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Chapter 19

"Hello," He said as he held the phone to his ear.

"Jason," The woman questioned, "Why are you answering Emma's phone?"

"Because she's not here Carly," Jason said a little frustrated, "What do you want."

"Umm, excuse me buddy, but this isn't your phone, so what right do you have to be mad at me," Carly stated in mock anger, though she was a bit mad.

"Carly I don't have time for…"

Jason was interrupted by the screams of what sounded like a bunch of schoolgirl. Hanging up the phone without a second thought to the person on the other line he shoved the phone in his pocket grabbed his gun and ran across the hall to Sonny's.

Looking around the hall he found that the guards were nowhere in site. Fearing the worse he ran inside and was met by Sonny, Sam, and Lila who were all still in pajamas.

"What the hell is going on," Jason questioned as the screams continued.

"No idea. Sam, you and Lila stay here," Sonny, commanded as he grabbed his gun and motioned for Jason to follow him into the kitchen.

-.-

Inside the kitchen Emma stood screaming as she held a spatula in her hand. Two men had guns pointed at her as they too screamed, and there was a man hunched over by the table.

CRASH

The kitchen door was smashed in revealing Sonny and Jason guns in hand as they scanned the room. They had to let out a light laugh; it was too funny not too.

Everyone stopped screaming but kept their guns aimed at Emma for some reason.

"Well that was fun," Emma said sarcastically as she placed her hands on her hips and gave the men in the room an evil glare, as she tipped her head to one side and shifted her weight so it all rested on her left side.

"What happened," Sonny questioned still laughing slightly.

"Idiot one, and two over here thought I was a robber, or something and decided that I needed to be shot," Emma replied even more sarcastically than before, "Speaking of shooting do you boys mind not pointing those things at me."

They all lowered their guns slowly as Sonny and Jason stopped laughing, but for some reason laughter still sounded through the room.

"Ok Fred, I get it. It was funny, you can stop now," Emma said.

"Sorry, It was just so funny." Fred commented, "You two are idiots."

"You told us everyone was in bed still," one of the men commented.

"Again, I'm going to ask what happened," Sonny commented a bit frustrated that he hadn't gotten a full answer.

"Those two came up looking for you, and I told them you were still in bed. So they said they would wait inside, I said go ahead. Then…" Fred stated.

"That's all you know Fred so let me finish," Morgan said as Fred just stared and shut up, " Ok so we came in, and heard noises. Fred had said you were in bed, so we thought no one was here, but when we heard noises we got suspicious."

"So we got our guns out and started toward the kitchen," Riley continued as he kept his eyes glued on Emma.

She was wearing a light blue tank top, and purple pajama pants that had elephants with wings all over them. He was in a complete trance, not only did she have a gorgeous body, but something about seeing her angry turned him one. She had one hell of a mouth too. He just wanted to shut her up, and how he wanted to shut her up at this moment wasn't really appropriate.

"Then you idiots come charging in here scaring me to death and screaming like little girls," Emma added in a voice laced with anger.

"That's it," Jason added hardly believing that there wasn't more to the story.

"What's going on," Sam said as she walked into the kitchen followed by Lila, "And who was screaming like a girl."

Morgan and Riley hung their heads low, not really wanting to admit that Emma had scarred them as well.

"I told you to wait out there," Sonny said a bit mad that they hadn't listened.

"What's she doing here," Lila said rudely as she took in Emma's appearance. The girl in her opinion had no sense of style. Who wore pajama pants with flying elephants on them? Keeping her thoughts to herself she continued, "And what is that great smell. Did you make breakfast Daddy?"

"No, He didn't. I came here to get some food because Jason doesn't shop or something," Emma said as she gave Jason a look, "And that smell is buttermilk pancakes, sausage, eggs, and hash browns. I also made a fruit salad, and got a pot of coffee going."

They all looked at her like she was from another planet.

"What," Emma asked.

"What are you wearing, and you cooked," Lila stated in shock and a bit of disgust, "No, it must be take-out from Kelly's. You probably just want us all too like you. Which we don't by the way."

"Wow I didn't realize you spoke for everyone, and its not. So, if you could all go sit or something, the everything should be done in a minute or two," Emma said a little ticked off that Lila would say such a thing.

"Just don't ruin my kitchen," Sonny said a bit worried as he ushered everyone out of the kitchen.

Emma just laughed as she turned back to the food on the stove. Cooking was just another way she cleared her head, and she really needed the break from her thoughts.

-.-

Emma came out of the kitchen a few minutes later carrying the food. She had asked Morgan and Riley too set the table while she finished cooking and everyone else got dressed. Jason already being dressed sat on the couch looking over some papers for the business.

As everyone was sitting down at the table to eat a cell phone rang. It was Jason's. Everyone turned to look at him.

"I got to take this," he said as he stood up and made his way for the door.

"That's our Jason, phone permanently attached to his ear," Morgan said with a laugh as everyone began to eat.

-.-

"Morgan," He answered as he stepped into the hallway and walked across to his penthouse.

"Hey Jase," Marco replied on the other end.

"How was it," Jason questioned.

"The meeting was fine, but we need to discuss some things in person," Marco replied.

"Ok. Sonny and I will be there once," Jason was interrupted by the ringing of Emma's phone. He had forgot he put it in his pocket, "Marco hold-on."

Jason shuffled the phones as he reached for Emma's. He still held his own in one hand as he answered Emma's.

"Carly, Emma still doesn't have her phone and I don't have time for your mouth," Jason practically screamed into the phone.

"Carly must have pissed you off bad," The voice on the other end laughed.

Upon hearing the voice Jason dropped the phone not to his ear and stood in shock.

-.-

"I'm not hungry," Lila complained.

"Sweetie just eat something, Emma went through all the trouble to cook for us you should eat," Sam replied her voice full of insincerity. Sam didn't really want to be nice to her but Sonny had asked.

"I really don't care if she eats or not. It's her loss if she doesn't," Emma said as she took another bite of her pancakes.

"Well I do care. It's very good Lila," Sonny responded while he played with his eggs, "Where did you learn to cook, everything's delicious."

"Yeah, you really love those eggs," Emma laughed as Sonny quickly stopped playing with them.

"They were…"

"Save it Sonny. I can cook everything but eggs. I just can't seem to do it. My Mom loves them. She says they are like the eggs my dad makes," Emma said looking at Sonny.

"Yeah, that and they taste like Jason's eggs," Riley added causing everyone to laugh, "but other than that it was great. You said your Mom taught you?"

"Yup, I was seven when I learned. The story behind it is that my Aunt Carly was watching Cassie and I when we got hungry one afternoon. We had just wanted takeout but she insisted on cooking. I'm not positive what she made but it wasn't what she was planning on making, and the kitchen was a mess. So when my Mom got home she saw her kitchen and nearly killed someone. Then she saw Cassie and I with our bowls of mush, and she banned Carly from making anything other than frozen pizza, sandwiches, and Mac and Cheese. From that day on my Mom started to teach me to cook, just easy stuff at first, so that when Carly was around we ate decent," Emma explained.

"Well your eggs are lacking," Morgan added again and received a glare from Emma, "What was the mush my Mom tried to force down your throats?"

"You really want to know?"

"Yeah,"

"Well it was like a chunky yellowish brown color, but I think it was Mac and Cheese," Emma said with a laugh, "I think."

-.-

Upon hearing the voice Jason dropped the phone not to his ear and stood in shock. It was her, and she was laughing. Her laugh brought a smile to his face.

"Courtney," he said curiosity in his voice.

"Yeah," Courtney giggled, "Do you always answer other peoples phones so loudly?"

"No," Jason responded remembering it wasn't his phone, "Who are you looking for?"

"Whose phone is it?"

"I thought it was Emma's" Jason responded, "But then why are you calling her, do you know Emma?"

Courtney remained quite. She wasn't sure what to say. Emma would tell when and if she were ready, or wait for her to come to town. Plus what Courtney would say wasn't really a phone call conversation.

"I didn't realize it was your business," Courtney responded deciding to take the 'I'm not telling' route.

"Fine don't tell me," Jason added hoping she would give in, but she didn't.

"So how did you get the phone?"

"It was left on my coffee table, I was going to bring it to her."

"Oh, Do you know where Carly is? I tried her house and couldn't reach her."

"She went into the city for work."

"Emma's in the city," Courtney stated in shock.

"No, She's staying with me until Carly gets back," Jason commented wondering why Courtney cared so much.

"Oh, So how are you?"

"Fine, and you?"

"The same, how's business," Courtney commented regretting the words as soon as they left her mouth, "Sorry, I know you can't tell me."

"That's fine, no problem," Jason laughed. She was always apologizing, "I haven't been shot at recently, so that's good. How's business with you?"

"Foundations doing good. Jason, I don't mean to be rude or any thing but I have to go, work and all. Maybe I'll see you soon."

"Yeah, maybe. Bye Court."

"Bye Jase."

Jason hung up the phone. He knew Courtney was keeping something from him, but at the point he didn't really care. He had talked to her and was in to good a mood to bother with what she was hiding. Jason was in La La land as he picked his phone up off the ground and placed the two phones in his pocket. He walked back across the hall to eat breakfast, happier than he had been in a long time. Maybe there was hope yet.

-.-

Courtney hung up the phone. She had talked to Jason. She had enjoyed the call, but would kill Carly later. How could the woman not mention that Emma was at Jason's. Courtney was happy that her daughter was spending time with Jason, but she still worried, and would have liked to known.

Courtney wasn't sure what the call had meant, all she knew was that upon hearing Jason yell into the phone her heart skipped a beat and she had too laugh at him. Carly could still annoy him, and after that it was like things were as they were years ago, with the exception of Emma. All Courtney knew was that she might actually be looking forward to returning home.