Chapter 2

So I hope everyone read the last page because it was pretty useful. It will help during the story.

We were all sat in the playroom. The kids all were playing some board game that Joe had brought. He was playing with them too.

"Kiddo, we have had a sighting on Alice." I spat out the tea I was drinking.

"You what?" Alice had been gone for 10 years. We never spoke of her and never ever asked about her. Zach walked out of the room.

"Mama, where dada?" Lucy was looking at where Zach had walked out. The front door slammed shut.

"I don't know baby. I don't know. Do you want to go and see?" I got up and picked up Lucy who was wildly nodding her head. "We will be back when we find him. You know where everything is. Please keep this day special for Morgan."I walked out with Lucy on my hip. Zach's Porsche was gone. "Come on then. Let's get in the car." Lucy loved car rides and always looked forward to days out. I buckled her up and she had a smile on her face.

"Mummy, can we come too?" Sammy was stood at the open door with Grant, Pen and Lilli.

"Let me come and then I can drive the kids back and you and Zach can talk." Grant had become so grown up since he became whipped. And a dad.

"Come on then guys, Lil say bye to your mum first." Lilli ran back into the house and I put Sammy and Pen in the furthest back seat and Lilli went next to Lucy when she got back. "Let's go find daddy." I had a feeling I knew where he was. I drove straight to the beach. He loved to sit on the pier and watch the ocean. His car wasn't anywhere to be seen.

"Can't see him or his car, could he be at Gallagher?" It was a long shot but Grant was right, he could be.

The ride to Gallagher was strange without Bex or Zach in the car. The girls were in the back talking away and playing a game.

"What if he does something stupid, Grant?" I muttered so the girls wouldn't hear me. Grant didn't reply he just wrapped his arm around my shoulder. Zach may be my husband but he was Grant's brother.

We arrived at Gallagher and his car wasn't there either.

"Mama, dada 'ool?" Lucy had a very good point. Morgan was leaving for Blackthorne tomorrow and if Alice was seen anywhere close to Gallagher or Blackthorne Zach was going to make sure it was safe.

"He just might be, baby. Daddy might just be at Blackthorne." I drove to Blackthorne.

We had been driving for at least 3 hours.

"Mummy, I need wee." Pen screamed

"And me, mummy."Sammy said as well.

"Hungwy, mama." Yawned a sleepy Lucy. The girls were tired of sitting in the car. Lilli had fallen asleep as had Grant. Boy, he was useless.

"Okay, sweeties we will pull over next service station." Luckily it was just a mile down the road. "Come on then out you get." I opened the door and the twins jumped out while I picked up Lilli in one arm and Lucy in the other. "Wake up uncle Grant guys." I whispered to the twins as they jumped out. I backed away with two sleepy girls in my arms.

"Uncle Grant!"Sammy screamed on one ear.

"Uncle Gwant!" Pen cried in the other.

"One, Two, THREE." I called. They both jumped on his lap with their knees landing somewhere they shouldn't of but it woke him up. Gran groaned and his eyes opened.

"Hey guys, are we there already?" He mumbled half-asleep.

"No siwy, mummy buyin' food and I need wee." Pen jumped of his lap and back to me.

"Come on Grant, we don't have all day. Take Luc she's tired and wants to be cuddled." Grant got out the car with Sammy and I locked the car once he was out. Sammy and Pen were holding hands, Grant had a tired Lucy and I had a sleeping Lilli.

Why was it all my kids wanted to eat was McDonalds? At least they ate it all. Everyone was fed and toileted, ready to have a nap in the car. Grant was driving the rest of the way there and I sat in the back to make sure everyone went to sleep. It meant if Zach was at Blackthorne they wouldn't have to get out of the car.

At least we finally saw Zach's Porsche. Grant had pulled into the Blackthorne parking and round the back. There it was just stilling there, his dark blue Porsche.

"Mama, dada ca." Lucy was still awake and pointed towards Zach's car.

"Yeah, it's dada's car. Uncle Grant is going to take you all home and you are going to go and stay with Granma tonight with Pen and Sammy."

"uv you mama. Se you nigt."

"Love you too baby. Grant, be careful and take them home. We will be back later. Tell mum if she needs to go she can take the girls even if we aren't back. Can someone stay with Morg until we get back though?"

"Yeah, Bex and I can. We can also get some use out of your soundproof walls!" Grant laughed.

"Go and have fun with your wife. Just keep the kids occupied first." I got out the car and waved them off. I headed to the headmaster's office. "Knock, knock." I opened the door and Thomas was sat there looking at the CCTV.

"And I thought you would be here sooner." Thomas turned and faced me. I took a seat on the other side of his desk.

"So, how long has he been here? And where is he?"

"3 hours and shooting range. He came and saw me. He said something about getting away or getting someone away? I didn't really understand what he was talking about other than him asking to be out on the shooting range."

"Okay, don't worry about him. I'll go sort him out. We will come back this way and talk about tomorrow." I stood up and walked out to the shooting range. "BABE?"

"WHAT?" Zach was shooting and it was very hard to hear.

"PUT THE GUN DOWN AND TALK TO ME." He stopped shooting but kept the gun in his hand. "Hey, look at me. We are married and you are my best friend. Now talk to me otherwise you are sleeping alone tonight and for however long I am mad for. And trust me I can hold a grudge." Zach turned and looked at me but didn't come any closer.

"Cammie, I AM SCARED. Yes me. Zachary Townsend Goode is scared. My little boy is leaving home. My mother's crazy sister is somewhere close. I don't want my family hurt again. So, I AM SCARED. Okay?" I walked up to Zach and pulled him into my arms.

"Baby, it is okay to be scared. In fact, it is considered normal, smirking on the other hand not so much. I know you are going to miss Morgan. I am going to miss Morgan but we have to let him go. He wants to be like you, you know that don't you? He want be just like his daddy, a Goode guy and a proctor. Now for Alice, Blackthorne is one of the safest places on the planet. Thomas would never let him get hurt and Zach. You're hurt now. You think I like seeing you like this? I don't it hurts me. So don't spout that shit at me. I know exactly how you feel and we can get though this together. Okay?"

"I'm sorry Gallagher girl. I love you and I'm sorry."

"I love you too. Now stop being a PMSing bitch." I smirked at him.

"And I thought that wasn't normal?" He was smirking too. We sat on the floor. We just sat there in silence, holding each other.

"Come on, we need to talk to Thomas and then get home, hopefully before mum goes with the girls." I stood up and pulled Zach up with me.

"Hello again." Thomas said before I even knocked.

"So, we need to talk." Zach and I took a seat at the desk. "Alice has been spotted around here and Gallagher. Zach is going out of his mind with worry as you might have guessed. We just need to know our baby is going to be safe."

"Cammie, Zach have you no faith in me? Of course Morgan will be safe here. I would never let anyone hurt him. Alice will never find him here. You both need to go home and be with him on his last night, so go." Thomas shoved us out the door.

"Okay then, see you tomorrow." I called as we walked down the corridor.

The ride home was quiet. Zach had his arm over my shoulder and the radio was playing softly. I wasn't paying attention I was just happy Zach was coming home.

"Who's still here?" By all the commotion going on I could tell everyone was. "Mum, Abbs, Joe, Ed, Bex, Grant, Liz, Jonas, Preston and fat lady come in the dining room."

"Um...the fat lady has a name." Macey said as she sat into a chair.

"Sorry and Macey." I laughed as was everyone else. "Anyways all I had to say is Zach's good and Morgan will be safe. Are we doing dinner or everyone going home?"

"What are you on Cam? I thought you wanted to spend the night with Morgan alone?" Bex questioned me.

"I do. I was hoping you would get the hint and go."

"Right so bye Cam, Zach."Bex replied and walked out the door.

"Bye," Everyone said at once and started walking into the playroom and do the byes. We walked in with them to say bye to my girls.

"Mama, me go gampy and gammy?" Lucy was crawling up to me. I picked her up.

"I don't see why not sweetheart but you have to ask Grammy and Grampy."

"Gampy, me go you?" She shrieked from my arms, half deafening me.

"Yeah hunny you can. You can all stay will Sally tonight like a big sleepover. Come here then." Lucy went to Edward.

"See you later babies. Give me kisses and me, daddy and Morgan will come round tomorrow morning." Sammy and Pen came and gave me cuddles and kisses and moved on to Zach, then Morgan. Edward came with Lucy who grabbed my neck and kissed me with lots of slobber. "Bye guys." I waved from the door. Zach was holding my waist and Morgan was standing in front of us waving to his cousins and sisters.

"Come on then guys. We are going out."