This chapter is very much DUN DUN DUUUUN. Let's just say Stacie is OUT OF HER MIND.

ENJOY!

btw, I thought this chapter was longer. Word is playing tricks on me,I swear.

It's been two weeks already? Times flies when you're feeling… miserable. The wedding preparations have gone smoothly, or so I thought. We had a wedding rehearsal, where Stacie paid more attention to me than she did on Steve. Did she really not trust me at all? I didn't do anything before, what made her believe I was going to do something now?

She was screaming very enthusiastically with her friends so I could tell that she was more excited than usual and a little bouncy truth be told. She has more than a enough reason to be happy; she was about to marry the most wonderful man on Earth and that made my jealousy fire up again.

"Oh my God, can you believe it?" she squeals, and I'm really tempted to cover my ears. "I'm getting married today!"

"Yay!" that sounded faker than I thought.

"This is finally happening. I'm finally getting married to the man of my dreams," she turns around towards me, smile gone from her pretty face. "My man. That sounds perfect, don't you think?"

Seriously, I have no idea where Steve met this woman because she was not normal in the slightest. How can she change from being a perfect, ideal woman, to this crazy 'get the hell away from my man' woman? She's so bipolar, I'm amazed that Steve hasn't noticed this yet.

"Now, we have to make a quick stop before going to the church," she speaks.

"Where to?"

"It's a surprise."

She smiles once again and I'm not sure if I should feel scared or not.

She drives fast and figured that since she doesn't like me much anymore there was no need to be careful.

We stopped by…

"The office?" I look outside my window as we parked outside the HQ. Weird. "What are we doing here?"

"Steve told me to pick something up for him before the wedding," she speaks and gets out of the car and then she opens the door on my side for me to get out. "Come with me."

Strange, but considering the person I'm dealing with it isn't so much. Steve had to be nervous and anxious today, maybe he forgot something here and since she can't see him until after the wedding I am the only connection they have and whatever he forgot I could give it back to him. It makes sense.

We walk inside, the office obviously complete empty since Chin and Danny must be at the church with Steve.

She stops walking for a second, looking me up and down and her mouth curves into what seems to be a smile but looks more like a painful gesture. I frown at her stare. Usually I wouldn't have found this strange but there's something awkward, something scary in her demeanor. Something tells me I shouldn't have trusted this woman at all.

"I'm sorry, Kono," she whispers and the way she touches my hair softly, as if she were speaking to a child makes me want to run somewhere and hide. "But I can't afford you screwing this up for me."

"What are you talking about?" Slightly creepy. Just slightly.

"I can't let you ruin my day," she grabs my hand with such a straight movement that I never thought she could have and drags me to my office of all places and closes the door behind her.

"What are you doing?"

"You're gonna stay here, because I can't trust you. I just can't."

"Stacie you're making a mistake…"

"No, YOU are making a mistake if you think I will let you go to my wedding and let you take my man away from me."

She moves toward me threateningly and I walk a few steps backward until I hit my desk. Some other time I wouldn't have been afraid of such a skinny woman but I'm weak in this state and I just couldn't afford my daughter to get hurt. Going with the flow is the best option I have.

"I told you I wasn't…"

"I don't trust you!" she yells, psycho woman showing up all over again. "The minute Steve finds out about this bastard child of yours, he's gonna run to your arms, because let's face it. The man is just crazy about you."

He is?

"I don't know what he sees in you, if you ask me," she continues talking. "I'm a hundred times prettier than you'll ever be, and smarter even. You are nothing compared to me, Kono. Nothing."

"Well at least I'm not a crazy ass bitch."

She slaps me, hard. I taste the blood in my mouth and the tears forming in my eyes already. Mainly because I would have never let this happen, but she knew I felt defenseless and I couldn't fight back.

"At least I'm going to be a crazy ass bitch with a husband."

She smiles and turns around towards the door. She takes a few steps back, pulls out the phone from my desk and walks away, locking the door behind her.

TBC