Chapter 10
"George does not like me Jess" said Charlie seriously "and even if he did, I don't like him. I have told you this over and over, but you can't seem to get it." I didn't know what to say to her so I just shrugged.
"Why don't we go get some dinner?" I said changing the subject and Charlie walked off. "Where is she going?" I asked no one In particular.
"No idea" said Paul.
"Well I'm gonna follow her" I said before I walked, quietly following her as she walked to the slightly open back door. I could hear Ringo and George's voices but I couldn't make out what they were saying. Then I hit something and It fell off the counter making a loud 'banging' sound when it hit the hard tile. Charlie turned around and saw me. I gasped and froze where I was. Which was midway out from behind the wall to try and pick it up.
"Jess!" She whispered loud with anger. I quickly ran off down the hall hoping she wasn't chasing me. I ran into John, literally.
"Jessica" he said "watch where you're going" he said pushing me off of him. I got behind him wrapping my arms around his waist and pressing my face up to his back
"No, don't leave" I said holding tighter. "Save me" he grabbed my hands and pulled them off of him. He turned around to face me still holding my hands.
"I'm sorry, love" he said dramatically. "But you're on your own" he dropped my hands and walked over to Paul.
"Yeah, some way to protect your poor innocent cousin!" I shouted as he started talking to Paul. I huffed.
"Hey Jess" said Paul. I hummed in return.
"We're hungry" said John. I sighed and saw George, Charlie, and Ringo walking this way we walked up to them and Paul slipped his arm around Charlie and I saw George give him an annoyed look.
"Hey we're all hungry so let's go get something to eat" I said while Ringo slipped his arm around my waist and I put mine around his.
"Got any ideas as of where to go?" Said Paul.
"Why not that little diner around the corner?" Said Ringo.
"Sounds great let's go" I said and we drove to the diner.
(A few days later)
John's POV
I woke up to the smell of pancakes. I stood up and walked out to see everyone digging in. I plopped down in my chair next to Paul and rubbed my eyes.
"Aw did we wake wittle Johnny up?" Paul said pinching my cheek.
"Shut up" I mumbled and Jess put some pancakes on my plate and some more on George's.
"Oh I just remembered" said Paul "we have that party tonight" I perked up a little at that because I rather enjoyed party's.
"Hey Jess, Char, would you like to come along?" Said Ringo. Jessica shrugged and nodded her head. Charlie thought for a minute and then slowly nodded her head in agreement. Paul and Ringo cheered and the girls giggled, George didn't say anything I wonder what's been eating him lately?
(At the party)
The Party was loud and crowded. There were tons of photographer's and reporter's who wouldn't leave us alone. Finally we got a few minutes to ourselves.
I was talking to a lovely girl at the age of, oh say 20? When some guy came up to me.
"There is a call for you sir" said a little scrawny man with glasses.
"Excuse me" I said to the girl and she nodded. I walked over to the phone booth and picked up the phone. "Hello?" I said all I heard was sobbing I was a bit concerned "hello?" I asked again and still heard sobbing until I heard a weak.
"John..." it was Cynthia.
"Cynthia?" I said slightly shocked at her sobbing into the phone. "Wh- what's wrong?"
"Julian" was all she said. "He's missing" My eyes widened. "I need you to come home"
"I'm on my way" I hung up the phone and walked towards the door when Paul grabbed my arm.
"Where are you going?" Asked Paul.
"Home.. It's urgent" I said before roughly ripping my arm from his grasp and running out past all the reporters and screaming fans.
I turned a corner quick and no one noticed to my surprise. I quickly ran to our apartment. I bust through the door and grabbed a few things before Paul, George, Ringo, Jessica and Charlie came through the door.
Paul's POV
I saw John walking for the door, caught up and grabbed his arm just before he went out.
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"Home... It's urgent" he pulled away from me and rushed out. I knew something was defiantly wrong. I walked over to where I saw Ringo and Jessica about to walk out the back door with smug looks on their faces I quickly caught them before they went out.
"Hey John just left" Ringo looked at me strange.
"And?" I sighed.
"Somethings wrong it may be Cyn or Julian or something else I don't know all I know is something is wrong" Ringo and Jessica exchanged looks of concern. "Come on" I said turning around and they followed me I walked over to where I saw George and Charlie having a drink together.
"Hey guys" I said " I hate to barge in on your little drinks here but something is wrong with John." they looked at me and then at Ringo and Jessica.
"We'll explain in the car" said Jessica.
"Lets go" said George. We all got in the car and drove to the apartment.
We walked in the apartment and saw John holding a small bag of stuff.
"John what are you doing?" I said walking over to him.
"I'm going home" he said like it was obvious. "Julian is missing" we exchanged looks of concern and looked back at him.
"Well we're coming with you" said Jessica.
"Yeah John" I said, everyone one agreed. Then there was a knock. It was Brian.
"What going on here" said Brian. "What's the bag for, Lennon? Are you pulling some dirty trick?" He said pointing his finger at John.
"No" said John very serious and slightly angry "my son Julian Lennon is missing and I am going home to find him" he said pushing past Brian.
"And we're going with him" said Ringo and we all walked over with John.
"We'll be back Eppy" said George and with that we went home.
Jessica's POV
We were on the plane and I was so tired. I leaned my head against Ringo's shoulder and he sighed. I looked up at him with my eyes half open and he stroked my cheek.
"How did I get so lucky?" I smiled.
"I don't know I guess it goes with the 'being famous' thing" he laughed at me and I soon fell asleep on his shoulder
When I woke up we were getting off. I shook Ringo lightly and he stirred awake. I looked over at Charlie who didn't look so good. We walked off the plane and since this wasn't an expected flight there was no car waiting for us so we had to call a cab. We piled in the back and John told the cab driver the address. He freaked out for a minute and said something about bragging to his other cab driver friends, when we pulled up to John's place and walked up to the door and John bust in.
John's POV
I bust through the door of my house to see Cynthia breaking down on the couch.
"Cynthia" I ran over to her and sat down and put my arm around her. She turned and started sobbing into my chest.
"Julian" she started crying harder "he's missing"
"I know" I rubbed her back. "Tell me what happened"
"I walked outside and the neighbor said that they had gotten our mail they invited me in to go get it I figured I could leave Julian alone long enough to get the mail so I agreed and when I came back.." She started crying even harder. "He was gone!" Her arms gripped tighter around me.
"Oh Cyn" I said "We'll find him I promise" she sobbed into my chest some more. Once she had gotten a hold of herself and let go of me I called the police.
"Thank you." I said before I hung up the phone. Cynthia looked at me with tear stained eyes.
"Well?" Asked Jessica quietly.
"They said their going to start searching right away and that they will let us know if they find anything."
"So all we can do is wait?" said Cynthia sounding helpless.
"I'm afraid so" I sat down next to her on the couch when there was a knock on the door.
(With Julian)
Julian's POV
To men with masks on, walked in circles and kept looking at me. I was tied to a chair and they had a cloth wrapped around my mouth. I was so scared.
"How could you get the wrong kid?" Said one of the masked men.
"Well why didn't you get the kid?" Said the other one.
"Because that was your job" he shot back "I did mine. I had the dirty work all you had to do was get the kid... and you got the wrong one" my eyes went back and forth between the two arguing masked men.
"Hey it's not my fault you're the one who gave me directions to that house! How was I supposed to know what the kid looked like" the other one just huffed.
"Well what do we do with this kid?" Said the other one.
"I have a pretty good idea" they both turned to me at the same time. I gasped and tried to scream.
"Shut up" said one of them smacking the back of my head. I started feeling very light headed and I saw spots. The last thing I remember was everything going black...
I woke up, untied in the back of a car. I looked around frantically when the back opened blinding me with the sudden light. One of the masked men grabbed me by the arms and tossed my onto the sidewalk.
"Listen kid" he said getting up in my face. "None of this ever happened. You got that?" I just stood there staring at him and he grabbed my shirt collar. "I said do you got that?!"
"Y-Yes" I gulped "sir" he chuckled evil-y and let me go. He got in the driver's side and drove off. I started to cry 'how was I ever going to find daddy and mommy?!' I thought 'I don't even know where I am' 'I'm gonna die right here! Or- or be taken away again!' I started crying harder and wiped my tears with my sleeve even though I was still crying. When someone picked me up. It was a lady, she was frowning as she held me.
"What's wrong?" She asked putting me on her hip.
"I'm so scared!" I started crying on her shoulder. "I don't know where mommy and daddy are! I'll never see them again!" I gasped " I'll never see mommy or daddy or aunt Jessica or uncle Ringo or uncle George or Uncle Paul or Miss Charlie!" I started crying harder and she gave me a weird look and set me back down on the ground. She got down on her knees and put her hands on my shoulder.
"Can you tell me your mommy and daddy's names?" I thought for a minute 'daddy did say everyone knew him so she was probably one of those old friends of his'
"My daddy's name is John and my mommy's name is Cynthia" I smiled at actually saying my mother's name right. She smiled like she'd just figured something out.
"Is your name 'Julian Lennon'?" She asked and I smiled.
"Yes it is!" She grinned.
"I think I know where your mommy and daddy are let's go." She stood up and grabbed my hand and we started walking down the sidewalk.
"What's your name?" I asked looking up at her.
"My name Ellie" I smiled.
"That's pretty"
"Why thank you, Julian" I giggled.
"Are you one of those old friends of my daddy's?" She laughed.
"No I'm just a fan" I gave her a weird look but just dropped it.
We soon walked towards my house.
"This is my house!" I started to run for the front door and she started to walk away. I grabbed her hand and she turned and looked at me. "I want you to come inside" I said smiling.
"Ok, maybe for just a minute" we walked up to the front door and I knocked. My daddy answered with a worried face then he saw me and he smiled.
"Julian!" He picked my up and started hugging me. I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"Daddy!" He held me tighter. "I missed you" I said in the collar of his shirt.
"I missed you too" he said back. Then mommy walked up.
"John who is- Julian!" Daddy let me go and mommy walked inside with me.
"Oh thank you so much" said daddy to Miss. Ellie "I don't know how we will ever repay you" she blushed. "Here please come inside" she smiled and nodded her head as she stepped in. She walked up to mommy who was smothering me with kisses I normally would have stopped her but I had missed her so bad I didn't want her to ever put me down.
"Oh thank you so much for bringing Julian to us" said mommy to Miss Ellie. "I'm Cynthia" mommy put her hand out and Miss Ellie shook it.
"I'm Ellie" she said smiling and letting go of mommy's hand "Ellie Bowen"
"Nice to meet you" said mommy.
Once everybody got to see me and meet Miss Ellie, daddy called the police and told them that I was found. We all sat down for tea and I told everyone what happened. Once I was done with my tale Miss Ellie had to leave we all said goodbye to her and uncle Paul walked with her outside.
Ellie's POV
"Well I'm afraid I must go" I said sadly. "It was really nice to meet all of you, really a pleasure" I stood up and started walking towards the door.
"Here I'll walk you outside" said Paul standing up and walking with me out to the front porch. Once the door was closed he looked at me for a second smiling. I wasn't sure if I should be creeped out or swooning right then so I just stood there... like an idiot...
"You're really beautiful" said Paul and I blushed I mean what girl wouldn't?
"Thank you" I said shyly. He leaned a bit closer to me then he backed away. Maybe he could tell I was a bit uncomfortable.
"This might seem a little forward but would you maybe want to go out tomorrow night?"
"I would love to" he smiled and kissed my cheek.
"Great." He opened the door slightly to go in. "See you tomorrow, love" he walked in and shut the door. I walked down the road in a slight daze.
"I can not believe I just got a date with Paul McCartney" I said quietly to myself then I squealed and almost ran to my house in excitement.