Serenity Angel: Hey guys! Another chapter coming to ya! Normal P.O.V. today. Oh and by the way I know practically nothing about hockey! But I'm trying and if my info is wrong forgive me. By the way this was seriously overdue, but I was unable to watch the movie and my computer broke down and died on me. I wanted to burn its dead carcass and beat it with a bat. (Not necessarily in that order) Forgive me for the long wait. I made the chapter longer than usual for you guys.
Disclaimer: I don't own the movie Four Brothers or the characters except for Alex and her friends.
Enjoy!
It was a homecoming game for the ages. Mercer clan against the old neighborhood team: A game for the record books. It started off at a complete stand off as they waited for the puck to be dropped. Some idiots on the other team started making kissing noises at Alex who instantly became disgusted. She stole a glance from Bobby who just nodded. She turned back to one of the guys and smiled evilly. Soon as the puck was dropped it was like a bullet went off and they all went in fighting.
Bobby stole it first and made straightway for the goal. One of the idiots that where hitting on Alex was going after Bobby and she sped his way toward him, body-checking him to the ice. She smirked as he hit the ground and Bobby made the goal.
After about the first five goals that the Mercer side took, it was all out war. Brutality, cussing and cheap shots were flying on the ice along with the puck. Sam proved his salt as a hockey player quickly and Bobby even helped him score a few goals. They were basically slaughtering the other team.
More than halfway into the game one of the guys who got body checked by Alex and was made fun of about it since he was two times her size got pissed and decided to have a little fun. Wrong move. The puck went into play and Alex was on left D, hugging the wall and looking for an opening or any oncoming attacks. Jack had the puck and the guy made out like he was gonna take out Jack but purposely swung into Alex and slammed her hard into the glass.
"What the fuck man?" Alex said to him when he kept her pinned.
"How does it feel shawty?" He said leaning in close to her and smacked her ass. Seriously wrong move.
"Motha fucka did you just smack my ass?" She said extremely loudly and getting even more pissed off.
The puck was still in play heading toward the Mercer goal and the sucky goalie they got stuck with to make the teams even. Didn't matter though. What did was the impending doom coming swiftly toward them. She saw the puck was about to pass with an opposing player and saw it as her cue to break free.
"One, neva, eva touch my ass again boy and two you just signed your fuckin death certificate." She said kneeing him hard in the family jewels and speeding off toward the puck to save it from the goal.
The guy was too busy trying to take care of existing pain to notice four oncoming bullet trains for hockey players and was shoved into the glass by a pile up, almost breaking it. They leaned off and the guy unceremoniously slid to the ice in worse pain than before.
"You touch my sister again, I'ma shove these blades up your ass." Bobby said pointing at him. He was too busy cussing out the nearly unconscious guy on the floor to notice that Alex had saved the puck, passed it off to Andi who in turn passed it off to Sam who passed it off to Hailey who scored a goal. From then on the opposing players tried hard to stay clear of ever touching the youngest Mercer again.
Soon after Mercers won and the other team suffered a humiliating defeat. Especially with the fact that it was a girl that scored the winning goal. Only reason they had stopped playing was because too much of the other team were either bruised and battered or couldn't take any more of Bobby's or Alex's stamina. Even members on their team were beginning to get tired.
They got off the ice at their own speeds and some of the younger kids that were watching started to take to the ice. They began their game immediately after Bobby had gotten off the ice, him being the last.
"You and your game fixes Bobby." Andi said sitting on the bleachers and unlacing her skates.
"What? You complaining now?" Bobby said taking a seat near her.
"Nah, I'm just happy I'm here when you get them." She said smirking at him. Bobby smirked gloatingly too.
"That was a game for the age's man. Haven't played that hard in while." Hailey said taking a seat on the bleachers and stretching.
"This is one thing New York can't really offer me." Alex said looking at the game that was being played by some teenagers.
"It was a pretty good game." Jerry said smiling. He had already taken off his skates and packed his gear. Angel was the second one to stand up.
"Pretty good? Jerry we creamed they asses. And y'all were good out there I'm proud." Bobby said putting on his Tims and smiling like a proud father now. Most of them rolled their eyes as he turned to look at Jack who had returned with his stuff from the public lockers.
"Even Jack didn't play like a-" he stopped short when Hailey, Andi and Alex picked their heads up and looked at him.
"Like a what?" Andi said lacing up her furry boots.
"Yeah, Bobby. Like what?" Jack said sliding in the seat in between Hailey and Sam who had gotten up to put his gear in his car.
Bobby finished putting his gear in his pack and looked around as if he didn't hear the last two questions.
"Bobby, like what?" Hailey had asked this time, slightly moving her hockey stick toward her. Bobby was still pretending like he didn't hear and then found what he was looking for.
"Ah pay-up time. Meet you guys by the car. Angel you coming?" Bobby said quickly getting up and walking over to C.J with Angel on his heels. Sam was walking back from putting his gear in the car.
"Hey, good game Sam. Not a bad player yourself." Bobby said patting him on the back as he started to jog to C.J. who seemed to be walking a little faster at the sight of Bobby and Angel Mercer.
For the second time that day Alex's mouth dropped.
"It's official. Hell is frozen straight through." Alex said with complete disbelief.
"Why would you say that?" Jerry asked as he shouldered his gear.
"Did you just witness what I did? Bobby just- wait that's it!" she said as she put her boot on.
"What's it?" Andi asked looking at Bobby.
"That's a freaking replacement clone, or something cuz that can't be Bobby." Alex said pointing at her eldest brother.
"What, he can't give a complement any more?" Jerry asked.
"Jeremiah Mercer since when has that man ever should an ounce of decency to Sam since like the whole time I've known him? Twice in the same day? He was giving him the evil eye yesterday! And you know Bobby. He doesn't go out and tell someone straight out that they're a good player." She said in almost a whisper as she put on her other boot.
"Maybe he's finally warming up to him like Jack and me." Jerry pointed out and gave Sam a reassuring pat on the back.
"When pigs fly. This is Bobby and Angel Mercer were talking bout here. It'll be a world gone mad when they warm up to my friends that are guys. No offense Sam." Alex said giving him a sorry look.
"None taken." He said holding up his hands in mock surrender and smirking at her.
"I bet you if Bobby knew how close I was to my students he'd be in the back of the class eyeing the freaking male population of my classes with gun in hand." She said as she put her skates in her bag.
"How close are you with the students in general?" Andi asked and they all happened to lean in closer.
"I'm pretty cool with them, but that's not the issue right now." She said getting up and walking down the bleachers and on to firm ground.
"And the issue would be?" Hailey asked.
"He's up to something." She said picking up Angel's bag while Jerry got Bobby's. Andi and Hailey rolled their eyes.
"Then give me another reason for flipping his attitude over night practically." She said heading to the cars with Andi, Sam, and Jerry.
Hailey had stayed behind with Jack since he was still getting out of his skates for he was paying full attention to the conversation. Jerry had opened the back up and set his stuff inside along with Bobby's. Alex followed the suit and had just finished putting in her stuff when Bobby and Angel came with Hailey's stuff.
"She's still with the fairy. Damn slow-pokes." Bobby muttered.
"Says the king of slow-pokes." Alex said. Bobby grabbed her by the waist, took off her hat, and proceeded by giving her a noogie.
"Who's the king of slow-pokes now huh?" he said continuing with the treatment smirking.
"Stop." She whined even though she was smirking as well.
Bobby eventually let go and she went to hide behind Sam. She peered from behind his 6 foot and four inches frame at Bobby and stuck her hand out. Sam just smiled at the exchange between brother and sister, even if he may have been caught in the middle. He wouldn't admit it out loud and in front of her brothers but he liked the she chose him to be her body shield.
"Hat please." He gave it back making a face at her and she resorted to sticking her tongue out instead of flipping him the middle finger and probably getting picked up from the ground and thrown into a snow bank. Suddenly something on Sam began to shake him.
"You're vibrating dude." She said in a whisper as to not let the others hear. Apparently Andi did and began to laugh. He checked his waist to see that it was his phone.
"Crap. It's my damn boss." He muttered and she smirked.
"The real one?" Alex asked and the brothers present looked at her confused.
"Yeah. Hold up." He said walking toward his car.
She matched Bobby's confused look as Jerry fixed the gear in the trunk. Jack and Hailey were coming from the bleachers laughing and talking. Once Sam was away Angel leaned against the back of the car.
"Something about being back home makes me want to steal an American car." He said looking off into the distance.
Andi and Alex looked at him before shaking their heads and muttering dumbass.
"Hey, no calling your big brother names Alex." Bobby said looking at her and she looked right back with a raised eyebrow before letting a smirk grace her features.
"I thought you said he was my big sister." She said innocently.
"No that's Jack." He said coming back as quickly. Jack glared at the back of Bobby's head and stuck up his middle finger, which Alex had seen and laughed at. When Bobby turned around Jack was already putting away his stuff like nothing ever happened.
"Well it's nice to know you still have y'all nicknames fore each other and stuff. But before the nostalgia wears off and y'all wanna blow back outta town, we've got some important business to take care of." Jerry said closing the back of the trunk when Jack had finished putting his stuff away.
Alex looked at him and noticed the serious glint in his face.
"Oh boy." She sighed.
"Gentlemen... and lady, I'm truly sorry about your mother. Although I only met Evelyn the one time, she made quite an impression." The lawyer whose name none except probably Jerry could remember said.
They were currently sitting in one of the numerous offices in the building he worked in, talking about what their mother had left behind for them. Everyone else had conveniently made themselves scarce when Jerry had first mentioned it by the ice rink. Once the stuff had been dropped off and everyone changed into something dry, Jerry piled them all back into the car and brought them here. So now here they sat, listening to the lawyer, Bradford Alex thought the his name was, drone on.
"I know it's difficult to deal with mundane financial matters while your heart still grieves for a loved one." He stated and he actually looked sorry.
"How much do we get?" Jack suddenly asked Bobby immediately smacked Jack in the head. Alex turned to him and gave him the only look.
"Jack no." she said shaking her head slightly at him looking hurt.
While the rest of the Mercer family was scolding the youngest male, Bradford had moved over to a smaller table and retrieved a rectangular metal box and put it in the middle of the table in front of them.
"This is the-uh contents of your mother's safety deposit box. I'll leave you to look through it." He said as Bobby pulled it towards him and Bradford left the room. Bobby opened it looking in side and finding multiple papers. He took a glance at it before handing one set of papers to Jack, then one to Jerry, and finally one to Alex. They looked at it curiously. It only took a second for Alex to realize what they were.
"Birth Certificates." Jack stated looking at his own. He moved the paper clip holding it out of the way and looked at the other contents.
"The adoption papers." He stated once again before looking through them.
"Henry Ford Hospital. So I am from Detroit." Jerry said a little happily.
"Lansing, Michigan." Jack mumbled.
"My mom was sixteen?" Jerry asked surprised looking past Alex to Jack and the others.
Alex herself was playing little attention. What she was reading was making it hard to breathe. She closed the papers, her face grim and looked up only to stare off into the distance.
"I got any papers in there man?" Angel asked, slightly breaking Alex out of her trance. Bobby had shaken his head muttering a no.
"You got any papers in there man? Angel asked and Bobby shook his head again.
"Whoa." Jack exclaimed when Bobby had moved another paper. His hand shot into the deposit box and came back out with a ticket.
"1969. Mom went to Woodstock." He said with a smile.
"Yeah, you didn't know Mom was a hippy?" Bobby said chuckling. He took a side glance at Alex, noticing how quiet she was, causing Jack to do the same.
"What's up?" he said nodding toward her papers, which she had clutched in an almost death grip.
"Nothing." She mumbled looking down. When he noticed that she was staring at the papers he went to grab for it. She smacked his hand at glared at him.
"Jack." She growled out low. The others hadn't caught it, or at least Jerry pretended he didn't.
"Leave it alone." She said her eyes hard.
"Oh, here we go." Bobby suddenly said before Jack could push further. He stood up holding a wad of cash, the rest of the Mercer children following him.
"You sure I don't got any papers in there man?" Angel asked looking in the deposit box.
"Here's your paper right here. Bobby said dividing and distributing the cash to Angel, Jerry, Alex and keeping a couple bills for himself.
"What about me?" Jack asked putting his hand out.
"Nuh-uh. Here. That will look good on you." Bobby said pulling out a necklace from the box and dropping it into Jack's hand. He looked at Bobby disbelieving but Bobby had already closed the box and tucked it under his arm. Jack looked around at the others but they were already moving and putting on their jackets. He noted that Alex's pissed off look seemed to intensify as she stared at the back of Bobby's head.
"Whatever man." Bobby said walking out the door.
"You got to be fucking me." Jack said and had muttered a few more curses as he grabbed his jacket afterward.
"Quit crying." Jerry said to him as Jack moved from around the table.
"Come on, I got something to show you." He said leading them out the room and back to the car. Alex had stayed quiet the whole time idly listening to the conversation and staring out the window. Of course Jack was worried, but said nothing, allowing her space and waiting when she would come and talk to him. When they had stopped again, it was in the far side town in the broken down buildings of the city.
"This is it." Jerry said throwing his arms open wide.
"So this is your dream Jerry?" Jack asked as her put an arm around Alex's shoulder and they all walked into one of said broken down buildings. She had leaned into Jack, just listening to the conversation.
"Oh yeah." He answered smiling at his other siblings.
"There's a lot of space in here what are you going to do, build some automobiles?" Jack asked as they climbed the steep walk.
"No, luxury lofts." Jerry answered.
"Rims man, new rims." Angel had said but Jerry ignored him.
"Urban sophistication is what I'm talking bout." Jerry went on.
"Oh, so now you doing real estate?" Angel asked but was ignored once again.
"This whole first floor here is gonna be lavish offices and storefronts. I'm gonna put stain glass windows here." He said motioning to the sides of the building as they walked. He explained in detail what he planned to do, beaming that he was standing out from his family. Alex smiled at his happiness. He was like a kid in candy store explaining why Hershey's kisses are better than Nestlé's Crunch. (A/N: I can't decide which is better. They're both so good!!! :3)
They were on a certain floor crammed with a bunch of crap that was left there when the building shut down when Bobby decided to open his big mouth.
"This building is condemned. You got insurance?" Bobby asked looking at him.
"Why?" Jerry asked looking confused.
"So we can burn this bitch down-" Bobby started but Jerry stopped his train of thought.
"No we ain't burning shit down. You always want to destroy something." Jerry said and Alex laughed a little.
"He's the Michigan Mauler, what do you expect?" she stated from where she was looking around.
"Look. Look at your little brother." Bobby said and all the Mercer sibling's heads turned to Jack, Alex grimacing in disgust at him peeing at the corner.
"Jack!" Jerry called with authority.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Is this the master suite? Am I making the property value go down?" he asked turning around to them while Bobby and Angel laughed.
"And y'all wonder how you get diseases. By doing shit like that." Alex stated turning her head away.
"This shithole gives the term 'Motor City Breakdown' a whole new meaning, Jerry." Bobby stated crossing the room and looking around.
"How the hell you gonna pay for all this?" he asked stopping in front of a metal rack.
"Government redevelopment loan. Easy to qualify. Low interest rates. Y'all stick around. I might give y'all ass a job." He stated looking at his brothers.
"You know they need it. Especially Bobby." Alex commented under her breath. Bobby heard anyway.
"And what about you, you brat? Could be the secretary. Wear one of them little headphone shits on your head and talk your ass off all day. I know you'll enjoy that." Bobby retorted.
"One, I have a job that I love thank you very much. Two, it pays better than some of the shit you did while you was younger. And three, I ain't the gossiping teenager of the family Bobby." She shot at him with a raised eyebrow. Before Bobby could comment back they all heard Angel bust out laughing and turned to him. He turned to the others pointing to one of the shelves of the rack.
"They- they look like nipples." He commented as his smile faded. They all turned their heads at the stupidity of the comment.
"It's official. I have male chauvinistic pigs for brothers." Alex commented turning her away from yet another brother. Jerry, who was the closest slung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her in to a one arm hug.
"Let's go get a real drink." Bobby said, polishing off his beer and throwing the bottle on the floor, making it shatter to pieces.
They headed back out into the cold, Jerry driving and soon found themselves at Johnny G's. It was one of the official hang outs of the Mercer's, even before they were of the legal drinking age. Bobby used to work there a couple nights a week up until he left town and Alex hand more than one experience of picking up one of her drunken brother's from there on occasion. It was the only reason she was let it besides when Bobby worked there and plus the fact that she didn't drink. Too many bad experiences to follow through on her brothers' lifestyle. They were more than happy with her choice however, and only every now and again tried to get her to drink a toast for something which she usually refused.
It was a little emptier than usual, haunted by the loyal costumers. They made their way to the bar counter, Bobby and Angel greeting almost everyone in there on the way. It would only figure that they would know practically the whole bar. Bobby and Angel took the front, Alex, Jerry, and Jack talking amongst themselves. While Jack was talking he stopped mid-sentence, a smirk forming on his lips.
"I thought you said you weren't working tonight." He said and Jerry and Alex turned to see Hailey turning toward them with a serving tray in hand. She wore a black tank top with a graphic design in white, a skirt that was slightly higher than mid thigh and had chains on one side, and boots that stopped mid calf. Her dark auburn hair curled to mid-back am she smiled at them, her hazel brown eyes twinkling.
"Filling in." she said setting two drinks down on the table in front of her.
"Aren't skirts the root of all evil?" Alex said as she gave her friend's outfit the once over.
"Hence it's ok to wear it here." She said motioning to their surroundings. Her tray empty, she walked with them to the bar talking with them and Jack watching her the whole time. Jack, Jerry, and Alex took the available seats at the bar next to Angel and Bobby. Jack watched Hailey's hips sway as she went around the bar to Jerry and Alex's amusement.
"Well lookie here. If it ain't the youngest Mercer's by far. Old enough to be in here too if I'm correct. And Jerry too. What's up man." Johnny said as he clapped Jack on the back over the table top and shook Jerry and Alex's hands.
"Well don't we look sexy Hailey?" Bobby said while Angel wolf-whistled. She laughed while she served two customers at the end of the bar counter. She turned to them, smirk on her face.
"I know I do. I just wanna know who was lying to you." She said grabbing a few glasses and placing them on the table in front of the boys.
"Don't make fun of my best girl, Bobby." Johnny said mussing up Hailey's hair when she was near. She laughed as she grabbed glasses for herself and Johnny. She then looked over Jack's shoulder and smiled.
"Was this the one that lied to you Bobby?" she said motioning her head and the general direction behind Jack and they all turned to see Andrea and Sam coming toward them.
"Now the gang's all here. Was this planned or something?" Johnny commented laughing.
"What's up McCalester? Johnson?" He said shaking their hands over the table.
"Nothing much. The same old." Andrea commented.
"Detroit being Detroit even on a holiday." He said taking off his jacket and taking the seat near Alex. Andi took the last available seat near Bobby. Hailey grabbed two more glasses shooting one toward Andi and another to Sam. Johnny grabbed a bottle of whiskey off the shelf.
"So what the hell did I do this time?" Andi asked as she gave Johnny an okay to pour her a drink.
"Telling Bobby he's sexy." Hailey answered pouring down the line and was about to skip over Alex when she gave the okay for her to pour out some in her glass. Jerry, Hailey, Jack, and Sam all looked at her stunned. She rolled her eyes and then looked at Bobby.
"I think I know who this shot is gonna go out to. This'll be the first and last time." She said grimacing at the fact she was going to break her streak, but for what she thought Bobby was about to do she dubbed it okay. Once all the drinks were poured and everyone had eased into easy conversation Bobby cleared his throat and raised his glass.
"Your attention please. I wanna make a toast. To Evelyn Mercer. The greatest mother four degenerate bastards, the sweetest girl in the universe and our two- I mean three wise ass friends ever had." He said making the correction after he caught sight of Sam at the end of the table. They all clinked glasses and downed it strait. All the glasses dropped to the counter seconds later and empty, and Johnny picked up the bottle of whiskey again.
"Johnny, pour me and my brothers another round. And some nice warm milk for my little sister here." Bobby said as the others pushed their glasses toward Johnny.
"Man, I will drink you under the table." Jack said looking at Bobby.
"We're not talking about sperm Jack, this is whiskey." Bobby said clapping his hand on Jack's back.
"What about the other little one?" Johnny said eyeing Alex at the end of the table. She was talking to Sam and Hailey and turned when she felt eyes her way. She just shook her head and let the right corner of her mouth rise a bit.
"Any soda mixed with cranberry juice please. It will hopefully knock out the taste. And y'all wonder why I stick to no drinking." She said grimacing again. Bobby smiled while Hailey filled the order. They stayed at the bar talking to Johnny and Bobby and Jack having their drinking contest. After a while they all moved to a table, taking the drinking competition with them. Hailey stayed manning the bar for a few more customers before taking the floor again. It only became too apparent after a while though that Jack won that competition.
"Jack drinks jack. Jack drinks jack. Jack drinks jack." Jack said talking into the cup.
"That's your brother." Jerry said to Bobby, pointing at the drunken Jack.
"Thank God for that. At least he belongs to somebody." Andi mumbled under her breath next to Bobby.
"I disowned my claim 30 minutes ago." Alex said looking at Jack over her cup of soda. He removed the cup from his mouth and stuck his tongue out at her. Sam who was sitting on the other side of Alex just laughed.
"Jack likes ass crack and ball sack." Bobby said.
"Jack doesn't lick ass crack and ball sack." He yelled a little too loudly.
"Go on and announce it to the world Jack." Andi said taking another swig of her beer.
"Jack likes boobs. Jack gots fans. Jack gots lots of fans." He said shifting in his seat.
"Oh, man." Bobby mumbled while Angel narrowed his eyes at Jack.
"Will you shut up man?" Angel said while Alex just laughed at her older brothers.
"And mind you we wouldn't be able to sit through any of this and blackmail 'em when we were younger." Sam mumbled to Alex.
"You couldn't. I had come in more than once to remove one of these drunken asses. Hailey had been hovering over by another table and came near smirking. She took one look at Jack and mumbled something about a cure all. Then she looked at Alex who was taking another sip of her soda and laughed.
"Singing in the rain." She said and Alex eyes bulged and she almost choked on and spit up her own drink laughing. Sam patted her on the back gently, confused with the rest of her brothers. Andi was covering her mouth trying to hold in her laughter. Hailey left laughing herself but had promised to be right back.
"Oh my God. I almost forgot about that." She said between fits of laughter. The others looked at her confused.
"You honestly don't remember? I'd understand why Bobby and Angel wouldn't." They all shook their heads no. "Oh, my God. It was when I was 17. I get a call from Johnny saying to come pick these Broadway showgirls you call brothers up and outta my bar. I was wondering what the hell he meant the whole time I was driving there. As soon as I step out the freaking car you hear a chorus of 'Singing in the Rain' coming from Johnny's bar. I'm like what the hell is going on as make my way through. Next thing you know who but Bobby and Angel are on the fucking bar counter top drunk off their asses and leading the whole fucking bar in a Broadway tune. As soon as I was near enough the song choice changed to 'My Girl' and Bobby starts serenading Mary Lee, you remember the old woman who used to man the bar?"
"The one with liver spots and the bad hip?" Jerry said laughing.
"Yeah. I had to drab them off the bar top away from Mary and out the fucking door. They were going on like they were a regular act sayin they'd be there all week. Next thing you know as soon as I get them home they puke in the car. Next day they don't remember shit. I was always wondering how you kept your freaking job Bobby." Alex said ending in a fit of laughter along with Jack, Jerry, Sam and Andi. Bobby and Angel just glared at the rest of the group.
"That shit did not happen." Angel said and Alex laughed harder.
"It would explain why Mary kept hitting on me before she retired or why Johnny refused to let me near the special stash." Bobby said and took a long swig of his bear while the other still laughed.
"Wait so that's what happen to make my fucking car smell so bad? I had to burn the shit and get a new one." Bobby said looking up at the others. They just laughed harder at Bobby's scowl. Hailey had come round the table with a few refills for the others and an ugly looking thing in a glass. She looked and Jack and shook her head. She had handed everyone else their drinks and was currently standing with the glass of ugly and looking at Jack with a smirk. He looks at her and smiled.
"Hello Hailey." He says.
"Hello Jackie." She said back. The others watch the exchange.
"Hey Jackie do me a favor. Tilt your head back and good 'ah'." She said smiling innocently. Not seeing any trouble in his slight drunken stupor he listened to her and then she pincheed his nose close and tilted the glass of ugly into his mouth with out spilling a drop. Before he can even try and spit it out she put the glass down and closed his mouth.
"Swallow." She said and seeing that she wasn't going to let it come out of his mouth he forced it down, gagging when she let go of his mouth.
"What the fuck was that Hails?" he said trying to get the taste out of his mouth.
"That is what is going to help that bitch of a hangover you'll have tomorrow." She said.
"Damn Doc. Remind me not to piss you off when I come for a check-up." Angel said and everyone laughed.
Suddenly someone's phone began to ring. Everyone looked at their phones automatically but it was Sam who opened his.
"McCalester." He answered in a formal, and serious tone. Everyone zoned on him and listened, not bothering to be discreet.
"Yeah. Uh huh, Yeah. Okay." Went the one side of the conversation everyone could hear.
"Alright I'm on my way." He answered shutting off his phone. He sighed as put his phone back in its case on his hip.
"It never ends." He said getting up and pulling his jacket from behind the chair he was sitting in.
"Gotta head to the station. Guess I'll see y'all round." He said smiling at the group and letting it linger on Alex for a while longer. Only Andi and Hailey saw it. Jack saw it as well but was too much into his current drunken-to-sober state to comment.
"Night Sam." The girls called as he was walking away.
"Night Sam." Jack mimicked in a high pitched voice. They all looked at him, including Sam.
"That right there should have been caught on tape." Sam said before saying another good bye and heading out the door.
"Hey I didn't say it was instantaneous." she said putting the empty cups on the tray.
"I think we should be following Sam's example and get the hell outta here." Jerry suddenly said stretching.
"Why are you in such a rush? You can't hang with your big brother and have a drink?" Bobby asked looking at Jerry.
"I'm here, I mean, what? I'm glad y'all here. I love y'all." Jerry said.
"We love you too Jerry." Everyone said at the same time.
Johnny had just walked over after Sam left. He had been eyeing the table the whole time, waiting for Sam to leave.
"Hey, that's some real goddamn bad stuff about your mom fellas." Johnny said, leaning against the wall.
"Yeah." The Mercers all mumbled simultaneously.
"Freaking gangs. Worms. Someone ought to step on them." He said and Alex froze looking it him. He was trying to drop a hint, she could tell. This night was not going to end well.
"Which gang Johnny G?" Bobby said leaning back in his chair and throwing his arm over another.
"Oh Shit. Here we go. I knew it." Jerry said leaning forward and taking his glass.
"I think I heard something. The neighborhood's really upset about this." Johnny said looking at each person at the table.
"Same old Bobby." Jerry commented looking at him.
"Mama always said 'As bright as Bobby is he just doesn't like to think.' Ain't no good gonna come from this. Just let the police do they damn job." Jerry said.
"Oh, stop with the police man." Jack said going for another shot of whiskey from the table, only for it to be grabbed out of his hands from Hailey.
"Jerry, half the cops in this town are crooked. You think the other half give two shits about a liquor-store hold up?" Bobby said looking at Jerry.
"I'm telling you man, Green is on our side on this one. Sam too. Maybe more so. Come on man." Jerry pleaded.
"Green? She's the only one that ever gave a damn man. The least we could do is bang on a few doors and see what happens. We owe her that much." Angel said and Jerry shook his head through the whole thing.
"Why you acting like such a bitch Jerry?" Bobby asked quietly.
"Okay. So now what, y'all just gonna shoot up the whole town cuz y'all mad?" Jerry asked.
"Why not?" Angel asked.
"Come on man. The people who did this are probably from the same shitty ass streets that we came from. Mom would have been the first to forgive them and y'all know that." Jerry answered.
"We can't all be saints, Jerry." Bobby said taking a swig of his whiskey.
"Yeah, we can't all be saints, Jerry." Jack mimicked.
"All right. All right cool." He said standing up. He looked at Alex and then turned to Bobby.
"I know she better stay out of this. She has a life that doesn't need a record on it." Jerry said pointing at Alex.
"I can make my own decisions Jerry." Alex said looking up at him, her eyes hard.
"And?" he said putting on his coat.
"I'm not gonna let the fucker go free." She said and her sudden use of profanity since that morning surprised Jerry, but what looked liked it surprised him more was the fact that she choose to stay.
"If they get too deep by my standards, I'll pull them out." She said looking at him.
"Think sense Alex. I'll ride with them." Andi said not wanting her to tag along any more that Jerry.
"Then I'll make great company." She said and the tone of her voice made her decision final.
"Bye Jerry." Bobby said not looking at him.
"Don't call me when y'all get shot up. This is Detroit, in case you forgot." He said fixing his collar and walking away toward the exit.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Bobby said.
"Johnny. Come tell us what's going on man." Angel said. Johnny took a chair and sat down leaning in on the table. Everyone else, including Hailey who was still there with the glasses, leaned in too.
"You wanna know what I heard?" Johnny asked and as he told his tale of what he heard on the streets, each person around the table prepared themselves for what they where going to do with it.
To Be Continued
Serenity Angel: This chapter came out to be pretty long but you guys deserve it. I'm sorry for the long wait! Hope you enjoyed! For all my readers think of it as Christmas present though it was supposed to be out sooner.