Chapter 7:
We slowly made our way over to Jerry's house, I was numb at the thought that Jerry might have something to do with Evelyns death but deep in my heart I knew he didn't have anything to do with it, how could he? he loved his mother more the words can explain, we showed up in front of the house sitting there, Bobby didn't hesitate.
"I'm going to go in and bust that melon's head in and find out what he's thinking!" he exclaimed and went for the door handle, Jack and I reached out and pulled him back down.
"His family's in there Bobby! calm down please!" I pleaded, as Angel commented also, "Bobby your going to have to calm down!" Angel exclaimed, Bobby shook us off as he sat back down.
"I dont care! oh I'm calm, he thinks I'm idiot, thinks I dont know what the fuck is going on!" he raged, I bit my bottom lip worriedly, I didn't like it when he got into one of these tempers but I tried to deal with it the best I could.
"Let me just call him and see about him coming over tomorrow" Angel remarked, he dialed as I cautiously reached out to Bobby and placed my hand on his shoulder once more.
"Bobby please calm down, just hear him out please?" I pleaded softly, trying to get him to see that he was still his brother and that this wasn't like Jerry to do this, deep in my heart I knew that Jerry had nothing to do with this, to my complete shock was Bobby and the guys thinking that he did have something to do with this.
"Jerry we need to meet first thing in the morning at mom's house ok? were still family right? ok" Angel asked, I bit my lip because I could hear the dispair in his voice of perhaps having his brother having to do something with this whole thing, Bobby had calmed down just a tad.
"Is he coming?" he asked, Angel replied that he was, Bobby nodded then he placed his hand comfortingly on mine letting me know that he wasn't going to let anything serious happen, we just had to wait till tomorrow morning.
We got home and decided to go get some sleep, I was exhuasted and went up to bed as soon as we got home, Bobby hadn't come up and stayed downstairs, not wanting to tick him off anymore then he already was, I just let him stay downstairs knowing that he would eventually come back upstairs, I changed into my satin red night gown and slipped under the covers and fell asleep, I sighed peacefully in my sleep yet I was a bit tense, afraid of what tomorrow would bring.
I was jolted awake as I felt what felt like water drops on my skin, I opened my eyes and tensed up but when I saw that it was Bobby who had his face buried in my stomach I relaxed a bit but stared at him in surprise as he sobbed against me, I watched him but slowly brought my arms and wrapped him up tightly towards me, rocking us back and forth to me letting him let it out.
"Its ok baby, its alright Bobby let it out, just let it all out" I comforted, knowing since Evelyn's death he never really had the chance to be able to just let go, not truly and I knew that the idea of Jerry having something to do with Evelyn's death scared him even more because he loved his brother very much he didn't want to except that fact.
"S-Shirin I cant handle it if Jerry has something to do-do with all this" he stammered, I felt my heart break at the terrifiedness in his voice that it could be true about his brother, I brought his face up towards mine and kissed him gently.
"Look deep inside your heart Bobby, what does it tell?" I asked, he stared at me then wrapped his arms around me and we fell back against the bed, his head on my chest, listening to my pounding heart, then finally we both fell asleep out of exguastion.
The next morning we got up and got ready for Jerry showing up, I had a black wifebeater on and L.E.I jeans with my hair in a ponytail, I sat at the table in the kitchen talking to Sofi while Bobby paced back and forth in the kitchen.
"Bobby I'm gonna knock you one if you dont quit pacing!" I complained in annoyance, he looked over at me and managed to crack a smile, then we heard Jerry come in.
"What?" he asked Angel wondering what was going on.
"You know what you did!" remarked Angel, holding up the money in the packet that we had taken from Evan, Jerry looked terrified all of a sudden.
"No! you dont know who your fucking with! where's Bobby?" he asked impatiently, Bobby came up and punched him square in the face knocking him on the ground, I gasped and jumped up from my seat and rushed over to them.
"What are you hiding Jerry? I swear if I found out you had something to do with mom's death, I kid you not bro I will kill here right here and now!" he yelled, Sofi and I both protested.
"Bobby no!" we cried in unison, Angel walked over meneciangly and stood above him and then the interrigating began, Jerry explained how Victor Sweet had taken over his business as they argued and he began explaining what had happened, the doorbell rang and Jack walked to the door as I followed also, he opened the door.
"Your mother was a whore!" called out a guy, my temper as well as Jack then Jack held up his hand at him.
"Well fuck you then you..." he was cut off by a snowball hitting him straight in the face, which caused me to bite my lip to stifle my laughter but I couldn't believe this guy had thrown a snowball at one of the Mercer brother, Jack suddenly growled in anger and took off after the guy who began to walk away, a bad feeling began to creep in my stomach, Jack picked up some snow and I suddenly ran after him.
"Jack! wait!" I cried out then to my horror the guy turned and faced Jack with a Jason mask on, I ran to get to his side as I heard Bobby call out my and Jack's name as he ran out but the guy had pulled out a gun and without any hesitation he shot Jack in the chest, I screamed Jack's name as a van pulled up, Bobby ran out with his shotgun in his hand, shooting, Jack clutched his chest which began gushing blood, I stood shocked but then when Bobby grabbed my arm as they began shooting I began to move and I could hear Jack screaming, shooting Jack a few times, Bobby threw us behind the brick wall as they began showering the house with bullets.
"BOBBY!" screamed Jack, I felt silent tears stream down my face and I looked at Bobby who looked torned for he wanted to help his little brother but we were stuck behind this wall in order not to get shot, I saw Sofi looked terrified as I did and Angel and Jerry looked torned for they also wanted to get to Jack.
"BOBBY!" screamed Jack once again, Bobby looked torned, "Jack hang on!" he yelled back, I screamed as they jack hammered the house, I saw Angel take off for upstairs, I could hear Jack's voice getting lower and lower, I looked at Bobby who gazed back at me.
"I love you Shirin" he murmured, I looked at him in shock for it almost sounded like he was saying goodbye, I kissed him fiercely then we ducked again as they showered more bullets, Bobby growled in anger and shot with his shotgun but with so many shots made he slowly ran out of ammo, I looked at him in shock for we had no other weapon then Bobby peeked out a hole to see that one of the guys was reloading his gun when Bobby got up, brick in hand then as the guy looked up Bobby came running out throwing the brick straight at the guys face, hitting him squarely in the face, as the guy went to clutch his face in pain, Bobby started swinging, laying punches on him left and right, I took the advantage to run outside and dropped by Jack's side as he gasped for breath and struggled to stay alive.
"Jack please dont ya die on me! please! I"m begging you please!" I pleaded, I heard Bobby's anger in each punch he laid on the guy then I heard a roar of a car and looked up to my horror as van was heading for Bobby and Angel ran to Bobby's side, to move him out of the way when Jerry drove his SUV into the van to cut him off, I breathed a sigh of relief but it was short lived, then I was surrounded by Bobby, Angel, Sofi who was frantically calling an ambulance and Jerry who was ok, Bobby took Jack from me.
"Jack dont you die on me man! come on little fairy! you gotta stay alive! please Jack dont leave me!" he pleaded with his little brother as blood spilled over his soon lifeless lips as he struggled to stay alive for us, to want to stay alive but he couldn't hold it any longer and slowly slipped into permenate sleep, his body completely lifeless, I went numb, I couldn't believe it, first Evelyn then Jack, I didn't think I could lose anyone of them, I placed my head against Bobby but he pushed me back as he got up, grabbing the gun and cocking it. Suddenly terrified I got up and followed him as he walked over to the man in the van.
"Bobby please dont do..." I might as well had been talking to a brick wall. He stood in front of the man sitting in the van, his breathing heavy with grief and anger.
"Who sent you? was it Victor Sweet?" he practically bellowed causing me to jump. The guy was trembling in fear before Bobby but gave him the answer.
"It was Sweet! ya it was Sweet" he remarked. I slapped a hand over my mouth to hold back the gasp that was threatening to spill out and for a second Bobby lowered his hand and the guy gave a sigh of relief.
"Thank god" he murmured. Bobby's eyes narrowed and once again his raised the hand that held the gun, aiming it right at the guys head as he growled in anger.
"Thank god? You killed my mother and little brother motherfucker, thank Victor Sweet!" he growled as he shot him without a single thought in the head. I turned away in time so I didn't have to see anything not believing that this was all happening. Bobby walked over to me, placing a hand upon my shoulder.
"I know that wasn't..." he trailed off as I held my hand up to stop his explanation. "No Bobby you did the right thing, they messed with our Jack! our family and that is not something that is going to be forgot but what do we do now Bobby? what do we do now?" I asked, lost. He stared at me as I held onto my last bit of nerves.
A little while later police showed up taking over the crime scene. Green walked over to us as we sat numbly on the doorstep as we all gaze blankly at Jack's body that was being taken away in a body bag.
"I'm sorry I really am but what happened here?" he asked. I looked away as Bobby didn't say a word either then Jerry turned to face Green with a sorrowed look.
"Why come after our moms?" he asked in wonder. I wondered the samething and looking at Green I knew he felt bad about all that had happened.
"Because she was going after him, Evelyn knew about your business getting shut down Jerry" he explained. Jerry looked up in surprise. "But I never told her anything about it" he remarked. Green chuckled a bit.
"Man Jerry could you ever keep a secret from her" he imputed. I reached out for Bobby's hand and intertwined our fingers then Green looked at all the mess around and sitting out there I couldn't take it anymore I got up and walked into the broken house with glass and frames all over the place. Trailing around the mess I headed up stairs to see that it was messy as well but not as bad, I walked into Jack's room the tears filling my eyes quickly as I scanned the room. My eyes landed on a framed picture of Jack, Bobby and I when Jack was going to leave for his band and Bobby for his hockey career, the tears flowed freely now as I picked the picture frame up and cradled it in my hands running my hand lightly and wistfully over the picture that carried innocence once. I heard footsteps behind me and I knew that Bobby had followed me upstairs but hadn't said a word, he didn't need to. I chuckled lightly.
"Remember this picture Bobby?" I asked warily. My voice shook as I asked the question and turned to face Bobby who was numb practically with grief and held out the picture to him which he took from me and suddenly the tears flowed down his cheek as he recalled as I had the memories that was held in that one photo and he looked up at me as his sobs broke forth, in two quick strides I was by his side and took him in my arms as we sobbed out our grief together wonder what would happen now.
The next day we held a funeral for Jack but also we found out that Green was shot and killed, they said it was a shooting accident but we knew that Fowler had something to do with it. We buried our Jack and knew that our revenge would come for both Jack and Evelyn and also even Green.
Back at the house we sat amongst the distruction that had wrecked our home and our lives. Bobby looked up at us the tears shown in his eyes, I was leaning against his legs on the floor.
"God I dont believe any of this, its all like a bad dream of sorts, if I loose you guys I dont know what to do" Bobby murmured. Jerry suddenly stood up as we gazed up at him in wonder.
"Maybe there's a way to get to Sweet. Just give me a bit of time" he explained. I looked up scared at what Jerry was going to do and I looked at Bobby anxiously waiting for him to stop Jerry but knowing Bobby I doubt he would. Jerry got up and left. I rose and went to go into the kitchen which was in shambles from the shootout. I heard Bobby follow me in, placing a hand on my shoulder and dropping a kiss on my kneck.
"What is going on Bobby? Please explain to me how all of this happened?" I asked. He merely shrugged as he held me to him tightly as I wrapped an arm around his arm that was now wrapped around me, holding me tightly to him as we just stood there in silence, wondering what the next hour to go.