"
John sighed and left as Becki started to cry again.
Randy and Joanne were still in Johns room when he returned.
"What's wrong?" Joanne asked when she saw his face.
"She knows"
"I told you to tell her" Randy snapped
"Shut up" Joanne elbowed Randy as John fell onto his bed and covered his face with his hands.
"It wasn't her dad that told her, it was someone else"
"who?"
"I don't know, but she thinks someone may have hurt Mel"
Randy started pacing the room again as Joanne watched.
"Why are you back here?" Joanne asked
John sighed "She kicked me out"
"Oh" Joanne replied as her cell phone started to ring.
"Hello"
"Hello, is that Joanne?"
"Yeah"
"It's David, Becki's dad"
"Oh hi, have you found her?"
"Yes" he paused "Please, don't let Becki come back here"
"Is Melody ok?" both John and Randy stared at Joanne.
"Not really no" his voice sounded strained "but Becki cannot come here, it's not safe"
Joanne ran a hand through her hair, she had no idea what was going on, "Ok"
"Thank you!"
"I don't really know what's going on but your welcome"
"I need to speak to Becki now, thanks for your help"
"no problem, bye"
"Bye"
Joanne looked at the two men staring at her,
"I have no clue what's going on"
"Is Melody ok?" Randy asked
"No" Joanne ran her hands through her hair "Someone needs to go to Becki, her dad said not to let her go there either"
"I'll go" Randy said glaring at John as he left.
Becki ignored the knocking at her door, she had just finished talking to her dad. All she had got from that conversation was that Melody was hurt and she couldn't go home.
"Bex it's Randy, open the door"
Becki crawled off her bed and opened the door then headed back to her bed without saying a word.
"Stupid question but are you ok?"
"I think you know the answer!" she replied coldly
"he didn't tell you to protect you"
"I didn't need protecting! Melody did"
Randy sighed "I know, I wanted to tell you, how is she?"
"All I know is she's hurt, Dad wouldn't tell me anything else"
Randy sat on the bed next to her "he told Joanne not to let you go there"
"I know, he made me promise I wouldn't, so I cant even see Mel" Becki sighed and rested her head on his shoulder.
"You mad at me?"
"more upset than mad"
"I'm sorry" Randy wrapped an arm around her
"I know"
"I can to go to England to see her!"
"Really?"
Randy shrugged "I don't have anything else to do while I'm rehabbing"
"Thank you" Becki hugged him
"Do I need to know anything before I go?"
"No, you'll find out when you get there"