St. Brown's Hospital, 9:28 AM.
Emma's POV
"What?! How long have you known about this?" exclaimed Luke.
I felt the heat of guilt rush to my cheeks.
"Well...the head nurse called and told me last night."
"When were you gonna tell me?"
"Well...I wasn't."
"Why?! Did you think that by not telling us, Dad would magically get cured and we could just brush this whole thing off like it never happened?"
"No," I said, "I just didn't want to hurt you, Ravi and Zuri's feelings!"
"Oh, you didn't want to hurt our feelings?! You know what Emma, that's bullcrap!"
"Luke, I'm sor-"
"Save it, Emma!" he said, putting his hand in front of him. "I'm outta here."
He left the hospital bedroom and slammed the door.
I buried my face in my hands and started crying.
15th Street, 9:31 AM.
J.W and Kristen were driving to the hospital.
"Ok," J.W said, "Let's make sure we have everything we need. Plane tickets?"
"Check." Kristen said.
"Unloaded gun?"
"Check."
"An outfit for Jessie?"
"Check."
"Baseball bat?"
"Check."
"Ahh. Good. We have everything we need."
He thought for a moment.
"Hey, Milk Momma?"
"Yeah?"
"If you were male, how much do you think you'd bid on Jessie?"
"An ugly skank like her? She can't be worth much more than ten cents."
"In my opinion, she'd be worth about $5,000, tops."
"Sugar Daddy, that's sick! She's your fucking daughter!"
"Hey, I'm just expressing my opinion."
St Brown's Hospital, 9:41 AM.
Jessie's POV
Bertram and I worriedly sat in the hospital waiting room. I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was Luke.
"Hey, Jessie."
"Oh, Luke! Thank God you're alright!" I said, pulling him in for a hug.
"Hey, what am I, chopped liver?" Tony said, walking behind Luke.
I pulled him in as well.
"So have you guys been cleared to leave?" Bertram asked.
"Yup." Luke said, "But Emma's going into surgery in less than half an hour."
"Well, then I guess we can just leave her to that. It's probably gonna take a while."
We all agreed. We were the only ones in the waiting room since it was still kind of early. As we began exiting, out of nowhere, my father and his little blond minion appeared. My dad was holding a gun, and Blondie was holding a metal baseball bat.
"Going somewhere?" my dad asked.
"Oh God, not you two again." Luke said.
He aimed the gun at Luke, Bertram, and Tony. "Get back against the wall!" he demanded.
They did as he said.
"Ok, now here's what's gonna happen. Me and Kristen here are gonna take Jessie for a little ride. And you three are gonna stay here, unconscious!"
Bertram was puzzled. He asked, "What do you mean, uncon-"
Kristen whacked all three of them with the baseball bat.
"Ungh!"
"Ergh!"
"Aah!"
They collapsed to the floor. My dad then put the gun to my back. "Start walking." he said.
We walked outside to his Escalade. Kristen tied my hands behind my back and shoved me in the backseat. She got into the passenger seat and my dad got into the driver's seat. He ignited the engine and we left the hospital parking lot.
"You mind if I ask where we're going?" I asked.
"Airport." my dad said.
"Where are we flying to?"
"Texas."
I was getting kind of annoyed that he kept giving me one-worded answers.
"Are we going back to the military base?" I asked.
"You will find out the destination in Texas when we get there! Now if we're done playing 20 Questions, I'd really like to focus on the road, please!"
"Ok, ok. God."
The Ross Penthouse, 9:57 AM.
No POV
Somehow, Ravi and Zuri had slept through that entire ruckus downstairs, and were just waking up. Ravi had to feed Ms. Kipling, but Zuri went straight downstairs.
She screamed.
Ravi rushed downstairs when he heard her.
"Zuri, what is going on?"
"That!" She pointed.
There was blood on the floor in front of the couch, and streaks of blood on the floor in front of the elevator.
"Oh my God! What happened down here?"
"I don't know. But nobody else is home. I checked Jessie, Emma, Luke, and Bertram's rooms. They're all gone!"
"We have to get to the bottom of this!" Ravi exclaimed. He checked his phone to see if anyone had texted him. Luke had. The text read:
Bad news. Emma just told me that Dad has a tumor in his stomach. I know I prrobably should have called you, but I wouldn't have been able to bring myself to do it.
"Oh." Ravi said.
"What do you mean, 'Oh.'?" Zuri asked.
"Zuri...Mr. Daddy has a tumor in his stomach."
"Wha...What?!"
"Yes. Luke texted me."
Zuri began crying her eyes out. Ravi hugged her.
"Do not worry, Zuri. Everything will be alright."
"Ravi, *sniffle!* I appreciate you trying to make me feel better, but I don't think that's a promise you can keep."
" Well, would you want to go visit Mommy and Daddy?"
"We're not gonna be able to. The hospital's all the way on 15th street. It's too far to walk."
"Well, let's ask Tony if he can give us a ride." Ravi said.
Ravi pressed the intercom button by the elevator.
"Tony? Can you give us a ride to the hospital?"
No answer.
"Hello? Tony? Well, I guess he's not at the desk."
"Well, the only other option is Mrs. Chesterfield."
"But she's not gonna be willing to give us a ride! She hates us!" Ravi said.
"She will if she knows our situation."
As soon as they were ready, Zuri and Ravi went downstairs to Mrs. Chesterfield's apartment to ask her for a ride.
Zuri rang the doorbell.
They waited a few seconds, and she came.
"Ugh." she said when she saw them. She tried to close the door, but Zuri grabbed it.
"Can you give us a ride to the hospital?" she asked.
"And why would I do that?" Mrs. Chesterfield asked.
"Because, Ravi and I are home alone, our parents are hospital, and nobody's answering their phone."
"Oh, dear. Morgan and Christina are in the hospital? That's terrible! Hang on, let me grab my keys." Mrs. Chesterfield had never had a good relationship with the Ross kids, but she had developed a good friendship with Morgan and Christina over the years.
As soon as she got her keys, the three of them left and headed to the hospital.
St. Brown's Hospital, 10:35 PM.
Mrs. Chesterfield pulled into the hospital parking lot, and she, Ravi and Zuri got out and walked in. Before they went to the front desk, they noticed three limp carcasses on the floor of the waiting room.
"Hey, guys." Zuri said, "Look!"
With a closer look, they noticed that the bodies were Luke, Bertram, and Tony.
"Oh my gosh!" Ravi exclaimed, "How has nobody noticed this?!"
"Oh! My poor, poor, Bertie!" Mrs. Chesterfield got on her knees and tried to perform mouth-to-mouth. Bertram regained consciousness right away, and Luke and Tony soon followed.
"What? G—Get off me, Rhoda!" Bertram said, shoving Mrs. Chesterfield away.
"What's going on here?" Zuri demanded.
Bertram and Tony both groaned, rubbing their foreheads.
"I don't remember." Bertram said.
"Me neither." Tony said.
"I do." Luke said, "The three of us and Jessie were about to leave, but Jessie's dad and this blonde girl named Kristen came in. Jessie's dad pointed a gun at us and told us to get against the wall. We did. He said he was gonna take Jessie for a 'little ride'. Then Kristen knocked all three of us out with a baseball bat."
"Let me call Jessie." Zuri said. She took out her phone and dialed Jessie's number. It began ringing.
LaGuardia Airport, 10:37 AM.
J.W had taken Jessie's phone when they kidnapped her. It rang with a call from Zuri.
J.W gladly answered. "Hello?"
"What did you with Jessie?!" Zuri screamed into the phone, so loud that J.W had to hold it away from his ear.
"Your nanny is being escorted back to Texas where she will work for a certain man to please him. Don't bother coming after us. I have wingmen around the whole perimiter of the airport. Bye-bye."
He hung up.
Back to the hospital.
"So what's up?" Luke asked.
"Um, Jessie's dad's taking her to back to Texas where she'll 'work for a certain man to please him', whatever that means. Apparently, they're at an airport." Zuri replied.
"Work for a certain man to please him? Oh, God."
"What?" Tony asked.
"They're gonna turn her into a sex slave!"
Everybody's eyes widened.
"Wait, did you say that they're at an airport? The only airport within miles of here the LaGuardia one." Tony said.
"Well, then we need to get over there." Luke said.
"Who's car are we going to take?" Ravi asked.
"My car's out." Mrs. Chesterfield said, "It can only seat up to five people."
"Mine too." Bertram said.
"We'll take mine, it's a Navigator." Tony said.
"Wait, you have a Navigator?" Bertram asked, "How can you afford a car that nice but live in such a crappy apartment?"
"Bigger fish right now, Bertram. Come on."
The six of them scrambled for the parking lot and went out to Tony's car. They hurriedly drove to the airport.
LaGuardia Airport, 10:42 AM.
Jessie, Kristen, and J.W walked to the airport entrance.
"For the 1000th time, what the hell did you mean when you said I'd be 'working for a man to please him'?" Jessie demanded.
"Ok, fine, I'll tell you. You're gonna be a sex slave!" Kristen said.
"Gah! Grrr, you weren't supposed to tell her until after we got to Texas!"
"What? You're gonna turn me into a sex slave?! And you weren't even gonna tell me until it was too late?!"
Jessie thought she'd be able to control herself, but at that point she had just about had it with her dad and this annoying blond girl.
She punched her dad so hard she knocked him unconscious. She took the gun out of his pocket, aimed it at Kristen, and pulled the trigger.
Nothing happened.
She pulled it again. Nothing.
Kristen laughed. "It's not even loaded, you dumb bitch!"
Jessie wasn't about to let that stop her. She whacked Kristen across the face with the gun, knocking her unconscious as well.
"Excuse me, ma'am. I'm gonna need you to come with me." A security guard grabbed Jessie and handcuffed her.
To be continued...
A/N: Hey guys! Sorry I didn't put the stuff from the sneak peek in this chapter, but I'll try to work it into chapter 6! And I'm sorry for making this chapter a cliffhanger! Be sure to R&R :)