Chapter 9

Author: Sorry it took so long to get this one out. I just started back to school and I had to move back in and get my schedule situated and all that crap, but I hope everyone liked my last chapter. I know it was said that Jack died but that's ok. Garrett Hedlund is still alive in person!  Hope you guys enjoy this chapter!

"Bri..I need to talk to you!" Jack told his sister

"What is it? Is everything ok?"

" I'm leaving…"

"Where are you going?" Bri asked confused

"I gotta get out of Detriot."

"Why?"

"Because its just too crazy here. I don't want to be here anymore."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes!" he yelled

"Jack you are just mad. You need to go somewhere and cool off." Brianna told him walking away. She felt tears welling in her eyes, but she quickly wiped them away when Angel walked in. Bobby has already left them. Brianna could feel her life being torn away life being torn away from her. "Hey whats wrong?" Angel asked

"Nothing…I got something in my eye." She lied. That was worst lie she has ever told. She just stared at Angel before walking away. She went to her room and laid down for a few minutes. She heard her mom calling her to come to dinner. She just laid there and stared at the ceiling. Just then she heard a soft tap on the door. "I'm not hungry!" she yelled. Jack opened the door and just looked at her.

"Tell me its not true Jack!" she told him

"Bri…..I…"

"So you are just going to leave to? Just like Bobby. Why?" she asked him sitting up on her bed

"Because…..i don't know anymore!"

"You're not going anywhere!" she yelled " You staying right here with me"

"Bri…I'm leaving in 2 days for New York City"

Tears streamed down her face. He reached over to her and tried to touch her arm but she pulled away. "Fine!" she finally got out

"What?" Jack asked not understanding her

"FINE!" she screamed standing up " LEAVE!" with that she ran downstairs and out the door. Angel went running after her but she was gone. 2 days past and Jack and Brianna didn't cross paths with each other. He tried but she would always walk away or just turn away from him. The morning came when it was time for him to leave and Brianna was no where in the house. Jack tried to hide his hurt and just act like it was nothing. Ma drove him to the airport with Angel and Jerry with him. They waited and waited for Brianna to show up but she didn't. Tears streamed down his face as he said his goodbyes to his mother and brother. Just then he saw her out of the corner of his eye. Her face was so red from crying "Please don't go!" she told him sobbing

"I have too!" Jack responded

"Tell me what I did? What did I do?" she asked

"You didn't do anything. I just need to get away"

"You are getting away from me!" she yelled

"I have to go!" he told her

"No!" she told him grabbing him by the waist

"Don't make this any harder than it already is" he told her trying to pry her off. Angel grabbed her by her waist and pulled her off of Jack. "I love you!" he told her and kissed her on the forehead. Then he walked away

"JACK!" she screamed "You promised!" but he didn't turn around "JACK!"

"Shhhh….its going to be ok" angel told her trying to calm her down

"You promise you wouldn't leave me!" she yelled again. She finally got loose from Angel and ran towards Jack who was waiting in line to go through security. There was glass between them. Brianna starts banging on the glass and screaming for him. "Please don't go!" she yelled "I promise ill be better!" she could see the tears rolling down his face "You don't want to leave me do you?" she asked. He just looked at her. "JACK!" she screamed again. He looked at his family one last time before getting on the escalator with his back turned to them. "JACK! I LOVE YOU!" she screamed banging on the window. Just then they heard gunshots go off "JACK!" she screamed. He turned around and looked at her before disappearing "NOOO!" she yelled banging on the glass, but no one seemed to notice. "Don't go!"

"JACK!" Brianna shot straight up. She looked around the room and just stared for a moment. Where was she? She then remembered the events that took place the morning before. Tears streamed down her face. She looked over at her brothers clock "5 AM…." Brianna mumbled. She tossed her legs over the side of the bed and decided to go downstairs. She put a cup of coffee on the pot and sat at the table and waited. She just stared off into space when she felt a hand on her shoulder.

"What are you doing up so early?" Angel asked

"Couldn't sleep…."

"Yeah me either." The whole time Angel came into the kitchen, Brianna never once looked at him. She walked over to the coffee pot

"Want some coffee?"

"Sure…Bri.."

"Angel I don't want to talk about it ok" she interrupted knowing exactly what he was about to say.

"I know your hurting but you still have the rest of us"

She looked him square in the eyes as tears fell down her cheeks "I said I don't want to talk about it…"

He looked at her and nodded. A few minutes later they heard footsteps coming towards them. They didn't even bother to look up. Bobby walked in. "Couldn't sleep?" he asked. Brianna and Angel nodded. "Can I have some coffee?" Brianna just nodded again. "Come on you guys. Don't act like this. We are still a family. We need each other ok!" Bobby told them. Brianna slammed the coffee pot on the stove and just stared at them. "I can't do this Bobby!" she told him. "I cant pretend like nothing is wrong and like everything is going to be alright. Ma and Jack are dead. How am I suppose to go on? Huh? How am I suppose to live without them? They made me who I am today. All of you made me who I am right now. I have this hole inside of me that keeps getting bigger and bigger. It wont go away and I cant stand it anymore. I cant stand the pain and the tears. Why did he answer the door? Why did he after to go outside?" she told them sobbing " Its not fair. ITS NOT FAIR!" she screamed throwing the coffee pot across the room. It shattered all along the wall. Bobby walked over to her and just embraced her.

"No its not….." that's all he could say. He finally let go of her when he saw that she was calm. " Sit down…" he told her. They sat around the table and just stared at each other before Bobby said something " We need to…um…..get everything ready for the funeral. Gosh he was a little fairy!" Bobby said smiling. Brianna let out a little laugh at his comment. Right then the phone rang. Angel got up to go answer it while Bobby continued to talk about Jack. "He was a little shit growing up! Gosh he always got me in trouble!"

" Yeah well you did your share of getting of us in trouble. You remember when you threw the football at me and Jack and hit me in the side and Jack picked it up and threw it back and you ducked. It hit moms car and busted the window. You took off running. Before me and Jack thought about running mom comes out." Bobby starts laughing " Yeah…..but Jack got me back good. He put superglue on my pillow one night and I walked around for 2 hours with that thing stuck to me head!" Brianna laughed again

"He was always there for me!" she told him "When I got in trouble at school, when I got in trouble at home. Anytime he was right there beside me getting into trouble with me. Even sometimes when he didn't do anything."

"That boy loved you. He use to talk about you and say that he didn't know what he would do if you didn't come into our life. You straightened us all out" This made Brianna start crying. All the sudden Angel comes running in there.

" Greens dead!"

"What?" Bobby asked jumping up

"He was shot…during a chase." Angel told him

"Do you think it was a chase?" Brianna asked

"Nope….what do you think?" Angel asked

"I don't think so either. I think Fowler had something to do with it."

"Green knew way too much…" Bobby stated

Brianna breathed deeply and just layed her head on the table. "This is just too much for one month…"

"Let's just focus on Jacks funeral. I just want to focus on my brother right now!" Bobby told them. Brianna nodded her head in agreement

"We owe him that much!" she replied. Brianna left the kitchen and went back upstairs. She looked at Jacks room before closing his door. She walked to her room and layed down on her bed. She just stared at her ceiling before she drifted off to sleep again. Around 8, she could hear Angel in her room. " What are you doing?" she asked opening her eyes

"Just looking at you…..you have become so beautiful" he told her smiling

"What was I ugly when I was little or something?" she asked him

He laughed " No…but you are a woman now. You've grown up so fast. The last time I saw you you were 15."

"Don't remind me" she told him

"I'm sorry I left!"

"Me too….."

He just breathed in deeply "You know…..i tried thinking of a time when me and you actually talked and I couldn't think of one at all. Would you like to talk now?" he asked

"About what?"

"Anything….."

"I don't know anything to talk about Angel."

"How about all those years I missed. What happened?"

"Nothing…..just tried to stay alive." She laughed "I met a guy but he moved away. His parents didn't like it here. So she took him away from me. It took a lot of time to get over that one. My bestfriend ODed on drugs 2 summers ago. Her dad found her in her bath tub the day after. Imagine what that was for him. Oh yeah my mom came and found me, trying to get me back!" Angel just stared at her "Oh did you want to hear something positive that happened?" she asked coldly "I graduated from highschool!" she told him

"Bri…."

"Angel……don't. I know that you are going to say you are sorry. I know you are but that's not going to bring anyone back so theres no use. They are all gone. That's how my life is. People die and I move on. Lifes too short to mourn"

"You mean the world to me. I would give anything to change what happened to you all these years but I cant. I wish that I could!"

She just stared at him "I wish that I could too" she told him as tears streamed down her face. "I don't know what to do anymore Angel, I don't know how to go on without them"

"You have to try…." Angel told her caressing her head. "But I am always here for you. No matter what!"

"You promise you guys wont leave this time?" she asked him

"I swear. We are here for good now!"

She smiled and hugged him. "Thanks Angel!" she told him kissing him on the cheek.

"We need to go get ready" he told her "Dress warm!"

She nodded her head before he left her room. She jumped into the shower finally not feeling any fear or hurt. She was finally at peace for once in her life.

Author: This chapter isn't that good because I had writers block for the longest time. Sorry it took sooo long. I was moving back into school and getting everything figured out with that but I hope you guys like it! 