Chapter 27
Steve and Cath had just left to go out for dinner. As soon as they were out of sight Chelsea came downstairs, dressed in a short party dress. Jay instantly knew what Chelsea had planned. He understood that Chelsea wanted to do something just to get back at Cath, he thought it would be something small, but this way going to end bad. He watched as Chelsea was tidying the last little bits of the house ready for people to start coming.
Jay was trying to decide what to do. He saw that he had 4 options. One he could stay and take the blame for everything that would happen there tonight along with Chelsea. Second, he could just go out tonight and pretend that he didn't know anything about what was happening. Next he could put an end to anything that could happen and just call his mom or Steve and tell that what was going on, or the final thing was try and talk Chelsea out of doing it. When he considered each one of them he knew that he was not going to get his sister and trouble and talking Chelsea out of it was pointless because she would never change her mind.
"I don't want anything to do with this Chelsea, you're on your own."
"Hi, George isn't here at the moment." Ella said when she opened the door and saw it was Jay.
"Okay, thank you anyway." Jay replied.
Jay had gone over to speak to George but when he got there he should have realised that if Chelsea was having a party George and Jordon would be the first two people that Chelsea would have invited.
"Are you okay?" Ella asked. "Come on in." She said standing out of the way of the door so Jay could come in.
"Is everything okay?" Ella asked again when they had sat down at the table.
"Chelsea is going to do something stupid and I don't know what to do." Jay said.
"Can I take a guess that you're not going to tell me what Chelsea is going to do?" Ella asked, but when Jay didn't reply she carried on. "What do you mean you don't know what to do?"
"I don't know if I should stop her, but she won't listen to me and I don't think I want to or I should do it with her."
"I understand that you are both upset about your mom and I think that if you can't stop or don't want to, stick together because if you mom is going away you always have each other. But whatever Chelsea has planned you have to remember that she is still you mother. I know that like you both said last night she wasn't a good one she is the only one you have. And I pray to god that this doesn't happen but if something happens to her how would you feel knowing the last time you saw her you both tried to get back at her and were arguing." Ella said.
"Thank you Ella, but I have to go." Jay said as he made his way to the door.
Jay pretty much ran back home, he knew what he had to do.
"What are you doing back?" Chelsea asked when she saw Jay walking back into the house.
"When Nan died and Mom goes back to see it is me and you against everyone again, so I am not going to let you go down by yourself." Jay replied as he pulled his sister into a hug.
This was a time that Chelsea was thankful for her brother and thankful that she had him for everything.
The rest of the night was going well, Chelsea and Jay were having a good time and for once in the last couple of days they hadn't been relaxed and happy.
Steve and Catherine had to come home early to pick up Evie after Evie's friend had been ill. As they approached the house they could see people outside the house and as they got closer they knew that there was a party at their house.
"I am going to kill them." Cath said as they parked the car.
Steve got straight out the car, made his way into the living room, turning the music off. Looking around for Jay and Chelsea he couldn't see them.
"All of you have 2 minutes to get out of this house and off the property or I will be arresting anyone left." Steve shouted and as soon as people looked over at him they made their way out of the house quickly.
When everyone had gone Cath just looked around the house. For a party the house looked almost okay, just a little bit of rubbish that could be cleaned up within an hour tops.
"What the hell is going on here?" Cath asked when both of her kids were standing in front of her. "I can't believe you did something like this. No in fact Chelsea I can believe you did something like this, why did you do it?" Cath said once neither of them answered her.
"I did it because you weren't playing by the rules you told us so neither I am. We are what you made us mom." Chelsea said. "I did it because I wanted to show you what it feels like when someone tells you something promises they will change and then doesn't."
"Jay?" Cath asked.
"He had nothing to do with it." Chelsea said, she knew Jay had said about sticking together and everything but she wanted to protect him.
"She's lying, I knew about it, I helped her with everything, we did it together. But mom she's right you can't break your promises and then expect us to keep ours." Jay said.
"I am disappointed in you both. But you know this is one last trip away after that I will be here for good." Cath reasoned, she saw Evie and Steve walk upstairs in the corner or her eye, which gave her the chance to talk with them about her going.
"You said that when you came back before and you are changing your mind again, it's not fair." Chelsea stood up to walk away.
"Where are you going?" Cath asked.
"I am going to tidy up and then go to bed." Chelsea said as she walked into the kitchen.
"We need to talk about this." Cath called after.
"How about we talk about it on Monday?" Chelsea said.
"Chelsea, you know I will be at sea."
"Well then I am too busy to talk now."
Jay got up and followed Chelsea to help her tidy up. When they heard Cath go upstairs they started to talk about the party.
"You didn't have to take the blame with me." Chelsea said.
"Like I said we need to stick together." Jay said.
The next morning...
Cath had a couple of hours before she had to go to base to get on the ship. Neither of her kids had made an appearance from their bedrooms. She hoped that they would come around before she had to go to work. She hated being away from her kids but she knew that when she came back she could keep her promise.
Steve had gone downstairs to make breakfast. They had both decided that after Jay and Chelsea had tided the house after the party they wouldn't ground them, without them rebelling even more against Steve when Cath had gone to sea.
"Can we talk?" Jay asked knocking on the door.
"Of course, come in." Cath said. "What do you want to talk about?" Cath asked when Jay had sat on her bed.
"I am sorry for last night, we did it to get back at you for going. I know Chelsea can hold a grudge for a long time but I don't want you to go to sea and us be arguing. I spoke to Chelsea last night and she probably isn't going to talk to you, but I have to do this." Jay said.
"Thank you for that it means a lot. I love you Jay." Cath said hugging her son.
"Love you too mom."
As Jay left the room Steve came up with breakfast for Cath.
"That looked like it went well." Steve said putting the breakfast down on the table at the side.
"Things went well. Me and Jay are talking again, Chelsea doesn't seem to want to know anything I have to say. I don't want to leave her like this."
"Trust me she will be fine, and you will be back before we know it." Steve said, pulling her close.
"I don't know what I would do with you."
"I know, who would take you for all the dinners that I promised you."
Cath laughed. "You plan on taking me for all of them?"
"Well I plan to spend the rest of my life with you so I am sure I will be able to make them up to you."
"Well I will hold you to that. Now you need to eat your breakfast so I can drop you at Pearl." Steve said bringing over her breakfast for her.
When Cath had finished her breakfast she was almost ready to go. With an hour till she needed to leave she went to try and speak to Chelsea one last time before she went.
"Can I come in?" Cath asked.
"I want to say no but you will make up your mind yourself you always do." Chelsea replied.
"You know I am sorry Chelsea for this and if I could I would stay here and I would never go back to sea again, but it is an order for my CO and there is no way I can get out of it. Please while I'm gone don't take what I have done out on Steve."
"What you have done? What you have done has got nothing to do with Steve, when you first told me about Steve I thought it would be him that went out to sea again not you. You see he is there for Evie and never leaves her so why would I take it out on him?"
"I just wanted to make sure."
"You have such a low expectation of me. I bet you, you have not told Jay this, and yesterday when we had a party I was the first one you looked at and the first one you blamed."
"I looked at you first because I know you both, and I know that you normally have the ideas between you and your brother and your brother will admit something to protect you at times. But I am sorry for doing that."
"Is there something else you came here for?"
"I came to say that I am leaving in a minute and wanted to say bi and see if you wanted to come to Pearl to say goodbye?" Cath knew that this was probably a waste of time but she was hoping that she might have changed her mind.
"No I am good here."
"Okay, I will see you soon, and will call and email you."
"I wouldn't waste your time, I probably won't answer or reply."
"Well thanks for the honesty and remember what Steve says goes." Cath said as she left room. This would normally be the part were Cath would give Chelsea and hug and promise to see her soon but this time she knew it was pointless nothing she could say would change the way that Chelsea felt about her.
As Cath went back to her room she tried to think of anything she could do to make sure she didn't have to go to sea. There was only one way it would work but it was too late she would have to be pregnant, which wasn't going to happen.
"Time to go." Steve said as he walked upstairs and picked Cath's bag up off the bed.
"Okay let's go. See you soon Chelsea." Cath said as she walked past Chelsea's room down the stairs.
When Cath got downstairs, Evie and Jay were waiting by the door, they had decided that they were going to go with Steve and take Cath to base.
When they got to base they parked Steve's truck and then all got out of the truck and started to walk to where they would have to leave Cath.
When they finally got to the gate they all stopped, it was time to say goodbye for Cath for the next 3 months.
"Well, I will see you guys in three months." Cath said turning the face them all.
"See you soon mom, love you." Jay said as he hugged his mother goodbye.
"Love you too. Remember, do what Steve tells you to do and please make sure that Chelsea doesn't do anything stupid and she does what Steve tells her." Cath replied. She let go of Jay and turned to Evie. "I will see you soon." She said she hugged Evie goodbye.
"See you soon." Evie said, returning the hug.
Cath then turned to Steve. "Be safe, I love you." Steve said as he pulled Cath close.
"I will, thank you for looking after Jay and Chelsea and make sure they don't convince you to let them do anything they don't normally do. I love you too." Cath said giving him a kiss. "I will call and email you, see you soon." Cath said as she made her way through the gate.
Steve, Jay and Evie waited until Cath was out of sight before they turned away and made their way back towards Steve's truck.
"How about we go and pick up Chelsea and we can go out play some Mini golf and get some dinner?" Steve asked, this was hopefully to try and get Chelsea to talk and forgive Cath and cheer Jay up as the boy looked sad when he had to say goodbye to his mother.
"Yeah, can we go for shrimp?" Evie asked.
"If Jay and Chelsea want to." Steve said as he turned in his seat to look at Jay.
"Yeah I would like to and I think Chelsea likes shrimp."
When they got home the front door was locked, they all made their way into the house to see if Chelsea was in. When they had a look around the whole house was empty. Jay got his phone from his pocket and called her number.
"This is Chelsea, I am probably blanking you right now, if you leave a message I may reply if I like you and can be bothered." Came back through the phone, they had got Chelsea's voice mail.
"Do you know why she would go?" Steve asked.
"With Chelsea it could be anywhere. I will call a few people and see if I can find her." Jay replied.
"Okay we will wait until she gets back and then go out." Steve said.
"Why? Steve she won't be back anytime soon and if she wants to go out we should too." Jay replied, he knew if Chelsea was not answering her phone then she was going out her way not to be seen by anyone and she would be gone for a long time and no matter who they called she would not be coming back.
"Okay let's go." Steve said as he picked his car keys back up and made their way back to the car.
A couple of hours later...
They had just finished their game of mini golf, on the way to play mini golf, Steve had called his team to see if they wanted to meet them for dinner. He called Danny first who had refused as he was going out with Gabby already and then picking up Grace and the three of them were then going to watch a film. Chin, Malia and Kono had agreed. They did ask Adam but he was on the main land for business.
When they met for dinner Jay was still trying to find out where his sister was. Times like this he hated his sister. Most of the time he loved her and they were close, but times like this was when he saw there was a difference between them, she was selfish, and she would make sure everyone else was thinking and worrying about her but she didn't really care about them or ruining their days.
"If we don't find her once we have left here, we can go via my office and I will track her phone." Steve said, he knew that Jay was worried and to be honest he was a little too. With Wo Fat's promise he was a little worried but when he was looking into WO Fat there was no evidence he was back on the Island. He had seen Chelsea go off before but last time it had been okay because he knew that Jay was with her.
"Everything already?" Kono asked Steve.
"Chelsea has go off somewhere and isn't answering her phone, but if we haven't spoke to here when we leave here I am going to go and track her phone." Steve replied.
"I am sure she will be fine, but if you need any help tracking her phone I will come with you." Kono replied.
"So Evie how is school?" Malia asked.
"It's good, I have made some friends, I love my teachers and they are setting up a girls basketball team." Evie replied.
"Don't tell your dad about the basketball team, he's not really sure of the rules, he only really understands football." Chin said, smiling over at Steve.
"I didn't need to be good at any other sport, basketball was enough to beat all your records." Steve said back.
"Well that's not for long, right Jay?" Chin replied looking over at Jay drawing him away from his phone.
"Yeah, planning to destroy them all." Jay replied.
"I think I might not to stop the practise if you want to beat them all." Steve said, jokingly.
"You wouldn't do that boss, you seem to enjoy playing too much." Kono added.
"Good point." Steve replied.
They had just finished their dinner and were getting ready to leave when Steve's phone rang. He looked at it and saw Chelsea's name. He had decided that he would have to ground Chelsea or take her phone away, not phoning them had caused him and Jay both to worry. Just because of what Cath did it did not make it okay for Chelsea to cause them all to worry.
"Hello." Steve said as he hit the answer button.
"Hi sir, its George."
"Is everything alright?"
"Not really, Chelsea is not very well."
"What do you mean not very well?"
"I think she has been drinking."
"Drinking? What? Where are you?"
We're at the beach on the North Shore by the coast guard station."
"I'll be there in about 20 minutes." Steve replied as he put down the phone.
"Is everything alright?" Chin asked.
"We have found Chelsea she is drunk on the North Shore." Steve replied. "I have to go." Steve said as he stood up.
"I'm coming with you." Said Jay.
"Same." Kono said as she stood up next to Jay.
"You three go me and Malia will take Evie home." Chin said.
"Thank you." Steve said as he walked towards where they had parked the truck.
"I can't believe her." Jay said when they were in the car. "She always has to do something stupid like this just to prove a point. By this will have nothing to do with mom, she's not here anymore."
"I understand but she has done it now and there is nothing we can do to change that, except maybe ground her for a week." Steve replied.
When they got to the North Shore Steve parked the car and they all got out of the car and started to walk towards the coast guard station. As they made their way around the back they found both George and Chelsea sitting with their backs up against the hut, with Chelsea's head resting on George's shoulder.
"Is she okay?" Kono asked as she bent down in front of Chelsea.
"I don't know she was sick a few times, sat down and has been in and out of falling asleep I think." George replied.
"What happened?" Steve asked.
"I don't know." George replied.
"George." Jay said, almost pleading with him to tell him what happened.
"George, I am going to find out what happened, you can either tell me or when I find out I will personally hold you responsible." Steve replied.
"I honestly don't know. I was at home, I haven't spoke to Chelsea today before this. What I understood was she went to the beach met some boys from a different school they were older and then a friend of mine come down to meet these boys and sees Chelsea, he phoned me, I got here and by the time I got there she was already drunk, I was going to take her back to my house but we got to here and she was being sick and couldn't walk any further." George explained.
"Okay, do you know these boys?" Steve asked, he knew they were probably drinking under age but they must have been older than Chelsea and he was going to make sure they were caught for underage drinking.
"I know them by sight not by name, my friend might but I don't think he will give you a name."
"Well he will tell me." Steve replied.
"How is she?" Jay asked.
"I think she is just very drunk, we need to get her home and Malia is still there so she can check her over, but I think it was only drink she took."
Please review, this chapter will continue into the next chapter here just seemed like a good place to stop. Hope you are enjoying the story.