Hey guys sorry for the break within chapters this one was a lot harder to write, if there are mistakes sorry again I was writing while on a holiday last week and I wanted it to go up before I started my holiday this week. Thanks again to Bailey for proof reading it for me and everyone who read and review the first chapter. Please enjoy.
Time slowed, I didn't even know it was past midnight. The sun rose and I was in still in shock. I needed to get out, so I just ran, not having any plans, just ran and, ran with my gut and my whole heart leading me. Little did I know; I wouldn't be running back home. I remember just crashing on the side of the road 1km from the house. Time started again; I could hear cars rushing past and then a car door slam shut, and Frank and Nick were beside me before I knew it. Nick had lifted me up to try and put me in the car to get me home, but I had a panic attack. That's the only way I can explain how I felt. I couldn't breathe, it felt like the car was crashing in around me. I could hear Frank and Nick outside the car questioning how I knew and who told me. It wasn't until we got back to the house that I would find out what they meant. I was asleep before Frank started up the car.
I awoke in a bed which I would soon realize was Traci's room. She was sitting at the end of the bed really worried. I then again hear whispers coming from Traci about how I knew, who told me, and how I could have known where. As the baby starts kicking up a storm, I sit up to get more comfortable and startle Traci on accident who then immediately rushes over to hug me.
Maybe it's because I'm a cop who hates the quite, or a cop who hates not understanding and not having answers, but I couldn't hold my own questions back any longer. "Ok spill. First Frank then Nick now you whispering about 'how I knew,' what're you talking about Trace? What am I supposed to know about?" I asked getting a little stressed out. I rubbed my belly to calm Rookie down, and I'm sure if it wasn't for the baby, I would be up pacing around the room until I got the answers. I glace up between Nick and Traci. Nick snapped first.
"Ok Andy, please don't get upset. You're not going to like what I'm about to tell you." he starts with. "Nick seriously?! why would you start with that? "I'm not going to like it," well of course I'm not going to freaking like it if it's got something to do with the death of my everything so spit it out NOW." I snapped right back.
"Where Frank and I found you today Andy, it's where…its where.." "Oh God.." Traci butts in. "Andy, Sam and Stella were killed there yesterday, where they found you." She finishes for him. I knew it , I just knew that my gut had lead me there for a reason, but seriously, only a 1km away from the house. They were so close...
It's that one spot on the road you can't see from the house. I got up and headed to the balcony outside Traci's bedroom. It's the second place in this house that makes me feel safe and calm, the first being mine and Sam's bedroom. As I breathed in the salty air, a feeling of calm washes over me. I feel stronger for myself and for rookie, the last hope I have for my family. It's the hope I keep close to heart for the upcoming funeral next week. The hope that there will always be more, not always better, but more to life to experience and do and to be, I think as I wipe the last of my tears that I will shed until I lay my fiancée and daughter into the ground. I turn back into Traci's room and am suddenly wrapped into a hug from Leo, who im sure doesn't understand what everyone is crying about. He looks up with a few tears in his own eyes and said to me, the most true thing I'd heard in 34 hours, "Aunty Andy, life sucks."